Using Web 2.0 tools

On the first day of math class, I would use Posters I created on Block Posters. Each student would have at least on piece, and we would put it together as a class like a giant puzzle. The first one would be easy:

And the second one a little tougher:

I would then explain the concept of a fractal to my students, and tell them abut the math that goes into creating them, and I hope that with these incredible images I can at least inspire in my students a tiny bit of desire to learn math.

Foundational skills are very useful in math, because evey new subject builds on the previous one. Also, students who have a strong command of the foundational skills of arithmetic can effectively focus on the processes involved in solving complex equations. To strengthen my student's skills, I would ask them to practice their multiplication on http://www.freerice.com/. Their assignment would be to donate 300 grains of rice each week, and perhaps we could even have races in class to see who can reach a certain number of grains the fastest. For their homework, students could send me a screen capture that looked something like this:

At the end of the year, I would create a Survey on http://www.surveymonkey.com/ and ask my students to complete it. It would look something like this:



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I would use my students' responses to become a more effective teacher.