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Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Matt

The Math Open Reference Project is a free interactive math textbook on the web.  It provides High School Geometry Teachers with  amazingly smooth animations, often with draggable items, to demonstrate a variety of Geometric concepts.  For an example of this, check out this animation of The … Continue reading →

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Descriptive Writing: A Trip to the Supermarket

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Matt

England’s National Grid for Learning has created an outstanding online activity to help develop descriptive writing skills. This one resource, offers a complete and comprehensive ELA lesson.  Throughout the activity,  there are links to Word Documents/handouts. Student tasks include; thinking about using vocabulary effectively, using their … Continue reading →

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Leprechaun Mischief

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Matt

A Leprechaun snuck into our classroom overnight and changed all our SMART Board Pens Green! Here’s how he did it!  He touched the SMART Board Tools Icon, which looks like this: From the list that he saw, he selected “Control Panel”, … Continue reading →

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Pi Day

Happy Pi Day! (Notebook File)

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Matt

There’s a brand new “Pi Day” lesson in the downloads section of our Educator Resource Center. The file features Teq Learning Objects, songs, videos, and a variety of New York State Assessment questions. For a preview, watch the video below. … Continue reading →

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Westchester SMART Board User Conference

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Pete

Explore the SMART Board and its many applications in hands-on sessions taught by SMART Certified Master Trainers, who are also state certified teachers. Share ideas with other educators in the metropolitan area, and visit the Solutions Room for live product … Continue reading →

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Heart-Shaped Math

Heart Shaped Math for Valentine’s Day

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Matt

It’s no secret that Math is beautiful, and everyone loves it. This Valentine’s Day, celebrate that love with some Heart Shaped Graphs.  There are many ways to graph a heart, and a lot of great Math programs to help you.  If you have SMART … Continue reading →

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3outube to download Videos

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Matt

When it comes to downloading YouTube videos, “3″ is the magic number. If your school is blocked from YouTube, and there’s a clip you’d like to show your class, the video below shows how you can insert that clip into … Continue reading →

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Free Christmas Learning Object

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Alex

Teq has a  free learning object available for download. It’s the Teq Christmas Word Bucket. It is similar to our Halloween Word Bucket that we posted in October. This object allows teachers to easily create interactive activities with a holiday … Continue reading →

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Nat’l Library of Virtual Manipulatives

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Matt

The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) contains more than 100 free, web-based manipulatives for math. My favorite is  “Base Blocks”. When you move a block one column to the right, it breaks apart to show that you have made an exchange. … Continue reading →

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Won’t you join us for a QWIKI?

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Joe

So, you may be asking yourself, “What is a QWIKI and will you still respect me when its over” . . . ok enough of the double entendre. QWIKI (http://www.qwiki.com) is an amazingly slick information tool and this will be … Continue reading →

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