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GeoGebra - the world's favorite, free math tools used by over 100 million students and teachers

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Interactive GeoGebra logo. Drag the points!

You can download GeoGebra or run it online at https://www.geogebra.org/.

If you want to run it online you can either pick a special purpose app below the New Math Apps or use the general purpose app GeoGebra Classic. When running it online you can choose language under the Language menu.

The GeoGebra website

You can download GeoGebra under Offline Apps. There are two downloaded version of GeoGebra: GeoGebra Classic 5 and GeoGebra Classic 6.

If you use a mobile device you should use GeoGebra Classic 6 which has a virtual keyboard and features suitable for mobile devices.

The examples on this web site are made using GeoGebra Classic 5, the regular computer desktop version.

GeoGebra Classic 6

GeoGebra Classic 5

When using GeoGebra Classic 5 or Classic 6 you can change language under Options in the main menu.

GeoGebra's web site also has an excellent forum.

For troubleshooting and getting access to older versions, see Reference: GeoGebra Installation FAQ.

If you want your students to use GeoGebra during exams, you should check out GeoGebra Exam Tutorial.

GeoGebra Resources

The main feature of GeoGebra is interactivity. Since static documents cannot capture the spirit of GeoGebra, and since most teachers/students don't have a web site of their own; it is possible to post your working to the GeoGebra web site. The material shared is a so called GeoGebra worksheet.

In order to share your worksheets to the GeoGebra web site, you must either register to make a GeoGebra user account, or use an existing Google, Facebook, Microsoft or Twitter account. If using the downloaded version of GeoGebra Classic 5 you can upload your worksheet to the GeoGebra web site by choosing File->Export from within GeoGebra. Once posted, you can share it by providing a link to your GeoGebra user profile, like this: https://www.geogebra.org/u/malinc.

If you choose to share a worksheet as Public, anyone can use it and make a copy of it.

Areas of use for teachers

GeoGebra is useful for many situations when teaching mathematics. Some common areas of use are described below.

Teacher demonstrations

When introducing new mathematical concepts, relations, or theorems, in some cases it is more efficient to use a GeoGebra worksheet than to visualize by drawing on the white board. If you want the students to have access to the worksheet after the lesson, or if you want the students to use the worksheet during the lesson, you can upload it to the GeoGebra site and hand out a link. Worksheets on the GeoGebra web site are shown as interactive tasks including instructions.

When using GeoGebra for demonstrations it is you as a teacher that must know how to use GeoGebra. For that reason, you don't have to teach the students how to use GeoGebra. For novices, making demonstrations is a rather easy way to get started with GeoGebra. If everything is made before the lesson, you as a teacher don't have to improvise and show your knowledge about GeoGebra during the lesson.

Student activities

You can let the students use GeoGebra for mathematical problem solving, to make mathematical models, or to make mathematical investigations when introducing new concepts. A student activity can be organized as a longer experimental activity or as a shorter task during any traditional lesson.

Student activities can be based on worksheets you as a teacher have done beforehand or it can involve students using GeoGebra themselves. If the students are to use GeoGebra themselves, you get a more student-centered lesson but you also risk that the lesson degenerate into a lesson about how to use GeoGebra rather than a lesson about mathematics. If you plan to let the students use GeoGebra themselves, you must also spend some time teaching them GeoGebra.

Creating images

As a mathematics teacher you must be able to create images to be used on tests, exams, written assignments, presentations, or web-based resources. GeoGebra is an excellent tool for creating images in this context. Choose File - > Export - > Graphics View as Picture.

For regular documents, made using some word processor, the png-format works well.

For images on the web, it is preferable to use the svg-format (Scalable Vector Graphics) which is vector based and hence yields the highest possible resolution when scaled. (The background to this section is a svg-image. Zoom in!)

If you want to use images made using GeoGebra in a LaTeX document, you get the best resolution by letting GeoGebra generate PGF/TikZ code. The code can be copied and pasted into the LaTeX document. This is how you insert PGF/TikZ code into Latex:

An overview of GeoGebra

There are two views shown by default when you start GeoGebra, the algebra view and the graphics view. In the upper right corner of each view there are icons to show the view in a new window or to close the view.

You can find all views under the menu Views.

The program has a user-friendly design which lets the user try it out by clicking on icons to create objects. Every object can also be created by writing a command in the input box.

