A Digital Toolbox for Maths Teaching and Learning

Britt Gow, 2015

Science and Maths teacherHawkesdale P12 College

SW Victoria

Technomaths blog since 2010

Twitter @brittgow brittgow@gmail.com

Technomaths

www.technomaths.edublogs.org

Why teach Maths with technology?

• Adds another dimension to learning• Provides a professional looking product • Allows sharing with a wider audience• Can engage students with images and video• Students can demonstrate what they know• Employers expect students to be able to use

variety of tools• Allows for differentiation (eg. Mathletics)

Padlet – on computers & mobile devices

• Feedback from students• Brainstorming• What students already know about a topic• Exit slips• Choosing a topic or next unit of work• Introducing students at the beginning of the

year• Questions about a lesson or unit of work

https://padlet.com/my/padlets

Skitch – an app for mobile devices or Comic Life - for both computers and

mobile devices

• Use Skitch or Comic Life to annotate images• Label length, width and height for surface area

and volume calculations• Radius and diameter of circles• Estimate ratio and proportion

Google Earth

• Take an aerial photo of a farm, stadium or building and use the measuring tools to estimate the area.

• Measurement and ratio, calculating distance.

Grand Prix circuit – time vs distance graph

Using Excel spreadsheet and graphs

ConCensus from ABC Splash

http://concensus.splash.abc.net.au/concensus-game/

https://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/

Create-A-Graph with ConCensus data

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

http://nlvm.usu.edu/

Algebra Balance Scales

Line Plotter – given a point & gradient

Sieve of Eratosthenes – for primes

Prime Factor Trees

Tessellations.org

Time Zones across the world

Google Forms for Student Surveys

• Get to know your new class• Collect student data for Probability and

Statistics• Use the data for graphing, calculating mean,

median, mode and range.• Draw a pie chart and compare with the

computer-generated version.

Google Forms for Surveys

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YouTube - Nature by Numbers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGeOWYOFoA