Digital Resources

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jXSt_CoDzyDFeJimZxnhgwOVsWkTQEsfqouLWNNC6Z4/pub?output=html

Dan Meyer’s online collection of Three-Act Math Tasks. As Meyer states, “Storytelling gives us a framework for certain mathematical tasks that is both prescriptive enough to be useful and flexible enough to be usable. Many stories divide into three acts, each of which maps neatly onto … mathematical tasks.”

https://teacher.desmos.com/

Check out the online resources available through DESMOS, especially the Polygraph game. These activities can motivate students by presenting them with a “mathematical headache” for which new math skills are the aspirin.

http://nrich.maths.org/frontpage

This sources, available through the University of Cambridge, has many wonderful and insightful mathematical activities, including the awesome Frogs and Toads game.

http://boum.scolab.com/#jeu and http://gdaymath.com/courses/exploding-dots/

Exploding Dots! Learn to think about numbers, bases, division, and multiplication in a whole new, mind-blowing way.

https://illuminations.nctm.org/

Mobile games for mathematics from NCTM's Illuminations.

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/

Shodor Interactivate has many online resources that put mathematical tools directly in the hands of students.