Plus 7-3-2014: Make Math a Game

 

Make Math a Game is devoted to helping people, both kids and adults, improve their math skills while having a good math experience.

 

Browse the Make Math a Game blog for ideas that can improve your math ability. The free website helps you understand the basics and alleviate confusion so that math becomes fun. The goal is to "give help to kids, teens, and adults who want to get better at math – and it doesn’t matter what your current math level is!”

 

In addition to the blog, there are sections on Math Concepts, Practice, Everyday Math, Math Tricks and Teasers, as well as special featured items.

 

 

The philosophy of Make Math a Game is that you can do math better with practice and the practice will be easier if it is fun.

 

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Featured: 1-28-2014 MathDisk

Create your own worksheets to visualize, interact with, and explore mathematics with MathDisk online.

 

MathDisk lets teachers and students explore mathematics in an engaging and interactive way with Natural Math notation, so students can simply type the expressions as they see them in their textbooks. 

 

MathDisk features:

• Type textbook expressions without any need for specialized syntax.
• Use drag-and-drop expressions to easily build 2-D and 3-D graphs.
• Enrich your math worksheet with rich multimedia, such as image effects and videos.
• Explore and correlate math and physics.
• Use step-by-step animation with narration to explain complex concepts.
• Easily share or embed worksheets online.

 

 

MiBook - Math Interactive Book runs on your desktop and is intended for offline use. It incorporates all the features of the online version of MathDisk along with built-in ebook features to customize your products. Create and organize your worksheets into pages, chapters, and books. Import worksheets from web into your local MiBook application. Browse your worksheets offline, edit them, and create new ones anytime.

 

Experience interactive math on tablets incorporating rich user interface elements and high definition mathematical graphs that capitalize on cutting edge 3-D capabilities. The MiBook Explorer apps are available for both Android and iOS.

 

 See an introduction to MathDisk 3.0 

 

MathDisk is a small, self-funded, start-up company which began with a passion for mathematics and an "idea that high-end mathematical software tools should be simple for novice users-like educators and students-to create content, collaborate, and learn effectively."

 

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Featured: 1-14-2014 Nutmeg Education

Nutmeg Education is designed to give teachers an easy way to assess, track and improve student performance and build better Common Core assessments.

Create assessments with questions from Nutmeg Education's repository, or create your own questions. Pick from or create multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank or true/false questions. In the works are auto-generated questions and “interactive” questions, such as responding by clicking on a point in the coordinate plan.

The Live Resource Bank is a collection of Common Core aligned videos, games, and worksheets that can be attached to an assessment. The related Common Core standard appears to students below each question in their quiz results. All of the items in the bank come from free online websites and Open Education Resources  All are rated by teachers and sorted with the best, most-used resources at the top.

  

Students will be sent login details and “New Assessment” notifications via email. Students can take assessments with any web-connected device, or even with paper/pencil.

Students with access to an iOS device can use this free Nutmeg Education app to take your assessments. Students get immediate feedback and access to free tutorials and resources to improve.

 

 

Nutmeg Education supports learning by providing you with data and insights on students' Common Core understanding. 

 

Watch Nutmeg Education: Fostering a National Teacher Community

 

Early adopters will get Nutmeg Education completely free for one year. In a few months, new users will start to be charged for full access to the site.

 

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Extra: 12-26-2013 The Grain Chain

grainchain.com is a comprehensive educational resource providing a wide selection of teaching materials exploring farming, food, and healthy eating within the context of the wheat growing and flour milling industry. 

 

grainchain.com is a resource to enable teachers and parents to inform children about the story of grain-based food - from farm to mill to plate. Find teaching materials, worksheets, videos, quizzes, recipes and activities about farming, milling, and baking. 

 

 Watch The Grain Chain: An introduction

Browse lesson plans by age and topic. Each topic provides a full lesson plan plus other ideas for lesson structure, content, and discussion. Search the database to find resources, worksheets, and videos to supplement your lesson.

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Extra: 12-23-2013 Problem-Attic

Problem-Attic makes a large body of questions available for free to the education community, for personalized learning and teaching. 

 

Tens of thousands of questions from a variety of sources including the NY Regents, state assessments, NAEP and TIMSS, and three NC math contest organizations can be found at Problem-Attic.

