Math Topics

Use math topic words to find web sites with lesson plans and activities.

Counting

1. A creative encounter of a numerical kind: a WebQuest for middle grades math students
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 6 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 028642
   This Internet site provides an activity designed to help middle grades math students better understand the base ten number system by helping an imaginary civilization develop a base four number system. The activity explores place value, counting, and different number systems as students are asked to create and name a series of original number symbols for their own base four number systems.
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2. Count us in
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): Pre-K - 1 Cost: Free ENC#: 029017
   This web site provides 15 games for young children to practice counting, sorting, and ordering. Some of the games have a defined goal; others let players explore free-form.
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3. Numbertime
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): Pre-K - 2 Cost: Free ENC#: 020665
   This Internet site, developed by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), uses interactive animation to help children in grades preK through 2 practice number basics. The site contains online games for children, printable work sheets, and songs as well as information for parents and teachers.
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4. Let's count: a fun, colorful set of counting activities
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2000 Grade(s): Pre-K - 1 Cost: Free ENC#: 017083
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed by Cynthia Lanius, features counting activities with the numbers from one to ten. The activities are designed to give preK to grade 1 students practice in counting, using both symbols and names of the numbers.
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5. Helping your child learn math
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1999 Grade(s): Pre-K - 7 Cost: Free ENC#: 011078
   This web site from the United States Department of Education, intended for parents of children in Pre-K to grade 7, is the archived on-line version of the book by the same title. This book is divided into introductory material that explains the basic principles behind the current approach to math, sections on activities, and lists of resources.
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6. Sieve of Eratosthenes (grades preK-2)
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): Pre-K - 2 Cost: Free ENC#: 100864
   This virtual manipulative offers two modes for examining the patterns of multiples found on a grid displaying the numbers 2-200. In one mode, the student clicks a number on the grid, turning it red and removing all multiples of the number from the grid.
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7. Ordering sets and numbers
   Date: 2003 Grade: K Cost: Free ENC#: 100842
   In this activity, part of a unit about spiders, students work in pairs to make sets out of toy spiders or other manipulatives. The first student constructs a set of spiders.
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8. Who am I?
   Date: 2003 Grade: K Cost: Free ENC#: 100841
   This activity introduces kindergarten students to the characteristics of arachnids. It begins with a riddle in which students guess what animal has eight legs and usually eight eyes, spins a web, but cannot fly.
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9. PrimaryGames, math
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): Pre-K - 4 Cost: Free ENC#: 029290
   This web site provides online games for children in grades preK-4. Players practice their knowledge of numbers, addition and subtraction, geometry, and more.
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10. At least two people in school have the same initials?: no way!
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 6 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 100582
    This activity challenges students to determine how many students would need to be in a school for two of them to have the same first and last initials. The activity is part of the Figure This! collection of challenges emphasizing real-world math.
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11. More counting
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): Pre-K - 1 Cost: Free ENC#: 028058
    This Internet site contains interactive counting activities developed to give students in grades pre-K-1 practice counting using both symbols and names of numbers. The activities are presented in both English and Spanish and are designed to adhere to the NCTM standards.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
12. Spider life cycle
    Date: 2001 Grade: K Cost: Free ENC#: 100870
    In this activity, kindergarten students demonstrate their understanding of the spider life cycle by sequencing a set of four cards depicting a spider laying eggs, the egg sac, the spiderlings, and an adult spider. Students also verbalize or write the stages of the life cycle and count the cards, either singly or by twos.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
13. Catch a fly
    Date: 2001 Grade: K Cost: Free ENC#: 100867
    This activity, developed for kindergarten, demonstrates a spider's unique adaptation for catching insects. Each student selects a utensil for catching popcorn, such as a box or a large spoon, and then sits in a circle around a hot air popcorn popper.
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14. Edible spiders
    Date: 2001 Grade: K Cost: Free ENC#: 100851
    In this activity, kindergarten students make spider-shaped cookies to learn about the body structure of spiders. After the children have formed the head and abdomen from cookie dough, they use raisins or small candies to make the eyes and licorice for the legs.
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15. The spider's life cycle
    Date: 2001 Grade: K Cost: Free ENC#: 100846
    This lesson for kindergarten students focuses on the life cycle of spiders. It integrates mathematics and science by presenting the life cycle in four stages and encouraging students to count by ones, twos, and fives.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
16. Plants and seeds
    Date: 2001 Grade: 1 Cost: Free ENC#: 100517
    The lessons in this instructional unit, developed by Paso Partners, introduce students in grade 1 to the characteristics and life cycle of plants. Paso Partners offers an integrated curriculum designed to help teachers instruct Hispanic students who have limited English language skills.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
17. Los cinco sentidos
    Date: 2001 Grade: K Cost: Free ENC#: 100480
    This teacher's resource, developed for grade K by Paso Partners, offers a Spanish translation to support an instructional unit about the five senses. Paso Partners provides an integrated mathematics, science, and language arts curriculum guide designed to help teachers instruct Hispanic students with limited English language skills.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
18. Spiders
    Date: 2001 Grade: K Cost: Free ENC#: 100433
    The lessons in this instructional unit, developed by Paso Partners, introduce kindergarten students to the characteristics and behaviors of spiders. Paso Partners offers an integrated mathematics, science, and language arts curriculum designed to help teachers instruct Hispanic students who have limited English language skills.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
19. Five senses
    Date: 2001 Grade: K Cost: Free ENC#: 100648
    This unit guides kindergarten students through an exploration of their five senses. It is part of an integrated curriculum designed to help teachers work with Hispanic students who have limited English language skills.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
20. Dinosaurs
    Date: 2001 Grade: K Cost: Free ENC#: 100434
    In this instructional unit, developed by Paso Partners, kindergarten students assume the roles of paleontologists as they learn about dinosaurs. Paso Partners offers an integrated mathematics, science, and language arts curriculum designed to help teachers instruct Hispanic students with limited English language skills.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)