Thursday, June 20, 2013

Share My Lesson

Share My Lesson has thousands of teacher created resources for grades 1-8.  You can create a user name and save them in the Share My Lesson site, save searches you have done, or share lessons you have created.  You can view them by topic (common core domains), format or even the type of lesson you're looking for (worksheet, game tutorial...)

http://www.sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/Mathematics-Project-Ideas-50000220/ 

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Engaging in the Mathematical Practices (look-fors)

Got this very helpful document from the Common Core Math Library I posted earlier.  This will be SUPER helpful for planning this year! 

http://www.mathspecialists.org/AMTE/ems&tlSFMPStudentTeacherLookFors.pdf

Common Core Math Library

Here's a link to another person's blog, dedicated to doing what I'm doing; making common core math resources accessible in a single place.

http://ccssmlibrary.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Math is Fun

This is a wonderful site for supporting concepts that kids may not have understood in class, or were absent.  The site walks through concepts in a tutorial fashion and provides a few practice problems as well.  It's not common core aligned, but is a great resource.
http://www.mathsisfun.com/

Monday, June 10, 2013

NRICH- enriching mathematics

The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice.


http://nrich.maths.org/frontpage

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Yummy Math

This website gives you worthwhile tasks that are relevant, real world problems.

http://www.yummymath.com/

Friday, June 7, 2013

Math Midway

Catch the Math Midway at Turtle Bay Exploration Park in Redding, CA, May 18 through September 29, 2013.  It's a pretty cool traveling math museum.  the website has lots of puzzles and some great ideas for interactive activities.  Perhaps a math museum night at school?

http://mathmidway.org/

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Math Star- Algebraic Thinking for Middle School Students

This website is meant for distance and online learning.  It's a wonderful resource for those students that miss the class intro, or need additional support.  It could also be used in class on the whiteboard.  There are some activities that can be done with pencil paper as well.

http://mathstar.lacoe.edu/lessonlinks/welcome.html

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Mathematics Task Centre

This is an Australian site.  There are plenty of worthwhile tasks here, but it's set up in a different way.

http://www.blackdouglas.com.au/taskcentre/docs.htm#curriculum