Teach Science and Math Blog

http://www.teachscienceandmath.com/category/math/

This blog is for Science and Math Teachers with posts describing different ideas that teachers can use in their classroom. There are several postings with ideas about interactive math and science websites, mapping tools, problem solving strategies and virtual online conferences for eduactors.

I read an interesting article about using Twitter in Math class. I am not too familiar with Twitter, but from my understanding, I thought it was a universal blog where subscribers updated their information regularly. I initially thought that the idea of Twitter was unnecessary, as I thought it was more of a social tool, so I was interested to see how this might be used in the Mathematics classroom.

In this article, the author describes how teachers are often lost in their own words, rarely having time to collaborate with other teachers. With Twitter, teachers can collaborate with eachother across the United States as well as internationally. This article also describes how students can use Twitter to do geomatric spatial analyses of their classroom and compare them with other student classroom to determine which room has the most square footage.


Overall, I had a very good experience looking at Educational Blogs. I did not find the blogs that discussed Educational research as relevant to me as the blogs which discussed ideas that you could directly apply in the classroom. For these blogs (ones that discussed class activities), I was able to use these strategies in the classroom. Not only can you use the activities suggested, but the blogs can supply links to other websites and blogs which lead you to even more ideas you can use in the classroom. For example, one of the first blogs I read and wrote about was authored by a math teacher named Mr. Bill Lombard. I now check his website often and use many of his ideas and projects found on his website.