Written by James Hollis
MathsframesWhen teachers ask me for interactive SMART Board activities for Mathematics, I always send them to Mathsframe. The activities found on Mathsframe are well designed, engaging, and extremely effective. When you use the activities, you can tell right away that they were designed by an actual teacher.
TeacherLED Interactive is definitely one of my favorite sites for interactive resources for the SMART Board. I thought it might be fun to use one of their resources called “Survey Talking” to do some beginning of the year surveys of your students and then have the results be displayed in a either a pie chart or bar graph.
Here’s a good collection of interactive multiplication review activities for the classroom that work great on the SMART Board.
The graphics and audio on these activities are very professional and all the activities were developed with interactive whiteboards in mind so they all work great with the SMART Board. Student feedback is also very stimulating.
Sometimes the tools that are the most simple to use are the most powerful. Case in point, the Decimal Number Lines Tool over at Maths Online is an extremely effective learning tool to use that is also very simple in design and function. It’s a perfect companion for the SMART Board.
I’m hooked! The Eyeballing Game is such a fun way to learn and interact with geometric theorems and shapes that students will be clamoring to get to the SMART Board to try to create a perfect parallelogram!
The activities are all interactive and very few of them require keyboard input. Best of all, all of the activities work great on the SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard since most of the activities only require students to touch or drag objects.
Mr. Vizza has created a collection of Smart Notebook files to support various chapters of the Algebra Two text book. In addition, he’s made available an amazing library of Mathematical Notebook Galleries containing images, pages, and even a few flash animations! My favorite one is definitely the Formula Gallery.
I was playing around with the ArtPad from art.com and I find it a totally engaging experience. I love watching the playback of how someone else draws or paints. This site does a really good job allowing you to control playback of your own design or a design already contained in the gallery. The site is so simple to use and it works great on the Smart Board.
The first Notebook file comes from a link I found on Twitter from cnansen that displays word puzzles. The application on the Internet is actually better than my Notebook file, however, the graphics may be a little small for the SMART Board so I turned it into a Notebook application.