Check out the free STEM resources offered through Library Science Degrees Online! This page offers an overview of several resources, programs, and services offered by public libraries for different age bands. Special thanks to Stephanie Cooper and Leslie for recommending this great resource!

This site has different resources for teaching math and computer science to kids with special needs. Thank you Alexandra for sharing this resource with us!

A collection of pictures and videos that help motivate lessons and engage students in forming questions about the word. 

Great site for K-12 math activities. Also includes relevant research commentaries. 

This site features information and activities related to a growth mindset in mathematics. 

Though the concept is not new, the name is.  Three Act Math sets up the purpose for learning the mathematics by launching a problem with a video/picture, having students ask questions, having student then work to answer their questions, and conclude with a video/picture answer. 

Explore Dan Meyer's list of Three Act Math Tasks.

Search NCTM’s resources for teaching mathematics by grade, topic, standard and more (some activities are web-based).  The site also consists of games and brain teasers. 

NCTM’s collection of math challenges for families.  Send these challenges home throughout the year and use them during your instruction to support problem solving, logical thinking, and reasoning skills.  Also in the Family Corner check out free brochures to send home to families about working with children on mathematics. 

Looking to connect school math to the real world?  Explore a collection of lessons, activities, and articles that support making connections to the Biological, Physical, Social, Political, and Financial World’s. 

Open Middle is a collection of problems and questions that have a “closed beginning” (same starting problem), “open middle” (problem can be approached and solved in many ways), and “closed end” (there is one solution that students should arrive at).  These problems require a higher depth of knowledge and provide opportunities for students to discuss their thinking. 

K-12 activities and lessons sorted by content standards, practice standards, or suggested unit progression. 

Connected Mathematics Project is a website and textbook that seeks to promote inquiry based teaching and learning through a problem-centered curriculum. 

A collection of videos that support students learning about the relationship between a graph and the real world.  There is a downloadable worksheet to go along with the videos. 

MAP hosts a collection of middle and high school formative and summative assessment tasks (these are typically group tasks).  

Build students number sense and estimation skills by estimating a wide variety of objects in different contexts for 180+ days! 

Learn how to code by completing free online classes that cover 12 different programming languages. 

Activities and lessons that make mathematics relevant to our world today.  Search by grade (3-12) and by standard to find real world activities that will engage students in mathematics. 

A blog by a former teacher about the teaching and learning of mathematics.  Many resources and activities that use mathematics to make sense of the world are discussed, along with topics and issues within mathematics education. 

Learn about different engineering games and projects that you can do with your students or at home. This resource was shared by Bria. Thank you Bria!

Explore online manipulatives for grades K-12 that do not require you to copy or cut-out materials!  Easily sorted by content and grade-band. 

Play the Math Mindset Superhero game created by Rebecca Layton for students and families to learn about mathematical mindsets which involves one's belief about his/her ability to learn mathematics (Boaler, 2016). Rebecca has conducted research examining the use of online gamification tools, and she found that these tools provide benefiting aspects of engaging learning experiences and student autonomy. 

Play the Math Mindset Superhero game created by Rebecca Layton for teachers to learn about mathematical mindsets which involves one's belief about his/her ability to learn mathematics (Boaler, 2016). Rebecca has conducted research examining the use of online gamification tools to develop preservice teachers' understandings of mathematical mindsets. She found this approach helped develop understanding of how to support student growth mindsets in math classrooms by providing challenging learning experiences and tasks, sending growth mindset messages, and valuing mistakes.