 

 

All of the questions are in a database, organized by topic, and individually selectable and re-formattable. They can be inserted into all kinds of new documents: tests and quizzes, worksheets, flash cards, and slides. 

 

 View Welcome to Problem-Attic!

Problem-Attic is a product of EducAide Software, which has a long history of developing question banks and other teaching/testing tools. 

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Featured: 11-5-2013 Wolfram Problem Generator

Wolfram Problem Generator makes problems on the fly instead of pulling them out of a database, so you can have new practice problems and worksheets in each practice session.

Wolfram Problem Generator offers beginner, intermediate, and advanced difficulty levels for a number of topics including arithmetic, algebra, statistics, number theory, and more. 

Wolfram Problem Generator's online math practice problems offer hints and integrated step-by-step solutions.

Wolfram Problem Generator directly integrates the powerful step-by-step solutions from Wolfram|Alpha. You can use a single hint to get on track, or explore the entire problem.

You can also create printable worksheets and answer keys for study sessions and quizzes. 

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Featured: 8-21-2013 BusyTeacher

BusyTeacher is a place where English teachers share their printable worksheets, lesson plans, and other lesson activities with colleagues for free.

BusyTeacher serves up more than 10,000 downloadable, printable worksheets created by real teachers for teachers. The worksheets are categorized by topics such as grammar, listening, speaking, vocabulary, and more.

You will also find such useful items as free puzzle creators, classroom posters, coloring pages, and flashcards.

 Watch a video introducing BusyTeacher

BusyTeacher has nearly half a million registered users. You can join for free or log in using a Facebook account.

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COD - 10/11/2012 - Study Champs [Activities]

Study Champs is a free educational website designed to provide an online resource to students in primary and middle school and their parents and teachers.

Study Champs resources cover math, English, science and social studies. The content includes educational resources such as printable worksheets and games, tutorials, interactive online games, quizzes, stories, flip books, and more . 

Kids can also enjoy fun activities like reading stories, coloring sheets, brain teasing games, and learn amazing facts, too.

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COD - 8/30/2012 - Math Pro [iOS]

Math Pro is an iOS app from Math Pentagon, which was started in 2011 with a goal of making math learning fun, interactive, exciting, and inspiring for the students.

At the same time Math Pro helps teachers and parents engage, motivate, collaborate, and communicate with the students. 

Math Pentagon has the largest collection of math worksheets for the iPad including hundreds of thousands of questions geared for grades 4-12 (ages 9-16) in topics like algebra, pre-algebra, trigonometry, geometry, statistics, fractions, ratios, decimals, and much more.

Features for teachers:

• Administer their individual student circles.
• Assign worksheets, view students’ completed worksheets, provide feedback
• View scratch work to help in error analysis and following students’ thought processes.
• Student-specific reports to help understand progress, and prepare for further learning.
• Differentiated learning allowing teacher to work with one group of students while another is completing an assignment or exploring.
• Remedial practice for students who need help, and enrichment for students ready to move forward more independently.

With Math Pro, students can write, draw, and solve problems by writing directly on the iPad and can save their results for later review. Learning math can become fun with the help of technology that students love, engaging them with teachers and motivating the students to enjoy math.

Math Pro is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with iOS 4.3 or later.

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COD - 8/29/2012 - Mathway [Math]

Mathway provides students with the tools to solve their math problems, with tens of millions of problems already solved.

Type problems into Mathway in an ordinary textbox. You can insert special math symbols and expressions using the Toolbar, and/or manually enter in common expressions using the keyboard. A preview of the mathematically formatted problem appears underneath the textbox.

After a problem has been entered and a topic has been selected, click the "Answer" button. 

Mathway solves problems from the following subjects:

• Basic Math
• Pre-Algebra
• Algebra
• Trigonometry
• Precalculus
• Calculus
• Statistics

Mathway provides answers free of charge, and there is no charge for signing up for a Mathway account. However, if you want step-by-step solutions you will need to upgrade to a premium account. There are several paid account options available ranging from a single day account for $4.99 up to a full year for $49.99 (USD).

Mathway Classroom Edition allows teachers to easily provide all the powerful features of Mathway to their students.

