Content

Content

 * **Course Organization**
 * [|Fresh take] on how to organize a math course in terms of content. Specifically, it focuses on 'Mathematical Habits of the Mind' which the author argues is more freeing than 'Problem-Solving'. With problem-solving, the focus is the solutions, whereas with mathematics habits, the goal is create rich mathematical understanding and structure within the student.


 * **Curriculum Documents**
 * [|Elementary:] [|Grades 1-8]
 * [|Secondary:] [|Grades 9 and 10] | [|Grades 11 and 12]


 * **Professional Development**
 * [|The Math Forum @ Drexel] has a bunch of online course and workshops to improve my math teaching skills.

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 * **Mini Clips:**
 * **All Grades **
 * [|The Khan Academy] is a not-for-profit educational organization created and sustained by Salman Khan. Its stated mission is "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere". The Academy supplies a free online collection of more than 1,800 videos on mathematics, science, history, and economics. It is a wonderful resource for refreshing your memory on topic long forgotten!
 * [|Math Mastery] is a similar site to The Khan Academy, however it requires you to sign up. Vids range from all topics, though.
 * Google Videos can be used to search almost any math topic. The quality of the mini clips is inconsistent, but it doesn't hurt!
 * [|Teacher Tube] is a great place for filtering YouTube. The site is also geared towards teaching, and thus there's a ton of interesting videos!
 * **Grade 11**
 * Dr. Robin Kay has put together a wonderful list for the Grade 11 Math curriculum. It can be found [|here]. It contains a bevy of refreshers on Quadratic, Exponential, and Trig Functions!
 * **Grade 8**
 * As a class, UOIT Math Methods I (2010), we put together a listing of educational mini clips for each topic in the Grade 8 curriculum. It will be accessible (forever) here!


 * **Applets:**
 * **Prime and Composite Factoring**
 * Alec McEachran, a retired UK high school Math teacher has created an applet which is an amazing way for students, and teacher, to [|visualize Prime and Composite Factoring]. He's also quite friendly to email, and will consider new ideas and project directions.
 * **Math Games!**
 * [|Here's a site] that has a whole bunch of math games!


 * **Topic Specific:**
 * **The Commutative Law of Multiplication**
 * Steve Riche posted a nice set of pdfs which [|ouline clearly] the commutative law of multiplication and [|its proof].
 * **Fractions, Decimals and Percentages**
 * Like [|40 different lesson ideas and resources] for teaching Fractions, Decimals and Percentages.


 * **Interesting Lesson Ideas:**
 * Build a lesson around optical illusions. Can introduce topic by [|building seemingly impossible objects] or watching a [|similar themed video].
 * Here's a template for a Penrose Triangle: [[file:coolprinttriangle.pdf]]
 * For rates have students create their own products and prices (i.e. in a grocery store). They can draw their own products and spoof them up. Have them create deals based on bulk sales of their products, and see how much they would save if they bought a certain amount.