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Email: sesullivan1@liberty.edu
Website Summaries
Illuminations
Illuminations is a project designed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
(NCTM). It provides quality, standards-based lessons and resources for teachers and games and
activities for students from Pre-K through 12th grade. Individual memberships range from $49-
$139.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) was formed in 1920 and is
the largest mathematics education organization. The NCTM sets the National Standards for
teaching mathematics in the U.S. They provide a wide range of services for grades K-12
including classroom resources and professional development for educators.
Figure This!
Figure This! is funded the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department
of education. Figure This! provides challenging mathematics games for middle school students.
These games are designed to engage students outside of the classroom.
PBS Learning Media
This website provides free lesson plans and the PBS video clips that coincide with each
lesson. This allows teachers to incorporate videos and media into their classrooms. These lessons
also align with state and national teaching standards that are included in each lesson.
Cool Math Games
Cool Math Games contains various math games that focus on trivia, logic, number skills,
and strategy. There are three different sites to use based on students' grade and learning levels
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that are able to be accessed. The first is for students ages 13 and up, the second is for students
ages 12 and under, and the third is for all ages.
Association of Teachers of Mathematics
The Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM) provides classroom materials for
students and trainings for teachers. They also provide up-to-date research and journal articles
related to teaching math. Some materials and resources are free, but most resources are only
available with a paid membership.
ABC Education
ABC Education is website founded by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ABC
Education provides videos of educational TV shows that align with Australian teaching
curriculum. These could be easily used in alignment with CCSS, state, and national standards.
Math Playground
Math Playground is an interactive puzzle website for students. Math Playground provides
fun math games for students in kindergarten through 6th grades. Students are able to practice the
skills of addition and subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, ratios, pre-algebra, and
geometry.
Arithmetic Four
Arithmetic Four is based off of a connect four style game. Students and teachers can play
together one-to-one to try to race to connect four. Each correct answer to a math problem gets
you one step closer to winning.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is a website that provides interactive
virtual manipulatives for grades K through 12. Manipulatives connect to focused tutorials on the
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site. Using manipulatives, even virtual manipulatives, allows students to visualize math problems
making them easier to solve and understand.
Seeing Theory
Seeing Theory is a website focusing on teaching statistics. There are six chapters that
students can work through: basic probability, compound probability, probability distributions,
frequent inference, Bayesian interference, and regression analysis. Each chapter is broken down
into 3 lessons that students can study to progress through the course.
Interactivate
Interactive is a website providing math and science activities, dictionaries, and tools for
students, as well as lessons, discussions, and standards for teachers. The mission of Interactive is
to create and collect course material that provide students with interactive exploration in the
subjects of science and mathematics. The sight is searchable by subject and category which are
broken down into other search features such as audience, topic, and resource type. All of the
materials on the site corelate to supported math textbooks that can be used in the classroom.
Estimation - Hundreds
Estimation-Hundreds is a website that offers paid memberships, but some activities are
available for free. Teachers can use the provided templates to create online content and activities.
Teachers can use the site for tests. The website grades these tests for you and provides immediate
feedback to teachers.
Random Services - Apps
Random Services-Apps is a website that provides two types of math practice for students:
simulation and data generation. Simulation apps are random simulations of math processes that
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are designed to show the relationships between prediction and process. Data generation apps are
auto generated based on the games students choose.
Defeat the Fraction Monster - Play Fraction Games
Defeat the Fraction Monster - Play Fraction Games is a website that helps students
practice working with fractions by playing math games. Many of these activities are also
available to print and use as whole-class lessons. Playing games helps children overcome any
fears or anxieties they may have about working with fractions because these math situations are
disguised as fun games that children enjoy.
Maze Game
The Maze Game is a Battleship style virtual game in which students work only against
themselves to navigate a robot across a mine field while avoiding mines. Students are able to
practice working with and interpreting graphs and using the Cartesian coordinate system.
Students are also introduced to the concept of slope and plotting points on a graph.
IXL Math
IXL Math is a website that provides interactive math games fro students in grades pre-K
through 12. Students progress through skills at their own pace which provides easy
differentiation to accommodate the various needs of students. By practicing math skills on IXL
Math students are able to gain a better understanding of number operations and gain fluency in
basic mathematics skills and facts.
Kahoot!
Kahoot allows teachers to, “incorporate challenges, rewards, and competition” in their
lesson plans (“Kahoot”, n.d., pp. 2). Kahoot offers differentiated instruction for ELL students by
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allowing students to choose between 18 languages. Teacher memberships start at $3.99 per
month.
