Other+Math+Software

=Ministry Licensed Software= The OSAPAC Committee (Ontario Software Acquisition Program Advisory Committee) is composed of English and French representatives from across the province who advise the Ministry of Education on the acquisition of provincial licenses for publicly funded schools in Ontario.

While OSAPAC is the committee that advises the Ministry on software titles to negotiate for provincial licensing, OESS (Ontario Educational Software Service) is the distribution mechanism whereby the software is sent to School Boards, Faculties of Education and First Nations Schools. [|www.osapac.org] On the OSAPAC Website you will find: Following is a tip sheet for teachers to improve teaching and learning through use of Ministry licensed software and web services:  //**NOTE: There are sometimes video tutorials about how to use the software on the OSAPAC website and another GREAT video tutorial tool is YouTube and TeacherTube. Check them out for some ideas and lessons.**// =Sketchpad= || Excellent Dynamic Geometry Software. New in Sketchpad™ Version 4: Capability to define, combine, evaluate, graph, and differentiate functions for algebra and calculus as well as for geometry. Animation features are more powerful, more flexible, and easier to use. Version 5 will be available in the near future. Has both teacher AND student take-home rights. || Teacher Information: [] || Click here for more information on GeoGebra. || ||
 * new software acquisitions for Ontario teachers
 * software priorities for this school year and next, based on gap analysis and annual teacher survey data
 * searchable list of Ministry Licensed software available to your school
 * curriculum connections and resources for each piece of Ministry Licensed Software
 * = Other Math Software = ||
 * =Geometer's=
 * OSAPAC Info:** Click here for more. || [[image:sketchpad.png width="214" height="74" align="center"]] ||
 * =Fathom= || A software tool for Dynamic,Data driven investigations in mathematics and statistics. Fathom is especially designed for learning as well as doing math based on Data analysis and statistics making it the ideal educational statistics and data analysis tool across the mathematics curriculum.
 * OSAPAC Info:** Click here for more. ||
 * < =Learn 360= ||< **Learn360** service offers materials selected to provide targeted curriculum support from a variety of educational video producers such as TVO, Nelvana, PBS, National Geographic, Standard Deviants, Slim Goodbody, Sunburst Media, and others. The service includes thousands of educational videos, video clips, newsreels, audio and video files, and still images. All of the full-length videos and video clips are aligned to Provincial standards.
 * go to [|www.learn360.ca]
 * use your WebMax login to access
 * For Webmax account information, please contact Dana Prashaw, Media Services at (519) 443-4039.
 * OSAPAC Info:** Click here for more. ||< Take a tour:
 * =GoVenture= || **GoVenture Personal Finance simulation AND GoVenture Financial Literacy simulation** are a realistic software simulations designed to help youth and adults learn about personal money management decisions in a fun and educational manner. This is a NEW addition to the OSAPAC titles this year.
 * OSAPAC Info:** Click here for more. || [[image:goventure.jpg width="202" height="69" align="center"]] ||
 * =Tinkerplots= || Tinkerplots is a software construction set of basic operations (stack, order, separate) that allows students to build their own plots to analyze data. It is especially useful for teaching students data analysis in line with recommendations of the NCTM's Curriculum Standards, and to inquiry-based classrooms where students collect and analyze data as part of formulating and testing their own hypotheses.
 * OSAPAC Info:** Click here for more. || [[image:tinkerplots.png width="216" height="67" align="center"]] ||
 * =CCHS= || **Canadian Community Health Survey** - Having interesting and detailed microdata is important to the success of the culminating projects undertaken by students in the Ontario Grade 12 Mathematics of Data Management (MDM4U) course. Health is a topic of interest to many students for their MDM4U culminating projects. Statistics Canada collects a wide range of detailed data on the health of Canadians through its Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS). This is a great resource for you if you teach MDM4U.
 * OSAPAC Info:** Click here for more. || [[image:cchs.gif align="center"]] ||
 * =Tabs= || Tabs Plus (3) is a tool for learning simple Computer Aided Design, Modelling and 3D Mathematics. It is a 'Design & Make' software, a tool to model an idea quickly on the computer, print it out as NETS and build into a real-world model. Tabs Plus (3) is ideal for simple 2D/3D net modelling.
 * OSAPAC Info:** Click here for more. || [[image:tabs.jpg width="92" height="75" align="center"]] ||
 * =Zap-A-Graph= || Students and teachers can instantly display and manipulate graphs for review, for introducing new topics, or for open ended explorations. It transforms functions and relations, reflects, stretches, translates, rotates, dilates, shears, and performs many Calculus operations.
 * OSAPAC Info:** Click here for more. || [[image:zap.jpg width="132" height="111" align="center"]] ||
 * =TI SmartView= || This easy-to-use software complements the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus families of graphing calculators, letting the educator project an interactive representation of the calculator’s display to the entire class. It is an ideal demonstration tool for leading classroom instruction of math and science concepts. || [[image:ti.png width="107" height="103" align="center"]] ||
 * =Graph= || Graph is an open source application used to draw mathematical graphs in a coordinate system. Anyone who wants to draw graphs of functions will find this program useful. || [[image:graph.png width="205" height="158" align="center"]] ||
 * =Winplot= || Winplot is a general-purpose plotting utility, which can draw (and animate) curves and surfaces presented in a variety of formats. || [[image:winplot.png width="100" height="98" align="center"]] ||
 * =GeoGebra= || GeoGebra is free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that joins geometry, algebra, tables, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package.