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Math
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Math
Below you will find some web-based activities which can help enhance student learning. A link, description, evaluation, and some tips are provided for each activity.
Discovery/Inquiry Activities
Discovery learning is an inquiry-based learning method that encourages students to discover for themseleves the rules, relations, or concepts about something (Mills, 2006). Students are more likely to remember concepts and information that they discover on their own. Below are some lesson plans which encourage this type of learning.
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Discovery/Inquiry Activities
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Grades K-2
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Students will learn why numbers are an important part of everyday life. They will be able to provide examples of daily uses of numbers.
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Grades K-2
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This lesson emphasizes the connections between science and mathematics by using a performance, or authentic, assessment format. Students explore applications involving their own heart. This activity involves taking a pulse, collecting and interpreting data, making predictions, and drawing conclusions. Its focus is the collection and analysis of data.
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Grades K-2
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Students make and extend numerical patterns using hundred charts. They also explore functions at an intuitive level. This lesson integrates technology.
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Grades K-2
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Students use AppleWorks or Office to write and illustrate a number story. Each student’s work is then added to a Keynote or PowerPoint show and displayed for the class to see and share.
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Online Games/Activities
These types of activities below can help support students' understanding of math concepts. These types of websites can be a great way to introduce students to new concepts, or to help those who are struggling in math. Students can set the level of the problems, and they are able to get immediate feedback.
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Online Games/Activities
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Lesson Plan
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Teachers can have students access this website to further develop their math skills.
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This site contains games, puzzles, and activities in which students can learn a variety of math concepts.
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Students can visit this website to learn math through playing games. See Teacher's Page for ideas.
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This site contains K-12 math concepts explained in easy language. Also includes puzzles, games and worksheets.
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Teachers can have students access this site to learn more about a given topic. Great activity for early finishers.
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This site includes fun education games for grades K-8. Topics include counting, fractions, numbers, and measurement.
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This site provides many educational math games for grades PreK-6. Topics include fractions, addition, counting, place value, and equations.
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WebQuests
A WebQuest is "an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web." (Bernie Dodge) These types of lesson plans are student-centered and usually involve collaborate based learning. WebQuests present students with a senario and they are to search the internet for information.
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WebQuest
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See Teacher’s Page of WebQuest
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This WebQuest is designed to help students better understand fractions. The tasks will help them decide how many pizzas to buy for their group pizza party.
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by: Tom March
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See Teacher’s Page of WebQuest
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This WebQuest is designed for students to answer the questions “What is a shape? In a group students will collect information and pictures of a specific shape.
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See Teacher’s Page of WebQuest
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Students will learn how to identify shapes, their color, and size. They will also learn how to identify patterns and how these shapes shape our world today.
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See Process Page of WebQuest
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In this WebQuest, students will work in groups to learn about polygons, make a zoo animal, and type up a contest entry form.
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Websites:
http://illuminations.nctm.org/ - This site is designed to illuminate the new vision for school mathematics as presented in NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. It provides resources for classroom use to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students.
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/math.html - AAA Math features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons. Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows thorough mastery of the concepts. A wide range of lessons (Kindergarten through Eighth grade level) enables learning or review to occur at each individual's current level.
http://www.kidsplaypark.com/- Kids Play Park is an educational website for kids. We offer a variety of free kids learning games. Kids have fun learning while playing our games! Play kids math games, art games, kids memory games, word games for kids, kids recipes, and the stock market game that teaches kids about stock.
http://www.mathforamerica.org/index.phpThis site includes compiled a set of links for people interested in mathematics teaching and in general issues of mathematics education. These include online resources for lesson plans, activities, and demonstrations that are consistent with the best practices in mathematics education. MfA also believes that being a teacher of mathematics means participating actively in a community of practice with other mathematics educators.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/This is a great site which includes a collection of 525 lesson plans for preK-12 math educators, a library of 95 online activities that help to make math come alive in the classroom or at home, and hundereds of online resources.
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