K-5 Math Teaching Resources http://www.k-5mathteachingresources.com/ is a website where a teacher can find ideas for how to work with numbers, geometry, measurement and data. It provides complementary activities for each grade between K-5 and links to free games for students to practice. The website also sells some of their products for single use and multiplayer user license.
Teachers´ can use the website as a source for ideas or they can simple just use the exact activities on the site. The website can mainly be used to complete books and other methods when teaching math.
The website can be used by students with teacher´s help, since it can be tricky to find to the games. Number, geometry, measurement and data are categories which have activities and ideas for the different grades between K to 5. They also have something called IWB resources in each category of number, geometry, measurement and data. In these IWB resources you can find link to different games for students to practice for example the clock: http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/BangOnTime/clockwordres.html
More over the website has a gallery where you can see some of the activities done by the students in their different grades: http://www.k-5mathteachingresources.com/1st-grade-math-journal-gallery.html
To have in mind when using this website as a resource:
You need to have adobe reader to access the pdf files on the site. They do not give everything for free, so you need to pay for some things, like for example recommendations for books that you can buy through Amazon: http://astore.amazon.com/k5matteares-20
It is always good to find new approaches and ways to develop your teaching methods and ideas. This website can open some new ideas how to teach to a specific group of students or a whole class something in a different way that you as a teacher are used to.
//Tone Blomberg
Hello Tone!
ReplyDeleteYou have done a good job describing this website. The structure of your blog post is easy to follow with good use of words. You have also made the text easy to read with several paragaphs. I would like you to embed your links though to get a more flowing text.
I agree with you that this site is most useful as a bank of ideas. The site is full of useful activities! It is not very possible that I will use the games in class since my students are just about starting to know the math words in Swedish. I guess it can be very useful for someone who lives and works in an English speaking country.
Furthermore you describe the fact that this mainly is a site for teachers and that it is not very child friendly. I could not agree more with you on this point! You really need to now how adult sites are usually built up to know how to move on. The games are child friendly though but as you said it is not likely that children will actually go there on themselves.
Overall you have made a very interesting blog post Tone!
/Therese Ahl Lennartsson
Hi Tone! Thanks for sharing this resource. It was nice to find a resource about maths in English with exercises I can use in my class with a little bit of translation now and then. I found your blogpost easy to follow and it made the resource easily accessible. I agree with you about this being a resource for adults eventhough older children might find some of the exercises on the site interesting and if guided there I think they would enjoy it. /Mickaela
ReplyDeleteI got interested in your blog post when I saw the word math, my favourite subject. In present time I don’t teach the English language. Now I got dedicated to combine this two. You linked to a clook exercise that is useful in both subjects. I visited the sajt for similar exercises and I found this: http://www.k-5mathteachingresources.com/support-files/making-a-kilogram.pdf
ReplyDeleteWhen you posted this blog post was that your idea to work on your students skills in the English language in math class or was it a example of a website in English that could be useful for teachers and students in math only?
I was curios about the costs. I found that they give access to amazon to buy equipment you’ll need. Is the site sponsored by them?
You wrote that it’s tricky to find the games, I agree. I did’nt find games like "the clook", but I find things like: http://www.k-5mathteachingresources.com/support-files/target-number-dash.pdf
Can you give me a hint where I find more ot "the clook" kind?
I find the site interesting and useful but hard to navigate. Do you have some tips for me to make it easier to get started? I teach class 4 and class 6, 10 year olds and 12 year old students. Thank you!