Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Reflection on NCTM Illuminations website


NCTM Illuminations     http://illuminations.nctm.org/

The purpose of this web resource is to give educators access to different activities and lessons for different age groups.  This website could use some visual updating, but other than that I find it is a very helpful resource.  It is well organized with different links to activities or lessons based on the grade levels and different subjects.  This is one of my favorite math blogs that I have come across because it is simple and easy to navigate, which saves a lot of time.  This web resource allows teacher to browse through different ways and strategies to teach different subjects that you might not have thought about before.  This web resource gives me more knowledge through applying different strategies and saying why it worked or why they are doing a specific thing.  I also think that when you try out different ways of teaching, other than just your own, you learn new things about yourself and the students.