Math Resources:
Khan Academy- The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization that provides free video tutorials and interactive exercises. The Academy's declared mission is “changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.” Students can practice skills with exercises, quizzes, and mastery challenges and get immediate feedback and support. Resource to use
Everfi- Offers teachers and students virtual courses on life skills topics such as financial capabilities, diversity and inclusion, career leadership and success, STEM, and health and wellness.
Open Resources- Our nonprofit’s mission: to increase equity in education by making excellent, top-rated curricula freely available to districts.
Open Middle- Open middle problems generally require a higher Depth of Knowledge than most problems that assess procedural and conceptual understanding. They support the Common Core State Standards and provide students with opportunities for discussing their thinking.
Illustrative Mathematics- Common core aligned tasks
Would You Rather Math- Would You Rather Math is a website that contains fun math challenges that students can solve. A picture is presented with a math task and a question that begins with, Would you rather?”. A worksheet is available for problem-solving. Students justify their answer with mathematics.
Estimation 180- Estimation tasks that make mathematical reasoning accessible to students and enjoyable. ESTIMATION 180 is a place for both students and teachers to enjoy making sense of math and develop their number sense together. Pick from over 200 visual estimation tasks that invite all your students to be part of rich math conversations and learning.
Global Math Task- The Global Math Task Twitter challenge is a World-wide math challenge, Started by teachers Beverly Ladd, and Heidi Samuelson where classes worldwide participate in answering certain math questions on twitter!
Always, Sometimes, Never- Math tasks
Graphing Stories-Graphing Stories: Short video stories that help students learn to graph on a plane.
Visual Patterns- Click on a pattern to see a larger image and the answer to step 43. What is the equation?
Yummy Math- We've created YummyMath to provide teachers with an easy way to bring real-life into their math classrooms. It is our belief that when math is explored in contexts that are familiar and of interest to students, students will be more engaged to do math, reason, think critically, question and communicate. Our activities are written to correspond with the NCTM Process Standards and the CCSS Standards for Mathematical Practice.
Which One Doesn't Belong- This is Which One Doesn't Belong?, a website dedicated to providing thought-provoking puzzles for math teachers and students alike. There are no answers provided as there are many different, correct ways of choosing which one doesn't belong.
Esti-Mysteries - Introducing Esti-Mysteries! Each image invites students to wonder what number is represented by the image. As you click through the each Esti-Mystery, clues will appear that will allow the students to use math concepts to narrow the set of possibilities to a small set of numbers. In the end, the students will need to call upon their estimation skills to solve the mystery and find the missing number.
Between 2 Numbers - The inspiration for this site came from John Allen Paulos' book Innumeracy. I read the book back in 2008, but reading it again this past summer reignited the inspiration and turned it into fruition. In my lesson plan spreadsheet, I started a column of "tidbits" to share with my students; it's filled with mathematical fun facts, latest news, and stuff you see on here. I teach middle school mathematics, and ratios and proportional reasoning make up large portions of the curriculum, so I'm always comparing stuff, like tossing my flipflop onto this big Danish clog while visiting Solvang, CA, and wondering how big or tall the person wearing such clogs would have to be.
Looking for more? See this google doc on Math Tasks, resources and manipulatives
Try out the STEM Lab
Press the present mode to find links within the STEM Lab.
STEM Classroom Reward Ideas
Math Discussion Starters
Taken from Georgia Person twitter (7/17/20): In just 15 days the total number of #COVID19 cases in Georgia is up 49%, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the state’s data visualization map of cases. The first map is July 2. The second is today. Do you see a 50% case increase? Can you spot how they’re hiding it?
Design Challenge Ideas for the Math Classroom
Spinning Pie (from vivifystem)
Nothing lazy about this Pi Day activity! This is a great activity for kids at home to practice math skills. Grab a lazy susan and a toy - I used a LEGO chef holding pie! Place the toy on the edge of the turntable and give it a spin. Count the number of times it makes a full circle before stopping. You can also record the time it takes to make the trip. If it doesn’t make a full circle, this is also a great way to talk about fractions and incorporate even more math! Measure the radius from the center of the lazy susan to the toy and use Pi to make the following calculations:
What is the total distance traveled in a circle by the toy?
What is the average speed that the toy traveled in a circle? (Start with revolutions per second then calculate using units of length per second)
If the toy was holding a tiny pie that slipped out of its hands during the trip around the turntable, how far would it fly in 1.5 seconds assuming it travels at a constant velocity?
How fast can you spin it without the toy falling off?
Here are some more Pi Day Activities
Literature in the Math Classroom
Ask Ms. Donais to borrow any of the following books:
