Math
Place Value
Base Ten from NLVM
Place Value to 100,000 from Harcourt School Publishers
A recording sheet also available on the website
Base Ten Manipulatives from Learning Box
Great site for using Base Ten Blocks (ones, tens, and hundreds), Number Line, Adding and Subtracting with blocks
Place Value Safari Units from BBC
Three levels, third grade should start on hard level, third level uses .5 and .25
Place Value Puzzler from Funbrain
Funbrain will show you a number. Click on the digit in the number whose position is shown. Has four different levels.
Place Value Game by Jefferson Labs (must have Java)
The goal of the Place Value Game is to create the largest possible number from the digits the computer gives you. (This can be done as a whole class activity)
Three levels. Students must find numbers and rank from lowest to highest and highest to lowest. Very Hard uses decimals.
Interactive 100 Number Chart (1-100)
Students can investigate and color any numbers on this interactive chart.
Skip Counting
The Counting Game from Learning Planet
Students choose what number to count by. The machine will start counting, and students must click on the numbers to count up.
Pattern Generator from Interactives
Students must continue a pattern. This is not a game, but students can see how a pattern grows
Addition and Subtraction
Thinking Blocks from Math Playground (Addition and Subtraction Sets 1-6)
Students uses blocks to make models for addition and subtraction problems. They then must use the digits from word problems to help solve the problem.
Three levels of Difficulty. Students must look at a subtraction problem and click away balloons to find the answer.
Squash the flies with a ball by adding and subtracting numbers on number lines using problem solving
Three classic and widely used adding games. Make the lines add up to a given total. 8 levels per game.
Powerlines 2, must have password from completion of Game 1 to enter.
Powerlines 3, The Ultimate Challenge. Must have password from completion of Game 2 to enter.
Play Level 1 for addition and subtraction, level 2 for multiplication and division
Click and drag values from stack to stack until the sums of each stack equal the target sums below
Hundreds of self-checking word problems for students in grades 1 to 6. There are currently 675 word problems available.
Multiplication
This site works on a multiplication table and demonstrates basic multiplication facts
Learn your Tables International
Students pick the multiples they want to learn. They can drag and drop, answer, or test
Test your skills for one minute against other people in the cyber world
Many multiplications games. Some are multiplayer with others in cyberspace.
Willie the Worm guides students in creating and solving multiplication problems.
Making Equal Groups from Harcourt
Count equal groups of numbers to find the total or product
Modeling Multiplication from Harcourt
Use a model to find products. There is a recording sheet to do this activity.
Two Step Problems with one digit multiplication and addition
Students are given multiplication problems that are based on cookies and chocolate chips.
This does not have concrete models, but it gives many problems. Using the interactive whiteboard tools, the problem can be drawn out and an equation written.
Data
Picture Graph Lesson, Text or Audio Lesson
Text or Audio Lesson. Students read and interpret picture graphs from a story.
Includes data collecting, reading a bar chart, and then analyzing information
Bar Grapher, Create your own charts. For ex. How a student spends their day example or may set the bar graph to reflect personal data
Houghton Mifflin Survey – Data Place
Interpreting Data from BBC Survey a small group by clicking on each of the children, turn the tally marks into two types of graphs and then go back and take a different survey
Probability from BBC
Probability and statistics: Certain, probable, unlikely, and impossible from IXL MathThis program will only give 10-15 free problems per day. Can be done with clickers in verbal mode
Fractions
Great site for studying all aspects of fractions: identifying, renaming, comparing, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. Each topic is illustrated by either a number line or a circle with a Java applet. Also couple of games, for example: make cookies for Grampy.
Students learn about fractions through text and pictures. Then students must color in the fraction amounts given.
Students are given a fraction. They then must break a whole into the correct number and color the correct amount for the numerator.
Students must choose the appropriate fraction for the model to get the character across the river.
Measurement
Measure it from Fun Brain
Practice using a ruler - inches and centimeters
Learn To Read A Ruler (inches only - increments from inches to sixteenths)
Calculate how many cubes you need to make the different 3D shapes shown.
Volume of a Rectangular Prism by Anneberg Interactives
This has a high level reading, but the animation is excellent.
Clockwise from Shodor Interactives
Plug in a time, and the clock runs till it reaches it, or clock runs to a time and you type it in.
Students are given a time and must click on the location for the minute and hour hand.
Students must stop the clock when the hands demonstrate a given time.
Which Clock Matches from IXL Math
Students are given an analog clock and must match it to a digital clock. Can be done with clickers in verbal mode.
Practice problems, Celsius degrees are used. Can use clickers in verbal mode.Slide the temperature up or down and see pictures that represent or match the temperature
Money
Piggy Bank Tetris style game. Students must click on money amounts to add up to a given amount.
Create a Card from the US Mint
Students are given an allowance and must create a card by buying images by using their allowance. Three different levels. After creating the card, students may print it out.
Students have to count money and win fish to add to their fish bowl. Three levels of difficulty.
Let's Compare from HMH School Publishers
Students must find the amounts of money given and then compare two given amounts.
Geometry
Area and Perimeter Lesson and Activities
Perimeter Explorer from Shodor
Learn the relationship between perimeter and area. A shape will be automatically generated with the area that you choose. Calculate the perimeter of this shape. Perimeter Explorer is one of the Interactivate assessment explorers.
A fun application, Make-A-Flake allows students to manipulate a pair of scissors to precisely snip away to create their original work of art. After getting the snowflake just right, can be shared through email, downloaded, or printed. In addition to just giving you an image file, Make-A-Flake can also give you a file to import into a graphic design program so you can manipulate it even more (this would be great for older students).
How many lines of symmetry does a square have? Find out this and more in this symmetry sorting activity. Available as a bounce back demo or without bounce back for assessment.
Practice making patterns that have symmetry
Students must find shapes. Medium level has some fractions. Very Hard has students find lines of symmetry.
Robopacker Elab from HMH
Three Dimensional Shapes and Colors from NumberNut
Can use clickers in verbal mode or use 2 Know Toolbar with the NEOs
Students must match a 3D shape with its net
This site has a very high reading level, but the animations and interactions are very student friendly. Students use this site to identify parts of 3D objects, watch videos of nets, find surface area and volume.
Geoboard by The Math Learning Center
Interactive Online Geoboard
Finances
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