Computer Sites

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0. Interactive Games
   The following sites provide students with fun activities to reinforce and to practice their mathematics skills. 
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2. ❚  www.funbrain.com—A variety of math skills can be reviewed through interactive games such as Measure It!, Math Baseball, Shape Surveyor, Change Maker, and Fresh Baked Fractions. The activities are for grades K–12. 
3. ❚  www.harcourtschool.com/menus/math_advantage.html—Harcourt School Publishers’ web- site offers interactive math games by grade level. 
4. ❚  www.mathplayground.com/—This website contains interactive games, including Math Hoops and Math Olympics. The activities focus on basic facts, logic, and problem solving. 
5. ❚  http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/—This site of the National Center for Education Statistics allows intermediate students to enter data to create a variety of graphs. 
6. ❚  www.oswego.org/staff/cchamber/techno/games.htm—The Oswego City School District in Oswego, New York, website contains a large variety of interactive games. 
7. ❚  www.toonuniversity.com/activitylist.asp?dept=MATH—Toon University offers a variety of interactive math games for grades 1 to 6 on its website. 

• Problem Solving
  The following sites provide activities with a strong emphasis on the development of students’ problem-solving skills.
  

• ❚  www.eduplace.com/math/brain/index.html—This Houghton Mifflin website contains brain teasers for grades 3 to 8.
  
• ❚  www.mathcats.com/storyproblems/housecat2.html—This site contains story problems writ- ten by students. The answers are scrambled, but they appear when the cursor is moved across the screen.
  
• ❚  http://mathforum.org/mathmagic/—The MathMagic website contains posted challenges intended to motivate students to use computer technology while increasing problem- solving strategies and communication skills.
  
• ❚  www.mathstories.com—The House of Math Word Problems on this site contain problems at the elementary level in both English and Spanish.
  
• ❚  www.wits.ac.za/ssproule/elem_pow.html—This Problem of the Week website has links to other POW sites at all academic levels and includes a site rating system.
  Parent Resources
  Parents who are interested in websites where they can find information and activities to support their students’ understanding of mathematics can check out the following.
  
  • ❚  www.learningresources.com—This site has a parent link with product information on edu- cational games and toys that support students’ learning outside of the classroom.
    
  • ❚  www.eduplace.com/parents/index.html—This Houghton Mifflin website offers parents a math glossary, lessons for home, interactive games, and literature suggestions for each grade level.
    
  • ❚  www.ed.gov/parents/landing.jhtml?src=fp—The U.S. Department of Education offers a variety of resources for parents, including publications that provide ideas on ways to help children with education issues, on this website.
    
  • ❚  http://mathforum.org/parents.citizens.html—The Drexel University Math Forum has a Parents and Citizens section of their website with a variety of links from resources to discus- sion groups.
    
  • ❚  www.riverdeep.net/parents/?SECTION=Parents—Riverdeep’s website offers educational games, commercial software information, and math tutorials for helping students learn out- side of the classroom.