carol dobrowolski's List: Math lessons

This site is very useful for interactive smartboard lessons and games that can be used in math. There are many topics/concepts to choose from. This is a good place to start to get ideas for how to use Smartboard technology. Other subject areas are also available.

This site provides many interactive math lessons, based on provincial curricular outcomes. Level of difficulty can be selected by choice of grade level. Lots of variety of lessons and concepts/skills. Can be used as excellent practice sessions for students, with feedback provided for their results.

This is a good site for students to practice math skills. Can be used individually, with small groups, or as full class. Students can practice, and questions will be become more difficult as they go through levels. Results will be tracked. Extensive list of skills are practiced, with a section to identify which provincial curricular outcome is addressed by a particular skill.

Practice lesson for students for calculating mean, median and mode with a set of data.

These are some quick examples to help students practice with the the concept of calculating the arithimetic mean or average.

This is a tool that can be used for students to create various types of graphs quickly. The students can individualize their results, edit and revise graphs, preview, save to their own source and then able to print final products.

This site is a link to suggested sites of SmartBoard activities, lessons, interactive games, etc. This section is specific to math, but if you look in the categories section, there are many other options to view. The link to the Start of the Year Survey looks like an interesting beginning activity.

Interesting video demonstrating how to approach problem solving using a think board. A simple word problem is demonstrated.

This site has some examples of some webquests designed for math concepts. These may be useful as a starting place to look at developing a webquest with focus on math.

This is one source of premade graphic organizers which can be printed and used with students in a variety of subject areas. A variety of organizers provided to assist with problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research, brainstorming, or helping structure any writing tasks.

Math activities that can be used for extension or enrichment. University of Waterloo is the source for the Gauss and Pascal math competitions that are often used in our schools, but these are other options that can be used to challenge student thinking. The real-world problems look very challenging.

Great video for teachers to demonstrate how we are NOT challenging students to think with problem solving. Excellent for generating teacher discussion and practical suggestions for how to create better problems for our students.

Interesting webquest found linked to math site from Ray Appel. I selected this just after our session on webquests - liked the concept of citizenship (fits with grade 7 social studies content).

This is a link to a site of math videos prepared by Ray Appel. I attended a math workshop presented by him, and he has some great ideas for using to understand the "why" behind math procedures and strategies. The Born Numeracy video is a great one to use in an introductory math class, showing how math is found around us everyday, everywhere.

This site is one of various games and exercises, many interactive, for grade 7 math concepts. Some are quite tricky, like the factor game in the multiplications, factors and sqaure roots section. Sections include an interactive game, as well as, exercises ready for use and answers.

This is a website of various games for math for all ages.

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