Complementry Math Resources for Elementary Students
Our schools are using both the "Everyday Math" and "Investigations" math programs with elementary students, both of which are constructivist in nature. A major complaint of parents with these programs is that students don't receive enough traditional practice in order to build automaticity of basic skills.
My question is this: What kinds of complementary math materials do you use with your students?
My question is this: What kinds of complementary math materials do you use with your students?
Tags: elementary, math
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Permalink Reply by greg on -
Hi Donna,
I created an Everyday math website for grades K-6 for my school district. Teachers use it as a resource for students and parents to work on math concepts inside and outside of the classroom. I have it broken down by units. Please feel free to use it for your class.
Go to http://schools.u-46.org/index.pl?iid=2990 and click on the grade level you teach. You see the grade levels with the blue background.
I hope this helps.
Greg
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Permalink Reply by stacy kasse on -
Greg, this is wonderful. Would you mind if I shared this with my parents on my wiki? Thanks,
Stacy
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Permalink Reply by Mike Romard on
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Greg - fantastic resource! I just tweeted this and it's getting lots of attention. What is crazy is my school paid over $1000 for a online suite from Everyday math and it's painful - boring, clumsy, not related to skills, often inappropriate lessons for the grade it is mention. Bravo to you for this well thought out effort and it'll be one of your legacies for sure. Thanks again! Mike
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Permalink Reply by suegmc on -
Wow, great site! I am in the process of using Flash to create animated tutorials for my Math For Elementary Teachers course. I have my 12 year old son creating all the artwork for me (he taught himself Fireworks)
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~glascoe/arithmetic/arithmeticindex.htm
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Permalink Reply by Zelda Trujillo on
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Thanks for sharing the website you created. It will be very useful!
Zelda
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Permalink Reply by Lenore on
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Greg,
I can't wait to share your site with my building and district. What a great way to organize your links. It is very easy to find a specific resource to go with the Everyday Math lessons.
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Permalink Reply by Scott Merrick on -
Hey, Donna,
Don't know if you'll find anything you can use but I've been using friend Jay Pfaffman's "Webliographer" to maintain links to free online resources in every topic my K-4 department accesses. This has become my computer lab's start page, and it's freely available at http://usn.webliographer.com/USN/lower/ for everyone. There's a substantial Math topic you can click on to see all the Math links--just click "more..."
Hope that helps!
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Permalink Reply by Donna Hebert on -
These are all great resources! I am adding them to my bookmarks. Thank you!
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Permalink Reply by Mark Benn on -
Hi Donna,
Just like Greg, I have set up websites on my website for students to use at school and at home for math practice. One special site to check out is: http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
Check out my website for other sites at: www.mackinacfurtrader.org.
I hope this helps.
Mark B.
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Permalink Reply by Mrs. L on -
Hi Mark, I just checked out the sites you mentioned. What great resources! Thanks so much for sharing them.
Jenn
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Permalink Reply by Sylvia Martinez on
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It's going to take time, but it's never too early to start to educate parents that "automaticity" is not a goal that can be achieved simply through practice. It might actually be damaging kids who start to believe that they are "bad" at math when they are simply not developmentally ready.
So instead of offering math materials that will actually be subverting your constructivist materials - maybe you should try to hold the line and promise parents that they will see better results for their kids if they trust you.
Some parents will never believe you and will drill their kids anyway. Let them go buy workbooks if they have to. But why are you trying to provide stuff that's undoing your own good curriculum?
I'd say - hold the line and stick with the constructivist methodology.
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