Amazing infographic from OnlineEducation.net. I’d love to hear all of your thoughts. Can Apple save education? And how do other technology companies such as Google, Microsoft, Wolfram, etc., fit into the equation. This is an important conversation. Please comment below and share this post with your friends who care about the future of education.
For the last few weeks, I’ve been scouring the web with Google, listening to reader suggestions, and searching through others’ lists of resources, trying to find the top free math resources online. I was not surprised to learn that there are a ton of free math resources out there. Sorting through them has been no small task, and while I’d love to pretend this list is all-inclusive, I’d be a liar if I tried to make that claim for a number of reasons.
UPDATE: The contest has ended. The random.org random number generator selected Marianna Ballard as the winner. Congratulations, Marianna! Thanks to everyone who entered. I am planning to make contests a more regular part of Tech Powered Math, so be sure to follow on Facebook or Twitter to stay up to date on my giveaways. I recently reviewed MathBlaster.com and was incredibly impressed by the scope and variety of the games as well as the professional polish and fun factor.
While I barely remember it today, the original Math Blaster, released in the late 1980’s was a popular game designed to teach kids math that showed up in the computers at my elementary school and countless others. The Math Blaster series has continued to be popular for over two decades. Today, Knowledge Adventure handles the franchise and offered me the opportunity to take a look at the latest incarnation of Math Blaster at MathBlaster.
UPDATE: The contest has ended. Twitter winners @sunian314 @hasama36 @matt1888a and @tsclausing. Facebook winner was Jacob Petefish. You will need to follow me on Twitter or friend me on Facebook to receive your prize code via private message. I recently reviewed AbleMath, a new graphing calculator for the iPhone/iPod touch. The creators of AbleMath have generously offered 10 copies of AbleMath for me to give away here at Tech Powered Math, which I am doing in this contest.
Device: iPhone Function: Graphing Calculator Ages: High school and up I haven’t taken a look at a graphing calculator app since my old review of the top 6 calculator apps for the iPhone. However, at the request of the developers at AbleMath, I hopped on over the App Store to see what their new AbleMath Graphing Calculator can do. What I Like About AbleMath AbleMath offers some features that I haven’t seen in other iPhone calculators.
In preparation for AP Calculus the other day, I was struggling with how to get the TI-Nspire to work Riemann sums as easily as the TI-84 does, since we typically use a program on the 84. After some time, I had come to the conclusion I’d either have to write a program myself or just accept the fact that it wouldn’t be as simple as it is with the TI-84.
UPDATE: My list of free math resources is now complete. I’m putting together a list of free math resources you can access online, and I’m inviting all Tech Powered Math readers to participate in making the list. I’m not sure yet if this will be a top 10, top 20, or even top 100 list. It’ll depend on how much participation I get from all of you. You can suggest resources to me in a variety of ways.
Click here to get the best price on Algebrator by Softmath. The last few days I’ve been playing around with Softmath’s product for helping students learn algebra: Algebrator. There seems to be a lot of curiosity about this product, so I wanted to do an Algebrator review to let my readers know what the product about. As of the writing of this review, it costs $58.99, a reasonable cost for software of this type, but enough that you’ll probably want to know a little more about the software before investing in it.
I’ve been thinking about the technologies that pushed the way we use and learn mathematics forward the most over the history of man. Here are my picks for the top 10 in the order they were invented. I’m not a historian, so take it for what it’s worth, and I’ll warn you that I almost entirely relied on Wikipedia for historical information. In other words, this is not a research paper.
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