Blog #13

What did I leave out?


How could technology be used in teaching mathematics?

It is well known how to integrate technology in literacy, such as blogging. Having students create personal blogs or class blogs get them engaged in literacy. If they are interested in what they are writing about, they will write more and want to learn more. With all the technology at our fingertips, educators have to find creative ways to teach their students. Math is a cut and dry subject that will not change. One plus one will always equal two. Educators have to make this engaging. One way educators can make mathematics engaging is integrating technology. I have found a video, Teaching Math with Innovative Technology. This video shows an educator integrating technology in math. The students watch a video of the lesson at home and begin answering the questions assigned. The next day the students bring questions to the classroom for the teacher. He decided to do this because the students were having problems at home completing the homework. When he was teaching the lesson, the students seemed to understand. When the students went home to complete the homework assignment, they ran into problems. The reason being is that the questions in the beginning are easier and gradually get more complicated. This is a great way to use technology teaching math.

Another video that I found was, Teaching Math With Technology. This video shows that students can learn how to graph, solve linear equations, create number lines and visual verify equations. This is an interesting way for students to learn how to solve math problems. They can come up with the answer to the problem and then verify it on the computer. They can visually see if they solved the problem correctly. The video used apples to visually show the problem, but educators can use any other object. My favorite animation that this video showed was the visual way to remember greater than and less than signs. The birds beak was the sign, the greater than opened up towards the birds body. Children will remember this since it was visually represented. When I was learning greater than and less than, my teacher created a PacMan out of foam that ate the greater number. Still to this day I remember that PacMan always eats the greater number.