Discovery Education provides a online classroom full of materials at your fingertips. You can create classes and build assignments using an activity creator and builder tools for assessments, writing prompt creator, and digital board builder. You simply need to log in and go to My DE.

Youcubed, lead by Jo Boaler, is a website with resources for mathematics professionals around the world.

"Our main goal is to inspire, educate and empower teachers of mathematics, transforming the latest research on math learning into accessible and practical forms."

-Jo Boaler

Illuminations works to serve you by increasing access to quality standards-based resources for teaching and learning mathematics, including interactive tools for students and instructional support for teachers.

For assistance with the website, use the Illuminations Navigation Guide

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. Our math missions guide learners from kindergarten to calculus using state-of-the-art, adaptive technology that identifies strengths and learning gaps. We've also partnered with institutions like NASA, The Museum of Modern Art, The California Academy of Sciences, and MIT to offer specialized content.

Annenberg Learner was a website recommended during our Marzano HRS training. It has many resources available by subject and grade level. You can follow this link for an example lesson for Solving Linear Equations and Inequalities centered around Hot Dog Sales.

PBS Learning Media offers teachers more than 100,000 videos, images, interactives, lesson plans and articles drawn from critically acclaimed PBS programs such as NOVA, FRONTLINE, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, and SID THE SCIENCE KID, and from expert content contributors like The National Archives and NASA.

Math Planet has free resources ready for the secondary math classroom and test preparation.

MathTV is a great resource for instructional videos. The videos are available in English, Spanish, and Closed Caption.

Prodigy is a free math game that the students love. I covers content through the 8th grade. You can assign specific TEKS to be covered on certain days or just let the program spiral material based upon the assigned grade level. Prodigy recently added a STAAR Test Prep that will require the students to review all content in preparation for the STAAR Test.

In FogStone Isle, students design their own virtual worlds through highly engaging and challenging math games.

Neuroscience, pedagogy, and game-design are brought together to aid students in solving complex math problems adapted to their learning level.

FogStone Isle supports 4th through 8th grade students in gaining conceptual understanding with students regularly commenting, “I forgot I was doing math!“

The following websites contains great challenges, graphics, and information for building your own activities.

Robert Kaplinsky compiled great problem solving activities for Math. They are often accompanied with files of videos and images to assist in building your lessons. Sorted by grade level, you can choose which activities you are interested in, select and download the activity. You can view the "How tall is Mini-Me?" activity I created from a Kaplinsky download.

Dan Meyer introduced us to the idea of “open middle” problems during his presentation on “Video Games & Making Math More Like Things Students Like” by explaining what makes them unique:

they have a “closed beginning” meaning that they all start with the same initial problem.
they have a “closed end” meaning that they all end with the same answer.
they have an “open middle” meaning that there are multiple ways to approach and ultimately solve the problem.

Would You Rather is a website that collects great problem solving situations that encourages critical thinking. With a category listing on the right, you can easily search for problems to add to your activities.

Patterns for Teaching Function

Fawn Nguyen's Visual Patterns site so useful at helping students understand the connection between pictures (the pattern), numbers (table of values), symbols (algebraic representation), and words (the description of the connection between the representations).

MathPickle.com is a practical resource for teachers. Its visually compelling puzzles and games engage students in tough problem solving. Its puzzles are organized by grade and subject – each designed for a 45-60 minute period. All have low-floor, high-ceiling. They engage struggling students in curricular skill acquisition, and deflect top students into tenacity-building challenges.

Visnos provides visual math demonstration activities and manipulatives. Their activities are interactive and engaging. They are also continually adding new content to this beta site.

SPARCC Technology Integration Updates

Math

See below for the latest resources, news, blog posts, links, and other helpful technology integration items. New resources will be added to the top, grouped by month, so you can scroll down to view previously added information.

If you have resources to share, please feel free to type them in the document below, or share them with Eric Curts at eric.curts@apps.sparcc.org or ericcurts@gmail.com or https://twitter.com/ericcurts

📐 Tech Integration Updates - Math