Miss Poynter's Math Blog

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Teacher Resources

BrainPOP
http://www.brainpop.com/

DreamBox
http://www.dreambox.com/

Differentiated Math Instruction (Article)
https://www.mheonline.com/glencoemath/pdf/diffentiating_math.pdf

Math Manipulative Activities (Virtual Manipulatives)
http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/mathematics/ebook_assets/vmf/VMF-Interface.html

Math for America
http://www.mathforamerica.org/teacher-resources/professional

K-5 Math Teaching Resources (Games, activities, journal tasks, etc.)
http://www.k-5mathteachingresources.com/

Math.com has many resources for teachers. There are resources to be used with ELL or ESL students, as well as students with special needs. It provides prompts such as PODs (Problem of the Day). They also provide methods for teaching math at home for parents in the form of articles and ideas. This would be a great site to show your students' parents so that they can help out at home.

http://www.math.com/teachers.html

Cool Math

Cool Math has interactive games for students, as well as a multitude of information for teachers and parents. They also provide links to create your own resources such as WebQuests. Another great aspect of the site is that it has links for continuing education and professional development opportunities. There are math activities, math lessons, math games, math practice and a math dictionary available on the site, as well as some science stuff too! This is great for a computer center, and for students to work on math skills at home.

http://www.coolmath.com/teachers/

PBS Learning Media

This site has interactive games and videos on every different section of math content in the elementary grades. This would be a great resource especially for helping to teach geometry concepts to young children. There are multiple resources for each grade level, so you could have children who may be exceeding work a grade level above, while children who may be behind can get extra practice with games that are easier or a grade level below.

http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/search/?q=*&selected_facets=supplemental_curriculum_hierarchy_nodes_exact:5148577a-b1b8-43b7-bd9d-ff9bd0ea8de4&display=Mathematics

Thursday, October 17, 2013

This video explains using the make ten method for subtraction so that parents are able to help at home!

This video shows how the most successful math students use easy math! This emphasizes the use of place value and not teaching traditional methods for solving equations. No more regrouping and carrying the “one”!