Math Sites

CGI/MATH WEBSITES “If teaching were the same as telling, we’d all be so smart we could hardly stand it..” —Mark Twain
gameaquarium.com	Lots of people seem to be working on fractions right about now! Here’s a website of fraction activities. I didn’t check every activity, but the ones I looked at looked good.
mathgoodies.com	Here’s a site that might be of interest to those of you in the upper grades. It’s called Mrs. Glosser’s Math Goodies and it contains a wide variety of worksheets, tutorials, demonstrations, and games. Check it out!!
pumas.jpl.nasa.gov	Can you stand yet another example from David Sousa’s book How the Brain Learns Mathematics? This one offers suggestions on how to show the practical and everyday use of math and science. You’ll have to search the links a bit because it includes lessons for K-12.
thinkfinity.org	Some of you may be familiar with the MarcoPolo website. It has been around for awhile and has been known for its high-quality, non-commercial educational resources. It has recently merged with the Verizon Literacy Network to become Thinkfinity.
newark.osu.edu	It has problems, a bibliography, and a number of other CGI resources.
teacher.scholastic.com	Problems are set up as multiple choice so kids can answer them on-line. Suggestion - change the names in the story to fit your kids and give the problems as activities for groups to solve—instead of having the kids go online.
mathsolutions.com	It’s Marilyn Burns’ Math Solutions site. To get to the lessons, just click on “Books and Resources” and then on “Lessons from the Classroom. You can sign up to the get the free newsletter.
mathforum.org	It has a lot of great information, not to mention Ask Dr. Math where you can find answers to lots of our math questions—including why any number to the power of zero is 1!
sandi.net	This website if a real “find!” It contains a variety of “routines” to use to evaluate students’ understanding in a wide variety of math concepts.
nctm.org	If you haven’t checked out the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics website, you should. Even if you’re not a member, there are some problems and other resources there that we could all use.
manatee.k12.fl.us	It has a mix of interactive sites and printable worksheets that you can use at the different grade levels separated by math strand. Click on red dot!
thinkquest.org	A number of good problem options
ritesandrightrep.com	Here is an excellent website for CGI problems. When I checked it out, some of the links were not working, but hopefully that’s temporary. The links I looked at were the ones with CGI problems and they were great.
nlvm.usu.edu	Virtual Math Manipulatives – Thanks Sue M!
mathplayground.com	Here’s yet another site listed in David Sousa’s book How the Brain Learns Mathematics. It has word problems, games, and logic games—and it looks pretty cool, too.
mathforum.org	Lattice Multiplication
colstate.edu	Weekly math problems plus the option to look at past problems.
rubistar.4teachers.org	This site allows you to create your own rubrics for any subject.
wps.ablongman.com	This is the website belonging to the guy who wrote our Elementary and Middle School Mathematics book.
pasd.wednet.edu	Here’s where the algebra problems came from. I gave them to you by grade level in January.
getsmarter.org	This website has problems at the 3-5 grade level. It also allows students to compare their results with kids around the world.
cut-the-knot.org	Lots of math problems that kids might enjoy.
globalclassroom.org	One of the websites listed in David Sousa’s book How the Brain Learns Mathematics.
mathcats.com	Activities on arithmetic operations, conversions, measurement, estimation, and geometry.
teachers.ash.org.au	This is the math dictionary site that I showed the Saturday group in January.
rainforestmaths.com	Created by the same person as the math dictionary listed above. Heidi showed us this one. Great activities for all levels and strands.