- Apples A Peel To Me (SMILE) - Olga Moreno, Horace Greeley School
A K-1 lesson designed to teach students to understand real and representational graphs; to recognize some different varieties of apples; and how to gather, record and interpret data. From the Graphs and Visuals section of a collection of almost 200 single
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- Arithmetic CD - John Banfill
The Arithmetic CD contains over 1700 basic arithmetic lessons for K-8 students. Each lesson has an explanation, some interactive practice, and challenge games. The lessons on the CD consist of interactive html files and require a web browser to operate.
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- Aunty Math - Angela Giglio Andrews; DuPage Children's Museum
An every-other-week math challenge for grades K-3 from "Aunty Math." Each challenge is presented in the form of a story taken from the life of Aunty Math, her two nephews, and her niece. Students with questions or suggestions can e-mail Aunty Math directly,
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- Blind Childrens Center
A non-profit organization based in Los Angeles, CA (U.S.) available to blind and partially sighted children regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, religion or ability to pay. Links to programs for infants and pre-schoolers; family
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- CESAME Support Site for Investigations Discussions - CESAME, Brown University, Math Forum
A place to share ideas, questions, and experiences from teaching TERC's Investigations in Number, Data and Space at four levels: Grades K-1; 2-3; 4-5; and Special Needs Students. Discussion archives are searchable and browseable, and you may also join
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- The Counting Game - Chris Malumphy
A game for children starting to count, showing a number of objects and asking you to click on the correct number button. A thermometer graphic tells you when you have correctly answered ten questions.
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- Count the Computer Mice - Andrew Neil Olscher
A counting 'book' for young children to practice learning to count, spell, and recognize their numbers from 1-10.
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- Digi-Block - Digi-Block, LLC
Manipulatives for K-4 classrooms. Students pack individual blocks into holders to create larger blocks of 10, 100, and 1,000, exploring place value and operations and learning the base 10 number system visually and physically.
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- The Educators' Bookstore - Simpson Communications
Books on mathematics and math education. Titles, names of authors, hardcover or paperback information, and the price of the book are provided for Preschool Math, Elementary Math, and Secondary Math. Books purchased can be paid for and shipped through
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- Estimation (SMILE) - Iona Greenfield, Carnegie Elementary School
A K-1 lesson designed to teach students to solve problems by guessing and checking; to identify length by using informal units to estimate; and to guess and write an addition and subtraction sentence for the number of peas in a pod. From the Geometry
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- Everyday Mathematics Center - University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP)
An NSF-funded center established to support educators, parents and students who are using, or will soon be using, Everyday Mathematics, a comprehensive K-6 mathematics curriculum developed by the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project and published
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- Folding Shapes: Are the Sides the Same? - Janna Moore
Folding Shapes gives students practice in identifying typical shapes (circles, squares, triangles, etc.), in the process of teaching about lines of symmetry. Students find symmetry in alphabet cutouts by folding them in half in various ways.
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- funschool.com
A site the goal of which is to make learning fun, and to communicate educational concepts in an effective manner, offering over 700 educational games and activities, many of them math-related. Browse by grade level or consult the site map.
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- Grades PreK-1: Lesson Plans (The Lesson Plans Page) - Kyle Yamnitz, Univ. of Missouri
A searchable archive of lesson plans for arithmetic, patterns, basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), time, estimation, graphs, place value, fractions, measurement, number sense, and many more. Includes suggestions for games
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- The Great Calculator Debate: Concerns About Calculator Use in Elementary Schools - Thomas W. Cowdery
Written for the Illinois State University College of Education course Principles of Curriculum Design, this student paper draws on the NCTM Standards, NEA Public Agenda studies, voices from Mathematically Correct, meta-analysis and other research into
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- Helping Your Child Learn Math - U.S. Dept of Education
A second, revised edition of Helping Your Child Learn Math for parents of children in kindergarten through fifth grade. The book includes a variety of activities that will help children learn and apply mathematical concepts such as geometry, algebra,
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- Inch by Inch and Centimeter by Centimeter Extravaganza (SMILE) - Pamela J. Bates-Hines, Ninos Heroes Academy
A lesson for the very early grades designed to teach students to measure one inch to a yard; measure one centimeter to a meter; and compare and contrast standard to non-standard units of measurement. From the Geometry and Measurement section of a collection
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- Math Activities for Grades K-4 - Biezad, Ward; NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
Lesson plans based on aeronautical themes and NASA projects. Topics include: Converting Units and the SR-71; Predicting and Estimating Speeds and the SR-71; Shape Identification - Geometry in the Constellations: The ER-2; Geometry and Shapes in the X-36;
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- MathKeys - Houghton Mifflin Company and MECC
A K-6 Mac and Windows software series for Kindergarten. Supports any K-6 math program, combining graphic representations of manipulatives with mathematical symbols and writing tools to provide students with the power to explore mathematical concepts in
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- Math Madness - Four Corners
Hands-on math workshops, Math Madness and Math for all Seasons, for K-3 teachers and administrators in the New Jersey/New York/Pennsylvania areas, for teaching math concepts through games, activities, poetry, literature, and music.
