Bedtime Math provides a daily fun math exploration for families and elementary school children of all grades. You will just need to enter an email address and you will be sent a great problem every day!!
Splat! is a wonderful activity created by the great Steve Wyborney. It is an activity designed to get students to think about part/whole relationships.
Look at the picture to the left. Each stat shaped Splat! has the same number of dots underneath it. 19 represents the total number of dots including the Splat! covered ones.
How many dots are under each Splat!
The link below will take you to the website with many Splat! activities, including fractions!!
Youcubed is a fantastic website developed by Jo Boaler, a mathematics educator at Stanford. She is committed to fostering a Growth Mindset in the field of mathematics and has written a few important books on this topic. The website has tasks, courses, and activities for teachers and families. Clink on the link below to access:
This website is devoted to images related to fractions and the resulting conversations with students. Here is an example:
What fractions can you identify? Explain how you know! The justification is important!
Here is the link to the website:
This website is devoted to Which One Doesn't Belong, an activity in which 4 shapes, numbers, or objects are shown and the task is to determine which one doesn't belong. The beauty is that there can be more than one answer!
This resource is devoted to solving visual problems involving pre-algebraic thinking.
Students can solve mobile problems, and create their own.
Here is the link:
You can create an account, but it isn't necessary unless you want to save progress.
Steve Wyborney is back with yet another amazing idea-Esti-Mysteries. These are estimation tasks with an element of mystery. Students estimate quantities and then receive clues to narrow down their estimates. They are so fun!!