A Number of Things (my math education blog)
GAMES AND ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS
Mr. Abbey's Class
Number Cop (drive fast into multiples of a number)
Flower Power Lite (flowers grow, you put them in order)
Dolphin Racing (choose the largest fraction to move your dolphin)
Factor-tris (a tetris-like factor game)
Foundation / Additive / Place Value
BBC Hoot (addition/subtraction with subitizing, algebraic thinking, and three levels)
BBC Rounding Off (use your long, skinny arm to choose the answer)
BBC Mental Math (noisy, dramatic, and you are referred to as a "recruit")
Arrow Cards (online practice with place value)
Base Ten (build numbers with base ten blocks)
Busy Bees (how many went in the hive?)
Deep Sea Duel (create a target sum faster than Octa)
Diffy (subtraction)
Expanded Form (place value practice)
Give the Dog a Bone (100 chart game)
Number Bonds (choose 5, 10, 100 or other)
Place the Penguins (build numbers using tens and ones)
Space Shuttle (bridging through ten for addition)
Multiplication
Factor Capture (can play the computer or a partner)
Factor-tris (a tetris-like factor game)
Table Trees (multiplication fact practice with unknown in different places)
XtraMath (free math fact practice site that tracks student progress)
BBC Grid Game (factors and multiples)
Number Cop (drive fast into multiples, squares, etc.)
Fractions
Flower Power (order decimals, then fractions) or Flower Power Lite
Number Bonds Game (to 100, then to 1 using fractions, decimals)
Dolphin Racing (choose the largest fraction to move your dolphin)
Visual Fractions (fractions are better understood when seen)
Drop Zone at Calculation Nation (play as a guest)
BBC Builder Ted (ordering decimals)
Puzzles
KenKen Puzzles (great math/logic puzzles to solve online or on paper)
Set Puzzles (see sets of three if you can)
Algebraic Reasoning
Algebraic Reasoning Scales (fun!) or Weigh the Wangdoodles
BBC Equation Match (algebra)
Geometry
Rotating Houses (rotate the 3-D shape to match a 2-D shape)
Thinklets Building with Blocks
Make your own irregular polygons
Bridge Building
PBS Forces Lab
PBS Bridge Challenge
Shapes and Fractals
Sierpinski's Triangle and Tetrahedron
MAKE Magazine's Math Monday column
Mathematical Balloon Twisting
TEACHER REFERENCE AND TEACHING TOOLS
Test Yourself Math (challenging math questions from NY Times articles)
NCTM Challenge Problems
Wolfram Alpha (an innovative computation engine)
Math Stars (problem solving PDF newsletters)
Khan Academy (Watch videos. Practice. Free. Bill Gates gave him gobs of money.)
NECAP Released Items (excellent practice)
Interactive tool for the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics
Standards for Mathematical Practice
Who Has? Math Decks
VIDEOS
(TED) Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong
(TED) Robert Lang folds way-new origami
Vi Hart Doodling in Math Class
(TED) Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral
(TED) Dave McCandless: The beauty of data visualization
(TED) Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
(TED) Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality's riddle
Sesame Street 1 2 3 Count with Me (with math skit lesson plan)
FILMS
Hunting the Hidden Dimension (the discovery of fractals)
Independent Lens: Between the Folds (the art and science of paper folding)
OTHER BLOGS AND PAGES
math 4 love
Vi Hart
Stephen Strogatz on the Elements of Math (NY Times Opinionator Blog)
f(t)
Let's Play Math
Information is Beautiful
Professor Whiteford
Mathwire
My Math Arts pages (from Tim Whiteford's class) |
