MERLOT

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching

I thought this source for education was very interesting. Once figuring out how to navigate it, I found out it has many options to use. I clicked on the Mathematics and Statistics option and on the left toolbar I noticed an option that said "animation", being a visual learner myself I looked in to that. I liked how it had visual representations, games, and exercises on certain subjects of Math that I really liked and that I would most likely use in my classroom setting. One animation even showed how to do specific operations on your TI-83 calculator. In my classroom, I could show the TI-83 animation to show my students how to use their calculators to solve problems. Another animation I could use would be one of the numerous games of fractions. I think that would be great because I know growing up how many people hated fractions because it was hard for them to learn. Using other alternatives to teaching can help someone really grasp on to the idea or concept and helping them really understand it. There are even quizzes, test, and assignments for numerous areas of math for you to build upon as well. You can look at all types of disciplines and even read reviews on it of how people used it in their classroom, ways to modify it, whether they were successful or not, and you can add your own materials on there as well.