Middle years and High School resources for Math and Numeracy span various environments. One resource that both teachers and students love is a place to whiteboard and even whiteboard and screen cast. You’ll find those favorites among others below.
Math Makes Sense…eText
Pearson has released access to its eText series… over 70 digital learning resources. Access to the digital learning resources at www.pearsoncanada.ca/athome.
Which resources can you access? … Through Kivuto’s Texidium platform and eReader, families can access digital versions of over 70 curriculum-based elementary and secondary textbooks. These resources cover curriculum areas, including literacy, math, science, French as a second language, and social studies.
How long will the resources be available? … We’ll provide open access to these resources until May 25, 2020. With this support, your family now has access to the same high quality, trusted resources that are used in classrooms across Canada every day to support student learning.
Nelson Math Resources
As a valued Nelson customer, you have access to all your digital resources by visiting mynelson.com. As things evolve in the coming weeks, we will continue to work to provide solutions. To support this, Nelson has created a Resource Support Centre which will be updated regularly with best practices and relevant information.
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Searchable Sites for Supports
- Alberta Regional Consortia
- CK-12
- Curriki
- Geogebra (site for dynamic applets
- Khan Academy (video support)
- Learn Alberta
- Manitoba Math (Middle Years Activities /Games)
- Math Antics (video support)
- Mathigon (many great courses)
- Math is Fun (this site also contains formative questions)
- Mathsonline (video tutorials)
- NRich (teacher homepage)
- Ontario Tech (Some really nice options and videos)
- OpenStax Math
- Patrick JMT (Searchable Video Support)
- Waterloo Math – Topic Specific Support Courseware
Digital Creation Tools
- Desmos
- Desmos Card Sort
- Marble Slide Activity Builder
- Math Learning Centre
- NCTM (Dynamic Paper)
- OpenMiddle
- Tinkercad (3D creation tool)
- TI-Nspire (App for digital devices)
More Learning Platforms and Sites
- CK-12 – various online resources such as Math grades 1-8, Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, PreCalculus. Must Join as a Teacher for Free.
- Curriki – digital learning content divided into grades and subject areas. Can easily share with GClassroom.
- Favorite Math Sites – as curated by Alberta Math teachers and facilitators.
- Knowledgehook: great interactive activities for students grades 3-10. Free Premium access for teachers during Covid.
- Marbleslide: High School topics of math support with animations to support dynamic based elements.
Polyup – math education app available freely on the web. With the goal of instilling creative problem solving and computational thinking skills into K-12 students, Polyup allows students to play with numbers and functions in a freeform environment.
Whiteboard Tools
- Google Jamboard chrome app – online collaborative whiteboard, can draw while sharing screen for students to see or use screencastify while you talk through a problem. Can even invite students to join and create extra pages. Tutorial video.
- Google Keep for Math – great EDU in 90 video and go to the to add drawing for different backgrounds (grid, dot, lined). Can save into Google Doc or share with others.
- Google Chrome Canvas – individual basic whiteboard, easily shared during GMeet sessions, can also bring in images to annotate over.
- PearDeck Google Slides add-on – pull PearDeck whiteboard slide into Google Slide deck via the “Add-ons” and have students respond to a particular question, student individual whiteboard, teacher sees all of them. Math Templates.
- Texthelp’s Equatio – chrome extension that allows you to type, write or speak math expressions. Also check out Equatio Mathspace.
- Whiteboard.fi – watch video, teacher creates whiteboard, students join and have their own individual whiteboards (only teacher sees them).
Playing with Numbers
- 100 Best Books about Math
- Brilliant “100 problems in 100 days”
- CEMC “Problem of the Week”
- Daily “KenKen Puzzles”
- Daily “Skyscraper Tasks”
- DATA using Lego
- Functions to create Art
- Identifying Basic Fractions
- Kakuro
- Number Crosswords
- Number Targets (operations – Instructions on left side)
- Rullo PuzzleMaker
- Solve me Mobiles
- The Art of Problem Solving
- The Daily SET Puzzle
Opportunities for teachers to engage students in Numeracy and Math activities in an online environment will look different than that of a classroom. Below are some of the resources that will support this work.
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