AAA Math
This site has practice activities for many math topics for grades kindergarten through 8. For each topic, it gives an explanation and a timed practice activity. Reports of results can be viewed and printed. Some activities are available only on a CD, which must be purchased, but many are available on the website for free.
Grade Levels • Elementary • Middle school
Advertising: None, but they sell a CD of activities
www.aaamath.com/MathVIDS
coe.jmu.edu/mathvidsr/Default.htm
Developed by David Allsopp and his associates, MathVIDS is designed to help teachers in teaching math concepts and skills to students who are struggling. It provides detailed descriptions of the research-supported instructional strategies used with their program, as well as an overview of research on math disabilities and metacognitive strategies. Lesson plans are detailed and include different levels of scaffolding. Video clips serve as models for many of the lessons.
How They Address Standards Number and Operations. The lessons cover basic number and operations concepts and skills from kindergarten through fifth grade.
How to Use The authors suggest that the website can be used short-term for specific lessons as well as long-term as a professional development activity.
Project Interactivate
www.shodor.org/master/interactivate/
Project Interactivate is developed and maintained by Shodor Educational Foundation, a non-profit education and research organization that focuses on developing valid models to support understanding. It includes over 100 interactive tools and activities that allow students to explore mathematics. Tools and activities are categorized by math content (number and operations, geometry and measurement, function and algebra, and data analysis and probability). All include explanations of how to use them in teaching and why the activity is useful. Many are incorporated into lesson plans that are also available, and some of these include downloadable worksheets to use in lesson. Also included is a discussion section that models how to introduce or explains different concepts to students. An online dictionary provides definitions and links to relevant discussions.
Grade Levels
- • Elementary
- • Middle school
- • High school
Advertising: None
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics
matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/index.html
Developed at Utah State University and funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is a library of web-based interactive virtual manipulatives and concept tutorials. Manipulatives are sorted by grade level and math content area, and each manipulative includes instructions, suggested activities, lesson plans, and connection to relevant NCTM standards. The manipulatives include some that are commonly used in teaching (base 10 blocks, pattern blocks, and algebra blocks).
Grade Levels • Elementary • Middle school • High school
Cyberchase for Parents and Teachers
pbskids.org/cyberchase/parentsteachers/lessons.html
This website, created by the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, is designed to accompany Cyberchase, a television series designed to teach math concepts to students ages 8 to 12 in an engaging way. The website for parents and teachers includes online games, lesson plans, and print-based activities, all of which are linked to NCTM standards. All standards are covered except Communication and Connections. A wide variety of activities and lessons are available to use as an adjunct to the curriculum. The lesson plans include a downloadable teacher's guide, and the downloadable print activities are available in both English and Spanish. The site recommends grades 3 to 5 or ages 8 to 12.
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