While exploring Kathy Schrocks Education Blog Pics
I found a site that I think could be very beneficial for students. The site is called WolframAlpha . WolframAlpha's computation knowledge engine is pretty incredible. You can type in a math problem and it will explain it in numerous ways. it will show step by step hoe they got to the answer as well, which I think is very helpful. The answers given are broken up in many parts, the concept, components, linguistic disambiguation, real-time results, immediate additional information, links to more computations, source information link,additional formats and popup copyable content. While playing around with the site to see if it could answer a question like, where is the Berlin Wall it gave me the answers populations, map, local time, temp, humidity, wind, elevation, near by cities, nicknames and notable people connected to Berlin. I think this site would be a great search engine for students. It it much more filtered than typing that question in to google. Recently WolframAlpha launched a WolframAlpha for Educators . There are lesson plans for math, science and social studies. You can also submit lesson plans so other teachers can share ideas. There are applications that help to create visual aids for presentations, handouts and graphs. Teachers can you the site to assign homework based on info from the site, as a reference in computers labs and for research papers or projects. I think this site is great, it is something I would use in my own classroom.
I would have loved to have had a website such as this while I was still taking math classes! Math has never been my subject and I struggled but managed to make it through. I think that this site could have potentially helped me out a bit more than just reading the book. Thanks for the website!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great resource. I see this being a great link on a teacher's website for students to use out of school. I also really like that it doesn't simply give the math answer, it explains it in differnt ways. I also like that for other, non math questions, it give additional information.
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