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Kid Snippets – Math
I was at a meeting this weekend when I found out about this series but it makes for a great Monday morning chuckle. Kid Snippets is a video series produced by @BoredShortsTV. Children are asked to act...
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Skool Football – math and science
Here is an engaging interactive using football (or soccer if you prefer) to teach about math and science concepts. There are developing/learning activities and self-assessment activities. — The URL:...
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Gut Instinct – Math Game
Here’s a fun game that prompts students to rely on their estimation skills. Students can play against other people on the site or a class group can sign up as a “League” with its own name and play each...
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Celebrating Pi Day
Tomorrow is Pi Day! Edutopia has put together seven sources of Pi Day activities. Even if you don’t teach “the subject with numbers” you might find some of these collections of Pi Day ideas...
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Computational Castle
Here’s a fun math interactive to teach students to use fractions to save characters in a medieval setting. It’s Flash-based and you’ll want students to use earbuds. (There’s no mute button for the...
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IXL Math
I’ve recommended this site before but it warrants a repeat after my pal Andy reminded me of it. IXL offers some no-cost activities that students (or your own children at home) can use to bone up on...
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Teen Math Puzzles
Long-standing Teacher List member, R. Chartrand, offers a variety of math puzzles for everyone. Teen Math Puzzles is divided into categories that will challenge, stimulate and help your students learn....
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Shapeology
Here’s a fun little Flash interactive that asks students to view an arrangement of shapes (similar to a tangram) and then they are mixed up. Students then move and rotate the shapes with their mouse to...
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7 Math Tips You Wish They’d Taught in School
The math purists will probably bristle at me for this one but I loved this site that long time List member, Sharon Affeld sent along. It demonstrates 7 different ways to think about math concepts using...
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Nix The [Math] Tricks
Back in January, I recommended a site that talked about shortcuts and thinking about a few math concepts in a different way. My thanks goes out to Edmonton teacher, Stephanie Gower, who offered me some...
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Using LEGO to Build Math Concepts
Edmonton teacher, Leslie Friesen, passed on this interesting article from Scholastic. The author makes a good case for using the different pieces of the popular Lego sets to illustrate fractions in...
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STEAM
I started hearing about STEAM this fall and was delighted to realize that the ‘A’ was intentional. Science – Technology – Engineering – Arts – Math… Sounds like a good collaboration to author and...
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