Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Math Quizzes and Online Games

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Quizzes by content area and grade level
Online Math Games

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Learning Curve

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Math Expressions

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Math Expressions offers free online tutorial with videos, examples, and practice.

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Animated math videos to help you visualize math ideas better.
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Study tips that focus on important math ideas. You will save time by knowing what is necessary.
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Practice questions to help you to build better understanding in math.
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Sunday, November 9, 2008

Math Stories

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This article gives excellent examples. How can we make our lessons to teach problem solving more interesting and relevant to 4th and 5th graders?


Turn word problems into good stories and watch the results.

Its guaranteed that the kids won't be bore.

Do your students complain when you give them story or word problems? Are they bored with problems about Susie's garden or Farmer John's harvest or rowboats traveling upstream or downstream? Part of the difficulty lies in the way problems are written.

Most word or story problems are not really stories at all - or at least they're not very good stories. Good stories have interesting characters and plots. They may start with a conflict and build to a climax or, like newspaper stories, they may describe the five W's: Who, What, Where, When and Why.


Read more . . . .


http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3666/is_200001/ai_n8884009

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