Teachers – Great Maths Resources to Start the Year

As you are starting to get your thoughts and resources together for the new teaching year, I thought I’d share a few great Maths sites to get your juices flowing.

http://topdrawer.aamt.edu.au/ – if your school’s maths department hasn’t subscribed to AAMT / QAMT / MTANSW / MTAV, then it should.  Only about $180 a year for a school (I think).

http://www.mathematiciansinschools.edu.au/resources/ – especially subscribe to their free newsletter “Maths and Stats by Email”

http://amsi.org.au/ESA_middle_years/Middle_Years.html – also has a great area for careers in Maths – helps the kids (and we teachers) to know some of the answers to “why are we learning this?”

http://nlvm.usu.edu/ – Virtual manipulatives (allows students to manipulate variables and other concepts to allow comprehensive understanding (requires java – won’t work in Google Chrome, but will in other browsers)

If your school doesn’t already have other software to do these jobs, then I really recommend the following:

“Geogebra” – Geometry and Algebra – http://www.geogebra.org/cms/en – free!

• There is a huge amount of support and curriculum materials for this software (http://tube.geogebra.org/)
• Works on tablet (apple and android) and PC

“Graphmatica” – Graphing software – http://graphmatica.com – free!

• Easy to use graphing software
• Again, heaps of support materials

We welcome teachers sharing other great resources they have found, across all STEM subjects.  Drop us a line (admin@telg.com.au) and I’ll share them with everyone (and acknowledge you and your school at the same time).

Don’t forget to keep checking our Registration page for professional development workshops near you!

Have a great 2016!