Math is a passion of mine, but I know that many students feel quite stressed out when they have to do math. I will spend the year showing the students many strategies and helping them build number sense so they can feel more confident doing math. I will also provide extra help during class time and when I can at lunch and after school (also known as Math Club). However, I cannot always be there when they need me (Sorry I just can’t make house calls!), so I have included some sites that may help you when I’m not around. There are many websites that are designed to help, challenge ideas, create excitement about and answer all relating to math. Try Ask Dr. Math for expert ideas that range from elementary school to college level. Math.com has online math lessons for a whole range of topics. Ever run across a math word and you can’t remember what it means? Here is a math dictionary for grade 5 (or any grade you choose). What do you do when you get stuck? Check out webmath.com for all sorts of answers…….Multiplication.com is great site for math fun. As well, if any of you have older brothers or sisters who struggle with math in grade seven and/or high school, a great site for explaining in “kidspeak” is purplemath.com. It mostly helps with all levels of algebra, but there are also lesson for other concepts. Another great site that uses youtube and allows you to create work sheets is Mathmaster. Also great is Khanacademy.
For printable math practice sheets Math-Drills has tons of sheets for practice. Measuring angles using a protractor.
