The Internet has many resources available for math teachers and students. The following sites are just a few Web 2.0 resources that support the math classroom.
http://web20mathtools.wetpaint.com/
Olga Lopukhova's List: Web 2.0 in Instruction: Adding Spice to Math Education -- THE Journal
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Children's mathematics remains very much confined to classes, homework, and standardized tests, or activities that closely imitate them.
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Add Sticky NoteMath 2.0
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For community mathematics, free, well-designed communication platforms such as nings, blogs, wikis, microblogging, forums, aggregators, and distributed content mash-ups can support online and local math clubs and math circles, topical discussion and study communities, and networks growing around a variety of particular math endeavors: competitions, educational philosophies, comic strips, books, or curricula" (Droujkova, 2009, p. 3).
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Ethnomathematics, the study of the relationship between mathematics and culture, also falls within this humanistic category. It might seem a challenge to incorporate this area into math classes because of mandated curriculum and the standardized test movement, but it links math to the real world. Culturally Situated Design Tools for teaching math and computing through culture comes with lessons and software for students to create their own cultural designs associated with African, African-American, Latino, and Native American cultures, as well as youth subcultures.
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The 6-pages article covers questions like: Mathematical Authoring; Community Mathematics; Humanistic Mathematics; Executable Mathematics; Psychology of Mathematics Learning and Education On the last page there is a list of references which include recent information on the subject ma...
Updated on Feb 06, 11
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