Practice makes perfect with the Wolfram Alpha Problem Generator. They have a huge database of problem types for you to springboard off. Additionally, their partner site, Wolfram Demonstrations offers 12,000+ interactive applications for education, research, recreation and more!
School Yourself is a mathematics website based on doing math, not on watching an instructor do math. Their unique interactive lessons cover math subjects ranging from algebra, geometry, and trigonometry to precalculus and calculus. As you go through the lessons, their algorithms quietly crunch numbers and figure out where students need help the most, or whether they should breeze right through to more advanced material.
Because of their privacy policy, students should be 18 or older in order to sign up.
Math Planet is a resource for Div 4 teachers and their students. The educational material is focused on US math, but has support for algebra, geometry, SAT and ACT examinations. Math Planet is licensed with creative commons attribution, which means that anyone can use it.
Visnos is a nifty site with many interactive tools for teaching and learning math. It tackles everything from basic addition and subtraction to fractals to the Sieve of Eratosthenes.
The Prodigy Math Game is well-known amongst educators for its engaging math-based games. Further, its privacy policy allows for teachers to enroll students with just first and last name.
If you choose to use it, enter your students’ first names, then give them all a generic last name. You could go with something like “Smith”, or you could use the name of your school “Blakely” or “Sutherland”. This protects their privacy as no other information will be collected with respect to the students.
Sum Dog is a cool little website where students can practice math. The free version includes access to a few math games, and a new math game is always valuable in the arsenal of a teacher!
If you choose to use it, enter your students’ first names, then give them all a generic last name. You could go with something like “Smith”, or you could use the name of your school “Blakely” or “Sutherland”. This protects their privacy as no other information will be collected with respect to the students.
iPractice Math uses game based principles to encourage students to learn through discovery, they also have all the usual stuff schools may like such as worksheets, lesson plans, and of course real time reporting.
Matific is a free elementary math product that consists of engaging activities and games that teach students problem solving and critical thinking through discovery. They use game based principles to encourage students to learn through discovery, and we also have all the usual stuff schools may like such as worksheets, lesson plans, and of course real time reporting. Their concept-based challenges puts students into the role of mathematician and has them thinking like mathematicians.
As many of us have discussed, there is genuine growth occurring in the creation of online resources that are accessible from a Chromebook. Today I am excited to bring your attention to the Didax library of free online math manipulatives!
This set of tools includes unifix cubes, number lines, rekenreks, base ten blocks, prime factor tiles, algebra tiles and more!
Instead of looking for all those place value blocks you used last year (they’ve gotta be there…. somewhere…) why not sign out a cart of chromebooks and provide kids this link (If you have a class website or use Google Classroom this is a must-have link!) to the Number Pieces by the Math Learning Centre so that everyone can use the manipulatives, and you’re not left at the end of the day picking up all the “ones” blocks off the floor!
Fractions? Geoboards? Clocks? Vocabulary cards? Number Frames? The Math Learning Centre offers a small, but high quality selection of Chrome apps to assist with teaching mathematics. Have a student who has finished their work early? This resource may have what you need! Equally, if you have a student who is struggling, you may find something of value here.
Learning about money has always been challenging. It may perhaps be even more challenging to a generation who sees adults using much more plastic and now even cell phones as a mechanism for payment. But the fundamental concepts of currency and financial transactions are as important as ever.
The MATH IS FUN website has some games for kids to play to assist with learning about money – and they even have CANADIAN coins!
Math Pickle is an amazing online resource containing math puzzles, games a mini-competitions, organized by grade! This site is aimed at TEACHERS. It is not a site to set your students loose on to explore, it is designed to assist teachers with math instruction and offers fantastic puzzles to challenge students to us mathematical thinking and logic to solve.
Class Playground offers a number of online, free, digital math manipulatives that may prove valuable in our math classrooms. Algebra tiles, fraction circles, area, perimeter… it’s all there!!
I have just discovered an online source for digital math manipulatives. Need some Base-ten blocks on your Chromebook? A classroom timer? A spinner? Some dice? How about a thermometer?
There are also a number of math games there that look to be reasonably good!