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    Math Intervention Specialist

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    Math Intervention Specialist
     
    We are located in the Claiborne Pell Elementary School, 35 Dexter Street, Newport, RI  02840-1205.

  • AAA Math

    This site has practice activities for many math topics for grades kindergarten through 8. For each topic, it gives an explanation and a timed practice activity. Reports of results can be viewed and printed. Some activities are available only on a CD, which must be purchased, but many are available on the website for free.

    http://www.aaamath.com/
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  • Adding Integers


    This website is designed to help students learn about adding positive and negative integers using the concept of "zero pairs." The site is divided into four sections:
     
    Learning. Students view examples and try out problems.
    Apply and Practice. Students practice what they’ve learned, using a Jeopardy format.
    Assessment. Students can take a self-assessment.
    Help. Students can access a glossary and brief explanations of the properties applied when adding integers.
    http://students.washington.edu/smithr3/integers/learning.html
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  • Algebra/Prealgebra: Using formulas and charting in spreadsheets


    This activity was presented by Maggie Niess of Oregon State University as part of a technology workshop at the 2004 NCTM conference. It is actually a series of activities that use Excel in different ways and can help students and teachers become more familiar with the many features of Excel and the ways it can be used to help develop a better understanding of algebra and prealgebra concepts. 
    http://oregonstate.edu/~niessm/
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  • Arcytech – Educational Java Programs

    This website, designed and maintained by Jacobo Bulaevsky, includes interactive tools for several manipulatives commonly used in the elementary grades – Cuisenaire rods, base 10 blocks, pattern blocks, and fraction bars. Each tool has instructions and suggested lessons. Additional programs provide lessons and practice activities in telling time and using money. The site also includes Java programs for the Pythagorean Theorem, the value of pi, and exploring fractals.

    http://arcytech.org/java/
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  • Cyberchase for Parents and Teachers

    This website, created by the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, is designed to accompany Cyberchase, a television series designed to teach math concepts to students ages 8 to 12 in an engaging way. The website for parents and teachers includes online games, lesson plans, and print-based activities, all of which are linked to NCTM standards. All standards are covered except Communication and Connections. A wide variety of activities and lessons are available to use as an adjunct to the curriculum. The lesson plans include a downloadable teacher's guide, and the downloadable print activities are available in both English and Spanish. The site recommends grades 3 to 5 or ages 8 to 12.

     
    http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/parentsteachers/lessons.html
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  • Developing Mathematical Thinking with Effective Questioning

    These pages from PBS Teacherline provide examples of questions teachers can use to support student learning and monitor progress. Questions are categorized by their purpose, and facilitate discussion of concepts rather than statement of facts.

    http://teacherline.pbs.org/teacherline/resources/questionsheet_vma.pdf
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  • Figure This! Math Challenges for Families

    This website, developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), is designed to assist families of middle school students in becoming engaged with and learning math. It provides math challenges with resources to support parents in exploring these challenge problems with their children. Challenges are indexed by math content. Materials (including a PowerPoint presentation and handout materials) are provided for teachers who want to introduce Figure This! to families. All challenges are available for downloading in PDF format. The challenges are available in both English and Spanish.

    http://www.figurethis.org/index.html
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  • Graph Paper Printer

    Graph Paper Printer, developed by Philippe Marquis, is a software application that allows the user to create and print many different kinds of graph paper. Additional options include formats such as musical notation, elementary handwriting paper, and customizable tables. Graph Paper printer is a shareware product. A trial version can be downloaded at no cost, and the full version is $20.

    http://webperso.easynet.fr/~philimar/graphpapeng.htm
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  • Illuminations


    Illuminations, developed through a partnership between the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and MarcoPolo, has been designed as a companion to illuminate the NCTM standards for mathematics. It includes links to the standards and electronic examples from the NCTM website.
    Illuminations includes lessons that can be sorted by standard and by grade level. The lessons have detailed descriptions and are printable. It also includes interactive tools that support exploration of math concepts. Tools are categorized by grade level.
    http://illuminations.nctm.org/
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  • Math Tools

     
    Math Tools, part of the Math Forum at Drexel University, describes itself as a "community library of technology tools, lessons, activities, and support materials for teaching and learning mathematics." A major feature is its catalog of technology resources for math on the web. The catalog includes hundreds of tools, lessons, and activities that are categorized and searchable by grade level and content. Each has been submitted by a registered user (registration is free and open to all). Each includes a description, the technology type (e.g. Java applet, Flash, Windows CE), and ratings, reviews, and discussions form other registered users of the site. Registered users can save any activities to their own "My Math Tools" portion of the site. The activites from Arcytech, Project Interactive, and the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives are included in the catalog.  Another feature is the Research Area, which monitors and summarizes research on the uses of technology in math education.
    http://www.mathforum.org/mathtools/
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  • MathVIDS

