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"We've created Yummy Math to provide teachers with an easy way to bring real-life into their math classrooms. It is our belief that when math is explored in contexts that are familiar and of interest to students, students will be more engaged to do math, reason, think critically, question and communicate. Our activities are written to correspond with the NCTM Process Standards and the CCSS Standards for Mathematical Practice."

"Get the Math is about algebra in the real world. See how professionals use math in music, fashion, videogames, restaurants, basketball, and special effects. Then take on interactive challenges related to those careers. "

Posted on February 2, 2011. Filed under: Assessment, During the Guided Math Lesson, Graphic Organizers, Guided math, Mathematical Proficiency | Tags: Assessment, mathematical thinking, problem solving, springboards, story problems, vocabulary, word problems, writing | These graphic organizers from DePaul University are excellent. I like the idea of guided math groups. - Laurel

Mathster Vakkas is a math specialist that has been teaching elementary school mathematics for 15 years. He creates research-based, student-centered, "real-life", math video-clips, tutorials, interactive video read alouds, and lessons that promote constructivism, cognitive development, and 21st Century Skills. His lessons are differentiated for all learners and will help children become better problem solvers.

This Seattle-based organization is so dedicated to helping students achieve in math that they've created a free web program for students, teachers and parents. We learned about it from Martha Leslie who says, "It is just for math facts, and it allows you to set it up so that the next student's name comes up automatically so the kids can go get the next learner. Plus, it allows the student to look and see if the next student is absent or busy, click a button to get the next student. I hope that made some sense. Anyway, I've used it now for two months, and it works really well for the independent math facts."

a third grade teacher is loving this math site!

This is a blog post about a strategy used to incorporate stations into math. The fact that this teacher mentions that they use Investigations, and that she regards it as the Daily 5 for math caught my attention.

AIMS Education Foundation's blog site called math and science SANDBOX... aligned with Common Core Standards and organized by grade-level strands... free activities found here.

Math reasoning inventory with Marilyn Burns; great videos, an assessment tool to use for upper elementary.

"Thinking Blocks is a suite of learning tools designed to help students solve math word problems accurately and efficiently. Using brightly colored blocks, students model mathematical relationships and identify known and unknown quantities. The model provides students with a powerful image that organizes information and simplifies the problem solving process. By modeling increasingly complex word problems, students develop strong reasoning skills which will facilitate the transition from arithmetic to algebra."

Math Organizer SMARTsheets™ Download Samples

titles that go with math skills

"The VDOE Mathematics Institutes were targeted professional development opportunities in a train-the-trainer model that provide: * support in the implementation of the 2009 Mathematics SOL; * training in the vertical progression of content and pedagogy; * instructional guidance in content areas of greatest challenge; * electronically archived training materials for districts and teachers for use as a professional development tool. Participants included division-level leaders, mathematics supervisors, instructional supervisors, professional development personnel, and building administrators. "

vertical alignment for math standards (spring 2011)

Tammy's livebinder for Math fluency sites

This site from England is the first resource of its kind designed specifically for the students and teachers of Math and Science. It leverages the expertise of top teachers in their fields for the development of its content.

"On our website you will find thousands of our free mathematics enrichment materials (problems, articles and games) for teachers and learners from ages 5 to 19 years. All the resources are designed to develop subject knowledge, problem-solving and mathematical thinking skills."

videos for science and math

teacher and student made math interactives

a poster from Fairfax that shows succinct instructional strategies in math classrooms... could be used in other content areas as well. A nice resource for sharing out with colleagues.