This is a very unusual post for Tech Powered Math, but I’m going to be “off the grid” for a couple of weeks. I want to explain why because I’ll be slower than usual at responding to emails, Tweets, etc. In a few days, I’ll be flying from St. Louis to Honduras as part of a mission trip with my church here in Peoria, Imago Dei Church. We are joining up with a ministry that is based permanently in La Esperanza, Honduras called Mercy International.
I’ll be the first to say, this is a bit of a random post. I just wanted to show all of you one of the more unusual exhibits I had the opportunity to check out at the T3 conference in Chicago a couple of months back. It was a 3D printer from a company called Stratasys. You may never have even heard of a 3D printer, but it’s pretty much what it’s name indicates.
The pace of my posts on TPM has slowed the last couple of weeks. There are multiple reasons for that, including other internet projects I’m working on, but the main reason has been I’ve been very focused on something special I’ve been doing at school. I don’t often post in specifics about my day job at Morton on here, but on Saturday something happened that was so exciting that I can’t pass it up.
I must admit that I’m not that good at keep up to date with the active community of graphing calculators hackers. I was interested to learn via an email update from the Cemetech staff that they have made significant inroads in their efforts to pimp out the Casio Prizm over the last couple of months. As Texas Instruments has continues to make the TI-Nspire line their premiere line of calculators, the hacker community has started to gain interest in the Casio Prizm, calculator that seems to generally be seen as more friendly to programming efforts.
Click here to get the Fridge Phonics toy from Leapfrog.com. In a bit of a change from the kinds of reviews I normally do on Tech Powered Math, I’m reviewing an educational toy for little kids. My wife and I had our first child 16 months ago, and she’s starting to get interested in these kinds of toys, so I plan to add more Leapfrog educational toy reviews as well as toys and games from other “edutainment” manufacturers.
Just for fun, I thought I’d post this picture of my daughter’s early love affair with the TI-Nspire CX. It’s actually from the beginning of the school year and got quite a rise out of my friends when I posted it on Facebook. I don’t know why I never got around to posting it here. Anyway, in the months since, she has proven to be a quick study, rapidly moving through Pre-Calculus and on to AB Calculus.
Any math teacher can tell you that students constantly ask the question: “When are we ever going to use this?” Here’s an infographic that attempts to answer that question. by Column Five Media.
This week’s Infographic Thursday brings us a look at how America is doing in education when compared with the rest of the world. by ejfox.
Device: iPad/iPhone Cost: $2.99 Ages: Elementary school through early middle school This post is the start of another “App Week,” so be sure to keep checking back for a couple of more reviews as the week goes along. Last week I posted a video on YouTube about the Math Blaster iPad apps, and I wanted to get a quick post up on them here on Tech Powered Math. I took a look at two of the Math Blaster apps, HyperBlast and Zapper.
In honor of the start of the NSTA convention in Indianapolis, I created an infographic of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Twitter account vs. the National Science Teachers Association Twitter account. Of course, math and science are peas from the same pod, not competitors, so it’s all in good fun. It’s actually interesting to see that there are a lot of similarities between the two accounts. If you’d like to add this infographic to your website or blog, please use the embed code at the bottom of this post.
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