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March 2009 | PG 1
IN THIS ISSUE NaNcy’S NoTESa NoTE from THE EdITor 
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and numbers
Technology has become an essentiallearning tool in the 21st-century classroom.At SMART, we continually strive to stayat the oreront by producing innovative,easy-to-use products that help teachersteach and students excel. This issue othe newsletter ocuses on the mathclassroom. We hope you’ll be inspired bythe many dierent ways educators are usingtechnology to create memorable learningmoments in their classrooms. This month,you can download math tools and resourcesonpage 2and ind out how teachers arebuilding creative thinking skills with theirhigh school math students in theeature article. Plus, check out theproduct spotlight  on SMART Notebook Math to learn aboutall the exciting math eatures that will soonbe available to you.As always, i you have any comments aboutthe newsletter or any o the inormationeatured in this issue, we’d love to hearrom you. Please e-mail your eedback toeducation@smarttech.com.Nancy’s Notes ..........................................1Classroom Content...............................2–4News....................................................2–4Feature Article.........................................3SMART Showcase School Proile..............4Product Spotlight..................................5–6I have to admit that I am a serious
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an and I catch the showwhenever I can. Solving a crimeis always interesting, but it’s theuse o math in ways I would neverimagine that keeps me comingback (and even watchingthe same episode more than once).Algebra and geometry were avorite subjects omine in school. My teacher made them comealive. I loved to do every problem in my textbooksuntil I deeply understood concepts, otencompleting them beore the teacher coveredthe topic in class.Today mathematical literacy is not a nice-to-have – itis a must-have. Math is all around us in our everydaylives, and it will be more so in the uture. Basicexistence demands a level o mathematical competence.Beyond that, many o the problems acing the world are going to be solved, in whole orin part, through the application o mathematical principles. Lie will get better becauseo math and the products that its application can provide. To get those math mastersin the uture, we need to graduate large numbers o students with an interest andcompetence in math.Just how do we turn our young people on to such a critical subject? We all know thatchildren do their best when they are engaged and enjoying activities, and teachers thriveon seeing their students succeed.At SMART, we’re doing our part by ocusing on math unctionality within our products andresources. In this issue, you’ll learn about the range o eatures and materials that we alreadyprovide and the new things that are coming soon. We think you’ll like what you see.
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is wonderul, but a love o and luency with numbers is what we truly needrom education today.Nancy Knowlton
is the CEO of SMART Technologies.
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March 2009
Welcome to the March issue of
EDCompass
™
newsletter!
Nes n esues  euts usin SmarT puts
 
March 2009 | PG 2
April 22–25, 2009Walter E. Washington Convention CenterWashington, DCSMART booth 849
The National Council o Teachers o Mathematics (NCTM) is hosting itsannual conerence,April 22–25, in Washington, DC. I you’re attending, drop by and visit us at booth 849.You can watch a series o rotating math presentations throughout each day o the show,meet SMART sta and learn new tips that will help you enrich your lessons.We’re also hosting a one-hour math workshop on Friday, April 24, rom 4:00 to 5:00p.m. in room 144A o the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. In this session, titledUsing SMART to Empower Students in the Mathematics Classroom, participants will get aglimpse into how SMART’s education products and resources integrate into the K–12 mathcurriculum. Space is limited, so arrive early to secure your spot.
Download SMART math tools
SMART has hundreds o ree math tools and resources or all grade levels on our educationwebsite – and we’re always adding more. For your convenience, we’ve compiled them intoone downloadable package, which includes the ollowing resources:
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334 SMART Notebook lesson activities
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284 learning objects rom the SMART Notebook Gallery
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166 Senteo question sets
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8 SMART Ideas
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lesson activitiesDownload these resources atwww.smarttech.com/mathcontent.
SMART-accredited sotware
SMART’s Sotware Accreditation Program includes morethan 300 multimedia content and sotware titles romover 90 companies. The program recognizes titles basedon their level o compatibility with SMART Board
™
 interactive whiteboards and Sympodium
™
interactivepen displays.O these titles, 65 are designed or math teachers.SMART-accredited math sotware and content is availablerom companies such as Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, KeyCurriculum Press, Riverdeep, HeyMath!, Plato Learning,Ignite! Learning, StarrMatica, Tom Snyder Productions
®
 and NumberGym.See a ull list o math titles.
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Find a comprehensive database oproessionally developedK–12 lesson activities on our education website. The lessons arecorrelated to local curriculum standards andcreated by classroom teachers or SMART’steam o curriculum resource developers.Try one o the ollowing SMART Notebooklesson activities during your next math class.Scrambled Easter EggsIn keeping with the season, K–3 studentscan move Easter eggs into sequential order,counting by 2s, 5s and 10s.Finding AreaStudents in grades 4–6 can learn howto ind the area o various shapes usingmanipulative blocks.
SMART Notebooklesson activities
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Visit SMART at the NCTM 2009Annual Meeting & Exposition
SMART products transformmath homework review
See how math teacher Giancarlo Brotto, aSMART education consultant based in Toronto,Ontario, uses SMART Notebook sotware,the SMART Document Camera and theSenteo
™
interactive response system to take uphomework in his ninth-grade math class.In this nine-minute video tutorial onSMART’s YouTube channel, Giancarloshows how SMART products help himclariy misconceptions about the previousday’s work and ensure his lesson has beenunderstood.Watch the video.
 
March 2009 | PG 3
claSSroom coNTENT
Find a database oSenteo question sets on our education website. Each set includes10 questions that are correlated to stateand provincial curriculum standards and arecompatible with a matching SMART-createdlesson activity on the same topic.Try one o the ollowing Senteo questionsets in your next math class.Bar GraphsK–3 students can explore and test theirknowledge o bar graphs.Measurement o TemperatureGrade 4 and 5 students can test their abilityto measure temperature.Parallel and Perpendicular LinesGrade 9 and 10 students can testtheir ability to understand parallel andperpendicular lines.
Senteo question sets
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Math
. To some, the very word conjures anxiety and angst. To others, it’s music. No matterwhich side o the spectrum you all, it can’t be denied that high school mathematicsinstruction can have a signiicant impact on the uture o today’s students.Read the ull article.
fEaTUrE arTIclE
Since SMART products are designed to be atthe center o dynamic learning environments,it’s important or them to be eective,versatile and easy to use. SMART Notebooksotware, the Pen Tray and our new TouchRecognition eature all help to make SMARTBoard interactive whiteboards reliable andintuitive. That’s the main reason educators havemade the SMART Board the most widely usedinteractive whiteboard in the world.SMART makes it easy or you to be extraordinaryin the classroom. In thissix-minute video, watch howteachers are creating inspiring learning environments and achieving incredible results.Visit theeducation solutionssection o SMART’s website or more inormation.
Easy to use keeps getting easierTake the SMART Classroom Tour
What i you could explore three dierent approaches to learning – whole class, smallgroup and individual – and see how SMART products can be used in each scenario toheighten students’ understanding? The SMART Classroom Tour will help you do just that.This interactive online tool shows you how our products work together in real-lieclassrooms. I you need inormation about a product, you can click on it to read more orwatch a video to see it in action. Take theSMART Classroom Tour, and see how SMARTproducts can help make learning extraordinary.
“Students cannot help but be engagedin my lessons on the SMART Board.They know that I will ask them to getup and present at any given moment,using an online graphing calculator orvirtual tiles. Students have learned thatmath class is no longer a delivery ofunrelated facts.”
Lili Bastianelli
Math teacherSt. Pius X High SchoolOttawa, Ontario
Practice makes perect
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