In+the+Math+Classroom

== **Let's collaborate about ways to utilize our wikis and blogs in our math classrooms! Please add your own ideas or link to pages that have great ideas on how to enhance our instruction and student involvement.** ==
 * **I always seem to have a student (or several!) who either already know just about everything we are doing in 6th grade already or they pick up on what we are doing days before the rest of the class. Wikis are a great way to engage these kids and get them to apply what they know. Have a running list of ideas that they could choose from (or let them create their own) for how they could teach the current concept to their peers using technology. The key is that the end product be online so that the other kids in the class can actually use what their peers create. Let them build a wiki on the topic, create a podcast, movie, or animoto that can be posted on your website or class wiki.**


 * **Create a homework blog for your class and let them use one another for help. What more could you want than to have your students asking questions and getting explanations from each other! This is a great way to really build knowledge.**


 * **Post regular prompts that require writing about math and the thought process as a problem is solved. Require that one prompt response and two comments on someone else's response per grading period until you get the hang of how it's going to work.**


 * **Create a class wiki where your students provide their favorite webtools and websites for the various topics covered in your class. It can be built as you go through the year and then used and updated by future classes.**


 * **Use your blog to discuss activites completed in class. You can learn so much this way!**


 * **If you're a blogging novice, you could start slowly by posting assignments, class reminders, or announcements.**


 * **You could post a survey-type question to have students respond to questions. Or post questions and collect data for a graphing unit. You could even link to an online survey poll such as SurveyMonkey, Zoomerang, FreeOnlineSurveys, or PollDaddy.**


 * **At the beginning of the school year, you could use a blog or a wiki to help students introduce themselves and get to know one another.**


 * **Ask guest bloggers to come in and post an entry that tells how they use Math in their careers. Have students read and respond to this real-world Math expert!**


 * **Have students post Math problems on a blog or wiki and have other students work to solve these problems. Students and the teacher can critique the problem and give helpful suggestions to make it better or provide solutions to the problem.**