Thursday, June 24, 2010
Catchup Math
On July 6th we will start our first day of Summer school at Shady Grove MS. The class that I will be teaching is an Algebra Prep class. Almost every student in this class has received nothing higher than a "C" in Math for the 2009-10 school year. One of the types of technology that i am going to implement into my class is Catchup Math. This is a web based site from HotMath.com. Catchup Math has the student take a Pre-Assessment for each chapter of the Math course that they are assigned. For this class, the students will be taking the Pre-Algebra course. Once the student takes the Chapter Pre-Assessment, the Catchup Math site will develop a customized plan for the student for that particular chapter. Each plan will consists of notes, examples, online video lectures from a Math teacher, practice problems, math video games, and a chapter test. This site will hopefully help the students fill in any of the gaps that i could not get to in the short month of summer school. Throughout the summer, i will be posting my reflections of my students using this site.
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I remember Catchup Math from your final project for the last course. What a perfect resource to use with the group of students you are teaching during the summer! I bet they'll enjoy math at a whole new level with this site. Let us know how it goes.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to reading your reflections. I'll have to take a look at Catchup Math. It sounds very useful. I especially like how it develops a customized plan for each student. Thanks.
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