Thinking Blocks is an engaging, interactive math tool developed by classroom teachers to help students learn how to solve multistep word problems. Using brightly colored blocks, students model the relationships among the components of each word problem. With the help of a virtual teacher, students walk through a simple problem solving process and arrive at a solution. When building the models, students must identify information that is given as well as information that is unknown. Identifying and solving for an unknown quantity is a key concept in algebra. Thinking Blocks encourages students to look beyond the surface to discover the concepts and relationships that are at the core of every math problem.

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Maths Links is a partnership between Gregory Bate and Maryanne Tipler. Maryanne and Greg decided to self publish the Links Mathematics series because the relatively small number of MYP students worldwide make it financially unviable for them to write through a larger publisher.

Maths Links has endeavoured to produce quality resources for the IB programme to aid both teachers and pupils to fully enter into the ethos and spirit of the IB programme. There is a vision to provide a full set of workbooks for the whole 5 years of MYP Mathematics.

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ibmaths.com is a website by Adrian Sparrow who have taught in Cairo, 2 schools in Thailand, and in Malawi. Other than teaching maths he has been responsible for curriculum development, head of maths, and an IB Coordinator in the past.

The web site has been featured on BBC World, on the old Click Online program. All the files hosted here are free to download and use, but not to re-host. They are all files that are used in his own teaching.

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The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence.

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A listing of web sites created by Vicki Davis. These web sites are the most useful tools that she uses in her classroom. She uses most of them on a daily or weekly basis. This will give viewers an outline of the tools that she use and how. More information can be found on her Blog.

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This fascinating timeline, tracing important developments in Information Technology, is but a small part of the “Girls Are I.T.” site presented by the Girl Scouts of America. Users may either mouse over each icon for a quick summary or click each to obtain detailed information on that topic, such as the development of the cellphone.

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Education Network Australia (edna) is Australia’s leading online resource collection and collaborative network for the education and training community.

edna supports and promotes the benefits of technology for education and training in Australia. edna is a joint initiative of the state and territory governments and the Australian Government, through their education departments, to provide free news, resources, networks and online tools for educators. edna is managed by education.au limited and has been operating since 1996.

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Organizations from Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan and the US, have formed a global alliance to make shared online learning resources available to educators and students around the world.

The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) alliance has been established between the following founding members: the ARIADNE Foundation in Europe, Education Network Australia (EdNA Online) in Australia, LORNET in Canada, Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) in the US, and National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME) in Japan. These organizations have committed to work collaboratively on a shared vision of ubiquitous access to quality educational content.

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Whether we find ourselves counting change at the grocery store or figuring out how much the price of gas has gone up in the past several weeks, it is certainly true that we all use math everyday. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, in collaboration with Texas Instruments, has created this site to bring together a number of resources for mathematics educators and those with a growing interest in fractions, exponents, and other such matters. Each activity has a fun title, and while there isn’t a search engine, visitors will find it interesting to look through the different activities for something that meets their needs. From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2007.

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The Creative Learning Exchange encourages a view of education for primary and secondary schools based on discovery as the essence of the learning process and advocates systems education implemented through learner-centered learning.

The CLE facilitates communication among teachers and schools to help create a network of schools using systems education. It solicits teaching materials and ideas from participating teachers. The CLE will make such materials available at cost to educators. Some of the currently available materials include: Read the rest of this story »

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