MathsClass

I agree, the list does seem a little short when you put it that way... but there are many other apps on the laptops (not listed under maths) that I would find very valuable for students to use in class and for assignments. Google Sketchup7 (3D work, volume, surface area etc from the very simple to the very complex), MS Maths (pretty simple to use & has many useful tools), Excel (now accessible to all, all the time), Smartnotebook (annotations, diagrams, sorting, etc), Photoshop elements (editing, annotating and recording work with photos), Adobe premier elements (editing their webcam video work), Word (using the smartart tools for tree diagrams etc), SRN (student response network - click type system for quick quizzes), audacity (podcasting), freemind (mind mapping tool), Geogebra (does similar to "Graphs" + much more now including spreadsheets, animated sliders, New tools: compass, mirror at circle, conics, best fit line, record to spreadsheet, Commands for statistics functions and graphs Matrix and complex number support). These are all offline programs - with connectivity, the possibilities become even more open. Specifics on ideas for how to use these programs in maths lessons is my job for the next 5 weeks, so any ideas are greatly appreciated.