Showing posts with label math resources. Show all posts
Showing posts with label math resources. Show all posts

Excellent Apps and Tools to Enhance Math Understanding

December, 2014
Technology offers a myriad of ways to learn, practice, and understand math. Math manipulatives, videos, games, interactive simulations, physical activities - all can help reinforce a deep conceptual understanding.


Understanding Math 
 Teaches children fluency in multiplication and division from 1 to 100.­ Start working with this great tool today!
 A whole lot of videos about numbers, from pi to googolplex to Graham's number.
 A whole lot of math games, organized by grades, skills, and Common Core State Standards.
 Play with interactive math and science simulations to gain a visual understanding of these concepts.
Create and print cardboard templates that can be folded into figures and objects.

Want more? Check out these collections of tools.
Apps to Promote Mathematical Thinking 
This is curated by elementary school teacher Glenda Stewart-Smith.
This one is curated by assistant technology coordinator Gwen Johnson.

7 Excellent Pinterest Boards for Elementary Math Teachers

September 19, 2014
Today I spent some time sifting through my bookmarks to compile for you the list below. This is a collection of some awesome Pinterest boards for math teachers. The resources and other materials  you will find in these boards are all ideal for elementary students. I am also preparing another list for high school math students. Browse through the pages below and I am pretty sure you will find tons of resources to use with your students in class.

1-Classroom Math

Classroom Math has almost two thousands pins featuring a wide variety of math materials such as printables, charts, math websites, games and many more.

2- 1st Grade


As its name indicate, 1st Grade is a Pinterest board devoted to everything related to the teaching of math for the first graders.

3- Learning Math


Learning Math is another excellent board packed full of materials to help you teach math to your primary students

4- 1/2 Grade


This board features math resources for first and second  grades.

5- Math Ideas


Looking for some creative and innovative ideas to teach math? This board has over thousand pins to help you out.

6-Math

This is another good resource for math teachers. It contains a wide vareity of math printables, interactives, games, activities and links to some useful pages.

7- Math Elementary


Math Elementary  has over six hundred resources to help you with teaching math to your elementary students.

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Over 4,000 Free Resources and Lesson Plans for Math Teachers

August 16, 2014
Open Curriculum is a new web platform that provides a wide variety of lesson plans and other educational materials related to teaching Math. Similar to the concept of Graphite, several of the materials you will find on Open Curriculum have been curated by teachers and educators. Teachers can also register for free and start building a community around the materials they share. Registered users can use the lesson planner to create their own lesson plans and upload their materials to share with others.


Open Curriculum is also planning to add resources for teaching  Science and English Language. To access lesson plans and other materials on Mathematics, click on the "Mathematics" section and then select a grade level for a list of topic areas.

Courtesy of Larry Ferlazzo

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