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Online binder of activities created by Kelly Hines for her students. She uses this site (livebinders.com) to organize her online learning for her students. This is just a good example of what an online binder might look like. 

Experiments by University of Chicago psychologists with deaf people in Nicaragua who learned "homesigns" rather than formal sign language, could not count beyond three. In contrast, people learning sign language learn number words and number concept and understand large numbers. The findings ""suggest that language is an important player in number acquisition." The research is reported in PNAS: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/01/31/1015975108.abstract

Excellent Livebinder of resources for math classrooms

Excellent Livebinder of resources for math classrooms

A well design maths game where two jellies battle it. Practise probablity, more/less than and size comparisons questions. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths

Shoot some hoops and learn some maths with this lovely maths game for practising addition, subtraction and multiplication at two different levels. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/maths

Practise near doubles, addition and subtraction with this good worm themed maths game. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/maths

I'm always inspired when I hear stories about parents who have (and are) supporting their out of the box thinkers in out of the box ways. It gives me a little more courage to do the same for my kids.

Early years flash game. Quite challenging due to time constraint and rtandom distribution of numbers.

Hungarian folk dance used to demonstrate computational sorting algorithms, from Sapientia Univeristy in Romania

This is highly awesome! Computer science concepts are fun to play with, and dance is a great way to share this one. Reminds me of a TRIZ method.

Abstract: "We encounter mathematical problems in various forms in our lives, thus making mathematical thinking an important human ability [6]. Of these problems, optimization problems are an important subset: Wall Street traders often have to take instantaneous, strategic decisions to buy and sell shares, with the goal of maximizing their profits at the end of a day's trade. Continuous research on game-based learning and its value [2] [3] led us to ask: can we develop and improve the ability of mathematical thinking in children by guising an optimization problem as a game? In this paper, we present Bublz!, a simple, click-driven game we developed as a first step towards answering our question."