Online Math Links

All of the following links were active when posted. If you find a broken link please email me. Math Intervention and Remediation can be boring for students, and can feel like 'punshiment' sometimes. The links that I have included below are like games in many ways, but are in fact learning tools to help your student understand a topic, and to reinforce, and have fun. Math doesn't have to be rote and memory. Math can be a blast!

MATH TOOLS:

• Graphing Calculator

• Broken Calculator (games)

• Island of Broken Calculators

• Geogebra

• EToys

• Math Is Fun

The idea behind the site is to offer mathematics as well as some fun bits, and to combine the two wherever possible. The main content of the site is aimed at basic math skills. However you will find some more complex stuff, and some easier bits. Hopefully there should be something for everybody.

• I CAN LEARN (Math)

Student registration is required. Email Here to get setup with this great program. Choices are Fundamentals of Math, Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Algebra Readiness and CAHSEE Prep. This product can be used as a stand alone product or as an addition to another curriculum. Our school has a subscription with I CAN LEARN. There would be a small fee charged to the student account for this product for interested persons.

CAHSEE Prep: $21.74

MATH Course: $43.78

Textbooks: $22-$26 (see exact amount on sample POs above)

Student Login:
HERE

Teacher Login:
HERE

Help Desk:
support@icanlearn.com
888.440.6756
Vincent Melerine
vmelerine@icanlearn.com
504.232.5671

Download 2008 Teacher Resource CD (zip file)
HERE

 

• HotMath

Student registration is required for this incredible homework helper. In addition to helping with math homework, Hotmath.com offers resources for graphing calculators, math workbooks, remediation, math games, and review lessons. Email Here to obtain Mattole's Login Information.

 

• TeacherTube

  Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.

  With TeacherTube, community members can:

  • Upload, tag and share videos worldwide.
  • Upload Support Files to attach your educational Actvities, Assessments, Lesson Plans, Notes, and Other file formats to your video.
  • Browse hundreds of videos uploaded by community members.
  • Find, join and create video groups to connect with people who have similar interests.
  • Customize the experience by subscribing to member videos, saving favorites, and creating playlists.
  • Integrate TeacherTube videos on websites using video embeds or APIs.
  • Make videos public or private - users can elect to broadcast their videos publicly or share them privately with those they invite.

• Education City

Online drill through games for kindergarten – 5th grade language arts, math, and science
Free to MVCS students until the end of the 2008/2009 school year

• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

This is great FREE place to play with virtual maniupluatives (no clean up afterward!). The options are broken down by strand and grade level. Also you can register in the Free Teacher section and make your own lessons out of the resources they have. There are lesson plans already done as well as the option to pick and choose questions to put in your own mini class you can hold online or print out for your students. Truly this is a great place!

• Classzone

This is the online presence for McDougal Littell's Texts. There are literally any number of options you can choose. For the math courses, choose the options of either High School or Middle School, your state, and then 'Go'. After your first visit the text you choose to work with at the screen after 'Go' will popup automatically for you when you log in to Classzone. I recommend the Home Tutor, Powerpoint presentations, the e-Workbook and the Animations very highly. There is also a section to prepare for standardized tests. If you are prompted for a login please use the following:

• User Name: MVCS
• Password: student

• NCTM - Illuminations

  The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is a public voice of mathematics education, providing vision, leadership, and professional development to support teachers in ensuring mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students. With 100,000 members and 250 affiliates, NCTM is the world’s largest organization dedicated to improving math education in preK‑12.

• Thinkfinity

  Thinkfinity delivers FREE, top-quality online educational resources to strengthen problem-solving, creativity and critical thinking skills for success in the 21st Century.

  • Thousands of lesson plans, educational games, activities and more
  • Content created by premier education experts and orgranizations
  • Stimulating opportunities for professional development

• Figure This!

  Figure This! demonstrates challenging middle school mathematics and emphasizes the importance of high-quality math education for all students.  Funding for the project was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Education.

• Johnnie's Math Page

Johnnie's Math Page has Links to Interactive Math Tools and Activities for Students and Teachers from Kindergarten through Middle School. This is a free site.

• The Math Forum

  The Math Forum is the leading online resource for improving math learning, teaching, and communication since 1992. We are teachers, mathematicians, researchers, students, and parents using the power of the Web to learn math and improve math education. We offer a wealth of problems and puzzles; online mentoring; research; team problem solving; collaborations; and professional development. Students have fun and learn a lot. Educators share ideas and acquire new skills.

• Cool Math

  An amusement park of math designed for fun! Come for the games... Stay for the lessons. Bored with math?  Confused by math?  Hate math?  Yeah, Coolmath can fix that.

Here is a link to a cool graphing calculator: Cool Math Graphing Calculator

• The Lesson Plans Page

  HotChalk's LessonPlansPage.com is a collection of over 3,000 lesson plans from Preschool through High School and beyond, that were developed by Kyle Yamnitz, students and faculty at The University of Missouri, and more recently by the users of this website. Launched in October of 1996, The Lesson Plans Page was developed to assist educators of all types.  Elementary school teachers get lesson plans that are ready to use in their classrooms.  College students get great example lesson plans or ideas to base their own lesson plans on.  Home schoolers can get lesson plans to use at home and parents can get ideas for educational activities to use with their children. 

• RightStart Mathematics

Activities for Learning, Inc. is the company bringing the AL Abacus to the children of the world. From her Montessori classroom, Dr. Joan A. Cotter created the unique double-sided AL Abacus. The Activities for the AL Abacus was written as she explored the wonderful uses for the new manipulative. Later while working on her doctorate in mathematics education, she wrote the first lessons using the AL Abacus, which became the RightStart Mathematics curriculum available today.

Of special interest:

• Interactive AL Abacus
• Presentations (from various conferences :)

 

• NCTM Web Links

  Follow this link to find over 700 Web links for Number & Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Data Analysis & Probability. Basically it's answer for for many of the questions of 'How am I going to teach ____?' You can fill in the blank and truly will find the answer here!

• Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools

Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve - Adopted December, 1997. These standards help me when working on my learning records. I thought I would put them here for someone else to use if they need.

Math 'Toys'

This list is a 'must have' for any learning center or small group play!

300 Math Games - Right Start Mathematics (Set is around $50)

Algebra Tiles - Turn the abstract into a reality for your Algebra students (per student set is around $6, Overhead set is around $15)

More links will be added as they are evaluated :)

For more information on the MVCS Math Program or to obtain PO information for any of the curriculum or games I have recommended please email me.

Mattole Valley Charter School
210 Lindley Road
Petrolia, California 95558
707-629-3634 (Admissions & Records)
707-445-2660 (Administration)