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The new interactive greatest common factor activity at helps students master the process of finding the greatest common factor. This interactive activity can be used as either an online or offline activity. In the online mode student can enter their answer directly in the activity and the computer will tell them when they have the correct answer. They can keep changing their answer

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The new interactive factors activity at helps students master the process of finding factors. The interactive factors activity can be used as either an online or offline activity. In the online mode student can enter their answer directly in the activity and the computer will tell them when they have gotten the correct answer. They can keep changing their answer until they get it correct. This

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I just rolled out a new graphing resource at aschool.us/graphs. This new tool allows you to quickly create SVG graphs which you can then download and edit further with an SVG editor such as Insckape or Adobe Illustrator. Currently it only does horizontal, bar, and line graphs with or without grid lines. The plan is to have this website be a resource for teachers when teaching students how to make

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Just got through adding two new features to the Random selectors are of ASchool.us/random. I added a menu so that you can easily see what other random script options are available. I also added a feature where you can save the list that you typed to your browser using the HTML5 local storage feature. This means that you list of names is save to the local browser and will persist across sessions,

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Two more activities have been added to the series of interactive math worksheets available at aschool.us/scripts/math Interactive Multiplication Table:Simply set the size of the multiplication table and students can then fill in the answers. The computer will check their work as they go. Indicating if it is right or wrong with red and green backgrounds. Interactive Subtraction Worksheets

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Sample The first in a series of interactive math worksheets is now available at Interactive Addition Practice Interactive Multiplication Practice Features: Each time you visit the page a new set of problems will be displayed.  You can check your work as you go by typing them below the problem to see if you got the right answer or you can display all of the answers to print an answer

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We are excited to share that over 1 million math fact problems have been solve at aschool.us/math. Over 880,000 of them were solved correctly giving a student an accuracy of 86%.

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This tutorial demonstrates how to draw a simple character using a few basic tools found in Inkscape. The tutorial could easily be adapted to most any other vector based drawing program such as Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw.

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This simple tutorial demonstrates how to create a simple heart using Inkscape (www.inkscape.org). It can be adapted to most any other vector based drawing program such as Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw.

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System Update: Moodle has been upgraded to verstion 2.1. Mahara as been added to the list of programs available at ASchool.us/moodle. Mahara is an electronic portfolio system that can be connected to Moodle through SSO. I've outlined a few of the great features that can make students lives easier. Single sign-on (SSO): Allows users to login to moodle and then move straight into

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I just ordered three Archos 7" tablets for my classroom from woot.com for $75 each. Sure it is an older version of the Android OS but all I was wanting it for was basic web browsing and videos. I'll post more about them when I receive them, the are in the mail but I will not get them for a while since I have to double ship them to get them to Alaska. Over the past several

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Here is a resource that I just finished creating to help students explore how to read time on an analog clock. It allows the student to jump to a specific time or increment the time forward or backward by hours, minutes, or seconds. You may integrate this into your website using the following html code: <iframe frameborder="1" height="225" src="http://aschool.us/resources/clock.php?size=200

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I just finished adding a new random feature to the list of programs that are available at aschool.us For your convenience here is a description to each of the random programs that are currently available: Random Student Selector Given a list of names it will randomly select a name. You can continue to select names as long as you want. The program will attempt to favor names that haven't been

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I'm working on making a compilation on a DVD of educational software that can enhance student learning and productivity. Here is a list of the programs that I'm planning on putting on the disc. Please feel free to add your suggestions. Many of the programs are open source while others are simply free. Office/Desktop Publishing: Open Office (Win, Mac, Lin) http://www.openoffice.org Create and

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A classmate of mine shared this website with me that she uses to help her with an icebreaker activity. The website is Wordle.net. You can make interesting word designs patterns given a list of words. Here is a sample that I made using a list of prepositions. I'm sure that I will come up with some more creative uses for it as I later.

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ASchool.us is pleased to offer yet another script to help make your teaching life simpler. Especially for you moodlers. The Word Scramble Creator is a simple web application that takes a list of words and scrambles the the letters of each word. The student then has to unscramble the letters. The output is very simple friendly so that it can be printed or copied to a word processor. Here is a

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I was creating some statistics from data at Math Facts this afternoon and realized that there are 600,000 correct student responses to math fact questions so I decided that again it was time to crunch some numbers. Statistics: Accuracy of student responses 87.1% 732,620 addition and multiplication problems solved. 638,347 addition and multiplication problems solved correctly. Multiplication:

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First graph each equation as explained in my previous post but only shade lightly. Next determine if the problem is asking for the intersection (and) or union (or). If it is an intersection then the solution for the system of two or more equations is only where all of the graphs overlap. If it is a union it is where any of the shading is located. Be careful of infinite solutions and no solutions

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I just finished writing a new web app that can save you some time, the Moodle XML Grading Assistant. The Moodle XML Grade Assistant allows you to quickly create an XML (or csv) file that can be imported into Moodle. Here is a list of the features: Step 1 Simple to use  Quick Fill. Fill in the same value for all student. You can bookmark your class roster so that you do not have to type it

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Xournal is a note taking program that I've been using on Linux for several years and has finally been ported to Windows. This is great for those of us that work in hybrid environments. Thanks Dirk for posting your work and thanks Denis for making Xournal. Here are the directions of what Dirk did to get Xournal working on windows (http://dirkgerrits.com/2009/10/28/xournal-on-windows/). Now you can

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A few facts about ASchool.us/math Students have answered over 920,000 math fact questions since ASchool.us/math Facts was launched in January 1, 2009.  9 students have solved over 20,000 problems. The average student has solved 5,701 problems. 2010-2011 school year statistics 106 students solved over 477,572 problems during the school year. One student has solved over 23,000 problems

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This morning I was able to finish an update for the Random Group Generator. Now you can choose to divide the groups based on the number of groups you want or the maximum size of each group. First select the mode, then enter the size larger than 1. If you selected max group size then you have the choice between two modes: maximum group size and balanced group size. The maximum mode makes

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In science class we are studying about light and color. The video clips below demonstrate a simple way for students to experiment with different ways to create color and how they mix together. The first demonstration used Inkscape (www.inkscape.org) and allows the student to mix the colors to create new colors whereas the second video uses Gimp (www.gimp.org) and has the computer mix the colors

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At ASchool.us we are doing an experiment to see how much interest there is in the OpenBiblio library software. Sign up now for your free account. We will start by providing accounts to the first 10 people that Sign up. All others will be setup as resources become available. Example book entry Your library patrons will be shown Infolinks, Google, and Amazon ads to help fund this experiment if

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I've been working on a spelling learning/practice/testing application over at beta.aschool.us and have just implemented a spelling inventory that I found in the book Words Your Way by Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, Shane Templeton, Francine Johnston, Published by Pearson. It's setup pretty simple you simply share the links below with your students and when they press enter the results

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