Chapter 5

I've seen, my fieldwork assignments, that the use of the whiteboard is prevalent in all math classes.  Every math class that I observed had a whiteboard installed in it and was used almost on a daily basis.  I can see the advantage of using them for teachers and students.  Whiteboards make everything more interactive. 

Endgrade seems to be an effective tool as well because students can see their grades anytime they want.  Students can see their grades right away and track their grades themselves.  As for teachers, the program figures all the grades out on its own.

Coolmath.com is an interesting website to use instead of using a graphing calculator.  It even has a cool review for students with exponents, lines, and graphs.  A very simple way for students to review on their own at home.

Ptcfast.com offers easy scheduling software for parents and teachers.  It saves time and taxpayer money.  It makes this process convenient and easy.

The free online readability tools offer grading for books.  You can use this program to test texts for age appropriate books. 

Word Puzzle generator

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mt_lXXZ3__p25BQAAfFwdUBcprjoecxdjTk1sj1VKuI/edit

Here is the URL for the word puzzle activity that I tried.  I made a 15 x 15 puzzle with the generator.  I input 12 math words that I thought would be interesting to find.  Some of them are backwards, forwards, up and down.  I found this to be very interesting and fun. 

Simulations

Here is my input about the simulations from Chapter 3

The poor scholar's soliloquy

Here is my slideshow for The Poor Scholar's Soliloquyhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C16GeV30vmo1pv25s1DbETzbMEieKYx-VS02dh-QMtA/edit#slide=id.g1157236645_0_11

My views of chapter 1

I was interested to see the history of computers as described in the chapter.  I am definitely not computer literate by any means.  The MOOC's are very interesting to me.  We live in a much smaller world than we ever have before.  Smartphones, laptops, ebooks, and technology in general has made the world a much smaller place. 

They also discuss multitasking, which I am not good at either.  Studies have shown that it is counterproductive.  The example they use is driving and texting, perfect!!!!!

The chapter is a perfect summary of the history of technology up to this point.

Here is my first post to a blog ever.

I am Frank Napolitano.  I am a self-employed landscaper.  I live in New Windsor, NY.  I went to Newburgh Free Academy and graduated class of 1996.  I got my associates degree from Orange County Community College.  I received a bachelor's degree from MSMC in 2005 in education.  I am now pursuing a Master's Degree in Education.  My preferred field of study is High School Math.  I have spent the last year taking classes at Mount Saint Mary's College.  I didn't think I could do well in these classes, I was actually very apprehensive.  Everything seems to working out, though.  It's tougher than I expected it to be.  I feel like a dinosaur because I am usually the oldest student in the class.  Everyone else is in their mid 20's and I'm 38 years old.