Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Look at websites

Please give us feedback about one of the links below. Tell us what you think.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love the getsmarter.org website! It is useful and insightful for the students to see how they compare with other children their own age around the world.

Anonymous said...

My favorite website of these is CyberChase. I'm diggin' the tunes and it forces you to look at comparisons of fractions, decimals, and percents in different ways. I like the pictures with funky-shaped equal size pieces and that 2/10 might look like 1/5 in the picture... I also like that 1/4 can be 1/4 colored or 1/4 not colored.

I also really like the Illuminations one for exploring equivalent fractions. It took me a minute to figure it out, but once I did, I saw several possibilities for how to use it.

I liked GetSmarter too and its music. The cartoons were way cute and dealt with math concepts, but were distracting to me as I was trying to solve the problems.

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Anonymous said...

I really like the getsmarter.org link. I also liked the Teacher Tube. Thank you for finding things for us.

Anonymous said...

I liked the getsmarter site. I also liked the cyber chase site. I know that I have several students that watch the show. This would be a great site to pass on to them.

Anonymous said...

My favorite game for fractions was the Cyber Chase: Mission Magnetite. It worked with comparing and contracting percents, fractions, and a picture.

Anonymous said...

Some of the games will be very helpful. Many of the games did not read the instructions to the students, which is a problem for struggling readers.

Anonymous said...

I think students would enjoy cyberchase-but they would need instruction in percents first

Anonymous said...

I really liked the fraction games and the GetSmarter - fun!