Websites for Extra Practice!
List of Websites:
AAA Math
BBC Education Math Games
Mixing In Math Card Games
PBS Kids Measurement Games
FunBrain: Measure It!
Banfill, J. (2009). Measurement. Retrieved from http://www.aaamath.com/mea.html
AAA Math provides a list of online activities meant to provide extra practice or to supplement mathematics lessons. The measurement page has a wide range of activity topics including time, Metric System, volume, mass, length, and temperature conversions. The activities are fairly straightforward, with little visual appeal. But, provide phenomenal information and practice with difficult and abstract measurement concepts. This resource would be most helpful in providing students with additional practice or independent review. It is appropriate for K-5 grade in that the activities range from a simple season sort to Metric conversions.
BBC Education. Maths File Game Wheel. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/gameswheel.html
BBC Education provides a flashy, interactive series of games utilizing Adobe Shockwave software. The measurement games allow students to explore concepts such as area and weight by tiling a bathroom and comparing animal weights. The data-based games allow students to analyze and compare data through activities that introduce them to statistics and probability. These games are most appropriate for older elementary students with a more advanced understanding of number sense. They will need to have comparison and analysis skills in place before attempting these games.
National Science Foundation. (2012). Mixing in Math Meets the Common Core Standards. Retrieved from http://mixinginmath.terc.edu/skills_standards/common_core.php
Mixing in Math provides a list of games that can be played with a common deck of cards. These games are all aligned to key concepts covered in the Common Core Standards for mathematics. Some of the concepts included are arithmetic, counting, data, patterns, measurement, geometry, probability, and estimation. The games can be adjusted to meet the needs of students of all ages. Since the games are played with a cheap, easily obtainable deck of cards, this list would be a fantastic resource for parents to help their children with extra math practice. The games are appropriate for K-5 grade students in that they range from simple counting games to probability and geometry.
PBS Kids. Measurement Games. Retrieved from http://pbskids.org/games/measurement.html
PBS Kids website offers a plethora of games geared toward early elementary aged students. The games are bright, colorful, and interactive. They provide students with practice building on key foundational skills for understanding measurement and data. However, older students would not benefit from the low-level concepts. The games teach these foundational skills through authentic applications such as cooking, planting a garden, balancing, and measuring height and weight. The games feature familiar PBS characters that will appeal to younger elementary audiences.
Pearson Education, Inc. (2012). Measure It! Measurement Game. Retrieved from http://www.funbrain.com/measure/index.html
This Funbrain measurement game assesses students' understanding of length measurements. The game is appropriate for 1-5 grade students. The difficulty level can be adjusted to suit the individual needs of each student. The game can also be adjusted to measure either Metric or American standard units of measurement. This games would be a fantastic assessment to gauge students' understandings of length measurement. It could be useful if used as both a pre and post-assessment to an academic unit on length measurement.
AAA Math
BBC Education Math Games
Mixing In Math Card Games
PBS Kids Measurement Games
FunBrain: Measure It!
Banfill, J. (2009). Measurement. Retrieved from http://www.aaamath.com/mea.html
AAA Math provides a list of online activities meant to provide extra practice or to supplement mathematics lessons. The measurement page has a wide range of activity topics including time, Metric System, volume, mass, length, and temperature conversions. The activities are fairly straightforward, with little visual appeal. But, provide phenomenal information and practice with difficult and abstract measurement concepts. This resource would be most helpful in providing students with additional practice or independent review. It is appropriate for K-5 grade in that the activities range from a simple season sort to Metric conversions.
BBC Education. Maths File Game Wheel. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/gameswheel.html
BBC Education provides a flashy, interactive series of games utilizing Adobe Shockwave software. The measurement games allow students to explore concepts such as area and weight by tiling a bathroom and comparing animal weights. The data-based games allow students to analyze and compare data through activities that introduce them to statistics and probability. These games are most appropriate for older elementary students with a more advanced understanding of number sense. They will need to have comparison and analysis skills in place before attempting these games.
National Science Foundation. (2012). Mixing in Math Meets the Common Core Standards. Retrieved from http://mixinginmath.terc.edu/skills_standards/common_core.php
Mixing in Math provides a list of games that can be played with a common deck of cards. These games are all aligned to key concepts covered in the Common Core Standards for mathematics. Some of the concepts included are arithmetic, counting, data, patterns, measurement, geometry, probability, and estimation. The games can be adjusted to meet the needs of students of all ages. Since the games are played with a cheap, easily obtainable deck of cards, this list would be a fantastic resource for parents to help their children with extra math practice. The games are appropriate for K-5 grade students in that they range from simple counting games to probability and geometry.
PBS Kids. Measurement Games. Retrieved from http://pbskids.org/games/measurement.html
PBS Kids website offers a plethora of games geared toward early elementary aged students. The games are bright, colorful, and interactive. They provide students with practice building on key foundational skills for understanding measurement and data. However, older students would not benefit from the low-level concepts. The games teach these foundational skills through authentic applications such as cooking, planting a garden, balancing, and measuring height and weight. The games feature familiar PBS characters that will appeal to younger elementary audiences.
