Mrs. Herook, Math Resource Page

Math Resources

These math resource links can be included in lesson plans, teacher web pages, etc. to assist students as they explore and learn math concepts.

Growing with Mathematics Topic Tie-ins
Grade 5

Grade 4
Grade 3
Grade 1
General Math Resources

Math League Help
Online help for a variety of math topics - grade 4-8.

Cool Math 4 Kids
Tutorials, games and more!

Houghton Mifflin Teacher Math Support
Tip sheets to help students and more.

GoMath.com
Online help - a site to hold onto for future use. Multiple topics covered. Excellent site!

The Abacus
The art of calculating with beads. Gives history, instructions etc.

Allmath.Com
The virtual math book. Reference, tools, parent help etc.

MHSchool Math Web link
Choose your grade level, print off the student sheet and start the online activity.

Everday Mathematics Resource Guide:
Resources for Teachers, Students and Parents including tips, links and additional resources.

The National Math Trail
Explore math in your own environment and then create a math problem.

The Good News Bears
Lesson plans and activities are available to assist teachers in teaching students about the stock market and investing.

The Stock Market Game
Offered from Prongo.Com, this game provides students with real time stock prices and vocabulary used.

King's Math Activities
Check this one out!! The Technology Coordinator for King's Middle Grade School compiled these resources - links are broken out by math topic. A great resource.

Women and Geometry
An archive of American Quilt designs. Shows online samples along with shapes used.

Educate the Children/Math
Links to pdf files on probability. Other topics available.

Problem-Solving

MathStories.COM
House of Math Word Problems for Children

A Medieval Adventure in Problem-Solving
This Thinkquest project was built by 4th graders who wanted to improve their problem-solving skills.

Fractions

All About Fractions
Provides explanations, interactive practice and challenge games to support learning about fractions.

Fractions
Site contains information, quizzes, and activities on basic concepts.

Fractions to Decimal Conversion
This is a handy reference for converting fractions to decimals.

No Matter What Shape Your Fractions Are In
Provides colorful geometric puzzles and excercises for elementary and middle school students. Try out the interactive Pattern Blocks.

Hungry for Math
This Thinkquest project provides information on fractions and activities to practice. The site is grouped by operation types.

Rules for Fractions
For visual learners who can read an algebraic formula, this is a good resource.

Visual Fractions
For the visual learner, this site provides information along with practice activities.

A Tour of Fractions
This area is designed as a teacher resource. Offered by Swarthmore, the site has lesson plans and activity suggestions.

Activities

GetSmarter.org - Science & Math
Interactive testing on both subjects. Compare responses with students from other countries. Interesting site.

Interactive Mathematics
Wide variety of online activities across grades and topics. Web-based virtual math manipulatives. *Nice resource*

A Maths Dictionary for Kids
Online interactive dictionary of A-Z math terms. Some interactive activities as well.

Mathdrill
This free online tool allows teachers to post homework assignments, have students complete the problems and have the service grade and supply results. This tool provides teachers with a student report as well for tracking progress.

Gamequarium:Math Games
Geared for grades 3-6, this site provides games to support learning place value, fractions, geometry, addition, multiplication, decimals, measurement, data intrepretation tools and more. Check this site out!

AAAMath.Com
Online activities broken out by grade level and math topic.

APlusMath.Com
Interactive activities that support students as they develop their math skills.

Harcourt Math Advantage
Activities are broken out by grade level. Games require Shockwave

The Math Center
Houghton Mifflin - Education Place. Check out "Data Place" under Special Features.

Room 108 Math Activities
Student activities to support learning to tell time, use money and more.

Math Cats
Math games & activities such as Magic Squares, Multiplication tables etc. Projects using Microworlds. Interesting site!

BasketMath Interactive
This tool provides a variety of online activities covering addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, map reading, graph interpretation, perimeter etc.

Online Graphing
Collect data, enter information to this template and check the results. Use Netscape*

Math Presentations
Powerpoint presentations explaining 5th grade math topics. Nice resource.

Lesson Plans

OFCN's Academy Curricular Exchange - Math
Lesson ideas and support.

The Math Forum
Excellent resource!

Women Mathematicians
Biographies of women in math.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Multiplication.Com
Resource for teachers to help students learn their tables: games, strategies, worksheets etc..

Database/Spreadsheet Resources

The Data and Story Library
Provides data and examples for integrating spreadsheets and graphing capabilities into math class.

Math Forum:Data Collections
This is offered by The Math Forum at Swarthmore. Contains lists of ongoing collaborative data-sharing projects as well as information that can be downloaded into a ClarisWorks spreadsheet. There is a wide variety of options for various grade levels.

The Data Garden
Topic suggestions for having students gather and compare data.

Database Tutorial
Provides basics, information & information links to integrate.

Online Graphing
Offered by NCES - students learn about various graphs, how to set them up and can build one for printing or copying into another tool.

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This resource designed and maintained by:
Susan Herook, Instructional Technology Specialist
(Last Updated July 2006)