Click the image above to go to the Virtual Dice online tool. There are lots of great activities you could try with virtual dice! Kindergarten (single die):
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The National Council for Teachers of Mathematics has many great online resources. One of my favourites is "Calculation Nation", a collection of math games played online versus a computer or versus another player somewhere in the world. These games focus on computation skills and comparing numbers.
You need an account (free to join) to play against other players, but can play against the computer as a guest. This wonderful website offers challenges for families to tackle together on a variety of math topics. How many challenges can your family beat?
Play around and explore different nets to become more familiar with 3D figures' faces, edges, and vertices. You can create your own nets to print and put together, or look at some of the ones provided. This resource includes a great model of nets being folded into their figures!
Please see this post for a wonderful math problem Ms. Storey's math class took on this week!
This problem involves addition up to 20. Being able to think about a number as made up of different "parts" is so important to number sense. Practicing not just 2 addend problems (8 + 12 = 20), but also multi-addend problems (5 + 3 + 6 + 6 = 20) helps introduce students to multiplication, and helps them with "fast facts". You can create other open-ended math questions with contexts! For example, there are 100 marbles in a bag, in the colours red, blue, green, and white. Jane draws 10 marbles out of the bag. How many of each colour might she have drawn? How many different combinations are there? Create your own problem and leave it in the comments below! Great for figuring out number patterns, practicing subtraction and addition, and reviewing skip counting. Try some of the following challenges:
Rekenreks are number racks. There is a great tool to represent numbers, and helps students visualize 5 and 10 as "anchor numbers" or "friendly numbers". See the video below for a tutorial on how to use this online app. Try using the Rekenrek to...
(Only accessible with a Flash-enabled device.)
Some challenges to try...
Numberphile is a youtube channel full of videos about math! It is created by a British organization and highlights fascinating math problems, enigmas, and equations. Some of my favourites are the 4 Colour Map problem and Sharing a Cake with 3 People, but please take time to look through them all! They are so inspiring and they make me want to play with math all day.
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How to use this pageUse the "Categories" section below to find specific resources in different math strands. Each post is tagged with the appropriate mathematic topic. Archives
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