MATHS
HERE I AM: MY BRAIN IS OPEN. Paul Erdos
Also check out VT Mathematical Gossip page
Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers.
Maths is MORE IMPORTANT to the world than in any other time in history. From rockets to stock markets, many of humanity's most thrilling creations are powered by math. So why do kids lose interest in it? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach -- calculation by hand -- isn't just tedious, it's mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He presents his radical idea: teaching kids math through computer programming.
NINJA STAR
How to make an 8 point transforming Ninja Star Use Zac Sideris Snap Guide and follow the step by step instructions or watch the video.
Maths Investigation
How many different shapes?
How many of each shape?
How many sides in the Ninja Star?
How many vertex in the Ninja Star?
How Many Faces?
How many sides in the Octagon?
How many vertex in the Octagon?
How many Faces?
QUICKULATIONS
Maths Chase is a great maths warm up activity and can be set to suit any stage. Grab the white boards and beat the clock.
This is a visual aid designed to be projected onto a white-board for whole class exposition. The calculations are generated randomly and you can vary the type of calculations that will appear. Use the slider above to vary the time the calculations remain on the screen.
MATHS CHaSE
Maths Chase is a completely free site where you can quickly test your times tables. The site is a very simple game and a very cool way to learn times tables.
TIMESTABLE SONGS
Here’s the 6 Times Table Song by| PINKFONG Songs for Children on all tables. Google PinkFong and the times table you want.
NUMBERTALKS
A fabulous strategy for helping your kids develop number sense is by engaging in Number Talks.
Check out Jo's Talk on youcubed. Number Talks
THE PROBLEM mentioned in the video is 5 x 18 this is discussed in the Maths Talk and student's strategies illustrated on the whiteboard.
TAKE A LOOK The Dot Number talk as well
MATHMAGIC
MATH MAGIC Spelling - by VSauce a great magic trick with lots of maths. You will need a pack of cards. Great for Stages 2 and up. Watch the video do the maths and go WOW!
YOHAKU
A YOHAKU is a fabulous maths puzzle, which will test your number sense and problem-solving skills.
It can be either addition or multiplication.
Your task is to fill in the empty cells so that they
give the sum or product shown in each row or column.
The Japanese word Yohaku means white or empty space. And I love to fill in empty spaces.
VISIT The Yohaku website
LEARN How to solve a Yohaku puzzle.
TRY Some Yohaku puzzles Here are some easy ones. They are quite addictive.
Mr UG MOBIUS
Wind and Mr. Ug - Mobius strip
A great introduction to the single sided Mobius Strip. Everyone will want to make one.
Math Improv: Fruit by the Foot Playing mathematically with fruits by the foot.
FLEXTANGLES
Flextangles/Hexaflexagons are paper models that can be flexed to reveal hidden faces. They were originally created by Princeton graduate student Arthur Stone in 1939 and became a huge fad when Martin Gardner published them. Watch the Video
The kids loved making them but BEWARE they require persistence, careful and very firm creasing and patience. Crease all the lines and dotted lines as per instructions very firmly and wait till the glue dries. Wiki Folding Instructions
How many vertices? How many edges? How many shapes? And of course - PROVE IT.
TABLES
NUMBER 1 Hit the Button Great Game Topmarks iPad(paid) &Online(free) Interactive Game
Learn your Times Tables in Just 5 days Great site with games and ideas for accomplishing this feat
Teaching Multi-Digit Multiplication
PLACE VALUE
Place Value Interactive - Fabulous From Topmarks
This resource can help with understanding of how numbers, including decimals, are made up.
NUMBERFILE
Numberphile is an educational YouTube channel featuring videos that explore topics from a variety of fields of mathematic., Curious and fascinating.
Check out the Googol and Googolplex Video
Connect Four - Numberphile Work out how to win this game
MATHS ANTICS
Great website with lots of Video Lessons. Check out their Youtube Channel as well as they Website. Great Explanations like this Multi-Digit Multiplication Video
KHAN ACADEMY
Khan Academy has lots of mathematical videos here with simple explanations. Courses for different grades as well subjects. Check out this video on Multiplying 2-digit by 1-digit
GRAPHING
IS A PICTURE WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS OR A MILLION OR A BILLION?
Ever wanted a new spin on Graphing - well here is.
Google Labs' Ngram Viewer. It's an addictive tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., "British English", "English Fiction", "French") over the selected years. Here's a graph from someone studying various forms of frustration from the one 'a' argh to the 4 'a' aaaargh.
