Cool Math Sites for Students

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Cool Math Sites for Students

• Prepared and presented by
• Joan Luciano
• December 7, 2006

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How Can I Help My Kids Get It?
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If they see it, theyll get it!
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Technology Can Help

• Focus To provide various websites for teachers
  to help our kids understand math concepts
• If they can manipulate it - touch it and see
  it, it will help them understand
• It may help the kids that just arent getting it
• Sites can be used as Warm-Ups, Do Nows, HW Help,
  Centers, or drills

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Place Value

• Helps lower grade level students lower students
• Allows students to build numbers by place value

• Base 10 or 5
• Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands
• Decimals

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Ten Frame

• Thinking of numbers in ten frames can help
  students learn basic number facts
• Ten Frame site
• How many?
• Build a frame
• Fill in a frame
• Add with frames
• Random

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Prime Factorization

• Factor Trees
• Drill
• Helps kids practice prime factorization
• Lets them see the factorization in action
• Student parent help available

• LCM GCF
• LCMleast common multiple
• GCFgreatest common factor
• Factor first
• Then give LCM GCF
• Help available

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Venn Diagrams

• Venn Diagram
• Illustrates prime factorization Venn Diagrams
• Explains how problem is done
• Gives challenging problems with solutions

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Eratosthenes Sieve

• Ancient Greek Mathematician
• A method of identifying prime numbers
• Great follow-up to having the students do the
  Sieve on paper

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Technology links

• Place Value http//nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid
  _152_g_1_t_1.html
• Ten Frame
• http//illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx
  ?ID75
• Prime Factorization/LCM GCF Site
• http//nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_202_g_3_t_
  1.html
• Venn Diagrams
• http//www.learner.org/channel/courses/learningma
  th/number/session6/part_a/finding.htmla4
• Eratosthenes Sieve
• http//teachertech.rice.edu/Participants/louviere
  /Lessons/primeACT.html

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NJ State Core Curriculum Standards
Mathhttp//www.state.nj.us/njded/cccs/s4_math.ht
m41
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Thank You!