Digital Tools in the Math Classroom
22nd October 2018 -
As a Google Certified Trainer, I get to visit schools and work with teachers to integrate Google Workspace for Education, Google’s set of collaborative cloud-based tools. I got into this line of work thanks to a Gmail account I set up in 2011 to get lesson feedback from my classes via a Google form. These were my math classes, having taught the subject from 2004 to 2017. My use of digital tools in math came from wanting to move from the practice to the application more efficiently.
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