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Internet Resources

Page history last edited by Leigh Hopkins 15 years, 6 months ago

Here are a bunch of great internet sites that support North Carolina's 6th grade standard course of study. Feel free to e-mail me with a new link. Just be sure to give a description of what the site is like.

Classroom Websites

http://www.quia.com/profiles/lhopkins

Great Math Games

http://www.mathplayground.com

http://www.coolmath4kids.com/index.html

http://www.brainbashers.com/

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/games.shtml

http://gamequarium.com/math.htm

http://coolmath4kids.com

Numbers & Operations

GENERAL MATH FUN!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/gridgame.html

ADDING FRACTIONS—ILLUSTRATION OF COMMON DENOMINATOR

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_106_g_3_t_1.html

MULTIPLYING and SIMPLIFYING FRACTIONS

Online flashcards for practicing mult fractions. Under Non-Java Flashcards, click on Mult and Simplifying Fractions.

http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/index.html

Rectangle multiplication of fractions. Visualize and multiply fractions with a rectangular area representation.

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_194_g_3_t_1.html

ORDERING INTEGERS

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/laddergame.html

ADD/SUB and MULT/DIV with INTEGERS

Online flashcards for practicing using integers. Under Non-Java Flashcards, click on Add/sub/mult/div with Negative Numbers.

http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/index.html

MENTAL MATH/ADDING INTEGERS

Choose Circle 0, Circle 3, Circle 21, Circle 99.

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/category_g_3_t_1.html

ORDER OF OPERATIONS FLASHCARDS

Online flashcards for practicing order of operations. Under Non-Java Flashcards, click on Order of Operations.

http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/index.html

SQUARE ROOTS

Online flashcards for practicing find the square root of a number. http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/sqrt.html

ROUNDING

Online flashcards for practicing rounding. Does not include decimals—only whole numbers.

http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/rounding.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/roundoff.html

FACTORING

Interactive Factor Game.

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=12

PRIME FACTORIZATION

Intro to prime factorization—includes monomials. Followed by a quiz. Click on Prime Factorization, then be sure to click on “zoom” BEFORE clicking to play the movie. You can only open 2 of these (FREE!) per day.

http://www.brainpop.com/math/seeall/

RATIOS – SCALE DRAWING

Click on Scale Drawing, then be sure to click on “zoom” BEFORE clicking to play the movie. You can only open 2 of these (FREE!) per day.

http://www.brainpop.com/math/seeall/

Online lesson about ratios.

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/proportions/index.html

USING PROPORTION METHOD TO SOLVE PERCENT PROBLEMS

Notes to show how to use this method to solve any percent problem.

http://amby.com/educate/math/4-2_prop.html

TANNAGRAM

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_292_g_3_t_1.html?open=activities

SIEVE of ERATOSTHENES

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_158_g_3_t_1.html?open=instructions

SAVING CALCULATOR

Great tool for calculating and graphing saving over x amount of time with interest compounded daily, monthly and annually.

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_320_g_3_t_5.html

Probability & Statistics

BASIC PROBABILITY

Click on Probability. You can only open 2 of these a day (FREE. Be sure to click on “zoom” BEFORE clicking to play the movie!

http://www.brainpop.com/math/seeall/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/fish.html

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_186_g_3_t_1.html?open=activities

STATISTICS

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/train.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/datapick.html

Input survey information and this applet will make a horizontal and vertical bar graph from your data. Must use Netscape for this to work.

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/graph.html

Amazing tool for making a scatter plot. You input your data into a t-chart and the applet adjust the scale accordingly (teaching moment!) and shows the scatter plot and the best-fit-line. Choose Scatter plot from the menu.

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/topic_t_5.html

After clicking on the link, go to Plop It!

http://my.nctm.org/eresources/repository/shared/interactives.html

Geometry

ANGLE MEASURES/USING A PROTRACTOR

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/protractor.html

TRIANGLES

http://www.crick.northants.sch.uk/Flash%20Studio/cfsmaths/Triangles/triangles.swf

AREA OF SQUARE, TRAPEZOID, RECTANGLE, CIRCLE, TRIANGLE

Under Non-Java Flashcards, click on Geometric Area.

http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/index.html

http://www.mathopenref.com/rectanglearea.html