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"This site provides an extensive collection of free resources, math games, and hands-on math activities aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Our math printables are suitable for use in math centers, small group or whole class settings. Instructions for each activity are presented in large print on a task card in child-friendly language to enable students to work on tasks independently after a brief introduction to the task. All files are in PDF format and can be accessed using Adobe Reader. Also available are Math Journal Tasks (K-5), Math Vocabulary Resources (Gds. 2-5) and Math Projects (Gds. 3-5) for teachers looking for ways to support students' math writing skills while developing key concepts and skills. See our E-Books page for more information on these resources."

I attended a workshop about PARCC and middle school math at the NJ Principals and Supervisors Association in March 2014. The presentation was made by people from TMI Education, and these links are from their presentation.

Pearson has put together over 1,500 math video tutorials at Virtual Nerd. The quality is very good, and the topics are aligned with Common Core, so this should be a great resource.

Ohio's Online Resource Center has a very good collection of inquiry-oriented, open-ended math questions that you can choose based upon grade level and topic! The range is from third grade to high school, so finding a quality question that meets your students' needs is easy!

Worksheets may be a "four-letter word" in the day of Common Core, but if you need some extra practice problems, this may be a useful math site for all grades 1-8.

Want to see a standard next to an explanation of what it would look like in the classroom? This page leads you to the "unpacked" standards that North Carolina's department of education put together. It's a fabulous resource that you can use on almost a daily basis.

This site has tons of resources by grade level.

Mean, median, and mode used to be all over the grades before CCSS, but CCSS has remanded those concepts to sixth grade. This set of lessons is a great resource!

What a great resource this is! Word problems are often a challenge, but modeling them helps a lot, and Thinking Blocks at Math Playground are an excellent way to model word problems. Sure, drawing pictures can be fun, but sometimes time doesn't allow us to draw detailed pictures. This Singapore math-style of modeling works, and Math Playground did an excellent job with this tool.

At least three people have mentioned Gynzy to me in the last two weeks, and the site is a wealth of SMART Notebook resources for ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies. Not exactly like the lame activities on PARCC--much better!

This is the PARCC page where you can click on links that take you to the actual online "live" samples of PARCC questions. You can click on math only questions for grade bands (3-5, 6-8, high school), or ELA only questions.

Looking for information to hand out to parents about math? These Parent Roadmaps developed by the Council of the Great City Schools are very simple, straightforward documents that inform parents about Common Core math concepts at each grade level.

This is a booklet published by Louisiana's department of education. It is valuable for ECR questions and discussion of the mathematical practices.

Looking for great online learning instruction and games? Thanks to Linda Kovacs for sharing this fabulous site!

Online Free Percentage Calculator

A great tool

How can you answer the perennial math question: "Am I ever going to use this in real life?" PBS's "Get the Math" website is a great way to show students how math is used in areas like music, fashion, and video game design. Thanks to Emily B. for sharing this one!

This is a good explanation of relationships that are NOT proportional and why. The candle problem is a good one--ask students, "How could you turn this into a proportion?" They would want to say that the statement should change to something like "How much candle is burned each hour?"