The tool bar

Each icon in the toolbar will show a drop-down list of tools if you click on the small arrow in the lower right corner of the icon.

Each tool will let you enter an object in the graphics view, the toolbar help describes what is needed to make the object. If the toolbar help gives the hint to "select a point", you can either select an existing point by clicking on it, or click anywhere in the graphics view to make a new point. Some objects require other existing objects; as an example, you cannot make a parallel line if you don't already have a line in the graphics view.

As long as a tool is selected in the toolbar, clicking in the graphics view will make a new object. Select the Move-tool to move an object (it takes a while for beginners to get used to this).

Use the Move-tool to move an object!

Properties

All objects have properties that you can change. The most common properties can be changed by using the styling bar. If no object is selected, the styling bar will show common properties for the graphics view. You toggle the styling bar by using the styling bar icon in the upper left corner of the graphics view.

If you want to change the details of the coordinate system, click on the small wheel in the upper right corner and choose "Graphics". In the window that pops up, you find all the properties of the graphics view.

When an object is selected, the styling bar for that object will be shown. In order to change the styles of the points defining a circle, you must first select a point. Note that the opacity of circles is set to 0 by default, i.e. they are transparent. You can change the opacity in the styling bar.

If you want to see all properties of an object, start by selecting it, then right-click and choose Object Properties; the Object Properties window will pop up.

Names and labels

Each object in GeoGebra is given a name (you can name it yourself or change the given name). The names of all objects are shown in the algebra view.

If the algebra is shown when creating an object, the label will be shown by default. If you don't want to show any labels, close the algebra view!

After an object has been created you can choose to show or hide the label. Right-click on the object or use the styling bar.

Handle many objects

If you for instance want to hide all points, you can select all points by clicking on the heading Point in the algebra view. Then right-click on the selection and uncheck Show object.

You can also select many objects by holding down Shift while selecting objects in the algebra view.

Exercises

The main feature of GeoGebra is not to use it as a tool for making pictures, but rather to use it as a tool for making dynamic constructions. In order to learn GeoGebra however, it may be a good idea to start by making pictures.

Exercise 1

Create, change and delete objects

Check out how to create objects. Make sure you know how to create following objects:

Circles in two different ways; use the tools Circle with Center through Point and Circle with Center and Radius.

Polygons in two different ways; use the tools Polygon and Regular Polygon.

Perpendicular and parallel lines.

Reflections in lines.

Intersection points.

Also make sure you know how to:

change the appearance of the objects you created and how to move them around,

change the appearance of the graphics view,

show text in the graphics view.

Also try to:

regret by clicking ctrl+z or cmd+z, or by using the icons in the upper right corner of the GeoGebra window,

zoom in and out using the mouse wheel or trackpad.

Exercise 2

Make a self portrait

When you are done, hide all objects that shouldn't be visible. Under the advanced tab in the properties window, you can choose a Layer for an object. Using layers, objects can be drawn "above" other objects.

Exercise 3

Make a symmetric self portrait

In order to make a symmetric portrait; make half of the face on one side of the y-axis, then use the tool Reflect about line, using the y-axis as line of symmetry.

Exercise 4

Sliders

Make a slider a using the tool Slider and a circle having a as radius. Use the tool Circle with Center and Radius.

Make a slider n of integer values and make a Regular Polygon having n vertices.

Make a slider \(\alpha\) representing an angle. Make a polygon and a point not on the polygon. Use the tool Rotate around point to rotate the polygon around the point \(\alpha\) degrees.

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You can download GeoGebra or run it online at https://www.geogebra.org/. If you want to run it online you can either pick a special purpose app below the New Math Apps or use the general purpose app GeoGebra Classic. When running it online you can choose language under the Language menu.

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My third grade students love to use it as a review tool before content tests. I love it for its instant feedback for both students and myself. Below is a quick overview of the steps on how to use KaHoot in your classroom.

Creating an Account:

After creating an account at https://getkahoot.com/ you can either create your own quiz from scratch or as I like to do search for public quizzes then edit for my needs. This week I noticed my students had a difficult time with reference sources so I worked on this during my planning time that day. I searched for an existing quiz, edited for my needs, then we were ready to review. You can have 2-4 choices for each question, an option to upload an image, and an unlimited amount of questions. You can select it to auto progress for a faster-paced game or as I prefer, manual progression so we can discuss after each question.

