Blog (E)- Technology

"Technology is an essential tool for learning mathematics in the 21st century, and all school must ensure that all their students have access to technology. Effective teachers maximize the potential of technology to develops understanding, stimulate their interest and increase their proficiency in mathematics. When technology is used , it can provide access to mathematics for all students." - NCTM (March 2008)


Technology is one of the 6 principles in the Principles and standards documents, an emphasis reinforced by the aforementioned position statement to make clear the NTCM regards technology as an essential tool for both learning and teaching mathematics. Technology should be seen as an integral part of your instructional arsenal for tools for learning. It can enlarge the scope of the content students learn and it can broaden the range of problems that students are able to tackle. 


Of the suggested websites i like the Pick's theorem very much.

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/ctk/Pick.shtml

It was very fun and interesting to figure out the equation as a class!

Let P be a lattice polygon. Assume there are I(P) lattice points in the interior of P, and B(P) lattice points on its boundary. Let A(P) denote the area of P. Then

A(P) = I(P) + B(P)/2 - 1