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Some interesting apps here to support the teaching of Mathematics. I have used Dragonbox+ its awesome for teaching Algebra. Great for high flying grade 6's to year 8's Developers have introduced a greater range of apps across all areas of the Maths curriculum that can be used to enhance the Maths teaching and learning in your classroom. Here's a selection of 20 apps that cover Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability ( these are the Content strands (CS) Australia's Mathematics curriculum has been categorized under ). They also cover the proficiency strands (PS) of Understanding, Fluency, Problem Solving and Reasoning. I'm sure other countries' curricula are similar in many regards and you will be able to make the connections.

"Real World Math is a collection of free math activities for Google Earth designed for students and educators. Mathematics is much more than a set  of problems in a textbook.  In the virtual world of Google Earth, concepts and challenges can be presented in a meaningful way that portray the usefulness of the ideas."

"This is a list that comprises some of the best math apps and extensions in Chrome store. We have literally gone through hundreds of apps to finally decide on the apps that would make the cut.These extensions are meant to help kids develop math skills through a wide variety of exercises, activities, games, interactive simulations and many more. Some of these apps are integrated with Google Drive and are also available for  iPad, Android, and Chromebooks."

Using Legos in the classroom is not a new concept at all. There are so many different classroom applications for the popular brightly colored bricks, and despite the myriad of uses, the go-to task for Legos is most often math. The handy little nubs sitting atop the bricks offer a chance to teach things like area and perimeter, the different colors lend themselves well to fractions.

A great interactive challenge for grade 5/6 middle group students for exploring some order of operations equations. Headphones and computer required. 

Kids don't hate math. Not even fractions. Ask them to divide a bag of candy among themselves and watch them tackle the problem. What they hate is repeat computation, void of context. Add a timer and they really hate it.

a range of interactive online maths games that cover decimals

This could be a good whole class launch or independent launch activity for BODMAS/ order of operations

This was a great launch activity and we used it as a summary as well. 

Over the last month I've shown the picture that you see to the left during a number of presentations and workshops. I've used the picture to model using pictures to spark students' minds at the beginning of lessons on search strategies. This is a strategy that I've developed by borrowing ideas from Daniel Russell's Search ReSearch activities and Dan Meyer's strategy of using videos and pictures to prompt students to ask math questions.

Type in a short message with letters and numbers, and your students can plot the points to reveal it in the grid. You can make this message anything you like, for example, "TRAVIS LOVES GEOMETRY". The best plotting exercises seem to come from messages which are three to seven words in length.

Very simple, easy to use clock with minute and hour hands for use on the Interactive Whiteboard.

Some great ideas here for getting students to estimate. This person does it daily. These could come in handy for the 5 min warm up. 

Breaking down BODMAS this could be a good launch whole class share discussion.

Low to middle independent explore activity

This lesson introduces students to the concept of measurement focusing on centimetres and metres. It was designed for a year 3/4 composite class, has been tested and worked well as an introductory lesson to assess students current understanding and gaps in their learning to assist in the development of future lessons.

Table of 'rules' for the interior angles of polygons. Extension activity can be used with top kids regarding algebraic rules

Online Angle activities involving angles within shapes, exterior angles, measuring of angles using an online protractor

Great online fraction converter to decimals