Resources

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**Math Lessons and Games **
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 * Math lessons that go along with different NOVA programs. These are great because the videos motivate the topic really well!
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 * Online Math Games
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 * **FUN** Online Math Games e.g.:
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 * Practice Multiplication
 * Avoid asteroids by entering the result of the multiplication question on either the left or right side!!
 * This is fairly basic math but great practice and fun!

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 * Here's a list of some lesson plans, at the grade 6 to 8 level, in various subjects,
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 * Smartboard programs for math.
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Leading Math Success - Tips Math Lessons, Curriculum & Connections, Math Posters, ELL guides & more!! Very Useful!!
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Budget-friendly manipulatives! Print the PDF and cut out.
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Lessons/Professional Development/Teaching Tips
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 17px;">[] - a great activity for relating equations of lines to graphs.
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 17px;">Links for math games & puzzles, many of which student's can navigate themselves.
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 17px;">Copies of past grade 7 - 12 math contests & solutions hosted by the University of Waterloo CEMC.
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 17px;">Links to web resources that are classified by grade level, student, teacher, etc, Great organization on CEMC's part!
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 17px;">Math puzzles and Games, e.g:
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[] - ** I made it to stage 4...then lost!
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 17px;">Transformation Golf! We got time to play this in math camp and I've never seen people so excited about translations, rotations and reflections!
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 * **<span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;">Arcade games that require math skills **
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;">For use in MDM4U when learning expectation values
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** Teacher-contributed web-based high school lesson plans **

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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A guide for Performing Math!

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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Database of virtual manipulatives organized by grade and strand.
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Virtual geoboards!** No more elastic band wars in the classroom plus there are some activities with it!
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Virtual algebra tiles.** This one was less exciting for me because it displays an equation as you're picking tiles which I found annoying because it didn't say what I was trying to represent. This may work for some students and it does offer equations of varying levels that students can solve and then check the correct answer.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[] **<span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- activities with Algebra Tiles.
 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**[]** - PowerPoint of how to use Algebra Tiles
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 * **<span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Virtual pattern blocks **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[] **<span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-weight: normal;"> - activities with **<span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-weight: normal;">pattern blocks (fractions, perimeter, rotation and reflections). **
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 * **<span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Virtual Cuisenaire Rods **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[] **<span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-weight: normal;">- activities with Cuisenaire Rods (perimeter and area).
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-weight: normal;">**Virtual Tangrams**
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tons of Educational Mini Clips!
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Math & Science skits, videos and songs!
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 * **<span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-weight: normal;">Math video explanations - I like this one because you can watch people solve math problems and for some of them you can choose who you want to watch solve it (e.g. a teacher, male student, female student). **
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-weight: normal;">Math in the Movies - a very comprehensive list with links to video clips.
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**[] -** A rap about integers that is actually not lame!
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 * **<span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[] **<span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Angle Dance! Super 80s fun!!

<span style="color: #f31b6b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Curriculum Documents
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Thanks to Giti for posting this link to order hard copies of the curriculum documents!
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 * **<span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-weight: normal;">I can't believe it took me so long to discover this! There are templates for tests, word searches, bingo, math games, jeopardy, powerpoint slides!! **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> **<span style="color: #f31b6b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Minds On **
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 * **<span style="cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[] ** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 25px;">- A set of Minds On activities created by UOIT TCs in 2009
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-weight: normal;">I stumbled across this twitter account while researching issues in education, in particular, cell phone use in the classroom. The account belongs to Andre Patterson, co-principal for information communications technology for the TDSB. It looked like he had posted some interesting links.
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 * <span style="color: #0b14ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Math Cheat Sheets

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