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Ages 3 - 9. Free website resources and apps.
Books available for purchase. Get a daily math problem to help create a new routine making math as enjoyable and natural as reading bedtime stories. Select from three different challenge level. Read these story-based problems aloud and have fun with them; they are not supposed to feel like school work.
All ages. Free.
This is a website from the author of the book Let's Play Math. My Favorite Math Games is one of the website sections.
Grades K - 6. Free website information. Books available for purchase.
Created by a Canadian math teacher, the website provides images, questions, and activities to prompt rich math conversations with elementary-age children. The prompts may be filtered by the following strands: number sense, patterning, geometry, measurement, and data management & probability.
Grades PreK - 6. Free.
Math for Love offers instruction for hands-on math games and other activities, as well as worksheets and additional resources. Filter the resources by grade level, Common Core classification, lesson type, or topic.
Grades K - 6. Available for purchase.
RightStart provides an entire math curriculum emphasizing hands-on activities. It also offers a separate Math Card Games kit and low-cost apps.
#tmwyk [Twitter resource]
#tmwyk [Twitter resource]
Information shared on social media for parents. Free.
tmwyk stands for "Talking Math with Your Kids"
All ages. Free.
YouCubed does much more than offer a few math activities. It is a project founded by Stanford University professor Jo Boaler with a website to share resources about her popular approach to math education, an approach which is very visual and creative, involves a lot of math talk, and focuses on a growth mindset about math.
Much of the information is geared towards classroom educators, but some of the resources families will appreciate include YouCubed math tasks page, a free 6 session math course for students, and a YouCubed section for parents which includes advice on twelve steps parents can take to help their children have fun learning math.
Jo Boaler's work is influential and many educators use her ideas to help make learning math a positive experience for students. However, there are those who disagree with some of her claims and others who believe a few of her conclusions could be explained more clearly and accurately: Objections to Jo Boaler's Take on Neuroscience and Math Education and Your Brain on Maths: Educational Neurononsense Revisited.
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