Pearson Education, Inc. (2012). Measure It! Measurement Game. Retrieved from http://www.funbrain.com/measure/index.html
This Funbrain measurement game assesses students' understanding of length measurements. The game is appropriate for 1-5 grade students. The difficulty level can be adjusted to suit the individual needs of each student. The game can also be adjusted to measure either Metric or American standard units of measurement. This games would be a fantastic assessment to gauge students' understandings of length measurement. It could be useful if used as both a pre and post-assessment to an academic unit on length measurement.
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Books for Fun!
List of Books:
How Long or How Wide
Measuring Penny
Pepper’s Journal
Room for Ripley
Super Sand Castle Saturday
Cleary, B. P. (2007). How Long or How Wide . Minneapolis: Millbrook Press.
In this humorous look at length the authors of this book introduce essential units from millimeters to yards. The comical cats of the story show how to measure length, width, and height. This story would work great as a read aloud for grades 1-4 to introduce a topic on measurement of length, width, and height.
Leedy, L. (2000). Measuring Penny. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
This story is about a little girl with a dog as pet. Along the way the little girl uses her dog to measure many different items. They use standard and nonstandard tools to measure length, width, and height. They teach about volume using quarts, pints, gallons, and cups. This book also teaches about weight, money and time for measurement. This book covers all kinds of different measurement topics. This would be a great book to introduce a measurement unit or give students an idea of what all can be measured and then have them be challenged to go out and measure items at home just like the character in the book.
Murphy, S. J. (2000). Pepper's Journal. New York: HarperCollins .
In this book the math measurement topic is "time". This story goes through the sequence of days, weeks, months, and years. This is important to teach time in measurement so that students understand the basic idea of how time works. This might be taught in Kindergarten and used as a read aloud to get students thinking about ways to measure their time.
Murphy, S. J. (1999). Room for Ripley. New York: HarperCollins.
In this book the math measurement topic is measuring capacity using cups, pints, quarts, half gallons, and gallons. It tells of the adventures of a young boy who wants to buy a fish bowl and fills it with the correct amount of water by using measurement tools. This book would be a great visual for students just learning about capacity. The book shows how there are sixteen cups in eight pints, which is equal to four quarts, which is equal to two half gallons, which is equal to one gallon. It gives a great starting point to see how all of these measurements are broken down and fit into one another.
Murphy, S. J. (1999). Super Sand Castle Saturday. New York: HarperCollins.
In this story three friends compete in a sand castle contest to build the tallest tower, the deepest moat, and the longest wall. Under the watchful eye of Larry the Lifeguard, they build super sand castles and learn about measurement too. This story can be used as a read aloud for students K-4th in order to show inches, centimeters, and feet measuring height, length, width and even depth.
How Long or How Wide
Measuring Penny
Pepper’s Journal
Room for Ripley
Super Sand Castle Saturday
Cleary, B. P. (2007). How Long or How Wide . Minneapolis: Millbrook Press.
In this humorous look at length the authors of this book introduce essential units from millimeters to yards. The comical cats of the story show how to measure length, width, and height. This story would work great as a read aloud for grades 1-4 to introduce a topic on measurement of length, width, and height.
Leedy, L. (2000). Measuring Penny. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
This story is about a little girl with a dog as pet. Along the way the little girl uses her dog to measure many different items. They use standard and nonstandard tools to measure length, width, and height. They teach about volume using quarts, pints, gallons, and cups. This book also teaches about weight, money and time for measurement. This book covers all kinds of different measurement topics. This would be a great book to introduce a measurement unit or give students an idea of what all can be measured and then have them be challenged to go out and measure items at home just like the character in the book.
Murphy, S. J. (2000). Pepper's Journal. New York: HarperCollins .
In this book the math measurement topic is "time". This story goes through the sequence of days, weeks, months, and years. This is important to teach time in measurement so that students understand the basic idea of how time works. This might be taught in Kindergarten and used as a read aloud to get students thinking about ways to measure their time.
Murphy, S. J. (1999). Room for Ripley. New York: HarperCollins.
In this book the math measurement topic is measuring capacity using cups, pints, quarts, half gallons, and gallons. It tells of the adventures of a young boy who wants to buy a fish bowl and fills it with the correct amount of water by using measurement tools. This book would be a great visual for students just learning about capacity. The book shows how there are sixteen cups in eight pints, which is equal to four quarts, which is equal to two half gallons, which is equal to one gallon. It gives a great starting point to see how all of these measurements are broken down and fit into one another.
Murphy, S. J. (1999). Super Sand Castle Saturday. New York: HarperCollins.
In this story three friends compete in a sand castle contest to build the tallest tower, the deepest moat, and the longest wall. Under the watchful eye of Larry the Lifeguard, they build super sand castles and learn about measurement too. This story can be used as a read aloud for students K-4th in order to show inches, centimeters, and feet measuring height, length, width and even depth.