Math Aids – Worksheets
Though the website has a very 1990s appearance, Math Aids offers dynamic creation of practice sheets for all levels of mathematics.
Dyson’s 44 Engineering Challenges
Dyson, yes, Dyson who manufactures vacuums, has put together 44 engineering challenges for young people to undertake during this time of quarantine.
Designers from the James Dyson Foundation have come up with a series of challenges to help kids learn at home during isolation.
Comprised of 22 science tasks and 22 engineering activities, the Challenge Cards can be completed by children using common household items such as eggs, string and balloons.
Wolfram Demonstrations
Wolfram Demonstrations offers over 12,000 demonstrations and simulations for everything from advanced science and physics to K-2 science to arts and architecture. There is something for every teacher on this site!
Wolfram Alpha Problem Generator
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
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
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 Mathematical Demonstrations
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.
Prodigy Math Game
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
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
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
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.
Ed Tech Tips, Tricks and Hacks – Vol. 2 Issue 4
This edition of Ed Tech Tips, Tricks & Hacks contains nuggets of wisdom on:
- New in IMC – Dash & Dot Coding Robots
- Saving content from shared folders
- Phishing Quiz
- Problem Attic
- Digital Citizenship Scope & Sequence
- Digital Math Manipulatives
- STEM Activities
- Esti-Mysteries
- Catch Plagiarism
- Innovative Ways to use Plickers
- Buncee
- Education.com
- SeeSaw
- HippoCampus – Homework & Study Help
- Problems of the Week – National Council of Mathematics
Silk – Interactive, Generative Art
Silk is a really cool interactive, generative art site. It does not require a login, but has a camera icon in the top left corner for artists to take a photo of their creations.
Beyond art, this site would offer some fun learning about symmetry in math.
PhET Interactive Simulations
Many of the scientific simulations on the PhET site (from the University of Colorado, Boulder) are now able to be utilized on Chromebooks. They are no longer flash-based simulations.
PhET offers simulations from elementary level through to university.
Base Ten Blocks at CoolMath
CoolMath – an old, familiar math website has recently launnched a set of virtual manipulatives including a nice interface for base-ten blocks. Becuase they are just rolling this content out now, the number of manipulatives is limited to the base ten blocks, a numberline, patterrn blocks and ten frames. However, CoolMath has been a resource for teachers for many years now, and we can likely expect the virtual manipulative resources to continue to grow!