Students should have access to technology as a source for problem solving, reasoning, and as a way to make their thinking visible. The strategic use of digital tools should strengthen mathematical teaching, learning, and discourse. Digital Math tools fall into several categories including, but not limited to: formative assessment/practice tools, interactive application tools, instructional tools, or as a learning management system (LMS). It's important to note that when integrating digital tools in the Math classroom, the tool must be used appropriately and used for a specific reason or purpose. Digital Math tools can be used in any grade level Math class, depending on the purpose of the lesson or activity.
Identify which digital mathematical tool you would like to use in your classroom and its purpose or reason for use. Below, are several purposes and tools that can be used for those purposes. Look at the tech tools for a brief description of each tool and a link to the digital tool.
Formative Assessment and/or Practice
Quizizz (free)
Quizlet (free)
IXL (paid)
Khan Academy (free)
Prodigy (free)
CK-12 (free)
Flipgrid (free)
Interactive Application Tools
IXL (paid)
Geogebra (free)
Desmos (free)
Khan Academy (free)
Instructional Tools
Khan Academy (free)
CK-12 (free)
Desmos (free)
Geogebra (free)
Learning Management System
Schoology
Google Classroom
Canvas
Powerschool
Before implementing an activity or lesson with a digital mathematical tool, decide what norms, routines, and expectations that should be in place with students. Some examples of norms and expectations are listed below:
Students should sign-out their device or remain seated while their devices are being distributed to them.
Students should bring their charged device to class each day.
Devices should only be used for instructional and learning purposes, as defined by the teacher.
Students should keep a log sheet with their log-in information
Have the site or app displayed on the board with any information students will need to access the site or app.
Model the site or app with students prior to launching into the activity or lesson.
Create the activity or lesson that students will be utilizing the digital mathematical tool with. This activity could include just one piece where students will need the mathematical tool or the entire lesson or activity could be centered around the digital mathematical tool. Ensure that there is a clear purpose and use for the tool.
Start the activity by reviewing the norms or procedures for utilizing technology in the classroom. Make sure all students understand the instructions and expectations. As students are using their devices, circulate around the room to answer questions, provide guidance, and to monitor technology use. If possible, display student work or tracking of student work on the board (some apps and tools allow for this).
When closing the activity, be sure to have students reflect and share both about their work and how utilizing the mathematical tool helped students on their work. Students can also share about what was easy when using the tool and areas of difficulty. This can help when planning the next activity with a digital tool.
Socrative
Socrative是数字评估工具,允许for recording of student responses on exit ticket, quizzes or spur in the moment question. All students have to do is enter the teacher Socrative room via one code, always the same, and the class becomes interactive from there!
Socrative can be used as an instructional and formative assessment tool in real time or as self-paced assignments.
Desmos
Desmos is an online graphing calculator that can be used to connect real-world structures and shapes with mathematical concepts to enhance student understanding or allow students to solve problems online and share link with teacher or classmates.
Desmos can be used as online graphing calculator to make thinking and data visible. There are also pre-created or teacher created activities that can have students utilizing data to work through activities and tasks aligned to specific content.
Flipgrid
Flipgrid is a video discussion platform great for generating class discussion around topics, videos, or links posted to the class grid. Students can video record their responses to share with the teacher or class.
Flipgrid can be used in the Math classroom as a Q&A forum, to have students work a problem and explain their work via video, as error analysis via vide, etc.
Mastery Connect
Assess and track mastery in science, math, and ELA. Pin and upload resources aligned to standards. Share resources in a curriculum map and in student playlists. Share and discover common assessments in a global professional learning community. Grading tools: tablet, mobile device, web browser, and bubble sheet scanning.
Mastery connect allows teachers to effectively assess core standards, monitor student mastery, and report progress to other stakeholders. This is a great tech tool for mastery-based classrooms.
Quizizz
Quizizz is a free platform that allows you to assign self-paced and self-scored quizzes to students. You can easily add gifs to the questions, and students can complete a quizizz when they feel ready to prove mastery, even if the rest of the class is not.
Quizizz is an amped up version of Kahoot. Teachers can create assessments that students can either complete in real time (similar to Kahoot) or can be assigned as homework. There are tons of pre-created activities that teachers can use, or they can create their own. This is a great way to assess students or have them practice specific problems.
Quizlet
Online or printable cards and interactive (online) diagrams to study and learn content created by other users, or to create your own custom study sets. Study sets can be shared.
Through Quizlet, students can practice and study key concepts through learning tools and games. There is a large amount of pre-created content available as well.
IXL
IXL is an integrated, personalized learning platform that allows students to practice common core aligned practice problems and intuitively levels problems based on student responses.
IXL allows teachers to assign students specific practice (fluency) for any grade area or common core content. The program is intuitive, and levels questions based on student ability. It also teaches concepts, when students misses questions.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy provides expert-created instructional videos, practice problems, and assessments for all content areas.
Teachers can use Khan Academy in a variety of ways in the classroom. It has the ability to set-up a virtual classroom where students can interact with instructional videos, practice problems, remediation, and assessments. Teachers can use this in multiple ways to provide digitally enhanced scaffolding.
Geogebra
Geogebra is an interactive geometry, algebra, statistics, and calculus application, intended for learning and teaching mathematics. It provides an interactive, free graphing calculator and activities for specific content areas.
Geogebra can be used as online graphing calculator to make thinking and data visible. There are also pre-created or teacher created activities that can have students utilizing data to work through activities and tasks aligned to specific content.
