My Fresh Look Friday website today comes at the suggestion of one of this past week's participants -- Lynn Jeffs with DCDSB. MathsNet Interactive Geometry: 3D is a fantastic interactive website for junior high - high school math students.
This website provides challenges where students have to replicate specific 2D images on a 3D platform. For the spatially challenged, such as myself, this is not as simple of a task as it first seems! I particularly love this site because it easily lends itself to small-group collaboration, trial and error discussions and problem solving -- all skills for our 21st century learners. Put it on the SMART Board, and work through together as a class, or make the SMART Board a 'center' with this one Geometry activity for one group of 3-5 students to tackle, while other small groups work on additional geometry challenges around the room (traditional pen and paper Math problems, building 3D models, etc.)
Thanks, Lynn for sharing a fantastic website that works extremely well in classrooms with IWBs!
As always, here are the curricular outcomes for Alberta that this site helps meet:
- Grade 9 Math, Shape & Space Strand -- S.O. 4
- Math 10-3, Geometry Strand -- S.O. 1
- Math 20-2, Number & Logic Strand -- S.O. 2
- Grade 9 Math, Advanced -- Measurement and Geometry
- Grade 10 Math, Advanced -- Analytical Geometry
Vanessa
Vanessa,
ReplyDeleteThis is wonderful for spatial relations. Our fourth graders here in Iowa have to visualize what a 3-D block fighure will look like from the top or side for our ITBS test. The site looks easily adaptable for elementary students to practice that skill. Thanks!
Looks like a cool tool that I will be recommending to my math teachers
ReplyDeleteI am not a math person. The closest I come to math is eating with my Math friends at Lunch. I'm always on the look out for new stuff to send their way. We had 4 new math teachers last year, so they are still getting their feet wet. Thanks for this find. Keep up the great work. @TheNerdyTeacher
ReplyDeleteThanks for all of your comments everyone! I think that this is one of the best student-centered websites that has been recommended to me, and am working hard to improve my spatial visualization abilities :-p
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