1. Ideas and Resources for a Technology-based Unit
Marie Schussler

2. Technology Integration
• Rationale: As technology progresses in this day and age, we
notice that the youth has become more dependent on
technology and ways to make life easier. We see that
mathematics is a subject that cannot quite be altered. As time
progresses, the subject builds from the past using previous
equations. Math is a subject that can grow by including
technologies, but it is important to remember the basics in
mathematics. Because technology and mathematics are both
progressing and students are becoming more fixated on
technology, it would be beneficial to incorporate technology
into mathematics. That way, students will be more engaged
and willing to learn if they use what they are used to. By using
technology with the subject of polygons, students will be able
to virtually interact and see visually what polygons are and
how they are made up of.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI64Em1TzQk&feature=yo
utu.be

3. Content From YouTube
Internet Content
• As mentioned before, because technology is so
prevalent and students today are using technology, it
would be beneficial for teachers to incorporate
technology. With these next three slide, there will be
three different forms of technology that mathematics,
specifically polygons, will be used in to further engage
students. With all of the videos, pictures, and other
different forms of technology, students are more
willing to want to learn because they can relate in a
way with the technology provided to them while still
using the former methods of teaching as well that are
still effective.
• MAKE A VIDEO

4. Content From YouTube
• This first video talks about
http://www.youtube.c the classifications of different
om/watch?v=UYfsr7yo polygons. This video is easy
U3s to follow and provides a
number of facts for students
to understand while a
teacher writes on the screen.
• This second video provides
students with a number of
facts simply within about 6
minutes. It provides a
http://www.youtube.c definition, drawings,
om/watch?v=DHKGYIn identifications, and
h-N4 examples.

5. Internet Podcast
• http://beowulfjr.podbean.com/2011/12/07/vide
o-podcast-on-polygons/
• https://fogard-
edl325.wikispaces.com/Podcasting
1. The first podcast is simply found
on Google in which we see 2. The second podcast is
someone explaining polygons and useful website
their characteristics. This can be
useful in the classroom because
provided by Wikispace
having different perspectives in which it explains
other than your teacher can be how podcasts are
very useful. Students can visually used in the classroom
follow not just a voice, but see and polygons are the
what another teacher is talking example lesson used.
about.

6. Internet Blog
• http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/polygon-
movie.html
• Blogs are really useful tools because it provides a space
for others to share questions, comments or concerns
about a specific topic. It also helps others further
education through the opinions of others. Here we see an
interesting blog made from a teacher that provides ideas
for other teachers as well as lessons and feedback from
students.

7. Internet Resources
• The Internet provides direct access to government agencies and private
organizations that monitor hurricanes. The next two slides identify some
of these organizations, as well as a description of who they are and how
their websites might be used in support of teaching about hurricanes
(below is a preview of the next two slides).
• The Internet provides students and others with the access to various
organizations and agencies in which they are provided with valid resources
to further their education. These next two slides provide information that
mathematicians use to find articles related to the topic of your choice as
well as an online database. They also provide fun games and puzzles for
students to experiment and use hands-on activities.

8. Internet Resource #1
• http://www.maa.org/pubs/cmj.html
• This resource provides information and articles from
scholars and many who have written journals about
any various topic. In here are interesting journals
about polygons and how they are created.

9. Internet Resource #2
• http://www.maa.org/pubs/cmj.html
• This is another internet resource that students
can use in order to have fun quizzes that make
you think with several different topics including
polygons and shapes.
• https://www.khanacademy.org/
• Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization that
provides resources for faculty and students. Their
goal is to develop an education that anyone can
get their hands on.

10. Inspiration Diagram

11. Teaching Material #1
•www.mathforum.org
•This online site is very useful for teachers and the outside
community to connect to math and math education and provides
extra problems and games for students.
•http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/math/geometry/GG3/indexGG3.htm
•The is a useful website that teachers can use to prepare lessons for polygons as
well as use activities, worksheets, and ideas.

12. Teaching Material #2
• http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/teaching-
resources
•This is another useful website in which teachers can use
this not only for math, but for many subjects. This
website can be used for activities, strategies, ideas,
student activities, and books.

13. Subject-Specific Resource
•These are just a few websites that teachers can provide
for students in order to keep them engaged, especially for
the subject of polygons.
•http://www.math-play.com/Geometry-Math-Games.html
•http://resources.woodlands-
junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/shape.htm
•http://www.fupa.com/games/1/polygon.html

14. Uses of the Internet
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon
•Wikipedia, along with many online encyclopedias,
provide information that is easily available to
anyone with an internet access. Wikipedia is
beneficial for education because it allows the
public to view any subject with examples, sources,
and definitions.

15. Web 2.0
•http://www.quizinator.com/
• This website is very helpful to teachers and students.
It allows them to create their own worksheets, games,
quizzes, etc.
•https://www.facebook.com/search/results.php?q=pol
ygons%20shapes&type=web&form=FBKBFA&wssk=FR
4AS3&wssp=8&wspq=polygons&wssrc=2&wssc=8-
8&wsbp=4-5&fref=ts
•Through a common social media source, we can
access information about polygons.