Setting Up the Class:

Students can use any Internet enabled device. We've used both desktops and iPADS in class and the laptops in the lab. Students go to https://kahoot.it they don't need any software since it's web-based. Students type in the 6-digit code, type their name, and are ready to go! That's seriously the hardest part. My third graders have also partnered up with Kindergartners to help type the numerical code and their names before. Once everyone is in, the game is on!

Kids in Action:

For each question it will also have an image if you uploaded one, and the multiple choices with a color and symbol for each. Students' screens will show just the color and symbol so this is when a large projector screen will help. Unfortunately the answers have to be text and can not be images. With Kindergartners I have had an image as the question, ask them to count the objects, and several numerals as the choices.

Feedback:

One of KaHoot's greatest assets I believe is the instant feedback. Students' screens will have instant feedback after the timer is complete and everyone has answered. On the teacher screen, it will have a graph with the correct choice and the frequency of each selected answer. I use this as a teaching point to discuss common misconceptions. It does not say who answered each, but will project a tally of students' total points after each question.

The last awesome part of KaHoot is it makes it easy peasy to use as a piece of assessment data. After the quiz, you can save directly to your Google Drive or download scores. I take these scores, use them as a quiz grade, and determine who may need further remediation.

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Wondering what Google Classroom is like? Just getting started? This visual tour will walk you through setting up your first class.

Who can use Google Classroom?

Originally, a school district would need to give teachers access to Google Classroom. Google opened up Google Classroom to everyone recently. Now homeschool teachers and teachers at private schools can access Google Classroom. You can also set up a Google Classroom account from your personal gmail just to explore.

If you teach at a public school and your district hasn't set up Google Classroom, you need to be careful. Your students will need Google emails to use it and there are legal issues about giving email addresses to children of certain ages. You really want to let your district handle that.

For this tutorial, I went to Google Classroom on my personal account. My students wouldn't be able to join classes from this account because of district settings. I can't join the class from my district account due to settings for our district.

Getting Started with Google Classroom

It really is as simple as going to classroom.google.com!

To create a class, click the plus sign in the top right corner and choose Create Class.

Name the class whatever you like. You can come back and edit those details if you like. Feel free to leave parts blank. As you can see, the first time you do this, there will be a lot of popups to help you.

You can go through and add students to your class, but honestly, you have enough to do. All you really need to do is have the kids go to classroom.google.com and click the plus sign and choose Join Class. Then give them your code. Next thing you know, all the kids are in your class and it took just a moment.

You can find the code under STREAM. Click on the code to make it large. This feature is great to have on the interactive white board as the lesson starts.

Some people debate about how many classes to have. Personally, I treat a class like a folder. Elementary classes can have different classes for math and reading etc. If you grade reading, writing, and grammar separately, why not have a class for each. It is up to you.

If you want to get a feel for the student perspective, you are welcome to join my class. Your district may have settings so you can't join classes outside of your district. If that is the case, you can have a coworker set up a class for you to explore, or you can use your personal gmail personal account. The code to this class is exil0b6 (that is an l as in lion and a zero). (I won't use your email or add it to any lists if you join.)

What can you do in Google Classroom?

There are three main posts a teacher can make: post an assignment, ask a question, and make an announcement. You can have the post you create go out right away or you can schedule it. I love that I can go through and schedule things out for a week or two while I'm planing.

Post an Assignment

When posting assignments there are many options. My favorite option is demonstrated in this gif. I personally like to upload a resource from my drive and have Google Classroom make a copy for all of my students.

Click the plus sign and choose Create Assignment. You can give it a title, give written instructions, upload something, give a due date, and assign a topic. You can even click the All Students drop down menu to customize for intervention. Topics can be helpful for organization. You can come back to assignments and edit them later.

I love to use the drop down menu to choose Make a Copy for each student. This will give each student in your class their own copy. I love how Google Classroom will organize this in your drive and the students drive. It will create a folder called Classroom in your drive and inside it will create a folder for each class and in that each assignment.

