Ebooks

I have a small favor to ask all of you who follow Tech Powered Math. I’ve added a new poll question to the sidebar (you’ll find it in the lower left corner), and it’d really help me out of you could take a couple of seconds to participate. I’m trying to get a handle on what eBook format most of you use. When my first book went to #2 on the Kindle best seller list for education books at one point last week, I realized there’s more interest in electronic resources for graphing calculators than I had been aware of.

TI-Nspire Tutorials Volume 1 Released

By Tech Powered Dad in calculators

July 3, 2012

Click here to get TI-Nspire Tutorials Volume 1 on Amazon, FREE until July 7. As I promised back in June, my first eBook has hit the market. The title is a mouthful: TI-Nspire ™ Tutorials: The TI-Nspire for Beginners, Getting Started with the TI-Nspire. The TI-Nspire Tutorials book is currently available exclusively on the Kindle market. I’m sure at some point I’ll get questions about iBooks, and while I’m looking into that, I wanted to start with the Kindle for a couple of reasons.

Flexbooks: Free Digital Textbooks

By Tech Powered Dad in Ebooks

March 19, 2012

With all of the buzz about iBooks vs. Amazon’s digital books, you may have missed the latest on Flexbooks. Flexbooks are free digital textbooks from CK-12, a non-profit organization that’s dedicated to bringing the ideals of the open source movement to education. Essentially, anyone can customize and download a Flexbook on a variety of topics. Schools have the option to use them as they are or supplement and edit them. They can be used in digital format for computers and almost any tablet, including the iPad and Kindle Fire, or they can be printed out.

Halloween Math

By Tech Powered Dad in ebooks

September 15, 2011

Here’s hoping all of you math teachers (and home school parents) out there have a very spooky Halloween with your classes. I know it’s one of the favorite holidays for many kids. I also wanted to alert you to a set of Halloween activity sheets that might help you out this Halloween season. Kids Halloween Activities is a set of printable math games and activities that is perfect for any elementary or middle school teacher or homeschooler.

Mental Math

By Tech Powered Dad in ebooks

August 21, 2011

Mental math is one of those skills you either love to show off or dread that you might be forced to use in public. It doesn’t matter whether you are 8 years old or 48 years old. We all know mental math skills are important. You don’t want to pull out your calculator for every arithmetic fact you come up against. And yet, for some people, mental math just doesn’t come naturally.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Math Textbook iPad Apps Review

By Tech Powered Dad in apps

June 21, 2011

Back in April, I attended the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual meeting in Indianapolis. In addition to taking in a number of professional development sessions, I was able to spend significant time on the exhibition floor, checking out the best of what math education products are just out and soon to be released. One of the most exciting technologies I saw was the new Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, math textbooks for the iPad.

Printable Math Games Ebook Review

By Tech Powered Dad in ebooks

February 18, 2011

I’ve been looking for a set of printable math games for a while, and I recently purchased the ebook, Making Math More Fun Games Collection, and I wanted to get a review up. This is actually not one ebook but a collection of several. Advantages of Printable Math Games for Kids It’s a common scenario: You’re a parent trying to find quick math activities to encourage your child. Or maybe you’re an elementary school teacher that needs to find a way to practice math skills, reasoning or logic in a fun way.

Amazon’s Kindle for Math

By Tech Powered Dad in ebooks

February 13, 2011

If you are planning to buy an Amazon Kindle for your math studies, you should head on over to Amazon’s website to buy your Kindle. With so many options to help learn math in a technology age, you may have overlooked using the Amazon Kindle for math. Opinions I’ve read have been mixed on using a Kindle for math, but I think that’s easily explained. Most people have looked at using traditional textbooks ported to the Kindle.

New Poll Question: Favorite eBook Format

TI-Nspire Tutorials Volume 1 Released

Flexbooks: Free Digital Textbooks

Halloween Math

Mental Math

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Math Textbook iPad Apps Review

Printable Math Games Ebook Review

Amazon’s Kindle for Math

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