Kimberly Lightle's List: Math Education 2.0

This professional learning network for middle school math and science teachers employs social networking and digital tools to foster dynamic experiences that promote creation, modification, and sharing of resources, facilitate professional development, and support the integration of technology into practice.

This blog highlights exemplary middle school math resources.

These resource guides provide insight and links to exemplary resources on important topics taught in middle school math classes.

This is the Math Group on the MSP2 professional learning network.

This is the Integrating Technology Group on the MSP2 professional learning network.

You can search the MSP2 digital library of resources collected and cataloged especially for middle school math and science teachers. In addition to the keyword search, there are quick searches.

"This is an update to Bloom's Revised Taxonomy which attempts to account for the new behaviours and actions emerging as technology advances and becomes more ubiquitous. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy accounts for many of the traditional classroom practices, behaviours and actions but does not account for the new processes and actions associated with Web 2.0 technologies and increasing ubiquitous personal and cloud computing."

This is the Middle School Portal 2: Math and Science Pathways Twitter page. You can follow to learn about exemplary math and science resources, ideas for integrating technology into your classroom, and the latest education news.

This page, brought to you by MSP2, provides a current list of grant opportunities.

Interactivate is a set of free, online courseware for exploration in science and mathematics. It is comprised of activities, lessons, and discussions.

"CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet. We focus on projects that utilize real time data available from the Internet, and collaborative projects that utilize the Internet's potential to reach peers and experts around the world. Below is a catalog of projects that are currently being or have been sponsored by CIESE . Each project has a brief description and links to the National Science Standards and NCTM math standards it supports. "

ORC enhances teaching and learning by promoting standards-based best practices in mathematics, science, and reading for Ohio schools and universities. ORC serves as a trusted source of easily accessible, peer-reviewed, high-quality, and effective resources.

Illuminations is designed to: Provide Standards-based resources that improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students and Provide materials that illuminate the vision for school mathematics set forth in Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, Curriculum Focal Points for Prekindergarten through Grade 8 Mathematics, and Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making. Illuminations is part of the prestigious Verizon Thinkfinity program.

The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) is a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis).

PhET provides fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena for free. To help students visually comprehend concepts, PhET simulations animate what is invisible to the eye through the use of graphics and intuitive controls such as click-and-drag manipulation, sliders and radio buttons. In order to further encourage quantitative exploration, the simulations also offer measurement instruments including rulers, stop-watches, voltmeters and thermometers. As the user manipulates these interactive tools, responses are immediately animated thus effectively illustrating cause-and-effect relationships as well as multiple linked representations (motion of the objects, graphs, number readouts, etc.)

"Teacher, Speaker, Advocate for technology in classrooms. High School Teacher, Google Certified Teacher."

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Blog of Wesley Fryer. He is an international learning consultant, author, digital storyteller, educator and change agent. With respect to school change, he describes himself as a "catalyst for creative engagement and collaborative learning."

"This presentation was used for a middle level math methods course for preservice teachers."

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