Make a Copy is the only thing that isn't editable later. If you forget to choose Make a Copy, it is best to delete that assignment and start over. Make sure you copy any lengthy words so you can paste them in. I've gotten in the habit of choosing Make a Copy before I do the other sections. I know working bottom up is weird, but I've forgotten a few times. Running to my laptop to redo an assignment isn't an ideal way to start a lesson.

If you click Assign it will immediately be in your class. You can also click the drop down arrow to schedule it to show at a later date and time.

Ask a Question

I have fallen in love with this option. My weakness is that I often forget to wrap up a lesson. Now, I let Google Classroom do that for me. I like to schedule a reflection question ten minutes before the end of class. This way they can't 'reflect' too soon. They also don't know what I'm going to ask so it works to keep them accountable for the content. By making it a routine, they'll remember to look for the question even when I don't remember to remind them.

Make an Announcement

This option is great when you just want to tell them something. For example, if I want students to watch a video and there will be nothing attached that I will grade, I use the Make an Announcement option.

Personalize Google Classroom

You can adjust the settings so that you only get email alerts about things you want.

You can also choose your own theme.

Why does mine look different?

Google is amazing in that they are constantly improving. Sometimes the improvements are subtle. Sometimes they change the whole look. I try to come back periodically to update things. Funnily enough, when I came in to do my most recent update, I found a surprise. The classroom I made with on my personal account has three different headings from my school account. I went to check the Google Edu blog, some gifs had four headings. As they make changes, they are rolled out slowly. (Updated June 2019) If you see something in one of the gifs that looks strange, let me know. In the meantime, join our group below and we can help if you are confused.

Where Can I find Support with Google Classroom?

Where Can I Find Resources to Assign using Google Classroom?

You can find all my resources for Google here.

If you are getting started with using Google in your classroom and you like this visual style of learning, this resource would be a great place to start:

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For years, educators have been using Google Forms to gather data, assess learning and create fun techy learning experiences.

Recently, Google Forms got a facelift, and even more recently, it added some new features. These features make some new things possible in the classroom, and they make some things easier - and prettier - than before.

Here are some of the changes and what you can do with them in class. If you've used Google Forms before, please keep your favorite uses of Forms in mind and add them as a comment at the end of the post!

1. Hustle through student responses to quizzes, assignments and surveys. Responses in Google Forms are much easier to review now. Before, you could view them in a spreadsheet or see a brief summary of them. Now they're all gathered right in the form editor under the "responses" tab. You can now view a summary of answers (all in one place ... nice!) OR click through each individual response.

You can still view results in spreadsheet view. However, as I learned on Twitter from Google guru Alice Keeler, Forms won't automatically create a spreadsheet for you like it did. You'll have to click the little green spreadsheet icon to create one now.

2. Get an email when students submit forms. Before, to see whether there were new submissions to a form, you had to go into the form (or the spreadsheet of results) and check. Now, you can opt to have Forms email you with new submissions.

This is GREAT for infrequently-used forms, and it's GREAT to turn on after most of your student submissions have come in. I would NOT turn it on right before giving a quiz or test in Forms. Your inbox will be flooded!

CLASSROOM USE IDEA: Create a "late work submission" form. Since Google Classroom (and other assignment collection options) won't notify you when late work comes in, a form for that (with email notifications on) would notify you! It's great for absent students, too.
Click here to get a copy of a late work submission form that you can save to your own Google Drive and use!
3. Use add-ons and scripts. This was possible with the old Google Forms, but it was just added with new Google Forms. Add-ons and scripts let you add new functions to your Google Forms for your specific needs. They're available by clicking the three dots in the top right and clicking "Get add-ons ..." or "Script editor ...".

Unless you write code or have some to copy into a form, you probably won't use the script editor.

ANYONE can use add-ons, though, and there are a few that are really useful in education. I'll show you one here and one later.

CLASSROOM USE IDEA: Add math equations to Google Forms with the g(Math) add-on.

Click the three dots in the top right and choose, "Get add-ons ...".

Find the g(Math) add-on by searching or clicking on its icon.

Click the "free" button and install it.

Click the puzzle piece icon in the top right and choose "g(Math) for Forms".

Choose which type of entry you want. (At first, if you're not sure, experiment. If you don't like what you create, you can always delete it!)

Add all the details you need. It will add an image to your question!

4. Make sharp-looking forms with templates and themes. If you're not exactly sure how you want to make a form, there might be one already created for you. Forms has a library of templates you can choose from as soon as you load it up.

