Archive for the 'Math' Category
Rewordify is a free website that helps users read difficult passages. To use Rewordify, the user just copies and pastes the passage into the box on the Rewordify website, then clicks on the Rewordify text button. What appears on the screen is the same passage with simpler words. The easiest way to see how this […]
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Gooru is a website that I learned about from Deyana Matt. It calls itself a website for learning and is a great place for teachers and students in middle or high school to go to find quality resources related to a variety of topics. At the time of this posting, Gooru’s resource collections center on […]
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An Excellent Collection of Fermi Problems for Your Class is a blog post on edgalaxy.com that offers a variety of questions written by Enrico Fermi that can be used in math classes. What I like about these questions is that they force students to think more deeply mathematically, rather than just come up with […]
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Spree Learning Games hosts a collection of learning games from around the web for students in kindergarten through high school. The games are organized either by subject area and by age/grade level. Students do not need to sign up to play most of the games. As with any kind of site like this, some of […]
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Lingro is an amazing tool that helps readers easily look up word definitions when reading a web page. It works like this — you find a page that you want to read, copy the URL, then paste it in the box at the top of the Lingro page. Click on the arrow, and you will […]
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Photo Prompts is a site that can be used to support creative writing. The site offers many different writing starters that include a picture and a writing prompt. These can be used or altered to use with students of all ages, and in different subject areas. If you click on the “i” icon on the […]
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Tumbledown Mathletics Games is a site that offers interactive math games. The games are designed to practice fractions, money, spatial relationships, perimeter measurement, and basic arithmetic operations at five levels of difficulty. I like that, in addition to providing practice in basic math concepts, students are expected to read and follow the directions, as they […]
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Printing Press offers interactive, online templates for creating newspapers, flyers and brochures. Printing Press is part of the many wonderful offerings available on the ReadWriteThink website. It’s user-friendly interface allows students to choose from several templates, then add images and text. Another nice thing about this site is that it allows students to save their […]
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Teaching Kids News is a site created by a mom and her son’s teacher to help elementary aged students access and understand the news. The articles/stories on the site, written in kid-friendly language, are designed for students in grades 2-8. Each day a new article is added that relates to some news story of the […]
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Text 2 Mind Map is an easy-to-use tool for converting an outline into a mind map. Students type in their outlines right on the site. After the outline has been created, they click on the “Draw Mind Map” button, and the outline is presented on the screen in mind map format. The map can then […]
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