Advantages of Using Presentation Software (Keynote & PowerPoint) in the Middle School Math Classroom
for Teaching & Learning:

Teacher Advantages

• Helps grab student attention.
• Students are more focused on the lesson
• Teachers no longer teaching with their backs to their students.
• Remote control device allows the teacher to run the presentation from any position in the room.
• Teacher is able to help individual students.
• Easier to assess student learning,
• Able to reuse and refine presentations each year.

Student Advantages

• Technology is highly motivating for students.
• Easily adapted for all levels of experience and ability
• Prepares students with real-world presentation skills
• Storyboarding helps students organize and learn the content so they can communicate their ideas.

ARTICLES & RESOURCES

Scoring Power Points by Jamie McKenzie - Make your Power Point presentations more meaningful. http://www.fno.org/sept00/powerpoints.html

Vicki Blackwell's Internet Guide for Educators - PowerPoint Templates for all subjects including math. http://www.vickiblackwell.com/ppttemplates.html

PowerPoint FAQ's - http://www.bitbetter.com/powerfaq.htm

Using PowerPoint in the Classroom - tips for using this multimedia tool.
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teaching today/weeklytips.phtml/print/157

Jeopardy PowerPoints created by teachers
http://www.elainefitzgerald.com/jeopardy.htm

PowerPoint Game Templates
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_powerpoint.htm#game

Money Math: Lessons for Life. Free to teachers, Money Math was developed by the Center for Entrepreneurship and economic Education in accordance with National Math Standards. Money Math is a four-lesson curriculum supplement for middle school math classes teaching grade 7 - 9 math concepts using real-life examples from personal finance. The 86-page book is a teacher's guide with lesson plans, reproducible activity pages, and teaching tips. Includes a PPT slideshow introducing teachers to Money Math.
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/tools/tools_moneymath.htm

EXAMPLES

Teacher PowerPoints Across the Curriculum - http://jc-schools.net/ppt.html

Math Slide Show - a collection of PowerPoint presentations aligned to McDougal Littell and Prentice Hall and created by a San Juan Capistrano middle school math teacher. http://www.mathslideshow.com/

Beat The Computer Math Drills - A series of downloadable PowerPoint presentations that test students knowledge of various math concepts by timed drills. Topics include algebra, basic math facts, integer drills, and other middle school topics. he purpose of these drills is to help students memorize important facts. Students are challenged to say the answers aloud before the computer shows them the response.
http://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/main_offices/curriculum/areas/mathematics/drills/

Jeopardy PowerPoints created by teachers
http://www.elainefitzgerald.com/jeopardy.htm

PowerPoint Game Templates
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_powerpoint.htm#game

Monica's Math - A collection of 23 slideshows on Grades 6 - 8 math topics, all created by Monica Yukaitis from Ceres Unified School District. Learning objectives are included. Slideshows can be edited and customized for other teachers' use.
http://www.lexington1.net/technology/?page=instruct/powerpoint.htm#math

Power Point Math Presentations – a collection of PPT’s from Jefferson County School District.
http://jc-schools.net/PPTs-math.html

Math Powerpoints for grades 6 - 12. They have been developed by teachers for teachers.
http://www.worldofteaching.com/mathspowerpoints.html

CST Review Jeopardy PowerPoints, created with the CST released test questions:
Grade 6:(1)  Algebra & Functions Game; (2) Number Sense Game; (3) MG & SDP Game

Grade 7: (1)  Algebra & Functions Game; (2) Number Sense Game; (3)  MG & SDP Game

Algebra 1: (1) Linear Equations Exponents Game; (2) System of Equations, Rational Exp, Factoring, & Polynomials Game;
(3) Quadratics, Rate/work problems, Misc. Game

TUTORIALS

Internet4Classrooms PowerPoint Tutorials and Online Practice Modules
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_powerpoint.htm

Awesome PowerPoint Tutorials for PowerPoint Presentations
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointtutorials.htm

PowerPoint in the Classroom – Electric Teacher
http://www.electricteacher.com/tutorial3.htm