Transforming Classrooms One at a Time
By Paul McMahon on Feb 15, 2010 in Ideas for Great Lessons, Learning for a Flat World and tagged mathletics, worldmathsday
It has been a long, long time since the last post, something that I have been acutely aware of! As any reader can gather from previous posts, there has been a lot going on in my life that has kept me from the keyboard. Not the least of these is this little time-consumer 
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Probably a bigger reason is the change of working life that I have had in the last 6 months or so now that I work full-time for Mathletics.
I have got to say that I may have thought that working for someone else was going to reduce the opportunities that I had to influence what happens in classrooms in schools in the Asian region. My experience to date is that I am in more classrooms than I ever have been in and I feel like I have a lot more opportunity to make a difference.
I just love the way that Mathematics is the hook for a lot of teachers into the use of technology as it really does lend itself to online support and when teachers see how easy it is to implement assessment for learning via online tracking and how easy it is to differentiate and ensure appropriate levels of challenge and engagement, you can almost see the lightbulb moment taking place in front of your eyes!
As I write this, I am conscious of the huge number of registrations for World Maths Day taking place. I really hope that teachers encourage students to engage in this as classes and get an idea of what is possible in terms of collaboration and challenge with the site.
Hi! My name is Jessica Eaton and I’m a student in Dr. Strange’s EDM310 class at the University of South Alabama in the United States. I’m majoring in elementary education. You mentioned working full time for Mathletics? What exactly does that entail? I’m very interested to learn more about it. You also mentioned teachers’ use of technology…that’s the core purpose of the class I am enrolled in right now; we’re learning how to use certain technology and how it will be beneficial in our future classrooms. I want to thank you for sharing your thoughts. I will be summarizing my visits to your blog in a post to my own blog on or before March 21, 2010. Here are the links to my own blog and our class blog:
http://edm310.blogspot.com/
http://eatonjessicaedm310.blogspot.com/
Mr. McMahon,
My name is Heather Love and I am a student in Dr. Strange’s EDM 310 class at the University of South Alabama and have been assigned to follow your blog for the next few weeks as a class assignment. I must admit when I read your blog was about math I cringed, being an English major math has always been one of my worst subjects. Upon further reading this blog I became enthralled. I am very curious about Mathltics and about your job for it. What is it that you actually do for them? I look forward to reading your earlier blogs and future blogs!
Hello,
I’m Zachary Fore I am enrolled in Dr. Strange’s EDM310 class at the University of South Alabama and will be following and summarizing my visits and findings of your blog on or before April 12. I am studying to be a secondary math teacher and look for any advice I can get. Thank your for sharing your thoughts. This is where you may find my blog and our class blog.
http://forezacharyedm310.blogspot.com/
http://edm310.blogspot.com/
My name is Jenny Turner and I am in EDM310 at South Alabama. It seems like you have your hands full these days. I think it is amazing that you are able to do it all. I also think it is great you did not loose what you were doing in the Asian regions and that you were able to get even more involved. My blog website is http://turnerjennyedm310.blogspot.com/ and my class blog website is http://www.edm310.blogspot.com/
Transforming Classrooms One at a Time
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