AplusMath
AplusMath.com is a website where students can go for extra Math help. This website has help for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, geometry, and algebra. This is a free website that has worksheets, flashcards, homework help, and interactive games for the students to play.
Pros:
This website is great for students who need that extra bit of help outside of the classroom or if you want to have a Math technology station set up in the room where the students can get on computers or iPads and play educational games.
Cons:
Students might need a parent or other adult around to help read all the text. (There is alot of text for a Math website!) There are many ads, and because they are for the Math help as well, it is hard to determine what is safe to click on and what is not. This website seems geared mostly towards upper elementary students and beyond.
Assessments:
You could use this website as a check for your students. By assigning a certain game for them to play or by bringing up the website on your computer or SmartBoard, you can check your students’ understanding of the concept and see how many they miss and how many they get right. You could also time them to see how automatic these facts and concepts are to them.
Standard examples:
1.OA.B.3 – Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract
1.OA.B.4 – Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem
1.OA.C.5 – Relate counting to addition and subtraction
1.OA.C.6 – Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction withing 10
2.OA.B.2 – Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies
3.OA.A.4 – Determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication or division equation relating three whole numbers
3.OA.B.5 – Apply properties of operations as strategies to multiply and divide
Resources:
Aplusmath.com. (2014.) AplusMath. Retrieved from http://aplusmath.com/
Common Core State Standards Initiative. (2012.) Mathematics >> Home >> Mathematics. Retrieved from http://www.corestandards.org/Math