PRO TIP: Type "forms.google.com" in your browser to get to forms quickly. (In the past, you had to go to Drive and click "New" and "Google Forms.")

Some of the templates available:

Contact information (users submit their name, address, email, etc.)

T-shirt sign up (users give their name, t-shirt size, etc.)

Exit ticket (students say what they learned, whether they were prepared, and what would have made the lesson more effective)

Assessment (students fill in their name/email and answer quiz questions that you add)

Worksheet (students fill in their name/email and answer questions that you add)

Course evaluation (students fill in class name and instructor and rate the course in various areas ... this one is a good example of how a multiple choice grid works!)

Once you choose a template, you can customize it however you'd like (i.e. add text, images, videos, different kinds of questions, etc.).

Customize your forms by clicking the paint palette in the top right. Choose a color for color scheme or click the photo icon in the bottom right to choose a theme. Themes provide colors and images for forms. You can also upload your own photo to create a theme.

OTHER USES OF FORMS: In a recent reader survey, many people said they wanted to better understand Forms and how it could be used in the classroom. The following ideas were possible in the old Google Forms and are still available in new Google Forms.

5. Create and grade a quiz or test with Flubaroo. Host your quizzes, tests and other assessments digitally with Google Forms. Then, with responses in a spreadsheet, autograde the closed-ended questions (multiple choice, true false, matching) with Flubaroo, an add-on for educators using Google Forms.

Create your quiz in a Google Form (from scratch or using one of the templates). If you want to email results to students later, make sure you make a short-answer question called "Email".

Click the eye icon in the top right to view the assessment. Fill it in with all the correct answers and use the words "ANSWER KEY" as the name. Submit it with the button at the bottom.

Deliver your quiz to your students:

Use the "send" button to get a link to the assessment that you can give students

Use the "send" button to email a link to students

Add the form to an assignment in Google Classroom

When students have taken the assessment, click the "responses" tab and click the green spreadsheet button to see responses.

Go to that spreadsheet and click "Add-ons > Get add-ons ...". Search for Flubaroo and add it. (If you already have Flubaroo installed, you won't need this step.

Go to "Add-ons > Flubaroo > Enable Flubaroo for this sheet".

Go to "Add-ons > Flubaroo > Grade assignment".

Use the drop-down menus to tell Flubaroo what to do with each question. Click "Continue."

Choose the answer key you created earlier. (This will be easy if you made the name "ANSWER KEY"!)

Flubaroo will create a grading report for you with student scores and more.

Get more information about Flubaroo and its advanced features at the Flubaroo website.

6. Create a place for you to store quick grades. When students completed simple assignments for me, sometimes I would walk around the room, quickly grade their assignments on the students' desks and write a grade on them. Instead of collecting those assignments, I wanted a place where I could store those grades to transfer to my gradebook later.

I created a Google Form with all of my students' names on them. As I walked around the room, I had the form loaded on my iPad. I put each student's scores into that form. Later, I pulled up the responses and transferred them to the grade book.
Here's an example form of what that might look like that you can copy into your Drive!
7. Create a digital sign-out sheet. Need an easy way to track students as they leave and return to your class? Create a Google Form where they log their name and their destination, as well as whether they're leaving or returning. In the spreadsheet view, it will time stamp their submission, so they won't need to write the time. (That way, the return time can't be fudged to make it look like they weren't gone as long as they were!)
Here's an example form of what that might look like that you can copy into your Drive!
8. Create a flipped classroom assessment. The flipped classroom comes in many different shapes and sizes, but many teachers have students watch a video and then answer some comprehension questions afterward. This is easily done in Google Forms.

Create a form. Add a YouTube video (click the icon to the right of the form with the triangle "play" button).
Note: You can also add a link to a website, an image, etc. ... whatever content you want to deliver to students.

Add questions afterward to gauge their understanding.

Deliver the form to students:

Use the "send" button to get a link to the assessment that you can give students

Use the "send" button to email a link to students

Add the form to an assignment in Google Classroom

Here's what a form like that would look like when students loaded it. Here's an example form that you can copy into your Drive!
9. Make a Choose Your Own Adventure activity. By using branching (the "go to section based on answer" choice in the three-dots menu in a multiple-choice question), you can create fun Choose Your Own Adventure Story-type activities. Create them for your students or let students create their own!

