How about this dance of the parallel lines or this teacher singing the Soh Cah Toa trigonometry song.  I love the students’ obvious enjoyment and the teachers’ willingness to be a little crazy.

YouTube has added a Safety Mode that allows users to screen objectionable content. It gives teachers and parents a way to limit access to videos that might not be appropriate for children, in particular ones that have excess violence or inappropriate sexual content.  Hopefully this will make teachers more willing to use YouTube in the [...]

Your students might enjoy this math arcade.  It is great for students in upper elementary grades who want to practice different math skills.  The graphics are good and the games move along quickly.

Since my mom is in Argentina visiting my sister and I’m crunched for time as the end of the quarter projects start to pile up, we haven’t been doing such a great job of posting.  But never fear, we are still here!
A couple of weeks ago, I finished a storytelling class, which all of my [...]

I’m not usually all that enthusiastic about drill and practice, but the organization FreeRice has come up with an interesting concept.  What a combo – online quizzing combined with the motivation of giving.  John Breen founded FreeRice in 2007 and donated the site to the UN World Food Program in March, 2009.
FreeRice combines an interest in [...]

The website SoftSchools has numerous online games for math, language arts, science, social studies, Spanish and French.  There are games for students in Pre-K through Middle School.  I suggest testing the games before using them because some are more boring than others and the graphics differ greatly from one to the next.  Most of the [...]

If your students have access to computers and you want to have your class compete against other classes in a math contest, take a look at  the American Math Challenge.  It’s an online math contest that takes place in early November.  The practice week is November 2-8 and the Online Challenge is November 9-16.  There [...]

Here’s a math memory trick my son remembered. When teaching greater than or less than, teach students that the crocodile eats the greater number. Thus the open end (the mouth) is always pointing to the higher number.  3<5  Three is less than five. The crocodile eats the five. 5>3 Five [...]