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Monthly Archives: July 2015
NCTM Regional Conferences & Expositions
Viles Foundation: Northern New Mexico Outreach Program
STEM Educators in Northern New Mexico are often amazed by their wonderful students. It is even more amazing when we have exemplar students who have overcome adversity in their lives, including but not exclusive to having been orphaned. If you teach in Northern NM, and think one of your students might qualify for assistance from The Viles Scholarship Foundation, use the link below to reach out to them … #nctm #nmctm
Computer Based Math
Want your students to know and appreciate critical numeracy, but frustrated that they can’t also appreciate high-concept math understanding and solve real-world problems with technology? Consider visiting Computer Based Math and joining the discussion forum, downloading resources, etc. More information and materials at Computer Based Math Materials.
AP Annual Conference
Four Corners Conference: The Promise of Hope
Four Corners Conference: The Promise of Hope, features Pre-K – 3 grade content, and is open for registration to all teachers featuring Dr. Douglas B. Reeves as keynote … more information at Four Corners. #nctm #nmctm
Minecraft in Education
Our friends over at NMSTA just notified everyone on the NM.Science Listserv about Microsoft’s new Minecraft in Education website. Lots for educators and STEM teachers to explore here … #nctm #nmctm There are also some open-source spin-offs for the old school purists here: TrueCraft and MineTest
HMH Teacher Survey Shows Strong Tech Adoption
Houghton Mifflin is releasing HMH Educator Confidence Report that assesses the extent to which technology is being used in the classroom #nctm #nmctm
Next Generation Science Standards & Crosscutting Concepts
Teach math but concerned about how students connect that learning to science? Teach science but want and need your students to understand the mathematics needed to make an argument and defend it? The Next Generation Science Standards explicitly call for “crosscutting” conceptual development, or taking your other subjects including math to explain and articulate the findings in science … #nctm #nmctm
http://www.nextgenscience.org/
Spotlight on PARCC
Wolfram Alpha & Much More …
Geogebra: Free Online Interactive Geometry & CAS
Desmos: Free Online Graphing Tool
Desmos has been around for a while now, but it never stops getting better … perhaps you are teaching Calculus and the f’, f”, tests and want to overlay the original function with its two derivatives to teach curve sketching? Maybe just want your students to appreciate what the a, b, and c coefficients do in a standard quadratic function? Desmos can do that and more … #nctm #nmctm … Best part yet, it has a Chrome app too, with user accounts …
Schoolzilla: District Data Management Software
Part of an administrative team and charged with robust data analysis of your school’s attendance? Maybe you are at part of payroll and need to evaluate a school’s budget margins? Whatever it is, Schoolzilla has amazing potential and power to generate those data into meaningful visuals and analyses … #nctm #nmctm
inspire Santa Fe
Academy for the Love of Learning
Santa Fe Alliance for Science
UNM-PNM Math Contest
Santa Fe Institute
Renesan: Institute for Lifelong Learning
National Association of Math Circles
Albuquerque Math Teachers’ Circle
UNM STEM-H Center for Outreach, Research, & Education
MidSchoolMath National Conference 2016
Wolfram Technology Conference 2015
Wolfram Technology Conference in Champaigne, ILL October 20-22 … Invaluable applications and Web 2.0 for Math Teachers … #nctm #nmctm (Makers of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha)