Welcome to Math Makes Sense!

Welcome! This is a wiki for everyone who is interested in helping students to learn Math. Feel free to add suggestions, links, lessons, and more. For help understanding how to edit and add to this website, watch the videos above. Please feel free to share ideas, activities, lessons, and websites that help students to make sense of Math--expecially in middle school so that we might all benefit.
--Lauren McCluskey's email is: lmccluskey at sharon.k12.ma.us

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Welcome! This is a wiki for everyone who is interested in helping students to learn Math. Feel free to add suggestions, links, lessons, and more. For help understanding how to edit and add to this website, watch the videos above. --Lauren

Are you interested in creating your own videos?

Here are some good EducationaMath videos:


Here are some of the best sites for Math lessons:

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Plane Math (Math in context: online lessons.)

Nrich:

Why Use Games?
Evaluating Games
Make Your Own Games

For websites that have free games: Technology Connections . Other websites for lesson development:

  1. Figure This! To see the index of activities go to: Figure This Activity Index
  2. More and Better Math for All
  3. Math for Elementary School Skills
  4. Rebecca Newman's website This website has a multitude of resources for both middle school Science and Math.
  5. Abacus
  6. Math Notebooking: Learning through Recording
7. The Best Website for Lesson Plans
8. Number Club. a Card Game to Make
Worksheets:
Free Worksheets Links


Here are some interesting blogs:
  1. Rebecca Newman's Blog This is a great site for both middle school Science and Math activities. She has even created her own videos and embedded them within her blog.
  2. Effective Math Games
  3. Maria Miller's blog She has a lot o interesting videos, links and resources.

Here are some interesting power points:

external image vnd.ms-powerpoint.png 07.IntroToInfo.ppt
external image vnd.ms-powerpoint.png history_of_ai.ppt
external image vnd.ms-powerpoint.png mathematicians.ppt
external image vnd.ms-powerpoint.png BINGO!.ppt