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- Math Matters - Math Matters
The goal of Math Matters is to help students develop a solid math foundation and prevent math anxiety. 7 M's of math (myths, memory, models, metaphor, meta learning, multimedia, miracles), brain research, MM software (CD-ROMs), and related links.
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- MathSURF - Pearson Education, Inc.
Activities and teaching tips designed to supplement Pearson/Scott Foresman and Pearson/Prentice Hall's math teaching materials for grades K-6. Activities are linked to chapters from textbooks and can be used as part of classroom instruction or on their
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- Math Tools Kindergarten - Math Forum
A community library of software tools for kindergarten math students (5 year-olds) and their teachers. Kindergarten is one section in the Math Forum's Math Tools digital library of software for computers, calculators, PDAs, and other handheld devices,
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- Melodies, Methods, and Models that make Math Marvelous and Meaningful - Brenda Barrow
Staff Development K-5 Math Workshops offered by Brenda Barrow, "The Math Lady." Order a math songs CD or a set of 70 math hall signs.
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- Playing with Numbers - Math at an Early Age - Family.com, Disney Online
Small children at play are engaged in laying the foundations of mathematical skills. Crawling as early experiences with spatial relationships, building with blocks as practice in the dynamics of space, negotiating skills and "pretend play" as logic and
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- Sorting Through Life! (SMILE) - Barbette Flennoy, Joseph Stockton School
A Kindergarten lesson designed to teach students how to sort objects by recognizing their attributes and, if possible, relate them to life. From the Patterns and Logic section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics
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- Starship Maths - BBC Learning
Six different interactive games, with accompanying resources for teachers and parents, designed for students ages 5-7: Place the Penguins - Cross the Swamp - Calamity's Quest - Park the Pods - Alien Cookbook - Number Jumbler. Print and Do, Teachers, Parents.
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- Teaching K-8 IdeaSite
A monthly professional magazine for kindergarten through eighth grade teachers. The IdeaSite highlights articles in the current issue and provides new ideas and resources spanning the curriculum. Search for math to find relevant matches, or browse Educator
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- Thinking Fountain Shape Cluster - Science Museum of Minnesota
Activities, images, and experiments relating science, math, and language arts. The shapes and math cluster features shape walk, I C shapes (finding circles, squares, and triangles in everyday objects), soap bubble geometry, pyramids and cubes (building
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- TouchMath: Multi-sensory Math Supplements - Innovative Learning Concepts, Inc.
The TouchMath Method is a multi-sensory approach to teaching basic number concepts, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. TouchMath integrates digits 1 through 9 with a corresponding number of "touchpoints." Students physically touch each
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- Uncovering Mathematics with Manipulatives and Calculators - Texas Instruments, Inc.
A text that provides K-6 activities emphasizing problem solving, reasoning, communications, and connections, clustered into four content strands: number sense; patterns, relations, and functions; measurement and geometry; and probability and statistics.
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- Zone Out! (SMILE) - Willie Mae Wilson, Hartigan Elementary School
A lesson for grades K-3 designed to review previously taught concepts of time, hours and 1/2 hours; and to help children with the concept of the four different standard time zones in the 48 states. From the "Miscellaneous" section of a collection of almost
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