    Developed by David Allsopp and his associates, MathVIDS is designed to help teachers in teaching math concepts and skills to students who are struggling. It provides detailed descriptions of the research-supported instructional strategies used with their program, as well as an overview of research on math disabilities and metacognitive strategies. Lesson plans are detailed and include different levels of scaffolding. Video clips serve as models for many of the lessons.

    http://www.coedu.usf.edu/main/departments/sped/mathvids/index.html
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  • Multisensory Teaching: Positive and Negative Numbers

     
    This web page, developed by Susan Jones, contains three lesson plans and ideas for making sense out of positive and negative numbers, including links to other resources. The page also contains references and links to other resources on teaching positive and negative integers.
    http://www.resourceroom.net/math/integers.asp
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  • National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics

    Developed at Utah State University and funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is a library of web-based interactive virtual manipulatives and concept tutorials.

    Manipulatives are sorted by grade level and math content area, and each manipulative includes instructions, suggested activities, lesson plans, and connection to relevant NCTM standards. The manipulatives include some that are commonly used in teaching (base 10 blocks, pattern blocks, and algebra blocks).

    http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/index.html
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  • PlaneMath

    This project, developed by InfoUse in cooperation with NASA, grew out of the recognition that students with physical disabilities are at a disadvantage in mathematics because of the inability to manipulate objects effectively. The authors have developed activities that focus on aeronautics, an area that typically is not considered when thinking about the future careers of students with physical disabilities. The activities have been linked to NCTM standards, and they have included a matrix connecting the standards to their activities. (As this site was created before 2000, the previous standards were used.) Activities are also connected to the aeronautical concepts they teach. The activities include lesson plans with prerequisite skills and hyperlinked vocabulary, as well as suggestions for students with disabilities. Each activity includes an interview with someone with a disability who works in aeronautics.

    The many lesson plans included are helpful in incorporating PlaneMath into the curriculum. Students also can use the activities independently. There is a help page for students, with frequently asked questions to get them started, and they can explore the activities on their own at home or at school. Most of the activities are text and illustrations, but two are interactive Shockwave programs.

    http://www.planemath.com/
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  • Project Interactivate

    Project Interactivate is developed and maintained by Shodor Educational Foundation, a non-profit education and research organization that focuses on developing valid models to support understanding. It includes over 100 interactive tools and activities that allow students to explore mathematics. Tools and activities are categorized by math content (number and operations, geometry and measurement, function and algebra, and data analysis and probability). All include explanations of how to use them in teaching and why the activity is useful. Many are incorporated into lesson plans that are also available, and some of these include downloadable worksheets to use in lesson. Also included is a discussion section that models how to introduce or explains different concepts to students. An online dictionary provides definitions and links to relevant discussions.

    http://www.shodor.org/master/interactivate/
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  • ThinkQuest Online Math Applications

    ThinkQuest is an international website-building competition sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation. Teams of students and teachers are challenged to build websites on educational topics. These websites are published in the popular ThinkQuest Library. The library contains over 40 different math websites created for the competition, categorized by topic. Several of the sites are appropriate for high school mathematics.

    http://www.thinkquest.org/pls/html/think.library
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  • Visual Fractions


    Visual Fractions is an online tutorial offering instruction and practice in identifying, renaming, and operating on fractions (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division). Students can choose to have problems modeled with number lines or circles.

     

    http://www.visualfractions.com/
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  • Web Turtle


    This is a web-based Turtle Graphics program that includes all the basic commands of Turtle Graphics, and several examples demonstrating how to use it.     The program includes all commands and several examples that can be modified. It can be used as an exploratory program, or students can be given specific shapes to draw and share their results. It can be used individually, by groups of students, or with one computer projection to facilitate class discussion.
     
    http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/webturtle/
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  • What Is the Probability of Grabbing a Green M&M?


    This activity was presented by Maggie Niess of Oregon State University as part of a technology workshop at the 2004 NCTM conference. Students use Excel spreadsheets to analyze data on the probability of selecting a green M&M from a bag. Spreadsheets with data already entered, as well as a blank form that is set up for running your own experiment, can be downloaded.
    http://oregonstate.edu/~niessm/
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  • WisWeb

     
    This website contains over 70 applets, categorized by topic and grade level. Many of them have been designed to complement the Math in Context series. Directions are limited, but each applet has background information. Also, the website includes downloadable software, most of which is for the Texas Instruments graphing calculators.
    http://www.fi.uu.nl/wisweb/en/
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