Resources
for TERC, Math, & Geometry
Home: The Investigative Philosophy
The logistics of the computer portion of teaching TERC
| Though the TERC web site, www.terc.org/ is large, it is easily accessible for information about what their learning philosophy is all about. |
| This web site was created as part of the Summer nstitute which was presented by the OIT Office of Instructional Technology. Unfortunately there is no more OIT, nor as far as I can tell is there any archive of the wonderful teachable practices that were part of the office. Please email me at njakefier@fierworks.net if you know otherwise. |
| To link to the New York City Department of Education click here: www.nycenet.edu/ |
| To find information about the Investigations software, including how to purchase the Shapes and Geo-Logo software go to Scott Foresman's website at www.scottforesman.com/ |
| If your school is already using the TERC Investigations curriculum you can download the Shapes and Geo-Logo software updates by going to Scoot Foresman's downloads site at www.scottforesman.com/investigations/sotware/index.html. |
| The National Standards for Mathematics can be found at http://standards.nctm.org/ |
| One of the most complete logo software programs, and the one used by the creator of the Logo Language, Seymour Papert is MicroWorlds which you can find at www.microworlds.com/ |
| Since this site is about teaching children ages
5 to 12, here are my favorite under teenage search engines: http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/ |
| For the New York Area, Vision Education offers a number of services in the area of staff development adhering to the Papert / Logo philosophy of education, just go to www.visioneducation.com |
| The National Standards for Technology is available through the International Society for Technology in Education. There web site is www.iste.org |
| Terrapin Logo is another choice of software to program in Logo. There site is informative at http://www.terrapinlogo.com/ |
| Illuminations is a website presented by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, NCTM, on resources to improve mathematics in education and is directly connected to TERC Math and Geo-Logo. Go to http://illuminations.nctm.org/index.html |
| The Logo Foundation is a great site for information on Logo and the TERC constructivist philosophy of learning. Just go to http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/ |
| And last, for now, go and check out the Math
Cats web site at http://www.mathcats.com/ |
| I'm saving this spot for the first person to e-mail me with a great logo web-site that I haven't mentioned. |
| And
you can e-mail me at nrubinf@nycboe.net
or njakefier@fierworks.net |
| NEXT |