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Teaching Math with Technology: Nearpod

Nearpod

When thinking about teaching math, Nearpod probably isn't what most teachers think of. However, Nearpod is a great resource for math education! For those of you who don't know, Nearpod is basically an interactive power point presentation. Personally, when I think about math lessons, I typically do not think about power points. So the question is, how can teachers use Nearpod in math lessons? Like I said earlier, Nearpod is interactive. I would use the "Draw It" Section to see how students solve a problem.
For example, if I made a "Draw It" slide for 10+25, this is what I could expect to see from some students using Nearpod.
Nearpod allows the teacher to show student work on all of the students' screens. Therefore, I could show examples of how different students solved different 10+25 differently.

After the students have drawn out how they would solve the problem, I would have a quiz question on the next slide to see the classroom percentage of correct answers.
On my screen, I will be able to see each student's answer and the percentage of students who answered correctly.


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