Math6

=**Math6**= =January 10th, 2012=

Attendance: Downs, Gregg, Sherman, Trace (Central office Ms. Beam)

We discussed ways of integrating technology into Math...Downs reviewed this document:[|Suggestions for Math Teachers.doc]

Downs showed how to create a page on School wires that is a link (such as was created for the Weekly essential pages) []

Learning Village Answer key for WE (takes you to Learning Village login--use your active directory user name and pw to get into l: []

We discussed the Smart Files Available on the Staff Share Dive (SmartBoard files to not necessarily need to be used with a SmartBoard, they can be used to introduce a lesson, to interact using a tablet. Kim Gregg mentioned using the pulldown shade as a tool in the notebook software so you can progressively reveal parts of the screen: S:\StaffShare\Math\Math activities

We talked about Brain Pop--There are great videos on there, The following videos are free and available all the time:

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Other videos on Brain Pop are available just for five days under the user name: **seastms** pw: j**aguars516** We talked about this site that has video clips explaining various math principals: Downs suggested you might introduce a lesson this way to break up the monotany of the kids always hearing you :) []

Then, Mrs. Sherman explained to the the other teachers how she used laptops in her room (8) in groups of three or four students with the following website to work out problems and see an explanation:

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Afterwards, I spoke with Ms. Beam who is a single school culture coach from central office, we talked about this idea of keeping a wiki like Kimmel Farm does: [] (Downs has access to this site if anyone would like to see how they are doing it)