Resources
Math Simulations - A ridiculous amount of math interactive games including stock market simulation
Math Game Templates for Powerpoint - Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Survivor, Family, and MORE!
Virtual Manipulatives – Online manipulatives separated by K-12 AND Standards! Coin Tossing,
Savings Calculator, box and whiskers, Geoboard, Algebra Tiles, Fractions, and so much more!)
Incompetech.com - Generate your own dimension graph paper! I recommend .75 & 30x30.
You can also generate number line worksheets , Line Paper, and Sudoku
Math.com - Calculators & tools (Circles, prime, quadratic equation, percent, probability calculator, savings calculator, sine,
cosine, tangent)
Quickmath.com – Algebra Calculator (Factor, simplifying, expanding, canceling), Plotting (quadratics, inequalities), Calculus, Matrices,
Percentages)
Prime Factors - Find prime factorization for numbers up to 102.
AskDrMath – Not sure how to teach or solve a problem? For students & teachers. Tons of examples and explanations of math
problems (K-12). FREE!!!
Mathforum.org – Lots of math tricks and techniques
Rubistar - Online rubric generators!
Math.com – Converters (Length, area, liquid, volume, velocity, energy, acceleration, mass, pressure, number base)
CDE Website - Last year's CAHSEE released questions for math
Eyelid – Egyptian math (fun way to learn)
Mathsyear2000 – Sudoku
ABCTeach - Certificates, desk tags, flashbards, forms, postcards, word walls, badges, bookmarks, and much more.
Webquest anything by typing in topic and “webquest” in
search engine. Click here for an example of a Google search of "integers webquest."
Games & Online Quizzes
Lure of the Labyrinth - is a cooperative online that addresse 7th/8th grade math standards. It's pretty fun to work through the math puzzles,
and this way you can see what playing as a student is like and how you can collaborate with other "students".
Here are links to lesson plans and their connections to the National Standards:
http://labyrinth.thinkport.org/www/educators/resources/lessons.php
http://labyrinth.thinkport.org/www/educators/resources/standards.php
http://calculationnation.nctm.org/ - Another wonderful NCTM online math game where you can challenge others using fractions, factors and more!
Learningplanet - multi-player basic four operations interactive games, lemonade stand, and all of the following:
Subtraction Blast
http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-subtraction-blast/index.html
Math Man
http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-math-man/index.html
Make 15
http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-make15/index.html
Bridge Crossing
http://www.coolmath-games.com/Logic-bridgecrossing/index.html
Sheep Crossing
http://www.coolmath-games.com/Logic-wolfsheepcabbage/index.html
Blox
http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-bloxorz/index.html
Castle Defense
http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-castledefense/index.html
Identifying negative numbers
http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-numberballs/index.html
Academic Skill Builders - multi-player games with four operations, fractions & ratios (AWESOME SITE!)
Cool Math 4 Kids - Make 10s,
http://members.learningplanet.com/act/count/free.asp Skip Counting Games
http://www.calhoun.k12.al.us/se/SE%20Webpage_files/Page2026.htm Great website with LOTS of resources
Sheppard's Software - Place Value
Large Numbers - Visual with pennies
UEN - Lots of Games separated by grade level
A+ Math.com - Hidden
Picture & Concentration (Addition, multiplication, division, subtraction) * Multipilication
A+ Math.com – Flashcards (Addition, multiplication, division, subtraction)
Game Aquarium – Tons of fraction games (Pizza Party)
Game Aquarium – Tons of Geometry games (Acute, Obtuse Angles)
Quia - 1 to 2 players (roman numerals, square roots, mean, median, mode, decimals and more.
Kidport – K-8 Math games/questions
Amblesideprimary – Great for measuring angles!
STFX – Word Problems (Grades 5 – 12)
Shodor – Interactive activities with Number/Operation concepts, Geometry/Measurement concepts,
Function and Algebra Concepts, Probability and Data Analysis Concepts
Coordinates
Dice Car
Rocket launching
Kidport - Neat site for learning numbers 1-10
Heads or tails
Rocket 2 dice
Timez Attack – Free Download (open up new e-mail)
Counters & Statistics
Websites with statistics are full of numbers and social issues that can make for
amazing lesson plans and discussions! I once did a lesson on Shaq vs. Kobe Bryant using NBA stats that lasted for over 3 months.
During that time, the kids were completely engaged and I covered all of the standards I needed to cover. We even did
a "Are you a better free throw shooter than Shaq?" tournament where kids had to convert fractions to percentages.
Here
is a sample of some of the thought provoking questions that I've used to create math lesson plans:
Did you know that African-Americans are two and a half times more likely to live
in poverty?
Did you know
that women make less money than men in EVERY industry?
How many people do you think will die from AIDS today?
What is the crime rate in your neighborheard?
Internet Counters: - How many of anything happening at any given moment
AIDS Counter - Informational
Bill Gates Lesson - #4, #23, #17, #15, #14, #9
Lifespan Countdown – Smoker vs. Non-Smoker (Nutrition Network, counting to a billion)
Population Growth: Counter for population
NBA - Statistics of basketball players
MLB - Statistics of baseball players
NFL - Statistics of football players
Prison Population – Counter + Race statistics (Social Issues)
US Census: Search city for ethnicity breakdown
Population finder – state, city or zip code
American Fact finder – Statistics of different races race
Education - median money based on education (M VS F)
Education Attainment – Male vs. Female & poverty levels + median income
Employment – Male vs. Female (education)
Poverty – By race
Compare Crime Rate
Google Maps – Satellite picture
EPA – Search your community for toxic sites
Megan’s Law – Sex Offenders
