Links Picnic #2

Links Picnic is an opportunity for us to share things from around the web that help and inspire maths teachers. Here are my picks. Please add yours in the comments section. You can leave a link to your own Links Picnic!

–A nice world clock that can be used between lessons or during registration. It includes world statistics that are continuously updating.

WiseStamp for an interactive email signature.

–The $2 Interactive Whiteboard. I’m calling this the medi-whiteboard, since I already use mini-whiteboards.

–An article I’m reading by Alfie Kohn about homework, entitled Do Students Really Need Practice Homework?

–Some ideas for displaying student testing data in the classroom. How motivating is this, I wonder?

–I am looking for an app or program that helps me organise my to-do lists over my mac at home, PC at work, and phone (Android). Pocket Informant does look useful, but is just for my phone. Do you have a suggestion?

What links have impacted you recently?

Links Picnic #1

Links Picnic is an opportunity for us to share things from around the web that help and inspire maths teachers. Here are my picks. Please add yours in the comments section. You can leave a link to your own Links Picnic!

Are you making any of these four mistakes with your differentiation? Two of these items make me think setting students by ability might be wrong. (And those thoughts are making me nervous.)

Using Evernote as a filing system for public speaking. I wonder if this would work with teaching.

A new blog I am following is Under Ten Minutes. The videos posted there show you how to use an item of learning technology in less than 10 minutes. Today I learned how to use pivot tables for student data analysis.

The Centre for Innovative Mathematics Teaching (CIMT) pages contain a complete scheme of work, texts, and activities for 5-18 year old learners! What a treasure trove.

What links have impacted you this month?