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NCTM Family Corner

This website is sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. A variety of resources for helping your child learn mathematics, understanding the Principles and Standards of Mathematics, learning more about mathematics issues in the classroom, and web links are provided.

McGraw-Hill Mathematics Student Island

This is the student companion website to the McGraw-Hill Mathematics textbook. Click on your child's grade level for grade level appropriate math sites, online activities, math fact practice, multimedia practice of chapter concepts, and technology links to enrich math content.

Math Forum

You can review archives of mathematics questions and/or ask your own questions of Dr. Math. An online library of resources and materials, research of mathematics pedagogy, and updates about key issues in mathematics instruction are all part of this site.

Elementary Problem of the Week

The Math Forum's Problems of the Week are designed to foster the growth of a mathematics community on the Internet. Mentors contribute to the elementary mathematics community by volunteering to reply to solutions submitted by students in grades three to six. Help your child communicate mathematically by submitting your own solution.

Figure This!

Figure This! Math Challenges for Families offers online mathematical problems for students and their families to solve. Real world connections are provided as well as helpful questions to think about and guide problem-solving.

Illuminations

Based on NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, this web site hosts some of the best internet resources to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students. You and your child can investigate mathematics through multimedia, online i-Math lessons, explore math concepts using interactive Math-lets, access grade level and concept specific web sites, and read about Math in the News.

Up To Ten

This site is designed for children ages 0-10. Boowa and Kwala is a section of the website that is for children 0-6 and full of fun, educational activities that challenge the mind, encourage creativity, help with problem solving, stimulate memory development, and stimulate lateral thinking in a child-friendly environment of stories, crafts, songs, and games. To discover Mathematics related activities, click on the Search icon at the top of the screen in Boowa and Kwala. Select activities in Number, Logic, Patterns and Functions, Geometry, Symmetry, Parts and Wholes, Sorting, and Sets from the Educational Categories menu.

EduPlace Kids' Place

This site is sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Mathematics. It contains activities, brain teasers, and test taking strategies for students in grades 1-6. Click on your child's grade level to begin.

EduPlace BrainTeasers

Each week, Brain Teasers for students in grades 3-4, 5-6, and 7-8 are posted to foster problem-solving skills and are quite challenging. Helpful problem-solving strategies include: make a table, act it out, guess and check, look for a pattern, work backward, make a list, work on a simpler problem, draw a picture, and write an equation. Students are encouraged to use a four-step procedure for solving the problems.

PBS Mathline

Links to online activities, videos, literature, and tv broadcasts that foster mathematics instruction for children K-12. Select your child's grade level and concept of interest. Featured lessons and activities are also included.

Multimedia Mathematics Glossary

Having difficulty understanding a mathematics concept or term? This website serves as an interactive glossary of mathematics terms for grades 1-8. Select your child's grade level and navigate through the glossary using the A-Z at the top of the page or down the left side.

Helping your Child With Math

Links to suggested activities by the US Department of Education for stimulating an interest in mathematics by practicing every day. Activities for mathematics in the home, in the car, at the grocery store, on the go, and just for fun are included.

Families and Math

How come the math my child brings home doesn’t look like the math I remember?

CyberChase

In the world of cyberspace, a classic good-versus-evil battle rages! When the dastardly villain Hacker (voiced by Christopher Lloyd) launches a mad mission to conquer the virtual universe, Motherboard calls upon three Earth kids -- Jackie, Matt and Inez -- for help. They, along with the wise-cracking cyber-bird Digit (voiced by Gilbert Gottfried), travel from their real-world realm to the colorful virtual vistas of cyberspace where they face off with the bad guys in an all-out battle of wits. Each episode takes the kids on a thrilling adventure driven by a different math concept -- from tackling time in ancient Egyptian tombs, to cracking codes in creepy caves or making sense of numbers in a fractured fairy tale world. In their quest, the heroes use minds, not muscles, to confront obstacles and danger everywhere.