Mathematics

[|**//Max’s Math Adventures//**] is from Scholastic, and offers a variety of relatively simple math games. The key feature, though, that makes it so useful to elementary learners is that audio support is provided for much of the text. [|**//Learning Clip//**] provides a ton of free interactive math activities. First, students listen to a brief cartoon video explaining the concept (the British accent might make things difficult for some students). Then, users play games reinforcing the idea. You have to first register for the site. It’s worth a visit. They do have a notice, however, saying that some of their exercises will only be available for paid subscribers after January 16th, 2010. I hope most of them are still accessible for free. CyberChase from PBS has a great online [|**//talking calculator//**.]  It’s a perfect way for struggling learners to do their math and, through listening skills, developing their language abilities. The BBC has recently announced a new website in their exceptional “Bitesize” series. This one is called [|**//KS3 Bitesize//**]. It includes activities for Math, English and Science. What makes it truly exceptional is that all the neat exercises listed as an “Activity” on the site not only are very engaging and informative, but have subtitles which make them more accessible to students. [|**//Tutpup//**] is a new site where students can compete in math or spelling games against other students from around the world anonymously — either with a made-up name or no name at all. There are a number of sites where users can compete in learning games like these. The problem I’ve had with them is that there is no way to “level the playing the field.” In other words, an English Language Learner might be playing against a native-English speaker. A situation like that does not create much encouragement for an ELLer if they are going to lose all the time. However, the key difference between Tutpup and these other sites is that Tutpup has multiple levels of play to choose from going from extremely easy to extremely hard. This ability to choose your level helps a lot. Plus, there’s a teacher’s option that allows students to sign-up in a class and students choose to play online with their classmates. [|**//Math Moves U//**] is a pretty cool looking series of interactive math activities that would be accessible to elementary learners. [|**//Math Hunt//**] comes from Scholastic, and consists of many science and social studies related math problems. Users connect math to issues like sports, natural disasters, and ancient civilizations, and “hunt” for math answers among various resources. There are lots of opportunities for language-development in the process, too, and its accessible to elementary learners. [|**//Skool//**] is a great site for elementary learners. Go to the site and click on the menu at the top for Key Stage 3 or Key Stage 4. It will lead you to many excellent audio and animated lessons related to Science and Math. [|**//http://www.wrentham.k12.ma.us/C15/C19/Music/default.aspx//**]  provides activities to sing and show patterns. [|**//http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons///**] Provides a variety of math lessons.  [|**//http://www.northvalley.net/kids/science.shtml//**] Provides interactive games in math and science.  [|**//http://www.usmint.gov/kids/index.cfm?filecontents=kids/games//**] Provides games and information about money.  [|**//http://www.mathcats.com/explore/tessellationtown.html//**] Provides activities for tessellations. [|**//http://www.aaamath.com/B/patk2fma.htm//**] Provides math activities to find the missing number. [|**//http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/swfs/faf_grade2.html//**] Provides online games adding multiple numbers to equal a sum. It also involves some problem solving skills. [|**//http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/swfs/robopacker_grade2.html//**] Provides online activities that require flips, turns, and rotations to problem solve how a robot fits in a suitcase. Designed for grade two. [|**//http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/swfs/robopacker_grade1.html//**]<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> Provides online activities that require flips, turns, and rotations to problem solve how a robot fits in a suitcase. Designed for grade one. [|**//http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/swfs/faf_grade1.html//**]<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Provides online games adding multiple numbers to equal a sum. It also involves some problem solving skills. [|**//http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/swfs/rockhopper_grade2.html//**]<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Provides online activities using addition to hop the frog to the other side of the pond. [|**//http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/swfs/rockhopper_grade1.html//**]<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> Provides online activities using addition to hop the frog to the other side of the pond. <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"> [|**//http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/swfs/mathlingo_gradek.html//**]<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> Provides activities to match terms with definitions. [|**//http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/swfs/mathlingo_grade1.html//**]<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> Provides activities to match terms with definitions. [|**//http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/swfs/mathlingo_grade2.html//**]<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> Provides activities to match terms with definitions. [|**//http://k6educators.about.com/od/mathlessonplans/Math_Lesson_Plans_Activities_and_Ideas.htm//**]<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> Provides hundreds of lesson plans for teaching math in the elementary school. [|**//http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/math.html//**]<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> Provides a variety of lesson plans for grades k-6. Topics include numbers, patterns, and relations, geometry, and probability. [|**//http://www.sitesforteachers.com/resources_sharp/math/math.html//**]<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Provides a list of original math lesson plans created by teachers for grades k-12. [[http://www.coolmath.com/|

Cool Math]] [|Cool Math For Kids] [|Count On] []

[|SpeedMath Deluxe] - Use addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to solve an equation as quickly as possible! [|Speed Math - Addition and Subtraction] and [|SpeedMath - Multiplication and Division] are also available! [|SpeedMath - Inequalities] - How fast can you determine if one expression is greater than, less than, or equal to another? [|Mystery Math] - A math 'magic' trick that will astound your friends! [|The Nim Number Game] - Can you beat your friend, or the computer, in this game of logic? [|Place Value Game] - Use logic, strategy and a little luck to create the largest number that you can! [|Looking for the Top Quark] - Use coordinates to find your opponent's hidden quarks before they find yours!

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The goal is to get the red ball to the flag(s). To do this, the user draws shapes to design bridges and drops shapes from the sky to get the ball rolling. Clever users can create hinged pendulums and catapults to assist their efforts.



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<span class="style_2" style="line-height: 15px;">Getting started! <span class="style_1" style="line-height: 15px;">

1. <span class="style_1" style="line-height: 15px;">Go to [|http://magic.pen.fizzlebot.com]<span class="style_5" style="line-height: 16px;">/ 2. <span class="style_1" style="line-height: 15px;">Important - Ignore the links to other games and the advertisements on the page.

3. <span class="style_1" style="line-height: 15px;">Click the Play button between the two snowmen: (It may take a few seconds before the Play button appears.)



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4. Click the Play button on the next screen:



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5. <span class="style_1" style="line-height: 15px;">After going through the tutorial, begin with Level 1 and work your way up.