PROBABILITY
Rolling Yahtzee 1,296 and Yahtzee - Numberphile
Play Yahtzee Online
Generate Yahtzee Score Sheet Online
Yahtzee Score Sheet
Simplified Yahtzee Score Sheet Stage 1 and 2
AMAZING Dice Rolls - Numberphile - Viewer supplied Yahtzee rolls
TiME
Clock for digital and analogue time Video "Telling Time On The Hour and Half Hour Fairy Godfather
Video History of Time British Museum - S1 - 3
Kindergarten Clock Song
Days of the Week Song(Adams Family) - Stage 1
Months of the Year Song Stage 1
Draw a Clockface
How to Draw a Funny Clock
How to Draw and Alarm Clock
SYMMETRY
Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, Reality’s Riddle
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy takes you inside the universe’s native language — symmetry.
Fabulous TED talk on Symmetry great for upper primary and secondary.
From beautiful upside-down columns to the mind-boggling number of symmetries in a Rubik’s Cube, he shares some of the brightest (and darkest) moments in the history of humanity’s fascination with symmetry.
FiBONACCI
Arthur Benjamin The Magic of Fibonacci Numbers
Math is logical, functional and just ... awesome. Mathemagician Arthur Benjamin explores hidden properties of that weird and wonderful set of numbers, the Fibonacci series. (And reminds you that mathematics can be inspiring, too!)
WolframAlpha
Computational Knowledge Search Engine
WolframAlpha answers questions that people might have not by searching available knowledge but by computing using built in knowledge and details, and providing new answers to specific questions.
Elementary Maths Examples Check out the general examples page to get some ideas.
Give your brain a quick work out with WolframAlpha See what amazing results you get when you just type in your first name - you will love it.
MoNEY
Dr Seuss Book ReadAloud
Apps - iCAN Count Money Australia - Great little app for kids - with 6 games and 5 different levels in each. Suitable for stages 1 and 2
Interactives
How Much money up to $1.00
Count money up to $5.00
How much money 5c and 10c coins
FRiGHTENING
World Population Growth and Exponential Functions
Current World Population large updating number - perfect for EWB
TESSELLATIONS
Gigafloppingly Brilliant TESSELLATIONS
Mathematicians define "tessellate" as covering a plane with a pattern.
Tessellation Interactive
Japanese artist Makoto Nakamura Amazing
M.C. Escher,the Dutch artist and father of modern-day tessellations.
How to Make a Tessellation Video Use some thickish paper approximately 100 x 100.
FRACTALS
FUN with Fractals
Link this up to Pythagoras Tree - Wolfram Alpha or Triangle Fractal
Check out my 4 Big Ideas eBook Some great ideas on using Fractals K - 6
HISTORICAL
Cool site for Egyptian Calculator
Translates into hieroglyphics, does mathematical calculations online, excellent site. Includes 16 other terrific interactive Ancient Egyptian activities.
Egyptian Numbers Symbols
Biographies of Women Mathematicians very comprehensive
Famous Mathematicians
NRICH
NRICH Enriching Mathematics site has age appropriate problems and this site also has a news letter and many other links - well worth a look.
Problems fo all stages, some of my favourites:-
The Amazing Splitting Plant - Lower Primary
Maze 100 Middle Primary
Problem 14 - Stage 3
Sums and Differences - Middle Primary
Platonic SOLIDS
Platonic Solids V-Sauce Mysterium Cosmographicum
Is a great video for stage 2 and over. For 2D shapes and 3D platonic solid - tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, or icosahedron, a polytope is regular if all of its elements are alike.
ANGLES
MathTacular3-What's Your Angle - Great Youtube Video on Human angles.
Alien Angles Game - Great Intereactive online game.
Age of the Angles is an awesome application designed to reinforce protractor, angle measurement, and angle measure estimation skills.
Acute, Obtuse, and Right Angles - Online
FLATLaND
Story of Flatland
A famous mathematics story, I just love it. "Be patient, for the world is broad and wide."
Flatland the Movie The Film (2007) (1 hour and 307 minutes))
Flatland the Movie Trailer is a great teaser video(2mins)
PYTHAGORAS
Mathsisfun - Pythagoras
Who was Pythagoras? Why did he like triangles so much? And is it true that he died over a couple of beans?
Horrible Histories Pythagoras Video
2D & 3D
Great site great info great video. "The Revenge of the Triangles” - 3D Objects
3D Shapes Nets, grid paper spinners, 2D nets to 3D Fabulous. Download App iClass Shapes
Pi
Interactive Math
Pi has excited mathematicians for thousands of years. Why all the interest?
Approximating Pi with Inscribed Polygons Wolfram Alpha Interactive
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