Best Sites
The first website I wound rank in the top five is Illuminations. It was designed by
educators to help struggling students by providing additional practice with math. They use high
quality resources and align their materials with educational theories and Common Core State
Standards. The lesson plans they provide are made to engage students and hold their attention.
They provide resources for students and teachers of preschool through 12th grade.
The second website I wound rank in the top five is IXL. They offer resources in math,
ELA, science, social studies, and Spanish for grades K-12 all in one standardized platform. All
questions and answers have read-aloud options to support young students and students who
struggle in reading. Questions in each lesson are scaffolded based on students’ previous
responses. This allows students with mastery to move on, while students still learning are
provided more opportunities to practice each skill.
The third website I wound rank in the top five is NCTM. They write and provide the
national standards for teaching mathematics in America. They also provide continuing education
for teachers and provide the latest research on successful teaching methods. Teachers can benefit
from the wide array of resources they offer. There are also many classroom resources linked on
this site that teachers can use when planning instruction.
The fourth website I wound rank in the top five is Kahoot. Kahoot provides many
different interactive math games that students can play. Teachers can also easily incorporate
Kahoot games into their lessons. Because students will be playing games at their level of
competence, each students game play will differ. This can be especially helpful when working
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with ELL students, gifted, and struggling learners all in one classroom. Kahoot provides games
in many languages providing even more support for ELL students.
The fifth website I wound rank in the top five is PBS Learning Media. This website
provides detailed lesson plans and the state and national standards that align with each. Included
in each lesson are interactive video clips that will keep students engaged because they include
loved children’s characters that students are already familiar with. Using short videos in each
lesson is especially helpful when teaching younger elementary students who cannot yet read
fluently and are being introduced to many new topics and ideas. It is easy and free to take these
resources and adapt them to meet the needs of their classroom and their learning schedule.
In summation, after reviewing all of the assigned websites I found the following to be
most useful for my future teaching career: Illuminations, IXL, NCTM, Kahoot, and PSB
learning. All of these sites provide wonderful resources for teachers in the subject area of math,
and some provide other subjects as well. In planning to teach K-2 students I my career, I feel
that these five sites will be most useful for my classroom as they provide specific math
instruction and practice to engage younger students. They also make it easier to incorporate
differentiated instruction into daily lessons so that the needs of all of the students in the class can
be met with ease. These websites would also be great to use as stand-by in the case of an
emergency substitute teacher or for everyday use for students who finish their assigned tasks
with time to spare.
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References
Arithmetic Four. Interactivate: Arithmetic Four. (n.d.).
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/ArithmeticFour/
ATM membership. ATM. (n.d.). https://www.atm.org.uk/
Cool math games - free online games for learning and fun. Cool Math Games - Free Online
Games for Learning and Fun. (n.d.). https://www.coolmathgames.com/
Estimation - hundreds. Quia. (n.d.). https://www.quia.com/mc/65924.html
Figure this! math challenges for Families - Challenge index. (n.d.).
https://figurethis.nctm.org/index.html
Fraction games I kids conquer fear of fractions while having fun!. Fraction Games. (n.d.).
https://www.learn-with-math-games.com/fraction-games.html
Index - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. (n.d.). https://www.nctm.org/
Interactivate: Home Page. Interactivate. (n.d.). http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/
IXL Math: Learn math online. IXL Learning. (n.d.). https://www.ixl.com/math
Kahoot! for schools: Make learning awesome at school. Kahoot! (2023, November 16).
https://kahoot.com/schools/#plans
Kunin, D. (n.d.). Seeing theory. Seeing Theory. https://seeing-
theory.brown.edu/index.html#firstPage
Math games that kids olve to play!. Math Playground. (n.d.).
https://www.mathplayground.com/math-games.html
Maths. ABC Education. (n.d.). https://www.abc.net.au/education/subjects-and-topics/maths
Maze game. Interactivate: Maze Game. (n.d.).
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/MazeGame/
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National Council for Teachers of Mathematics. (n.d.). Illuminations.
https://illuminations.nctm.org/
Siegrist, K. (n.d.). Apps. Random Services Apps.
http://www.randomservices.org/random/apps/index.html
Teaching Resources for students and teachers. PBS Learning Media. (n.d.).
https://thinktv.pbslearningmedia.org/#a
Utah State University. (n.d.). NLVM 3 - 5 - number & operations manipulatives. National Library
of Virtual Manipulatives. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/category_g_2_t_1.html
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