COD - 8/30/2012 - Math Pro [iOS]

Math Pro is an iOS app from Math Pentagon, which was started in 2011 with a goal of making math learning fun, interactive, exciting, and inspiring for the students.

At the same time Math Pro helps teachers and parents engage, motivate, collaborate, and communicate with the students. 

Math Pentagon has the largest collection of math worksheets for the iPad including hundreds of thousands of questions geared for grades 4-12 (ages 9-16) in topics like algebra, pre-algebra, trigonometry, geometry, statistics, fractions, ratios, decimals, and much more.

Features for teachers:

• Administer their individual student circles.
• Assign worksheets, view students’ completed worksheets, provide feedback
• View scratch work to help in error analysis and following students’ thought processes.
• Student-specific reports to help understand progress, and prepare for further learning.
• Differentiated learning allowing teacher to work with one group of students while another is completing an assignment or exploring.
• Remedial practice for students who need help, and enrichment for students ready to move forward more independently.

With Math Pro, students can write, draw, and solve problems by writing directly on the iPad and can save their results for later review. Learning math can become fun with the help of technology that students love, engaging them with teachers and motivating the students to enjoy math.

Math Pro is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with iOS 4.3 or later.

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COD - 8/29/2012 - Mathway [Math]

Mathway provides students with the tools to solve their math problems, with tens of millions of problems already solved.

Type problems into Mathway in an ordinary textbox. You can insert special math symbols and expressions using the Toolbar, and/or manually enter in common expressions using the keyboard. A preview of the mathematically formatted problem appears underneath the textbox.

After a problem has been entered and a topic has been selected, click the "Answer" button. 

Mathway solves problems from the following subjects:

• Basic Math
• Pre-Algebra
• Algebra
• Trigonometry
• Precalculus
• Calculus
• Statistics

Mathway provides answers free of charge, and there is no charge for signing up for a Mathway account. However, if you want step-by-step solutions you will need to upgrade to a premium account. There are several paid account options available ranging from a single day account for $4.99 up to a full year for $49.99 (USD).

Mathway Classroom Edition allows teachers to easily provide all the powerful features of Mathway to their students.

The student management features available in your Mathway account will allow you to sign up your students and distribute premium access to their accounts. You can organize your students by class, and turn on/off access to their premium features when needed. You can also save pages from your Notebook to your student's Notebook with the click of a button, so you can instantly provide review problems to any or all of your students.

Watch a video introduction to Mathway

There are free optimized Mathway apps for iOS, Android, and Kindle, or you can open Mathway in any mobile browser at m.mathway.com.

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COD - 8/28/2012 - Knowmia [Video]

Knowmia is a learning website featuring short video lessons from real teachers. It is a personal, affordable, and efficient way to find what you need to be successful in high school.

Knowmia crowdsources and organizes video lessons from actual teachers and makes it easy to find what you need. Knowmia can help you prepare for an upcoming test or new course, understand challenging topics, and find the right teacher for your learning style.

Currently Knowmia is in a beta version, but users can already find more than 7,000 free video lessons with more being added daily. Coming soon are KnowmiaMini-Courses − teacher-curated sets of lessons of less than one hour, sourced from Knowmia's library, that include teacher comments and quizzes to measure progress.

Registered credentialed teachers may post their video lessons on Knowmia at no cost. They also get access to the free Knowmia Teach iPad app to create their lessons.

Ariel Braunstein and Scott Kabat,two leaders from the team that launched the familiar Flip Video pocket camcorders, have joined forces to create Knowmia.

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COD - 8/27/2012 - InstallFree Nexus [Tools]

InstallFree Nexus enables users to access common office applications on almost any device with a user experience optimized to the device.

InstallFree Nexus is a cloud-based platform that enables real-time access to office applications using HTML 4/5, and connects them to cloud-based storage services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive, and Box.

Users of InstallFree Nexus can access Microsoft Office and/or Libre Office on desktops, laptops,  iPads, Android tablets, and any other device with a modern web browser.

InstallFree Nexus is a solution with no infrastructure to deploy. It is highly scalable, retains user customizations and settings, and is high performance. It is a highly flexible client supporting almost any device with a web browser. It includes device-specific optimizations, as well as being optimized for touch devices.

You can use InstallFree Nexus to share full-featured web-based viewers for your office and other documents, and you can use it to broadcast your application sessions to colleagues in real time.

Watch a video overview of InstallFree Nexus

InstallFree Nexus Includes the word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation components of Libre Office 3 free, and when you sign up, you get a 60-day free trial of MS Office 2010. Adobe Reader X is used to view PDF files, and Paint.net to edit image files.

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The Rearview Mirror 8/25/2012

For those of you who may have missed a Catch of the Day or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance.

 

Monday

Socrativeis a smart student response system that makes teachers able to engage their students with educational exercises and games. Socrative apps are simple and run on tablets, smartphones, and laptops. It takes just seconds to login.

Tuesday

Arcademic Skill Builders is a large collection of online educational video games for learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills in grades 1-6 (ages 6-11).

Wednesday

PlagTracker.com benefits teachers, students, writers, bloggers, and anyone else interested in protecting their writing.

Thursday

Kno is a reader for digital textbooks. With over 60 features to facilitate reading, studying, note taking, and organization, Kno can do everything a physical textbook can do and much more.