Resources

Online Textbook: Desbook (Desmos Adaptation of Open Up Resources/Illustrative Mathematics)

All classes will be using this curriculum. Algebra students will complete supplemental units for Algebra specific topics. 

Students can access the curriculum online, either through Desmos or via Google Classroom. 

• Illustrative Sample Problems:  Please use this resource to access some sample problems that relate to each standard.  The navigation for this site is great and the resources give a comprehensive overview of the relevant mathematics.  This is also a great resource to check out the types of questions that will be explored in grades six through eight.  

• Desmos Online Graphing Calculator: this is a free online graphing calculator that can be used as a regular calculator or to graph any sort of equation!

• Khan Academy: this website provides instructional videos on concepts, as well as practice problems with answers.

• WolframAlpha Table of Values: If you need to fill in a lengthy table, this website can help you do it!

• Math Antics: offers help on tons of topics through short videos.

• Dr. Math: Dr. Math offers help on many topics.

• Purplemath: offers help on many topics!

• Virtual Manipulatives:  Virtual Manipulatives to help solve problems.

• Kuta Software: this website provides free worksheets with answers keys based on topics ranging from Pre-Algebra to Calculus!

• MathIsFun.com: Some students may find the explanations and examples on this website helpful.  It covers much of what we will do this year.

• Brilliant.org:  A site that provides a problem of the day and some really nice challenge problems over a range of topics.

• Clever 

  • One stop shop for logging in to all digital platforms

  • Use your Spyponders account to log in! 

• Tech Hub Website

• IXL Parent Guide 

IXL Parent Guide 

Articles:

• How Parents' Beliefs Shape Kids' Achievement

• 6 Ways to Support Your Child's Math Development

• Stereotypes about Math

• Why We Need Common Core 

Book Recommendations:

• Old Dog, New Math: Homework Help for Puzzled Parents by Rob Eastaway and Rob Askew

Other Parent Resources can be found here

• APS Math Department 

• APS Tech Hub

Fiction:

• Giant Pumpkin Suite by Melanie Heuiser Hill 

• Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool

• Do The Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra by Wendy Lichtman

• Leonardo Da-Vinci Gets a Do-Over by Mark Friedlander

• Ruby Redfort Feel the Fear by Lauren Child

• A Gebra Named Al by Wendy Isdell

For Parents: 

• Old Dog, New Math: Homework Help for Puzzled Parents by Rob Eastaway and Rob Askew

Math Puzzles: 

• The Theory of Remainders by Andrea Rothbart