Maths and Stats by Email | Symmetry

Maths and Stats by Email | Symmetry:

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Basic Number Properties: Associative, Commutative, and Distributive

Basic Number Properties: Associative, Commutative, and Distributive:

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Math is Fun - Maths Resources

Math is Fun - Maths Resources:

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Free Math Worksheets

Free Math Worksheets:  This site has more than 13,000 math practice worksheets with answer keys - free!

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Teens Get Math and Science Help at Alleyoop

Teens Get Math and Science Help at Alleyoop:
Alleyoop offers free practice activities (problems automatically adjust as you master new concepts) and videos that demonstrate many different math strategies!'via Blog this'

Math Munch

Math Munch: This blog was recommended by a teacher on the BetterLesson website- this is a weekly blog with lots of links to cool math sites, games and news.  Definitely worth a look!

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Maths and Stats by Email 28 August 2012

Maths and Stats by Email 28 August 2012:  Math - keeps our highways safe? Yes! Check out this week's brain teaser and try a pen/paper game that is similar to Battleship!

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Maths and Stats by Email - 14 August 2012

Maths and Stats by Email - 14 August 2012: Fibonacci! The golden ratio in nature = check it out! This is suitable to share with students and is quite interesting!

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National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives:
Wendy showed me this website today - it has virtual math manipulatives (perfect for smart boards!) sorted by grade level and topic.  It was really helpful with visualizing shading in fractions of geometric areas.

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Bedtime Math

I heard a segment on NPR that spoke about a mother who gave her children mental (or not) math problems at bedtime each night. Here is the link to the NPR segment: http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=157644780
The math problems help her children focus and settle down. When her friends showed interest in sharing the same practice with their children, she (Laura Overdeck) created a website. Here is the link to the Bedtime Math website: http://bedtimemathproblem.org/about-us/how-we-started/
This is aimed for young and older children and there are two or three levels presented each day. I might implement this each day with my class as a morning warm-up. Given the variations, Ms. Overdeck presents, I can differentiate for skill levels. Another possibility is to sell this idea to parents, but I suspect that children with enriching home environments would be involved, but children with little academic support at home would not. I want to reach all my students.

Partitive vs Quotative word problems

Is anyone else having a hard time writing the word problems for problem set 3 pg 306? I understand the concept, but for some reason it has been really difficult to come up with a word problem that works. I did numbers 1 & 4. For number 4, for a Quotative problem, I used the following: Brenda walks 3 miles every day. Brenda has walked a total of 21 miles. How many days has Brenda walked? 21 miles/3 miles per day= 7 days. And for partitive I came up with Brenda needs to walk 30 miles in 10 days. How many miles will Brenda need to walk per day in order to reach her goal? 30 miles/10 days=3 miles per day. I had originally written the first problem to represent a Quotative problem but the quotient was expressed as a complex noun (objects per group) so I revised my answer. Is this correct now??

Explore Lessons | LearnZillion

Explore Lessons | LearnZillion: Teachers around the country are building a bank of common core lessons - sorted by topic and grade level.  So far, they have math lessons posted for grades 3-12 and they are sorted by domains and standards.  LearnZillion started at the E.L. Haynes Public Charter School - it combines video lessons, assessments and progress reporting.  You can add lessons by standard, assign them for homework, and be notified of your students' results after they take a post homework quiz.  You can also differentiate instruction for students who are above or below grade level.

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Maths and Stats by Email

Maths and Stats by Email:  I subscribe to Science by Email - a very cool Australian website and they had a post on this month's newsletter about Math and Stats - a newsletter that contains a news story, a hands-on activity, brainteasers and more.  Free and cool! G'day!

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Making Mathematicians

Author Holly Young's website Making Mathematicians: offers free lessons, activities, constructed response questions that can be used in Math, English and Science (writing prompts), probability & statistics lessons and activities and more! I've used the WritingFix website for getting ideas for language arts lessons - it would also be a good site to check out if you are looking for some writing across the curriculum ideas.

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Toy Theater - Math

Toy Theater - Math:  Toy Theater focuses on skills needed for younger students

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Rader's NUMBERNUT.COM

Rader's NUMBERNUT.COM:  Number Nut is more of an online quiz site than a game site but is great for practice - factores, variables, graphs, square roots... as well as more basic topics - numbers, shapes, telling time, etc... also free!

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FunBrain.com - Kids Center

FunBrain.com - Kids Center:  K-8 site arranged by grade - free games for math and other subjects as well!
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Math games

Math games:  Manga High is free - it allows you to set up a class account where you can track their progress.  It could be used for enrichment and appears to be very popular with students!  Students can also use the site to play math games without logging in or having a teacher created account.

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Math Game Time - Free Math Games, Videos & Worksheets for Kids, Parents & Teachers

Math Game Time - Free Math Games, Videos & Worksheets for Kids, Parents & Teachers:  This site offers online interactive games, videos, math worksheets, etc... for grades K-7.

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www.multiplication.com

www.multiplication.com:  This site is all about multiplication and it offers many free games to practice and achieve multiplication mastery!

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Illuminations: Activities

Illuminations: Activities:
This is from the NCTM site and they have 108 online activities for grades k-12.  They are free!  You can also create custom activity sheets for your classroom - nets, tessellations and more!
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Math is Fun - Maths Resources

Math is Fun - Maths Resources:  games, a dictionary, worksheets, puzzles.  They offer quite a few topics - money, measurement, data, geometry, algrebra...

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Arcademic Skill Builders: Online Educational Games

Arcademic Skill Builders: Online Educational Games:  The games are free - some are available for iPad and they have tracking for teachers, but I think that there may be a fee associated with the tracking.

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Hooda Math

Hooda Math:  Games, videos and more - grades k-8 and they are all free!

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Welcome!

This blog has been created so the members of our Intel Math class can share thoughts, math related websites and ask for help if needed. The first 32 hours of class were intense!