Stark School Mathematics: February 2013

Links to Websites and Resources

Links to Websites and Resources

Just click on “ctrl+ the link” to open each one, then click on favorites in the toolbar and add to favorites. Or better yet, invite me in, and I’ll show you how to add them to your opening tabs!

These are just some from my home computer’s favorites links. As I add more, I’ll send them.

Crickweb

An English website, with free downloadable Promethean activities. Click on Extras tab. Kid favorites are Sweet shop and Number Balance. Hundred Square here is excellent, too!

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/

Arcademic Skills

Arcade website, where students can play each other. Make a private game.

http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/

Multiplication.com

Loads of multiplication practice games.

http://multiplication.com/interactive_games.htm

Another English website, over ten years old, which continues to make great activities and resources, but you need to look around.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Games/educational/index.html

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

Website, also downloadable to run from your computer. Dedicated to math resources, especially focused on NCTM’s national standards. Free.

http://nlvm.usu.edu/

Illuminations

Nat. Council of Teachers of Mathematics resources.

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivitySearch.aspx

Specifically, look for Bobbie Bear. This clothing activity begins strand 25 Mathematical Applications.

Free Math Resources for Interactive Whiteboard

(It’s a teaser to get you to buy their other resources, but these are free.)

http://www.mathsframe.co.uk/free_resources.asp

My Old Blog

Not often updated, but someplace I like to put good links I find. Look in the earlier months last year.

http://starktitle1math.blogspot.com/

Clock Games

A great JUDY clock for teaching!!!

http://www.mrmyers.org/Math_Mania/Math_Games/Jude_e-Clock/clock.htm

Similar

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/ClassClock/clockres.html

Matching (excellent, kids love it, has different levels, starts with R, then 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

To the hour

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthecR.html

To ½ hour

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthec1.html

To 15 min.

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthec2.html

To 5 min.

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthec3.html

To 1 min.

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthec4.html

To 1 min.

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/StopTheClock/sthec5.html

Clock Races!! Lots of fun!!

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/BangOnTime/clockwordres.html

Neat site to look at clock faces. Check out the internal clocks.

Chris's Virtual Clock and Watch Collection

http://www.csmith.info/clocks/

http://www.csmith.info/clocks/internalworks/index.htm

LITERACY

Raz-Kids

This is a great pay-site with literature books for online-onscreen read-alouds. Check out the free samples:

http://www.raz-kids.com/

Timez Attack! Links

This website is the place where you download a FREE 3-D video game. Made by Playstation game developers for their own children, it was so good it took on a life of its own. Now they have a division game and an addition/subtraction game (that reminds me of AVATAR the movie, the graphics are that good).

They give away a free version, hoping parents will see the value and upgrade to the paid version. It is worth the money.

Remember, this game TEACHES multiplication, rather than practices it.

http://www.BigBrainz.com
Download the school version, and teachers can see your child’s results. Use the home version if your internet connection is weak. The home version does not need to be Internet connected, the School version does.

Dreambox Learning

Dreambox Learning is a pay site that uses adaptive learning, i.e. the computer responds to right and wrong answers and adjusts the questions accordingly. It is around twenty dollars, and many people like it and speak highly of it.

http://www.dreambox.com/
Common Core Links

Within a few years, Connecticut and 47 other states will be migrating to Common Standards among all states. While it matches our current standards (80% in L.Arts, 92% math), Conn. will be changing CMT to match it in 2014-2015. Connecticut is part of the Smarter Balanced consortium, one of the two creating the tests.

http://www.smarterbalanced.org/

http://www.corestandards.org/in-the-states

An Ohio Common Core resource

http://www.trumbull.k12.oh.us/teachers/COS/default.htm

Internet Portals

These are websites with a collection of links to other websites. Also called gateway sites.

Internet4Classrooms.com

Good site with ads, but lots of links under every topic.

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/grade_level_help.htm

Clock resources

http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/math-time.html

Global Classroom

A technology teacher’s collection

http://www.globalclassroom.org/ecell00/javamath.html

Learn-With_Math_Games

Both online and off.

http://www.learn-with-math-games.com/index.html
IXL

(A pay-site someone mentioned)

http://www.ixl.com/

Old Favorites

Everyday Math

https://www.everydaymathonline.com/

Promethean Planet

http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en-us/

i-Tunes

Here’s the phrase to search with on I-Tunes:

Promethean Planet – Activtips

(I found 131 How To videos last night, all between 1 minute and six minutes. Don’t watch them all. Just look them over and start with topics you know a little about.)

Fruity Fractions: Websites to Try Out

Crickweb-

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/
A website with lots of resources especially interactive, Flash-based games. Use the search function.

Recommended: Ordering Fractions game.

Math Playground-

http://www.mathplayground.com/mathvideos.html

This website has videos that explain procedures, step by step. Geared for younger students.

Khan Academy-

http://www.khanacademy.org/
A website filled with short videos that explain how to do also anything in the upper school curriculum.

http://www.kidsmathgamesonline.com/

http://www.coolmath-games.com/

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm

http://www.uen.org/k-2interactives/math.shtml

Internet 4 Classrooms-

An Internet Portal

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/

This is a collection of links to many games and topics, arranged by subject and grade level.

www.Google.com

type in “Interactive” and the topic or objective

(i.e., interactive adding fractions has 926,000 websites!)

www.Youtube.com and www.Zuitube.com
Videos and demonstrations

http://illuminations.nctm.org/

A website of flash activities by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)

http://www.figurethis.org/index.html
Math Challenge for Families, a site with puzzles and problems for kids and parents from NCTM.org

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=11

http://visualfractions.com/IdentifyCircles/identifycircles.html

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/bowling_for_fractions/

For more information, please contact me at PeterMKinahan@gmail.com or (203) 918-2755

Division Websites

Long Division Pages

Snork- Catchy quick music, question prompts, simple problems. Excellent start.

http://www.kidsnumbers.com/long-division.php

Soft Schools. Sound cues, but lots of ads.

http://www.softschools.com/math/division/long_division/

Adjustable, and on a clean white background, no ads.

http://www.thegreatmartinicompany.com/longarithmetic/longdivision.html

-Change the problem type by changing the XX)xx frame by clicking.

Math Portals