As it is once again math competition season in my part of the world, I thought it would be nice to do a post on graphing calculators and mathematics competitions. While I realize this post may only appeal to a small segments of my readers, it is something I’m passionate about, and it may be…
Amazing infographic from OnlineEducation.net. I’d love to hear all of your thoughts. Can Apple save education? And how do other technology companies such as Google, Microsoft, Wolfram, etc., fit into the equation. This is an important conversation. Please comment below and share this post with your friends who care about the future of education.
For the last few weeks, I’ve been scouring the web with Google, listening to reader suggestions, and searching through others’ lists of resources, trying to find the top free math resources online. I was not surprised to learn that there are a ton of free math resources out there. Sorting through them has been no small…
UPDATE: The contest has ended. The random.org random number generator selected Marianna Ballard as the winner. Congratulations, Marianna! Thanks to everyone who entered. I am planning to make contests a more regular part of Tech Powered Math, so be sure to follow on Facebook or Twitter to stay up to date on my giveaways. …
The last few days I’ve been playing around with Softmath’s product for helping students learn algebra: Algebrator. There seems to be a lot of curiosity about this product, so I wanted to do an Algebrator review.
I’ve been thinking about the technologies that pushed the way we use and learn mathematics forward the most over the history of man. Here are my picks for the top 10 in the order they were invented. I’m not a historian, so take it for what it’s worth, and I’ll warn you that I almost…
Every year at my school the math department does a canned food drive to get food for the local food pantry in our town. It’s become a really big deal; we’ve been told it provides enough food to stock the pantry for several months. As an incentive to the students, we offer them a little…
UPDATE: A couple of days after this post originally went up, I was made aware of a new hack that deserved inclusion on this list, expanding it to a top 6. Probably every single student (and just about every teacher) who has picked up a graphing calculator has asked themselves how far the technology can…
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been looking at a system called Reflex Math, designed to help kids learn arithmetic facts. The stated goal of Reflex Math is to gain “math fact fluency.” Reflex is designed to help students achieve fluency through an interactive system of games and puzzles. Reflex is a cloud based…
This week a new app company, Fingerprint Digital, has gone public with a series of educational apps targeted towards children between the ages of 3 and 8. The company was founded by Nancy MacIntyre, a former Leapfrog executive who saw the opportunity to create a platform for a network of edutainment apps within iOS….