Middle School Math Workshop

updated 2/13/02

2/6/02 & 2/20/02

|back to Middle School Resource Page|

http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/ms/math.htm

Evaluations of: 

1) Building Bridges to Algebraic Thinking (Illuminations)

2) DISCOVERING GROWTH PATTERNS, A Web Activity Comparing Linear and Exponential  Growth

3) Analyzing Numeric and Geometric Patterns of Paper Pool - "... interactive paper pool game...provides an understanding of ratio, proportion, and least common multiple."

4) Too Many to Count:  Estimate the Size of a Crowd  and The Time of Your Life - Making a Timeline (Prentice Hall)

5) Problems of the Week & Puzzles Math Forum Problem of the Week | Coolmath | Brainteasers

 

On your own - You have to go to :

Finding our PUSD Middle School standards and technology standards.  To navigate there, got to the PUSD main page> Teaching and Learning> Academic Standards>

NCTM Illuminations

 

There are lots of resources already available for you and your students on the Prentice Hall Web Site - Let's take a tour.

Let's go to Course1, Teacher.  Then click on a chapter.  You will see a "Chapter Overview" which describes:

  • what skills that students will learn
  • prerequisite skills
  • key terms

 

FIRST:  In the left margin, click on "Teaching Links".  They have done work for you of finding websites that are appropriate to your students, which correlate to the chapter you are working in.  There are some amazing REAL WORLD applications available there!

NEXT:  In the left margin click on  "Internet Activities".  This is very cool! There are online activities in which students practice the skills they are learning in the textbook chapter, using some outside web resources.  There are also teaching notes that describe how the project may be presented, managed and scored.

As if that's not enough!  Click on to "Student Site".  On this part of the web page, you can view student links, AND the kids can take a quiz to test their knowledge that is instantly corrected for them.

ddle School Math Resources

 

Middle School Technology Resource Page
Denise 

 

PBS Teacher Source for Math - AMAZING stuff for kids to use!  High quality, well designed and FUN stuff with a searchable database! ~Recommended by Jill Simpson


Denise Hogan 
EdTech Specialist
Poway Unified School District
ext.2202