MATH+Literacy

Common Core
Latest [|K-5 Unpacking Documents], 8/26/12 Most up-to-date K-2 Assessment documents, 8/26/12 NCDPI is currently developing the K-2 Mid-Year Benchmark Assessment and will release these assessments to district leaders by late Fall. [|Math Tasks] Mathematics Assessment Project, (added 1/25/13) [|North Carolina DPI Math Tasks] (Added 1/28/13)

Math Tasks
IXL [|Math Problems for the Computer] - All grade levels, all skills. I have not used this program, so I'm not recommending it. If you have, please let me know if it's a good site. Go to www.liketoread.com and email me from there. Added 4/2/13. [|Math Story Problems] Students are given the equation. They write a story to illustrate the equation. This way will help students who don't understand the difference between +, -, X, and dividing fractions. [|Problem-Attic] Create your own assessments or assignments. Format your way. The best site I've seen. Added 4/9/13.

Good Reading & Videos About Math :-)
Just Funny - if you need a laugh  - [|Kid Snippets] [|Making Math Cool: Alex Kajitani] - TED Talk - raps, games, entertaining VIDEO. 10 minutes. [|5 Best Math Apps] - video explanation of each app [|5 Reasons] to Add Math Journals to Your Classroom [|8 Summer Math Ideas] - to slow the tide <span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">[|Free printables] Teaching Resources <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Guided Math]Using small groups for differentiation <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Inside Mathematics] Videos showing teachers teaching math <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Line Up The Dot and Give It All You Got] - Math rap about the decimal <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Mathmaticious] Math video rap by a student - rigorous work! <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Math SONGS] You have never seen so many songs on one site for teaching math concepts! <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Math Stories] - Problems for kids to solve <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Bedtime Stories] - Math woven into bedtime stories for parents (or teachers) to tell. Very cool. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Stop the Clock Game] - Comparing analogue and digital clocks <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|What Do You Know About Math Rap on You Tube] <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Math SmartBoard Lessons] Harvey's Website <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Skip Counting Songs] and Video Added 2/8/14.
 * [|Steve Leinwand]** - How not to create math anxiety Video. He explains everything we need to know in 5 minutes. Excellent!

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Websites to help with math planning.
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Common Core] New Math Curriculum Maps and tools available for $$$. Added 1/20/13. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="gmw_">[|Sample Pacing /Interactives for teaching /Sample tasks and lessons] Mathematics Common Core Toolbox <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Articles/ Ideas / Discussion] Achieve the core for every student <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Math Tasks by Strand] Illustrative Mathematics provides guidance to states, assessment consortia, testing companies, and curriculum developers by illustrating the range and types of mathematical work that students experience in a faithful implementation of the Common Core State Standards, and by publishing other tools that support implementation of the standards. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**LIVEBINDER:** [|Quick Access to all of the above and much more!] <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Middle Grades: [|More Quick Access to all of the above and much more!] <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">When you go to the Livebinder, select "Units and Lessons". Then filter for "elementary" and "ELA". Units completed for the year are there. When you select "resources" on the page, you receive the complete lessons with suggested assessments as well. These can be easily revised to work with the new CC State Standards. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|PBSKIDS] - games, stories, problems for parents, interactive website Added 3/24/13 <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Progressions Standards] By Grade Level ala Doug Clements <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Scope] magazine/student for $, plus free interactive whiteboard activities, shared reading PDFs, VIDEOS!, lesson ideas <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">[|Math National Library of Virtual Manipulatives] Project of the National Science Foundation to support mathematics understanding and education through interactive models and activities in math. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span class="gmw_">[|Thinkfinity.Org] **<span class="gmw_">- Quality of the lesson plans and student <span class="gm_ gm_d681c23d-fc85-c732-793f-589664bf5dec gm-spell">interactives is superior. Free. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|MathWire] - new to me. What do others think about this site? <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Mathematics Design Collaborative] Writing & Math, Feedback & Self Assessment <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Turn On Common Core Math] NC State maintained site of common core math activities
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="gmw_">[|MY MATH PINTEREST BOARD] **