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<\/h1>\n<\/h1>\n“100% Free, Personalized Learning for Every Student”<\/em>.\u00a0Sounds like a hefty claim, I know, but these folks at cK-12 seem to know what they’re doing! cK-12 is an amazing resource for Math and Science so it feel it eminently appropriate for sharing here \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n As you can see below, cK-12 offers up free<\/strong>, online textbooks for most major math and science topics up to, and sometimes above, high school level:<\/p>\n Each topics tends to have a “Concepts” section, an accompanying “FlexBook Textbook” (which is essentially a build-your-own-textbook tool for students and teachers), and PLIX – P<\/strong>lay, L<\/strong>earn, I<\/strong>nteract and X<\/strong>plore. PLIX is very cool, and does what it says on the box, so to speak; allows students to learn through exploration and interaction with topics in an extremely visual way.<\/p>\n Take Trigonometry for example. A student could explore a PLIX related to the topic they’re struggling with, such as inverse trig functions, and it will not only visualize the situation but also give them small topic-related practice problems. It’s quite a powerful tool. See below for a little taste:<\/p>\n There are a massive number of these PLIX tools for each subject. Essentially it’s just a matter of finding what you’re looking for, vetting it for content and quality as well as how appropriate it is for use with your particular students, and away you go.<\/p>\n All in all cK-12 is an extremely useful resources offering up a number of tools absolutely free, with the only hurdle being that you need to create an account to take full advantage of its features. I recommend you give it a try (what ya got to lose, right?) and I hope you find it as useful as I do. Enjoy!<\/p>\n Scott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “100% Free, Personalized Learning for Every Student”.\u00a0Sounds like a hefty claim, I know, but these folks at cK-12 seem to know what they’re doing! cK-12 is an amazing resource for Math and Science so it feel it eminently appropriate for sharing here \ud83d\ude42 As you can see below, cK-12 offers up free, online textbooks for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44953,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669394],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-sharing-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5936,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931\/revisions\/5936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/files\/2018\/04\/ck12-topics.png\")
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