Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: Cool Jobs: Motion by the Numbers
What do car crash testers, video game creators, and scientists who study athletic performance have in common? All use geometry in their cool jobs. Check it out.
Study Pad
Splash Learn: Multiply Decimals by a Whole Number
[Free Registration/Login Required] Extend multiplication to multiplying a decimal number by a whole. Multiplication by a whole is just a special case of multiplication of two decimal numbers. The key concept is the placement of the...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: The Video Game Model of Adding
Video games often dole out points in groups of 25, 50 and 100 because they are easy numbers to multiply. Practice with patterns of 5 and 10 apply directly to understanding patterns with 50 and 100.
Doina Popovici
Math Play: 8th Grade Halloween Math Game
An online game where students destroy spooky monsters by answering questions that have them writing rational numbers as decimals and decimals as fractions.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Evaluating Exponents of Negative Numbers
This site explains how to evaluate exponents of positive and negative numbers. The site provides games and exercises to practice the skill.
PBS
Pbs Jean Michel Cousteau: Parasite Perils Data Analysis Game
This lesson is designed for Grades 7 and 8 and has young scholars gather and analyze data from research on salmon populations and the impact of the sea louse on their survival rates. They then apply their findings by looking at how orca...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Chemistry Review
Review atoms with this slideshow. You can choose to listen to the review or read the accompanying text. At the end, play the game to review the basics of atoms that you have just learned about. You may play the game as many times as...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Arithmetic Four
Students try to connect four game pieces in a row by answering whole number and integer problems. They can choose the difficulty level as well as addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division.
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Investigating Patterns Activity Plan
Patterns are everywhere! In this week-long learning adventure, children will discover what a pattern is and explore patterns in different ways. Children will learn that patterns consist of a "core" or "unit" that repeats as they identify...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Let's Go Fishing for Positive and Negative Integers
This lesson will actively engage students in a fishing tournament that uses ordered pairs to catch fish. As students begin to catch the hidden fish, they will find a relationship between the integers in the ordered pairs. By identifying...
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Subtraction
This tutorial focuses on basic subtraction, subtraction facts, subtraction skills, subtraction of fractions and subtraction of positive and negative integers. Features include practice exercises and games.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Five by Two
This card game reinforces number identification and sequencing and is conducive to small groups/centers. The students will need a deck of playing cards including some of the face cards. Instructions and variations for play are included.
Study Pad
Splash Learn: Count Objects Presented in Different Arrangements
[Free Registration/Login Required] Practice counting objects in different arrangments with this online game. Instant feedback is given after you choose your answer.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Adding Three Digit Numbers
Read through this explanation of how to add three digit numbers. Use the online game to practice this skill. The game will keep running totals of your correct and incorrect answers. It will also show you a percent score of the correct...
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Multiplication of Two and Three Digit Numbers
Explains the traditional way to multiply three-digit by two-digit numbers. Gives practice and games to practice this skill.
Mathigon
Mathigon: Probability and Discrete Math: Casino Mathematics
This lesson focuses on the probability and casino games such as Roulette which consists of a wheel with the numbers from 1 to 36 colored in red and black, as well as a green 0. A ball rolls around the outside and randomly lands on one of...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Start/stop Counting Ii
Young scholars will practice counting to 120 forward and backward with this whole class game. The teacher will give a counting sequence (for example, 20-120) to the students who will be seated in a circle. The teacher will begin walking...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Counting Circles Ii
Young scholars will stand and form a circle facing in toward each other. The teacher will select a counting sequence to be practiced with no more than 6-10 numbers. The students will start counting around the circle one by one until the...
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Dividing Decimals Expanation and Exercises
This site may be used as a tutorial for students who did not understand or have forgotten how to divide numbers with decimals. The site gives an example of how it is done and offers a game of dividing decimal numbers that is timed and...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: k.oa What's Missing?
Students will practice composing and decomposing numbers with this quick game. Show the student 6 counters. Ask the student to close his/her eyes. Hide some of the counters under a sheet of heavy paper. When the student opens his/her...
PBS
Pbs: Absolute Value
This animated Math Shorts video explains absolute value, as demonstrated on the number line and through a real-life example. In the accompanying classroom activity, students watch the video and then play a game in which they move a penny...
PBS
Pbs: Addition of Positive and Negative Integers
Introducing a card game that your students can play in small groups to develop their addition skills. This video focuses on addition of positive and negative numbers and briefly touches on subtraction of integers.