Monday, August 13, 2012

Some Promising Freebies

Here are four of the most promising freebies I came across on TeachersPayTeachers.com this week:

  • Math Brain Teasers by Games 4 Learning (this is the same gal who runs the MakingMathMoreFun.com web site) -- math brain teasers aimed at grades 1-3, but some of these could be used with older students, too
  • You Can Even Read a Cereal Box by Cynthia Vautrot -- fun literacy activities with a cereal box, aimed at grades 1-4
  • Add It Up by The Engineer -- a template for creating self-grading math or science activities (using questions with numerical answers), aimed at grades 6-12, but usable with any students who can add lists of numbers
  • Place Value with Large Numbers by Math Coach's Corner -- differentiated activities for place value, aimed at grades 3-6

Friday, August 10, 2012

Making Math More Fun

Teresa over at MakingMathMoreFun.com released her latest magazine yesterday (look under the 9 August heading; if you get to 26 July, you've gone too far), collecting several fun back-to-school activities and other ideas for math lessons / games. If you're looking for ways to change things up in your K-5 math class, her magazines usually have something you can use.

Updated links

As we're getting back to school, I updated several of my Symbaloo webmixes to make them more useful for myself and my students. Check out my Math Games, Math Resources, and Educational Research (formerly only for protocols and thinking routines) pages, and hopefully you'll find something useful for you, too!

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Elementary Resources

For my friends at the elementary level, I have collected the specifically K-5 resources I had scattered across my Symbaloo pages onto a single webmix for you. It is linked from my "Other Resources" page above, or you can check it out directly at: http://www.symbaloo.com/embed/elementaryresources1.