Be sure to check out the Dynamic Paper app from NCTM's Illuminations site. This app allows teachers to customize and print out graph paper, grids, number lines, tessellations, spinners, pattern blocks and more. Users control the number of sections in the spinner and colors. Likewise, users set the size of the sides of pattern blocks or the range of the number line.
Dynamic Paper is a great resource for teachers designing activities to support math learning. It's also an invaluable tool for teachers needing to differentiate classroom learning activities to meet the varied needs of learners in their classrooms.
Eric Marcos, a math teacher at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, California, supports students as they create their own videos of important math concepts and skills. Math Train is the result of this classroom initiative in which students teach students. Here's how Math Train started:
Bookmark this site for middle school students and their parents. Chances are when a student runs into difficulty at home, he just might find an appropriate video that deals with that concept on Math Train.
