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Math Web Sites

Listed below are links to some resources that can be used for Guided Math stations.  In your search to find math station tasks, games and activities, remember to begin with your standards and remember that math stations should be based on Concepts to maintain.   

Skills to maintain by grade level:

Kindergarten

No concepts or skills are listed for Kindergarten, because it is the students’ first exposure to GPS.  Workstation ideas should come from the areas in which more practice is needed. 

First Grade

Number Words

Ordinal Numbers

Equivalence

Basic geometric shapes

Spatial relationships – positional words

Calendar time and daily schedule

Estimating – using 10 as a benchmark

Name and value of coins

Measurement – comparing and ordering

 

Second Grade

Fluency with single-digit addition/subtraction facts to 18

Fair trades with coins or bills

Duration and sequence of events

Number patterns, skip count, odd/even

Fact families

Fractions:  halves, fourths

Tally marks

Picture graphs

Estimation:  rounding to nearest ten      

Telling time

Measurement – estimating, comparing, and ordering

Basic geometric figures and spatial relationships

 

Third Grade

Comparison of numbers

Addition & subtraction of multi-digit numbers

Length & time

Geometric shapes

Money

Area models (arrays) of multiplication

 

Fourth Grade

Addition & subtraction of decimals

Multiplication & division of whole numbers

Area

Perimeter

Place Value

Weight and Length

 

 Fifth Grade

Add and subtract decimal fractions

Whole numbers and decimal fraction computation

Angle measurement

Length, area and weight

Number sense

Add and subtract common fractions with like denominators

Data usage and representation

Characteristics of 2D & 3D shapes

Order of operations

 

On line resoruces:

Math Wire

Math Skills Practice by Strand Grades K-2

Math Skills Practice by Strand Grades 3 -5

Student Interactive Activities Grades 3-5

Tens & Ones Game from Maryilyn Burns

Math Power Points and Games K-5

If you are interested in another new site with great interactive resources for your Smartboard, be sure to visit

Onlinelearningmath.com

It has videos, games, and worksheets.  You are also able to view resources by grade level or strand!

Looking for a way to challenge your child or students by adding some rigor?  Here are some web sites you may want to try!

 Quadrilateral Quest - helps students master difficult vocabulary while learning the properties of quardilaterals.  Opportuntites to sort by attribute, and then take an online quiz to see what you learned (self correcting!)

 NRICH Specialist in Rich Mathematics The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. On the website you will find thousands of free mathematics enrichment materials (problems, articles and games) for teachers and learners from ages 5 to 19 years. All the resources are designed to develop subject knowledge, problem-solving and mathematical thinking skills. The website is updated with new material on the first day of every month.

Visual Fractions - a tutorial that uses numberlines and circles the help students master all of the fraction concepts.  Some games and investigations are included.

 

I hope you find these useful.

ELA Web Sites

Yes it is true, I do more that just Math!  If you are looking for some on-line activities to use on your Smart Board to engage students during your literacy block, check out these sites  to supplement your Language Arts instruction.

Cannonball Express - rearrange the words to form sentences.  Can be extended to add capitalization, punctuation and type of sentence.

Making Sentences - Three games; True or False is it a sentence , Does it Make Sense? practice making sentences, and add punctuation to various texts to create sentences.

Putting Sentences Together - Three games to practice with compound sentences.

Treasure Hunt - Three levels of practice with pronouns; spot the pronoun, choose the correct pronoun, and rewrite sentences using pronouns.

Verb Tense Treasure Hunt - three levels of practice with verb tense

Grammar Practice Park - Harcourt site for grades 3, 4, 5

 Grammar Blast Activities for grades 2-5

Sentence Clubhouse Identify the 4 types of sentences and practice editing skills.

2Bee or Nottobee Practice past and present verb tense

Sentence Sort Game Play a virtual board game and identify simple, compound, and complex sentences.

Subject Verb Mix Up choose a subject, verb, and ending to create a sentence that makes sense.

Grammar Gorrillas identify parts of speech.  Level 1 nouns and verbs only.  Level 2 all 8 parts of speech (Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb, Interjection, Preposition, Conjunction, & Pronoun)

Plural Girls correctly form plural words.  2 levels of difficulty multiple choice & fill in the blank.

Power Proofreading grades 2-8 edit and revise different writing samples.  Score given at completion.