xtramath.org

Xtramath.org

This website is fantastic!  It’s a great way to develop basic fact fluency.  Sign in as a teacher and set up your student accounts.  It’s easy!  There are videos to explain each step for teachers as well as one to share with students before they begin.  I highly recommend the videos since they are short but provide helpful tips, such as adjusting the program to meet the needs of different learners.  Students practice their facts and their progress is tracked for you.  Students can view which particular facts they still need to master and can play additional games to practice them.  Once they have mastered their multiplication facts, they are awarded a certificate of completion and may move on to division.  It’s quite an accomplishment!  Xtramath has sparked the competitive spirit in my class and students have really stepped up the basic fact practice.  It’s been a great addition to my classroom this year!

Multiplication Mat

Multiplication Mat

Third graders explore the different concepts of multiplication using this graphic organizer.  They write the multiplication equation in the middle of the mat and then use skip counting, repeated addition, equal groups and arrays to represent and find their product. 

Fly Swatter

Fly Swatter!

Third and fourth graders love this multiplication game!  Divide the class into two teams and line them up in front of the board.  Both sides of the board have the same products scattered on them.  The students at the front of each of the lines have a fly swatter and are listening to the two factors being called out by the teacher.  The first student to swat the correct product earns a point for his/her team.  The team with the most points wins that round.  It can be an ongoing competition in the class to motivate students to learn their basic multiplication facts.  It’s a hit!

Education.com Great Website

http://www.education.com/

Have you seen this website?  It is full of great math activities, worksheets, app reviews and so much more.  Be prepared to get lost in this website while finding oodles of activities for your classroom. 

Odd Even Museum

After learning about odd and even numbers, students demonstrated their knowledge by creating an Odd/Even Museum.  They were asked to demonstrate odd and/or even numbers using anything they could find in the classroom.  They also had to write a table tent either asking a question, writing their numbers and stating whether it was odd or even, or creating an activity to do with their items.  Then we invited neighboring second grade classes to come in and view the museum.  This was truly the cutest museum ever.  I loved listening to the students interact, ask questions, demonstrate their knowledge, etc.  The visitors and the museum workers just loved this activity. I'm thinking of doing this for an end of the year math museum where students can demonstrate anything they learned  in second grade math.  What fun!

Geoboard App, by The Math Learning Center By Clarity Innovations

Description

The Geoboard is a tool for exploring a variety of mathematical topics introduced in the elementary and middle grades. Learners stretch bands around pegs to form line segments and polygons and make discoveries about perimeter, area, angles, congruence, fractions, and more.

Geometry4Kids App by Nth Fusion LLC

Description

This Geometry app is built for elementary kids ages 5 - 10. App teaches a plethora of geometrical concepts listed below. The App contains Learning modules that explain each concept clearly, with illustrations (including real life examples) and narration that can be followed with ease. Practice modules are also included. Practice modules lets kids practice at their own pace. We have also included a unique geometry riddles section in which clues are presented, and kids are supposed to figure out the geometrical shape based on the clues provided (a great way to indulge kids & reinforce concepts in a class room setting). A Critical Thinking section is also provided that provides challenging questions to spark up young minds.

App is very ideally suited as a study aid in classrooms, homeschooling and a wonderful refresher at home. It comprehends curriculum based geometry concepts taught in Kindergarten to 5th grade.

This wonderful app contains Learn & Practice sections on the below topic.
* 2D shapes - Ages (3-6)
* 3D Shapes - Ages (5-8)
* Faces and Sides - Ages (6-9)
* Corners and Square Corners - Ages (6-9)
* Symmetry - Ages (3-8)
* Line Segments, Rays, & Angles - Ages (7-10)
* Polygons & Triangles - Ages (7-10)
* Congruence, & Transformations - Ages (8-10)
* Who Am I - Riddles. - Ages (5-10)
* Critical Thinking - Ages (5-10)

This elegant app is easy to use, intuitive and most importantly, provides great educational content with beautiful illustrations and narrations for students, schools and parents. More deep down subtopics and challenging questions related to geometry are coming in later updates.

Parents - Understanding geometrical concepts are integral part of every school curriculum. Please carve out a few minutes from your busy schedule and sit with your kid, and explore this geometry app. You will be pleasantly surprised how many things you have forgotten about, that you once knew.

This app is created by a team of high school students, educators, and parents in Texas.