Math, Coding, and Making

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Learning Resources

Usable Math online tutor - Offers problem solving strategies for math word problems from 4 coaches: Estella Explainer; Chef Math Bear; How-to-Hound; and Visual Vicuna 

Research on STEM Learning for Children

Male Characters on Kids TV Shows Use STEM Skills, Female Characters Use Magic, MarketWatch (May 4, 2019)

• • • Link to the study: The Landscape of Children's TV in U.S. & Canada from Rutgers University and the Center for Scholars and Storytellers

Summer Math Loss: Why Kids Lose Math Knowledge and How Families Can Work to Counteract It. Usable Knowledge, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

• • • Highlight the math in every day activities

    • Read short math stories together

    • Play math games

    • Find small ways to practice math at home

Books featuring STEM Topics

• • • Mathematical Mindsets:  Unleashing Students' Potential through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages, and Innovative Teaching

    • Goodnight Numbers. Danica McKellar. Illustrated by Alicia Padron. Crown Books for Young Readers, 2017

    • A Maths Dictionary for Kids, 2017 by Jenny Eather is an interactive resource for learning math terms and concepts

    • The Paper Crane. Molly Bang. Greenwillow Books, 1987

    • Mathematickles! Betsy Franco. Illustrated by Steven Salerno. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2003

    • Papa's Mechanical Fish 

    • Children's Books About the Environment Are Now Trendy — Thanks to Greta Thunberg

    • This Free Children's Book Helps Parents Explain Climate Change

    • What Do You Do with an Idea? 

    • What Do You Do with a Problem?

Digital Resources

• List of Technology & Teaching Resources Updated Frequently

• Virtual Science Labs and Interactives

• Tech Integration Updates: Science and STEM

• • • Fictional Stories in Science - this blog features hundreds of books for teaching STEM topics through literacy

    • How It's Done: Remote STEAM Learning with LEGO Education Bingo Boards

    • Motion Math - Each game combines a physical experience with a basic math concept

      • • Results from a Controlled Study of iPad Fractions Game Motion Math

        • Motion Math: Cupcake!

        • Motion Math: Pizza

    • 19 Apps and Sites for Kids Who Hate Math from Common Sense Media

    • YouCubed has free math games from Stanford University math educator, Jo Boaler

    • Tutoring Math, a wiki featuring math problem solving strategies for grades 2 to 5

    • 15 Science Projects for Book Creator Classrooms

    • Every Child Ready for Math

Women and Young Girls in STEM

Picture Books & Online Resources

• • • 16 Picture Books About Women Scientists and Women in STEM 

    • Women in Science:  50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

    • Ten Women in Science and Tech Who Should Be Household Names

    • Violet the Pilot

    • Rosie Revere, Engineer

    • Ada Twist, Scientist.  See also Iggy Peck, Architect

    • The Most Magnificent Thing

    • Oh No! Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World

Biographies of Women Scientists

• • • The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever

    • Interstellar Cinderella

    • Look Up!  Henrietta Leavitt, Pioneering Woman Astronomer

    • Queen of Physics:  How Wu Chien Shinug Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom

    • Marvelous Mattie:  How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor

    • Hedy Lamarr's Double Life:  Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor

    • The Secret History of the Rocket Girls - 

      • • Innovation Hub reveals the history of women mathematicians creating their own unit at the Jet Propulsion Lab in California because jet propulsion was considered not a serious science at that time.

Interactive Historical Biography Wiki Pages

• • • Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, Women in Medicine

    • Hedy Lamarr, Actress and Inventor

    • Rachel Carson and Silent Spring

    • Grace Hopper, Computer Pioneer

    • Beatrix Potter, Author and Natural Scientist

    • Ada Lovelace, Mathematician and First Computer Programmer

    • Mary Anning, Fossil Finder and Paleontologist

    • Caroline Herschel, 18th Century Astronomer

    • Rosalind Franklin, Molecular Biologist and DNA Researcher

    • Barbara McClintock, Botanist, Geneticist, Scientist

    • Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, Women in Medicine

• • • Even more...Ten Historic Female Scientists You Should Know: Smithsonian link which includes ten important, but not well-known female scientists and their contributions