Do you think you need a dozen tools for teaching Math in your classroom? Think again.
I asked 60 Math teachers, educators and experts one simple question:
“If you could only use 3 education technology tools for teaching students in your classroom what would you choose?”
My aim was to simply understand and employ in classroom the math apps, tools and websites I must seriously consider and what I can live without.
Being new to education technology, I’ve been overwhelmed by all the top 10, 20 and even 100 lists of tools/apps/sites that have really got me nowhere closer to choosing a manageable selection of tools. Therefore, I decided that the best and probably the only way to know for real was to ask teachers, educators and experts who have been using technology in their classroom and see if the best tools in the industry would indeed reveal themselves. Well fortunately for me and a lot of other educators…..they have:
Favourite Math Tools (as voted by 60 experts!)
#1 Desmos – 32 Votes
#2 Geogebra – 21 Votes
#3 Google apps for education (GAFE) – 17 Votes
#4 Socrative – 6 votes
#5 Kahoot, Twitter & WolframAlpha tied with 5 votes
So there you have it. Now read on to discover each expert’s favourite 3 tools and amazing tips on how they use it in their classroom! I have linked their blogs where they go in detail about how to use these tools. This is a goldmine for everybody looking to incorporate technology in their classroom. You can either skip to your favourite expert using these quick links or grab a coffee, get comfortable and commence scrolling!
Audrey McLaren, Anton Petrov
Bon Crowder, Bruno Reddy
Craig Yen, Christy Hansen, Chiara Maieron, Curtis Graham, Cathy Yenca
Damian Wanstall, Dave Ashton, Dylan Kane, David Wees, David Marain
Earl Samuelson, Edward Simoneau, Enrique Troyo del Va, Emma Bell, Evan Weinberg
Fawn Nguyen
Graeme Campbell
Jennifer Fairbanks, Jim Wysocki, Jim Pardun, John Chase, James Tanton, Justin Lanier, Jon Orr, Jennifer Dao, Johan Falk
Kelly Boles, Kristin Manna, Kristin Gray
Laurie B-Worthington, Leigh Nataro
Matt Coaty, Megan Schmidt, Michael Salamanca, Myra Deister, Margaret Allen, Mary Kienstra, Mishaal Surti, Mark Horley
Naila Jinnah, N Parandeh, Nick Biddle
Paul Pavlou, Paul Salomon
Raf Dahouk
Sara Delano Moore, Scott Hills, Stephen Cavadino
Todd Hardesty, Tina Cardone, Teri Owens, Tony Sanders, Timothy Poseley, Tyler Auer
Virginia Alberti
Wendy Menard
Responses listed in alphabetical order:
Audrey McLaren – @a_mcsquared
Audrey shares her ideas at McSquared. She teaches high school math in online, live and virtual classrooms.
Anton Petrov – @WhatDaMath
“I think I would use a graphics tablet for writing (projector and laptop included), Desmos for graphing and activities and Geogebra for whatever desmos can’t do.”
Anton shares his ideas at Whatdamath. Anton is a math teacher.
Bon Crowder – @mathfour
“Evernote, Code.org, edHelper.com”
Bon shares her ideas at MathFour. She is an Education Advocate.
Bruno Reddy – @MrReddyMaths
“Thank you for trying to reach me in various ways over the last couple of days. In answer to your question:
- Desmos – desmos.com
- Diagnostic Questions – https://www.diagnosticquestions.com/
- Times Tables Rock Stars – ttrockstars.com”
Bruno shares his ideas at Mr Reddy Maths Blog. He is a self-described Maths Pedageek.
Craig Yen – @craigyen
Craig shares his ideas at Yen4Teaching. He is a 5th Grade Teacher, an Edtech Fanatic and an Edmodo Ambassador
Christy Hansen – @CHansenCA
Christy is a Math Coach/Teacher for Class 6th.
Chiara Maieron – @ChiaraMaieron
Chiara is an Ex-physicist, a Math & Physics Teacher who is interested in Science Communication, Disarmament and Science.
Curtis Graham – @MathRockz
Curtis shares his ideas at Math Rocks! He’s a Math Teacher, Game Enthusiast, Tech Geek and Coach.
