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[] - A site that for teachers that focuses on building the connections between science and basic algebra by including lessons, activities, practice pages, study guides, career overviews and much more. [] - A free math help portal featuring __[|interactive lessons]__, [|worksheets], and [|homework help].
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[] - Free online math site for teachers, parents, and kids featuring math games, math worksheets, math tutorials, and math movies. [] - A site that has online games that cover basic math skills, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to help with solving problems.
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[] - a site that has over 5000 types of online calculators [] - Students can choose which topics to practise when starting a game. Teacher who have __ [|signed up for a free teacher login] __ can also set challenges and competitions for their students, to focus on individual topics. = = =**__Website Reviews:__**= [] (posted by Kristina Marenic) - This is a wonderful website! The fact the various subjects are broken down into specific kinds of problems are particularly useful, especially if you have a student in your classroom struggling with in a very specific area. In order to use this as a teaching tool in the classroom, I would first introduce this process using actual blocks. This would give students hands-on practice with how to manipulate the blocks. This would also allow me to help students discover different ways that the blocks could be used in solving problems. The way the activities are set up makes the problem solving feel like a game, so using this in the classroom after the introduction of the actual blocks, would be extremely rewarding for the students. I would have them work in pairs to figure out the various problems presented on the website. Then I would ask the students to compare and contrast the use of the physical blocks to the blocks on the website and have them tell which they like more and why. This website could also be used as a homework assignment or extra help for a student that needs it.
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[] (posted by Jessica McIlhenney) - This website is a great resource for classroom teachers of all levels. The activities provided are listed in specific grade levels, which makes it far easier for teachers to locate activities that are most appropriate for the class that they are teaching. There are also lessons presented by grade level or by standards, which also makes it extremely easy to find a lesson that is most appropriate for what you're teaching at any given time. This website is useful for any math teacher, regardless of the age level of subject being taught. It can be accessed for whole lessons or simply for activities to supplement the lessons already in place. As an added bonus, there is also a separate section of this website that provide links to other websites, also separated by subject matter. Excellent resource!