The student management features available in your Mathway account will allow you to sign up your students and distribute premium access to their accounts. You can organize your students by class, and turn on/off access to their premium features when needed. You can also save pages from your Notebook to your student's Notebook with the click of a button, so you can instantly provide review problems to any or all of your students.

Watch a video introduction to Mathway

There are free optimized Mathway apps for iOS, Android, and Kindle, or you can open Mathway in any mobile browser at m.mathway.com.

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COD - 6/18/2012 - Working Math [Math]

Working Math is a collection of 90 activities designed to help students in career and technology schools retain basic, practical, everyday math skills with activities that have been placed in a meaningful context.

Most of the activities in Working Math have been designed so that a student can complete the task quickly with minimal teacher intervention. Each activity is contained on a single page. The Working Math activities are meant to review and reinforce fundamental mathematics that the student should have learned previously.

Working Math is available as a downloadable PDF ebook. To use a Working Math activity, you can print as many copies of that page as are needed and distribute to your students.

Once the Working Math ebook has been purchased and downloaded, you are allowed make as many copies of the activities as you want for classroom use. 

There is also an annotated companion to the Working Math ebook that includes solutions to all the activities as well as teaching notes.

The complete Working Math ebook is $79 USD, the annotated companion is $99 USD, or bundle them together for $149. However, you can download a free sample of ten selected Working Math activities.

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COD - 12/8/2011 - Math Game Time [Math]

Math Game Time is a website presenting online math games and homework help for students in Pre-K through 7th grade (up to 12 years old).

Math Game Time was created by educators to help kids succeed in mathematics. With games they feel are fun, educational, and trustworthy, their goal is to provide a fun, educational playground to support students learning math.

In collaboration with actual teachers, Math Game Time has sifted through the web to find engaging and fun online math games, worksheets, and videos that are age-appropriate, relevant, and educational, as well as creating original content.

Browse Math Game Time by grade level (pre-k through 7) or by topics such as division, algebra, problem solving, etc. Keep up with what's new on the site by signing up for their free email newsletter.

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Catch of The Day - The Math Salamanders - 11/15/2011

The Math Salamanders website is a large bank of free printable math worksheets as well as many fun math activities and games, flashcards, and fact sheets.

The materials found atThe Math Salamanders is intended for all students in grades K-5 (ages 5-10). Browsing by the age categories, you can easily find the appropriate level of printable math sheets. You can browse by topics such as fractions, place value, geometry, or money. Browse by the type of resource: help, games, facts, etc, or search by keyword.

All the math worksheets and other resources found on this website are original materials produced and copyrighted by the Math Salamanders and support the elementary math benchmarks produced by Achieve, Inc.

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Catch of The Day - Have Fun Teaching - 9/19/2011

Have Fun Teaching is a rich source of supplemental teaching materials such as  worksheets, coloring pages, songs, videos, and fun activities.

The mission of Have Fun Teaching is to:

• create the best online resource for teachers, parents, home-schoolers, and kids.
• provide teachers with more time with kids and less time with lesson plans.
• give hope and encouragement to fellow educators.
• help teachers to have fun teaching.

Have Fun Teaching offers songs and videos for kids and teachers on topics like the alphabet, math, phonics, grammar, counting, and character.

In the Get Connected section you can link to Have Fun Teaching on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other sites to get updates, tips, videos, free stuff, and more. The Tools area includes teacher tools, lesson plans, teacher resources, free stuff for teachers, clipart, signs and posters, and more.

You can sign up for the Have Fun Teaching email newsletter for website updates, blog updates, lesson plan ideas, and the latest resources.

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Catch of the Day - Teach the Earth - 5/12/2011

 

Teach the Earth is the Science Education Resource Center portal for geoscience educators.

Teach the Earth connects teachers to thousands of pages of activities, workshops, course descriptions, and more from hundreds of geoscience educators. Teach the Earth is a gateway to geoscience education content available through dozens of independent project websites. Site guides highlight key resources within these project websites.

Resources to enhance your teaching:

• research on teaching and learning
• designing courses
• assessment
• teaching large classes
• teaching in the field

Search the Teach the Earth supporting catalog for geoscience resources both in print and online.

Users are invited to contribute materials to Teach the Earth.

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