Here's a screencast video tutorial I created a while ago to show you how it works. The basics are still there, although the video shows how to do it with the old Google Forms.

[reminder]How have you used Google Forms in your own school? Which of these are you most likely to use yourself?[/reminder]
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Structure of LEAP 2025 Achievement Level Descriptors (ALDs) Achievement-level descriptors (ALDs) describe the knowledge, skills, and cognitive processes generally demonstrated by students at each level of achievement.ALDs are currently available for all content areas and for all state summative assessments, including the ELPT and LEAP Connect.

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JUMP Math Teacher Support and Homework Resources

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JUMP Math Teacher Support and Homework Resources

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JUMP Math is a non-profit Tier I resource that is aligned to standards.

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Welcome to the Teacher Support Site for US JUMP Math Teachers! Have questions? Contact our Outreach & Teacher Support Managers in Canada & the United States.

Here you will find supplemental support materials, news in math education, and an online professional community to share insights and questions.

This site is intended to be a professional community for US educators. JUMP Math's public website is at www.jumpmath.org.

The site is organized into 3 sections:

Blog, featuring local and national education news, current educational theory, JUMP Math updates and conversation starters

Homework resources, which teachers can use when they feel that students require additional practice. Development of these homework resources is ongoing, unit by unit, as we complete them. *Please note that homework resources are based on the 2009 Editions of JUMP Math, and not the New Editions (2016-19)

Supplemental Teacher Resources, such as a PowerPoint presentation to help teachers talk about JUMP Math with parents. We invite teachers to make comments, ask questions, and start conversations anywhere on the site.

*Please note: The resources on this blog are not officially published by JUMP Math. In fact, most of the resources you'll find are in Word format so you can make changes and use them however you see fit for your classes.

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JUMP Math is a Tier I Math curriculum in the state of Louisiana. Because it is a non-profit organization, teachers can access some JUMP materials at no cost.

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JUMP Math | Every child can learn math and love it!

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JUMP Math is a numeracy program. JUMP Math is dedicated to enhancing the potential in children by encouraging an understanding and a love of math in students and educators. JUMP Math replaces the self-fulfilling myth that some people are born with mathematical ability while others do not have the ability to succeed with assumptions that all children can be led to think mathematically.

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Khan Academy offers tutorials and practice sets that support Louisiana Tier I math curricula. The teacher account and materials are free and may be shared through Google Classroom.

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Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

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You may allow the entire class to collaborate or create small groups to work together electronically on a whole lesson or part of a lesson.

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New Team Mode for Collaborative Learning - Woot Math

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Woot Math's new Team Mode gets your students working together on teams to collaborate on engaging, rich math tasks. Perfect for 5th grade and up

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This site provides Geogebra manipulatives and discussion questions to strengthen the conceptual development of elementary students.

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Assistments has assessments for the Illustrative Math curriculum being used in middle school.

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SRI International, conducted a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT) on the ASSISTments platform, concluding in 2015. The findings revealed a substantial 75% increase in learning outcomes for students whose teachers utilized ASSISTments, in comparison to what normally happens in a year.

In 2017, WestEd received a federal grant to replicate this research study. The replication study yielded analogous results, showing that students using ASSISTments continued to exhibit higher learning outcomes even one year after the intervention.

The sample size was substantially increased to 5991 students and included a more diverse population, which enabled researchers to perform analyses based on minority economic status. Remarkably, the findings indicated even greater improvements in learning outcomes for students of color. An analysis of schools with a majority of students experiencing poverty revealed that they experienced a more pronounced positive effect as well.

Learn more about ASSISTments Efficacy Research
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ASSISTments | Free Education Tool for Teachers & Students

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Free tool for assigning math content online. Students receive immediate feedback, teachers receive data insights to drive meaningful instruction. Optimized for Google Classroom, Canvas and Open Educational Resources.

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Classcraft is a classroom managment tool that is similar to Class Dojo, but it was designed for middle and high school students.

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HMH Classcraft pairs ELA and math content with research-based lesson plans resulting in reduced educator planning time and increased student engagement.

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Depending on your school/district subscription, you may be able to access "Techbooks" for Math, Science, and Social Studies.