I thought this was a great group
activity because we had to work together and be sure to read each other’s
technology choices so we did not repeat them. I liked reading my group members ideas because they were
often things I had either never though of or had forgotten about, many of which
we have used in many of our math classes already. This activity definitely makes you realize how important and
how helpful technology is in a math classroom. At first it seemed like a lot of work to find 10 different
technologies used in the math classroom, but once I started researching the
topic there were so many, it was almost hard to narrow it down to what I
thought were the ten most effective teaching technologies.
As we learn in our other classes,
two important aspects of teaching are teaching literacy and assessing
understanding. Many of the
technologies on or list are visual aid because in math is so important to
connect terms and formulas to graphs to gain literacy and understanding. A few of the technologies are also
tools for assessment such as “Math Teacher Tools” which helps teachers create
worksheets which can then be graded, “Math Pad Plus” which allows the students
to do the worksheets online, or my personal favorite “Dream Box Learning” which
assesses the student’s progress, identifies the area which the student is
struggling in, and provides further practice and instruction. “Dream Box Learning” has games and
animations that make learning fun for the students and assessment easy for the
teacher.
