USING GOOGLE APPS AND TOOLS FOR TEACHING LEARNING

MATHEMATICS CLASSROOM

R.Rajkumar

Ph.D Scholar

INTRODUCTION

The Google apps for mathematics education are designed to introduce educators with Google web-based applications, which can be integrated into mathematics classrooms for communication and collaboration. Educators will be explore a variety of free tools and applications, such as Google mail, Google drive, Google earth, Google sites, blogger, Picasa and many more.

BLENDED CLASSROOM

Google Classroom helps to

easily create a blended

classroom. It is integrates

with Google Drive to

make it easy to create

assignments and collect

students work. Developed

by innovative teachers

who see blended learning

as a way to answer

pedagogical needs, the

blended classroom

combines the physical

classroom with an online

learning space in order to

Google Drive for

Teachers

Share documents for particular class, manage your work effectively.

Google Drive we get 15 GB space to save all our important documents.

Google Doc is used in

schools

Google Docs is an online tool for

creating text documents that

can be easily shared with other

people.

Most of the activities in the

classroom can be performed

through Google Docs: drafting,

revising, peer editing,

collaborating and providing

feedback.

Assign work Faster

Student get access Instantly

Continue Discussion and ask Questions

Make a Copy and Keep working inside Google Drive

Use your own rubric and leave great feedback

preparing lesson plans

Time managing schedule

Teaching topics, share with our class

Sequence lessons, programs can share these with other teachers

Google Forms for Mathematics Teachers

Create forms, surveys, and quizzes

Share the forms with others

Allow others to complete the forms online

Collect all the responses in a spreadsheet

Provide with helpful summaries of the collected data with charts and graphs

Thesaurus Google Add On

o “Add-ons” feature which brings

very useful Apps Script based

extensions to Docs and Sheets

o Connecting this with our drive

will enable you to write on docs

along with having an online

dictionary working with to

improvise on the words that

you use, access to synonyms

and antonyms, various figures

of speech.

Kaizena for Google Docs

Kaizena is an outstanding web based tool that allows teachers to provide audio feedback on student work that has been created and shared through as Google Docs.

Teachers to provide audio feedback on student work .

Lucid Charts Layers

Lucid chart is web-based diagramming software which allows users to collaborate and work together in real time to create flowcharts, mind maps, and many other diagram types.

Read & Write for Google

Read and Write works from a toolbar within Google Docs, and provides tools that are useful for all learners, including a word prediction, robust dictionary, image dictionary, fact finder, translator, and text-to-speech tool for use within a Google Doc.

GeoGebra with Google Classroom

GeoGebra is a free dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that brings together geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy to use package.

ADVANTAGES IN TEACHING LEARNING MATHEMATICS EDUCATION WITH GOOGLE APPS AND TOOLS

Easy to use and accessible from all devices

Effective communication and sharing

Speeds up the assignment process

Effective feedback

No need for paper

Clean and user friendly interface

Great commenting system