Boaler Jo, Keeler A., Herrington D. Teaching Math with Google Apps: 50 G Suite Activities

New York: Dave Burgess Consulting, 2017. — 264 p. — ISBN: 9781946444042, 9781946444059, 1946444049, 1946444057.If you’ve ever heard a variation of that question from your students—or asked it yourself—this book is for you. Bringing technology into the classroom is about so much more than replacing overhead projectors and chalkboards with Smart Boards. Unfortunately, as Stanford Professor Jo Boaler says, “We are in the twenty-first century, but visitors to many math classrooms could be forgiven for thinking they had stepped back in time and walked into the Victorian era.” But that’s all about to change...
In Teaching Math with Google Apps, author-educators Alice Keeler and Diana Herrington reveal more than 50 ways teachers can use technology in math classes. The goal isn’t using tech for tech’s sake; rather, it’s to help students develop critical-thinking skills and learn how to apply mathematical concepts to real life.
Memorization and speed tests seem irrelevant to students who can find the solution to almost any math problem with a tap of the finger. But today’s digital tools allow teachers to make math relevant. Specifically, Google Apps give teachers the opportunity to interact with students in more meaningful ways than ever before, and G Suite empowers students to stretch their thinking and their creativity as they collaborate, explore, and learn.Foreword
Get to Know Alice
Get to Know DianaGoogle Math
50 Activities to Teach Math Using G Suite
Get to Work
Create a Directions Document
Hear from Everybody
Private Comments Are the Assignment
Cut Quarter Sheets of Paper
Have Students Show Their Thinking
You Want to Eat a Brownie
Look Up Information
Create a Blank Document
Create Community
View Form Responses in a Spreadsheet
Use Pixel Art
Guide Instruction
Feedback Conversations
View Student Work in Google Drive
Choose 3 Problems
Conversations Are the Assignment
Bitmoji Feedback
Have Students Put Themselves in It
Use Slides for Learning
Small Group Investigation
Discuss Strategies
Explain 3 Ways
Create Collaborative Google Slides
Do a Math Problem Wrong
Create a Formative Assessment Quiz
Create Geometry Constructions
Create Interactive Instruction
Create a Drawing
Use Real Data
Use g(Math) in a Google Form
Create Video Playlists
Show Me You Know It
Use Spreadsheet Formulas
Geoboard Activity
Use Manipulatives
Create Collaborative Maps
Students Write Guiding Questions
Have Students Design Spreadsheets
Analyze Data Sets
Crowdsource Information
Focus on the Learning Objective
Use Graph Paper
Collect Data
Provide Assessment Choices
Provide Constraints not Math Problems
Play Ball
Digitize Analog Work
Discovery Activities
Start with a Picture
See Math EverywhereGoogle Tutorials
Add-ons
Additional Resources
Diana’s Story
Structuring a Math Lesson
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