What is a SmartBoard?
A SmartBoard is a new exciting way for students to get involved in the classroom that fits their high tech lifestyles. What looks like a white board is actually a interactive board that allows you to use it as a white board, a projector, or just a giant computer screen. This device is "touch screen" meaning that you are able to touch the places that you want on the board and it will do exactly what a computer or tablet could do. There are no mouses, cursors, or annoying clickers. All of the power you need is your finger!
When teaching a lesson, you can open up a blank document in Notebook (the software for designing SmartBoard activities) and write whatever you would on a white board without having the messy markers and stained board. You can use the pens provided in red, blue, green and black OR you can use your finger and write out anything you want in an assortment of colors and utensils. An eraser is also provided however, just like everything else, you can use your hand to erase and there is no dry erase marker residue on your hands. Need a graph or lines to write straight on? No problem! SmartBoard has sidebar tools stored in which you can pull up charts, graphs, lines, anything you may need. What to draw your own lines? That's fine. You can use SmartBoards straight line tool to draw a line and it will straighten it so that it is exact as possible.
If you are looking to use SmartBoard as a projector, you can do so and still draw all over it! Creating a note sheet and filling in the notes as you go on the SmartBoard keeps it so the students can engage in the studying other than just copying down whatever you may write on the board. All of the things that you can do on the plain white page, you can do on the projection as well!
Want to show something online? Go for it! You can go online from standing at the SmartBoard. SmartBoard allows you to type in the link and will go to which ever page you would like without having to use your computer. All links that you click on the board will direct you to the link that it is attached to. You are the cursor! With the writing tools, you are allowed to pick parts of the text the you deem important and you can highlight them for the students to take note of.
SmartBoard is a fabulous way for students to get involved in their learning.
Factoring Review SmartBoard Activity
A SmartBoard is a new exciting way for students to get involved in the classroom that fits their high tech lifestyles. What looks like a white board is actually a interactive board that allows you to use it as a white board, a projector, or just a giant computer screen. This device is "touch screen" meaning that you are able to touch the places that you want on the board and it will do exactly what a computer or tablet could do. There are no mouses, cursors, or annoying clickers. All of the power you need is your finger!
When teaching a lesson, you can open up a blank document in Notebook (the software for designing SmartBoard activities) and write whatever you would on a white board without having the messy markers and stained board. You can use the pens provided in red, blue, green and black OR you can use your finger and write out anything you want in an assortment of colors and utensils. An eraser is also provided however, just like everything else, you can use your hand to erase and there is no dry erase marker residue on your hands. Need a graph or lines to write straight on? No problem! SmartBoard has sidebar tools stored in which you can pull up charts, graphs, lines, anything you may need. What to draw your own lines? That's fine. You can use SmartBoards straight line tool to draw a line and it will straighten it so that it is exact as possible.
If you are looking to use SmartBoard as a projector, you can do so and still draw all over it! Creating a note sheet and filling in the notes as you go on the SmartBoard keeps it so the students can engage in the studying other than just copying down whatever you may write on the board. All of the things that you can do on the plain white page, you can do on the projection as well!
Want to show something online? Go for it! You can go online from standing at the SmartBoard. SmartBoard allows you to type in the link and will go to which ever page you would like without having to use your computer. All links that you click on the board will direct you to the link that it is attached to. You are the cursor! With the writing tools, you are allowed to pick parts of the text the you deem important and you can highlight them for the students to take note of.
SmartBoard is a fabulous way for students to get involved in their learning.
Factoring Review SmartBoard Activity
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I discovered this SmartBoard activity from the Longwood Schools SmartBoard Activities website (click to enter website). In this website there are many different topics of SmartBoard activities for every subject. The best part is, it is not just one form of SmartBoard activity. For example, SmartBoard activities can be used as a lecture, a fun review game, a demonstration, a study guide, a project or even a fun way to get students to participate in class.
In this activity, created by Ms. Sarni of Longwood High School, students are able to see step by step examples of how factoring works. It looks at all aspects in relation to factoring and turns it into a lecture. What makes this so exciting for students is that they are able to come up and demonstrate what they know (or don't know) so that they can learn the process. Class participation is a fabulous way to make sure that all of the students are listening and learning the information being given. Every new page gives examples and definitions of each term so that the students can understand it visually and conceptually. The examples provide space for the student to write out their work. Next to the original question, the answer is provided, covered up, so after the student has completed the problem, they will be able to double check their work. By the end of the SmartBoard presentation, students will have learned a new all of the ins and outs of factoring and it will make them look at these challenging concepts as something fun and interesting to compute. |
TEKS
§111.39. Algebra I, Adopted 2012
(10) Number and algebraic methods. The student applies the mathematical process standards and algebraic methods to rewrite in equivalent forms and perform operations on polynomial expressions. The student is expected to:
(A) add and subtract polynomials of degree one and degree two;
(B) multiply polynomials of degree one and degree two;
(C) determine the quotient of a polynomial of degree one and polynomial of degree two when divided by a polynomial of degree one and polynomial of degree two when the degree of the divisor does not exceed the degree of the dividend;
(D) rewrite polynomial expressions of degree one and degree two in equivalent forms using the distributive property;
(E) factor, if possible, trinomials with real factors in the form ax2 + bx + c, including perfect square trinomials of degree two; and
(F) decide if a binomial can be written as the difference of two squares and, if possible, use the structure of a difference of two squares to rewrite the binomial.
§111.39. Algebra I, Adopted 2012
(10) Number and algebraic methods. The student applies the mathematical process standards and algebraic methods to rewrite in equivalent forms and perform operations on polynomial expressions. The student is expected to:
(A) add and subtract polynomials of degree one and degree two;
(B) multiply polynomials of degree one and degree two;
(C) determine the quotient of a polynomial of degree one and polynomial of degree two when divided by a polynomial of degree one and polynomial of degree two when the degree of the divisor does not exceed the degree of the dividend;
(D) rewrite polynomial expressions of degree one and degree two in equivalent forms using the distributive property;
(E) factor, if possible, trinomials with real factors in the form ax2 + bx + c, including perfect square trinomials of degree two; and
(F) decide if a binomial can be written as the difference of two squares and, if possible, use the structure of a difference of two squares to rewrite the binomial.
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