Internet4Classrooms and Platonic Realms

What an exciting week! My 7th grade girls won their conference tournament over the weekend. Listen how I seamlessly integrate that into the show as to avoid sounding like I'm bragging (unlike here in the show notes!).

We have a ton of things in the hopper. We've got The Daily Idiom, A Word A Day, and the much anticipated, Microsoft Ad Slogan of the Week. Most importantly, our featured sites are going to give you some great instructional tools. First, we're going to talk about Internet4Classrooms. Then we'll investigate an intense math site, Platonic Realms.

Internet4Classrooms is a links site that has a rich library of helpful sites for teachers and students. The three areas that impressed me the most were Links for K-12 Teachers, Daily Dose of the Web, and On-Line Practice Modules.

On a recent visit to Internet4Classrooms, I found a great math site called Platonic Realms, which is geared toward secondary/post-secondary level math students and teachers. I've really enjoyed Today's Math Moment, which are short shockwave multimedia presentations. For example, today's topic (March 10), Why Isn't 1 a Prime Number, gives an interesting explanation that goes beyond the definition, albeit very quickly. I've also found their Daily Challenge to be just that--a challenge. There's other features that are well worth the time to check them out. This is definitely not a static site that looks the same from one month to the next. Several features change on a daily basis. It's a fantastic math site!