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100th Day of School Celebration!
This web page is suitable for K-2 students and provides many estimation and counting activities. It addresses several expectations from the Measurement strand: height, length, money, time, and capacity. It also connects to other curriculum areas: Phys. Ed., Music, Language Arts.
Helping your Child Learn Math
A great site for parents with lesson plans and activities such as: Fill It Up, Fractured Fractions, Money's Worth, In the News, Simply Symetrical; all these designed to help children relate math to their personal lives.
Math Lesson Plans
This is divided into three segments- K-5, 6-8, 9-12, and addresses all strands. Each lesson plan consists of grade level, strand, an overview, objectives, materials needed, procedures, and some encouraging students to talk and write about what they have learned
Mathematics Clarifying the TEKS
This supports investigations and co-operative group work and is suitable for 1-8, including grades 9-10. Although it lacks an assessment rubric, it includes assessment tasks and extensions and consists of guiding and summary questions which could be used as sources for student communication but that are implicit rather than explicit in the directions.
Patterns in Mathematics
As mathematics is often thought of as the science of patterns, patterns are a unifying theme in school mathematics. This primary/junior site has activities where students will explore three pattern categories: logic, number & word. For each category, an introduction outlines the rational for teaching the topic, briefly describes 2 activities, explains the relationship of the activities to different grade levels, and connects the topic to N.C.T.M. standards.
Teachers Helping Teachers
Dr. Mandel's Mathematics "Teachers Helping Teachers" website designed to share ideas that can be immediately implemented into the classroom and to provide new ideas in teaching methodologies.
4th and 5th Grade Student research Resources
This looks like a fabulous site with many different self contained sites included. This site is an excellent resource for all subjects.
Academy Curricular Exchange
There are 32 pages linked to this page. Each one consists of a consistently laid out lesson plan, with suggested grade level, materials needed, procedures, purpose and extensions (tying it all together). Each lesson is very practical, with class procedures laid out in detail. There is a wide variety of math subjects covered, with most suggested for multi-grade levels.
AAAMath
This interactive K-8 site addresses all strands and includes an explanation of the math topic and practice questions. A correct answer is given if an error is made.
AskERIC Math Lesson Plans: Mathematics
K-12 lesson plans categorized by subject: Algebra, Applied Math, Arithmetic, Functions, Geometry, Measurement, Probability, Process skills, and Statistics. "Math mini-lessons" for elementary (K-5), intermediate (6-8), and high school (9-12) level students.
BBC Education-Maths File-Games Wheel
An interactive, fun site where each game/print-off explores areas of the U.K's National Curriculum. Strands are similar to Ontario's, but games are only available if you install the free, (takes 20 min.) Shockwave plug-in.The "Animal Weigh in" game may be confusing, (makes conversions between pounds and kilograms, kilograms and stone), and the money symbol is L (pound).
Click on the Bricks
Suitable for early primary students, this interactive site uses visuals of "bricks" to show arrays. It investigates multiplication facts from 1 to 4. The instructional page makes the connection between addition and multiplication. Also includes 16 practice problems and if a mistake is made, the student is taken to a hint page.
Coolmath4kids.com
Very colourful site filled with fun interactive activities. Teaches kids about geometry, fractals, and how doing math can be fun!
FunBrain.com
This is an interactive site for grades 1- 12, and a grid makes it easy to find an appropriate game for a specific grade level. Each game has 3 - 4 levels of difficulty.
Harcourt Animated Math Glossary
This has a very complete glossary of math terms for each grade level, 1-8. In the primary grades, the term is accompanied by a visual and/or very brief definition, and in junior/intermediate grades, the term is accompanied by a description and examples.
Harcourt Math Advantage
This site requires the "shock wave" plug-in, and is suitable for grades 1-8. Most strands are represented except Data Management and Probability. It includes an Animated Math Glossary appropriate for each grade level. NOTE: I could not access the following: 1.Carnival Cars (K,1) 2.Count Along to 100 (K) 3.Number Line Express (1,2,3) 4.Addition Surprise (1,2) 5.Multiplication Mystery (3,4) 6.Dr. Gee's 3-D Lab (3,4,5,6) 7.Captain Knick Knack (3,4) 8.Fraction Man (4,5,6) 9.Cargo Bay (6,7,8) 10.Robot Studio (6,7,8).
Helping Your Child Learn Math
A great site for parents with lesson plans and activities such as: Fill It Up, Fractured Fractions, Money's Worth, In the News, Simply Symetrical; all these designed to help children relate math to their personal lives.This is very similar to site 3 above.
The Internet Mathematics Library
Links to sites for all strands of mathematics and all ages. Teaching strategies, educational materials, lesson plans, etc.
The Math Forum
This site contains resources for all strands and grade levels including discussion groups, problems of the week, units and lessons. The Mathematics Education page deals with key issues; including articles that deal with Assessment, Collaborative Learning, Interdisciplinary Math and Technology in Math Education.
The Math Forum Ask Dr. Math
This is a question and answer service for math students and their teacher with a searchable archive available organized by level and topic. It includes summaries of frequently asked questions, and includes Problem of the Week archives with non-routine challenges for students in grades 3-12. Each week several well-written student solutions are highlighted.
The Math Forum - Elementary School Student Center
This page contains problems, activities, and projects for elementary math students. Many links and references to mailing lists and newsgroups to talk to other kids about math.
Math Goodies: Free Interactive Math Lessons
These 54 interactive math lessons grouped in 8 modules actively engage students in the learning process and provide them with immediate feedback. Each lesson provides examples with solution, definitions and explanation and at the end of each module challenge exercises are included and could be used to assess understanding of module concepts. It addresses all strands except geometry.
Math Word Problems for Children
This site includes thematic word problems (some are American-based) as well as word problems based on children's books. (2 levels &endash; Grades 1-3, Grades 3+ to 5). It also includes sets of word problems organized by topic for each grade level including answers. Gr. 1 basic operation problems include pictures; Gd.2&3 problems address most strands; Gd.3&4, 5&6 problems make a connection to other subject areas. Students are asked to explain and show their work.
Top Math Kids
Here are resources for K-3 which address all strands. It contains ideas, background information for teachers, and worksheets for student use.
Webmath at Discovery School
An excellent site for exploring, interactively, all areas of math. Good explanations and graphics help the learner to better understand. A teacher could easily print out and example to better illustrate concepts.