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Since I’m now an instructional coach with the district, I will no longer be posting class assignments/activities here on this blog. You might want to check out my Coaching Wiki!

Standard, Expanded, and Expanded Exponential forms

Work with a partner to find a helpful web site on these 3 different ways to write numbers. Share your web site as a comment on this post. And the winners are…

The best link shared by your classmates:
#1) http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001385.shtml shared by Garrett — has many excellent links including some of our runners-up…a great resource!

The runners-up:
#2) http://www.aaamath.com/plc31d-placevalue-add.html shared by Brody, Abby, and Tylan — has a good description of place value and expanded form, along with an interactive practice game.
#3) http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/math4/d/hp/standard.htm shared by John, William, and Chase — has an interactive practice game for expanded form.
#4) http://www.icoachmath.com/SiteMap/ExpandedForm.html shared by Ellie, Sadie, Allison, Amanda, Charley, and Kelsie — has an excellent description of standard and expanded forms, but some students seemed to be getting a message that this site may require you to install extra software to view it correctly?
#5) http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/QQ/database/QQ.09.07/h/kent1.html shared by Alex, Ryan, John, Tyler, Carissa, Alex, Molly, Tyler, Dylan, Allison, Amanda, Kenzi, Kaitlynn, Charley, and Kelsie — a very popular site and one of the only ones in this list to explain expanded exponential form!
#6) http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/57137.html shared by Michael and Molly — another good explanation of standard and expanded forms.

Equation Projects

Students completed these equation projects earlier in the year, mostly on the SMARTBoard. I finally got a chance to convert most of them into PowerPoint slide shows so that you should be able to download and view them. Check out their good work!

PowerPoint downloads:

• Akilah Shawnae Victoria
• Bobby Alek’s math project
• Dalton Math Project
• Darian, Alec, Blake, Wyatt
• Dylan Justin
• ERIN AND STEPHANIE SLIDE PROJECT FOR MATH
• Haley Victoria
• henne
• MackenzieP
• Maggie[1]

Screencasts (require Flash player):

• abhinav_austin_ryan_add
• abhinav_austin_ryan_-
• abhinav_austin_ryan_X
• abhinav_austin_ryan_2step
• Jesse equations
• KristenAudreyHayley add
• KristenAudreyHayley-
• KristenAudreyHayleyX
• KristenAudreyHayley2step
• Tanner Danni Lily Tori Madalynn addition
• Tanner Danni Lily Tori Madalynn subtraction
• Tanner Danni Lily Tori Madalynn multiplication
• Tanner Danni Lily Tori Madalynn 2step

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Applegate Grant

As we close out the school year, I would like to thank the John Russell Applegate Fund for Teachers at Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation, based here in North Platte, for funding Adams Middle School’s “Interactive Technology for Math Students” grant.  Through the funding they provided, our school was able to purchase two Elmo TT-02s document cameras and two SMART Airliner wireless slates to increase student engagement in the mathematics curriculum.  (To see just a few of the products we digitally photographed, visit these links: http://madmathteacher.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/tessellations-symmetry/ and http://madmathteacher.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/circle-graph-winners/.)  Students were able to share their work much more effectively and more engagingly using these tools — the days of recopying their work onto the board or overhead projector are gone! — and as the teacher, I was able to write on the digital chalkboard from anywhere in the classroom, enhancing my ability to support students throughout the classroom even during whole-class instruction.  We are very grateful to the Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation for the learning opportunities they have helped to provide and expand, and so we publicly thank them for funding our Applegate Grant application.