10 Easy to use Math Websites to get your students thinking
Teaching Math is a lot. It takes many years to become good at it and as a teacher, you are constantly trying new tools or resources to make it easier as well as provide deeper learning. I’ve been learning about Thinking Classrooms-a new way to teach math for one year. To learn more about Thinking Classrooms, please check out here. The thing I love most about Thinking Classrooms is that the focus is to get the students to think about math but also be able to communicate their thinking to classmates. Finding tasks to constantly push students’ thinking has been challenging for me but I have found some amazing, free and easy-to-use math websites that I want to share with you.
WHICH ONE DOESN’T BELONG?
The Which One Doesn’t Belong website gets students to choose which shape, number, clock, graph or more.doesn’t belong. The best part is that there is no right or wrong answer. Students have to justify their thinking.
Mathematics Question of the Day
Mathopolis has a website that is refreshed with a new question every day. It has different grade levels and is easy to do if you need something quick.
Yummy Math
Yummy math is a great website with tons of great problems for students in every grade level. Many of the problems are visual and engaging to students such as my favourite problem: How many donuts is that?
Would you Rather Math
Would you rather math has questions that make students think and compare between 2 or more options. There are no correct answers but the students need math to justify their thinking.
Esti Mysteries
My students literally begged me to play this with them! The creator of Esti Mysteries, Steve Wyborney has pictures of certain items in cups or bowls. The students need to make an estimation based on what they see. Then there are clues that are given one at a time and the students can see if their initial guess was correct or need to make another estimate. It is a great game to practice estimation and learning about numbers.
Julia Robertson Mathematics Festival
This website has a bunch of online or printable in-person games to learn about math and expand students’ thinking. I was introduced to this website through Peter Liljedahl at a workshop I did with him and the teachers had to do the River Crossing Problem.
Solve Me Mobiles
This is actually a website that a student introduced me to. Solve Me Mobiles are puzzles that look like mobiles and you need to determine the correct number of each shape so the mobile stays balanced.
Math Equals Love
I recently stumbled on Sarah Carter’s amazing website Math Equals Love. It is filled with many different math puzzles and engaging math lessons and ideas. This website is a must visit.
Slow Reveal Graphs
The Slow Reveal Graphs website is an amazing resource for students to think about what information is needed for a graph. Each Graph has a corresponding google slide that you add to your drive. You present the slide to your students and ask them what they notice. They cannot notice much because they only see the graph but it is missing all the titles and axes at first. With each new slide, a bit more information is added for the students to notice. I really love Slow Reveal Graphs because they have so many graphs so you can search for graphs about your science unit or an inquiry you are doing with your class.
Turner’s Graph of the Week
Just as the title says, Turner’s Graph of the Week has a new graph each week for students to critically analyze. The site also has an archive of their graphs and has been doing weekly graphs back from 2013 so there is a lot of selection. You can search for subjects you are interested in focusing on.
Which one will use tomorrow in your class? Let me know below!