Cathy Yenca – @mathycathy
Damian Wanstall – @wanstad73
Dave Ashton – @MrAshton_Maths
Dylan Kane – @math8_teacher
David Wees – @davidwees
David Marain – @dmarain
1. Geogebra
2. Desmos
3. Wolfram Alpha
All of these products fall short of the mark however as they focus more on the tech and less on the Ed.”
David shares his ideas at MathNotations. He is a Math Educator, Blogger, Math Consultant, Ed Tech Leader and a Math Assessment Specialist.
Edward Simoneau – @Simonometry
Edward is an Ed Tech Coordinator, Former High School Math Teacher and an iPad Pilot Teacher.
Earl Samuelson – @earlsamuelson
Earl shares his ideas at Samuelson Mathxp. He is a High School Math teacher.
Enrique Troyo del Va – @enriquetroyo
Enrique shares his ideas at Math Rules! He is a Math teacher, food fan and coffee lover.
Emma Bell – @El_Timbre
“My three must-haves are:
Desmos Free graphing software, Web-based and Ipad app. It’s ace, intuitive and constantly evolving.
idoceo. All my planning and marking records in one place and safely backed up!
Youtube
So many great demos for my students from teachers all over the world :).”
Emma shares her ideas at El Timbre. She is passionate about maths, teaching & making people smile.
Evan Weinberg – @emwdx
- Geogebra (http://www.geogebra.org) – for me, the best comprehensive and documented resource for K-12 classrooms. There’s tons of flexibility for students creating and exploring here.
- Desmos (http://www.desmos.com/calculator and http://teacher.desmos.com) – an online graphing calculator by itself, but also a collection of fantastic learning experiences for math classrooms. These lessons provide powerfully interactive and networked experiences for classrooms to make the most of the social aspect of learning.
- PearDeck (http://www.peardeck.com) – along the lines of what Desmos does, but in a more generalized way, this allows learning that is simultaneously individual and collective. For a teacher, being able to see everyone’s thinking at once makes a big difference. This software makes it easy.”
Evan shares his ideas at GealGeroboPhysiculus. Evan teaches Math in Grade 10, IB math(s) & physics, and web programming at an international school in China.
Fawn Nguyen – @fawnpnguyen
Graeme Campbell – @GraemeCampbell
Graeme shares his ideas at Graeme’s Personal WebSpace. He is a Mathematics, Engineering and Robotics teacher at Brentwood College School in Mill Bay, BC, and is very interested in ed-tech.
Jennifer Fairbanks – @HHSmath
Jennifer shares her ideas at 8 is my lucky number. She’s a High School Math Teacher for Algebra I and II and Boys Cross Country Coach.
Jim Wysocki – @ilove2teachmath
Jim shares his ideas at On the Skinny Branches. He is a Math Teacher.
Jim Pardun – @JimPa23
Jim shares his ideas at Teaching From The Heart, Not The Book. He is a Math teacher at Vernon Hills High School.
John Chase - @mrchasemath
James Tanton – @jamestanton
Justin Lanier – @j_lanier
Jon Orr – @MrOrr_geek
Here are my 3 tools:
1. Desmos – http://www.Desmos.com – an online Free graphing software. It replaces our old $150 graphing calculators. It has features that allow students to work together and be creative. An add-on feature is teacher.desmos.com which promotes awesome curious, collaborative activities.
2. MTBoS search engine on http://www.fishing4tech.com/mtbos.html . To. Bring out the best in my students every one of my lessons should start with envoking their curiosity by a perplexing question. This search engine searches a ton of math teachers blogs, thus giving me a ton of potential curiosity lessons.
3. Explain Everything http://explaineverything.com – For me, this iPad app is the most versatile app I’ve seen. Not only does is screen record student work, but you can create content, like a digital interactive worksheet/activity and send the file out to students.”
Jennifer Dao – @JDaomath
Johan Falk – @Itangalo
Kelly Boles – @KLBolesa
Kristin Manna – @KristinEManna
Kristin Gray – @MathMinds
Laurie B-Worthington – @lauriebworthy
Leigh Nataro – @mathteacher24
Matt Coaty – @Mcoaty
Megan Schmidt – @Veganmathbeagle
Michael Salamanca – @salamancamike
Myra Deister – @shhsMath
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