This document provides resources for teaching factoring to 7th grade students. It includes instructional videos, math blogs, podcasts, worksheets, apps and interactive websites that use games and videos to engage students. The resources aim to incorporate technology into lessons to help all students understand factoring through different mediums like songs, visual aids and games.

1. Factoring
Maria Onofrio
Grade Level 7

2. • Rationale: Future generations
have such a high dependency
on technology which is why it is
important to incorporate it into
the lessons in the classroom.
This will allow teachers to use
different mediums to engage
all types of students and help
them understand topics like
factoring by using songs to
remember the order of
processes along with visual
color coordinated aids to show
the steps.

3. Instructional Video
• Instructional Video On Factoring

4. Teach Me How To Factor
• "Teach Me How To Factor"

5. Math Blog
• Math Blog

6. Podcast
• Factoring Podcast
• Please choose item 21, Unit 6.5 titled
Factoring

7. College Board
• College Board
• College board is an organization that strongly
encourages students to consider higher
education.
• As students may know the SATs were created to
put each prospective student on a level playing
field. The SATs have a math component which is
difficult and I believe that starting with factoring
and building on these skills will allow students to
do well on the SATs and go to the colleges and
universities of their choices.

8. National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics (NCTM)
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
• NCTM is a nonprofit education association and is
dedicated to improving mathematics teaching and
learning from kindergarten through high school.
• This association is important because it allows teaching
techniques to be improved upon, and make
recommendations on what should be learned. They
have the ability to evaluate school programs and
encourage the schools to make them better.

9. National Education Association
• National Education Association
• This is a web site that allows parents, teachers, and
students the ability to use the web in order to create a
great classroom that runs effectively.
• We all know that having great communication between
administrators, teachers, and parents is essential. This
web site allows parents to understand issues that may
be happening, like educational reforms, and allow
them to see the action that is taking. It also gives
teachers and parents the ability to have an open
relationship to work towards the common goal of an
effective classroom.

10. Inspiration: Worksheet

11. Worksheets
• Factor Tree Worksheet
• Greatest Common Factor Worksheet
• There are two types of worksheets here that I think
would be helpful. One of them is the factor trees. This
would be a building block for the students. This helps
them know what factors are and this then would be
used in factoring quadratics. This also brings me to the
second worksheet which is finding the Greatest
Common Factor. This is another way to factor and I
think it is important students understand different
ways to attack the problems because it may help
different students in the classroom.

12. Word Search
• Word Search Creator
• This is a link to an internet site that would
allow me to create a word search. It is
important that students understand the
important terms of this topic and these
would keep them fresh in their minds. I
would use words like; coefficient, integer,
product, sum, constant, operation, factor,
prime, polynomial, quadratic, etc.

13. Factoring App
• Quadratic Factoring App
– Factoring Application
• This app has the ability to be portable and
convenient for every child. It also gives a step
by step process of how to find the factors and
uses color coordination in order to show the
user the thought process.

14. Subject Specific Internet Based
Resource
• Interactive Mathematics Investigations: Interactive Mathematics
• This website is an interactive one where students have the ability to
explore different topics of math using games, puzzles, and video
clips. Since students have so much difficulty with math and this
generation will have such a high dependency on technology I think
that these interactive games will be a homework assignment but
also a fun assignment which would allow them to learn while they
play a game. I think that this could also be something we do in class
before we begin a topic because it would allow for us to get a start
into thinking about what the concept would be. This site gives
basics and once they have the basics I could work with them to
develop the math further.

15. Uses of Internet: A+ Math
• A Plus Math
• The website is used in order to help students
develop their math skills. There are options to
use flashcards, play games, homework helper,
and worksheets for practice. Factoring is
something that builds upon your multiplication
skills. This site would be able to help students
practice their multiplication tables and become
proficient in that which would allow students to
better understand the concept of factoring.

16. Uses of Internet: Elementary Games
• Elementary Games
• This site has a section that allows students to
play math related games. There is one game in
particular that I like is the Factor Feeder where
the player eats factors of a given multiple. In
this case students would be learning their
factors while playing an interactive game. This
would help them become more proficient
while having fun.

17. Uses of Internet: US Census
• U.S. Census Bureau
• Here is a real world application of math used
in everyday life. Here the Census Bureau gives
definitions, statistics, data, and researches
that they have done nation wide. I think it
would be interesting for students to see the
real world application and future professions
that have the potential to use math daily.

18. Uses of the Internet: Titanic Statistics
• Titanic
• Most people know the story of Titanic however I
believe that future generations will have to be
taught the background. This site gives the
background story and statistics and data about
the events that happened on that cruise ship. I
think that the fact that this is real and the
historical evidence will incorporate other subjects
not just math but will hold a strong interest by
the students to see math in the real world.

19. Web 2.0: Collba
• Students always seem to understand concepts when in
class and having a support system and once they get
home they tend to have a little trouble. This web
application named Collba is designed so that people
can chat in private rooms and share things over the
computer. I believe this would be helpful for students
because other students could be there to help with
their homework, or even the teacher could set up a
specific time that they would be available to answer
any questions that students or parents may have. This
would show parents how dedicated these teachers are
and also give for better communication between
teachers, parents and students.

20. Evaluation and Citation of Internet
Content
• There is a U.S. Copyright Law which allows
teachers and students to use internet
materials for their classrooms. These sites and
videos for this presentation are reliable since
they each come from valid internet websites
that are focused on academic integrity.