The web sites below are just a few suggestions to help you find information to meet the state standards and provide ideas for the parents and students to help with math.  There are some helpful tools as well as fun ideas to make math practice enjoyable.  Some of the sites also have specific tools to help the students check their own work and develop speed with math facts which will be helpful with the standardized testing.  You may want to go to a couple of the web pages at your meetings with the parents to show them the great material available.  This may also help the students with their computer skills! 

 

Math Web Sites 

(THE BEST WEB SITES FOR TEACHERS, FOURTH EDITION)

 

A+ Math features an interactive game room where elementary school students can practice online their math skills.  Students will find flashcard and advanced problem programs as well as hidden picture and concentration-like games.  In addition, students can use a variety of homework tools to check their work.

http://www.aplusmath.com

 

Allmath.com, sponsored by Arbor Media, provides a variety of interactive math resources for elementary school students to practice their basic facts online.  It features math flashcards, multiplication tables, a magic square game, and a metric converter.  The site also includes biographies of mathematicians and a glossary of math terms.

http://www.allmath.com

 

Aunty Math from DuPage Children’s Museum near Chicago posts every two weeks a math challenge in story form for elementary level students.  Students can write in with their answers and get back comments from Aunty Math or others.  The site also includes archives of past problems, tip sheets for teachers, as well as extensions to other subjects built into the stories

http://www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org/aunty/index.html

 

Houghton Mifflin Activity Search features a searchable curriculum database where the K-8 teachers can find math lesson plans by grade level.  Activities can also be browsed by theme.

http://www.eduplace.com/activity 

http://www.explorelearning.com/

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

http://www.shodor.org/

http://mathforum.org/