Apple Teacher Learning Center

"Apple Teacher is a free professional learning program designed to support and celebrate educators using Apple products for teaching and learning. As an educator, you can build skills on iPad and Mac that directly apply to activities with your students, earn recognition for the new things you learn, and be rewarded for the great work you do every day." 

The program helps teachers unlock the magic of iPad, Mac, and built-in apps in the classroom. By signing up, you'll get access to the Apple Teacher Learning Center where you can build skills, collect badges, and earn recognition as an Apple Teacher.

On the website, you can also find different activities, pdfs, some technology integration tips. Here I bring a video link that explains how to become an apple teacher and how to utilize Apple Teacher Learning Center

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg48yvGK-pk

Have a nice week ☺

Best Math Apps

Komodo

Komodo™ is an effective and rewarding way to help young children master mathematics. Regular practice is the tried-and-tested approach to mastering mathematics. Komodo makes this painless in a super-rewarding way that kids actually enjoy using. Aimed at ages 5 to 11, Komodo's adaptive technology tailors the learning experience to the needs of each child, adjusting as they go along. Komodo’s focus is on mastering arithmetic and mental arithmetic because this is the key platform for future success in mathematics. It takes learners through counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication - including times tables, division, fractions, decimals, percentages, and many more essential topics.

IXL Math

IXL Math app is an immersive learning experience that provides comprehensive, curriculum-aligned maths and English content for ages 4-18. With IXL, your children will learn at their own pace, IXL’s adaptive questions automatically adjust to just the right level of difficulty. A wide variety of question types keeps practice sessions fresh and enables all types of learners to succeed. You can practice and answer 10 questions for free in IXL.

Prodigy

Prodigy is one of the best free math apps for elementary students. Prodigy is a free, curriculum-aligned, fantasy-based math game for kids to practice essential math skills. Prodigy is completely free to use. Prodigy Math Game is adaptive and will assign activities based on your child’s strengths and weaknesses. Best of all, there is a fabulous reporting system that will keep parents or teachers informed of progress and troublesome skill areas, so you can keep an eye on the kids’ skill development. It’s suitable for kids in grades 1-8, so there is loads of potential to grow with your child.

Age: 6 to 14

Available: iTunes App Store, Google Play, Amazon Appstore, Web

If great scientist had logos..

I found a photo while searching on the internet and I like the idea of making posters and logos about our fields as teachers.

If you are interested in making posters, logos, or any material. You can use Canva. The website provides you many examples and templates. Its interface is easy to use. The buttons and help buttons guide you to make your poster. You can find elements such as frames, pictures, lines, and arrows. You can also add pictures to your poster.

For example, I created a poster about Math Anxiety. You can look at my poster and also you can edit it if you want. My poster link is  https://www.canva.com/design/DACOilB3BxI/share?role=EDITOR&token=hdKS8XAQZa4Oq2hAeWxjfQ&utm_content=DACOilB3BxI&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton

GeoGebra Game: Exponential Forest

Hello,
We created a game with GeoGebra about exponential numbers. The game is designed for 7-grade students. Generally, -1, 0, 1 confuse students in exponential numbers and it can cause some misunderstandings. The game is designed to diagnose these misconceptions and eliminate them. Also, it provides an understanding of the importance of parenthesis in exponential numbers. The content includes questions that is presented from simple to complex. After teaching the concept of exponential numbers, you can check your students' understanding of this game.
In the game,
Harry Potter and his friends lost their way. To go to Hogwarts, they should use the road in the Exponential Numbers Forest. However, the forest is very dangerous and there are witches who want to catch them. To pass through the forest, they should use the road that witches set traps for them. These traps include magical questions about exponential numbers. If you answer questions correctly, you can help them to go further.

If you are curious about the game you can visit my GeoGebra book that contains 2 chapters.
The first chapter presents the game and its relation to mathematics and the second is about the construction of the game step by step.

The link to my GeoGebra Book: https://ggbm.at/NN7KJZx3

Cabri 3D

Today, I am going to share the unfolding of a hexagonal pyramid cut by a plane and its construction on Cabri 3D.

You can find the file on the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GCxVd01eHO5g9nldpaavjYSklR_JBUGh/view


You can reach the video record that explains the construction step by step from the link:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I15TbXVyqqiyw1H0PG1jK0hYKkNfMiKb/view

Typora

Hello all,
This week I want to talk about a program that I found while matching math objectives and the questions in  Meb objective tests. The program interface is very easy to use as you see below.

I think math teachers can use this program while preparing exam questions. Sometimes writing formulas or operations in word document is difficult. However, Typora has its own ways for writing simple formulas and operations signs. For example you can write formulas like,

$$F=ma$$

$$x = v \times t$$

$$c^2 = a^2 + b^2$$

$$\alpha = \beta = \gamma = \theta = \phi$$

As you see in the examples, if you start with writing double $, typora understands you will write formula after describing what you want Typora will transfer it to a mathematical language as you see in the above picture.

Two Apss Activity

      Hello, I am going to talk about an activity for your math classes that requires the use of two technological apps.

Purpose: What's the purpose of the activity? What will the participants gain as a result of it?

The main topic of the activity is fractions; students will be able to understand fraction concepts and can compare fractions through the activity. They are expected to design a dream house with given fraction restrictions.

 For example, the size of the bedroom is 1/4 of the home and the kitchen covers 1/5 of the whole house, etc. Then children sketch their homes up according to given fractions.  While doing this activity, students will gain the skills of fraction computation (mostly addition) and understanding of part/whole concepts of fractions. Also, this activity allows children to produce their own products because they can arrange the home according to their inspirations.

After the homes are sketched up, the Kahoot link will be shared with students. There will be questions about the comparisons of the sizes of rooms(fractions).

For example;

The bedroom is 1/2 of the living room. (T/F)

The kitchen is bigger than a balcony. (T/F)

Which one is bigger than the dining room? (roof= or = kitchen)

Thanks to this activity they may understand the sizes of fractions and compare them.

Tools: Which mobile applications will be used in this activity? Name tools, and include URLs.

Sketchup will be used at the beginning of the activity.

-https://www.sketchup.com/

 Kahoot

-https://kahoot.it/#/

Procedure: What will the teacher and the participants do? How will these tools be used?

The activity includes two apps to use in class.

Firstly, the fraction restrictions for dream house activity will be given by the teacher. Each room size represents a fraction. (Kitchen 1/4 of the house, living room 1/3 of the house, balcony 1/2 of the living room, and so on.)  after the given restrictions for the size of rooms, students try to sketch their home up. To sketch their homes as 3D manipulations, they need to compute fractions and make some calculations on them because they need to represent a home as 1(whole) and the rooms are parts of this whole. In this activity they are free to produce their dream house, they may sketch different combinations of rooms in 3D, they may prefer a duplex building or not.

   In the second part, the teacher prepares Kahoot questions and shares the pin with students. Then, the teacher expects that students will make comparisons by using their plan of dream houses.

The questions will be;

-The bedroom is 1/2 of the living room. (T/F)

-The kitchen is bigger than a balcony. (T/F)

-Which one is bigger than the dining room? (roof or kitchen)

-1/2 of the living room is bigger than the kitchen(T/F)

The teacher is responsible for preparing questions, helping children to make comparisons, ıf there would be some problems with the activities, a teacher should have knowledge of the use of apps and the relation between the apps and the main topic of the lesson.