As I mentioned yesterday, I was going to try to put up a short video of my kaleidoscope that I created in Geometer's Sketchpad. The video was made by copying still shots of the kaleidoscope transitions and pasting each image into Paint. I then uploaded those images into Microsoft Photostory3 to create a simple video.
All this week we have learned multiple technological tools that can aid in teaching mathematics. This has really made me rethink my own experiences in learning math and how relevant a lot of it was to real life. Yesterday, as a class, we discussed some important concepts that all students should learn from math and yet these are the concepts we least focus on. Students should be able to analyze, understand number sense, do graphical interpretation, proportional reasoning, and modeling. With technology, I think that teachers will have to rethink the traditional ways of teaching math and focus more on those concepts that are relevant to students after they are done with math classes. I believe, as with all subjects in school, students should be learning a set of skills that will enable them to make wise decisions in their life and every subject should be helping build these skills through different methods of learning.
I have learned some technology before this class, but learning the few tools this week and having a whole week to play with them has made me a lot more comfortable with the technological tools that are out there. I am more likely now to use these tools to help me teach math in the future.
As my final project for this course, I have created a survey that math students could take and then I can download the information in Fathom to look at trends. My survey can be taken at
http://survey.keypress.com/web/loginForm.php
Please sign in as a student to take the Car Survey.
Username: car
Password: car
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