Mathematics and FCIT

Podcasts are a great way for teachers to communicate mathematics!  Teachers can create podcasts of topics/lessons and upload them to the web for students to view.  What a great way to handle make-up work!  Teachers can explain procedures and work out examples in their podcasts.  Then, students can view them from home.  Remember…. podcasts can have video in addition to audio!  Need help getting started?  Visit Standards & Sofwarefor a list of free software you can download.  To listen to math specific podcasts that were created for professional development for teachers, visit Make Math Matter at iTunes U.

Check out the new activity sheets that have been added to the site!  In addition to the skip-counting sheets using dominoes and bundles of sticks, there are new ones involving money.  You can have students practice counting by tens using images of stacks of dimes or count by fives using images of stacks of pennies.  This is a great way to make the skill relevant to your students.  Additional sheets can be made by accessing the currency page on Math Clipart. 

The Educational Technology Clearing House has links to numerous interactive websites for students in all grade levels.  This would be a great place to direct math students and parents for summer enrichment and/or remediation activities.  If you’re sending an end-of-year letter home to parents, consider listing this resource.