Student Links and Resources - by Skill Groups

Note that *** recognizes best-in-group websites

Place Value

• For base 10 understanding
• Shows numbers line and base 10 blocks together***
• Looking at numbers in expanded form
• This website deals with ordering big and small numbers
• Making bigger and smaller numbers on computer
• Rounding activity that you can make easy and harder

Basic facts

• Great simple counting activities (you pick what you want to count by)
• Practices any fact and at your choice of difficulty***
• Another site for specific fact practice
• Great activity to practice number sense

Operations (+,-, x, /)

• Younger grades subtraction activity
• Great basic addition practice
• Shows lattice multiplication in an easy to follow way***

Fractions

• More great visual to help students see fractions
• Fractions games- good after lesson games***
• Great activity for understanding fractions
• Videos on fractions (the videos has visuals to help with understanding).

Geometry

• Lots of sorting shapes GAMES***
• Enhances geometry thinking with real world examples (Geometry garden) Also look at activities and links for specific activities
• Fun coordinate grid GAME***

Algebra

• Cool game to practice math thinking***
• Visually shows how to solve for x (upper grades)

Problem Solving

• Videos going step by step through word problems***

Measurement

• Great visuals for teaching time***
• Cool site to help explain protractosr and measurement

Statistics and Data

• Virtual dice can be thrown
• Students can create and edit their own graphs

Math Modeling/Virtual manipulative to help overall understanding

• Great activity for k-2 (counting and adding)***
• Great manipulative especially with comparing fractions
• Understanding a number line***
• Decimal visual with pattern blocks
• Manipulative from EM site
• Great manipulatives: fraction bars, prime factorization, and equations***

Great online resources if you need math help

• You can get questions answered by looking up specific topic
• Contains short animations to promote a visual approach to mathematics.
• Search a specific skill and the videos are really well done***

Games to play

• Great games by grade level. Same games as the math journal, but online***
• Great games and activities especially for younger grades***
• Games to play by grade level
• Math thinking for all grades- sorting numbers, etc. (Love this site- more critically thinking)***
• Great games by skill
• Moving around the number line game***
• More sorting activities
• All great multiplication GAMES to practice facts

Identifying Similarities and Differences

• Graphic Organizers
• Analogies
• Venn Diagrams

Summarizing and Notetaking

• Idea Organization

Rubrics

• Skimming and Scanning