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Study Jams is a Scholastic website designed to help elementary school students learn and review math and science information through songs and videos. To use [|Study Jams] students search for a topic in the math or science category. Each Study Jam offers a short tutorial on that topic in the form of a video, slideshow, or song. When there is a song available Study Jams provides a karaoke format for kids to sing along if they like.



Arcademic Skill Builders has standards-aligned free educational math games (as well as language arts and geography games) that provides both single and multi player games. Students can practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, integers and fractions. www.arcademicskillbuilders.com



BBC has tutorials, games and quizes on addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, percentages, mental math, problem solving, and using a calculator. The colorful site is motivating and the games are engaging. It also offers the html code for teachers to embed on their classroom website or blog. www.bbc.co.uk

Hood Math has amazing and interactive games in arithmetic, geometry and math logic. It also has tutorials on a wide range of math subjects, worksheets for printing and movies to demonstrate difficult math concepts. www.hoodamath.com

Illuminations has activities and lessons for grades K-12. It includes a library of 106 online activities that “help to make math come alive in the classroom or at home”. The activities give students the feeling of a “hands on” activity to help illuminate math concepts.

IXL covers every math subject from grade K – 8. It offers visual representations, word problems, and interactive activities to help all students learn difficult concepts. www.IXL.com

Discovery Education Web Math is a resource for students to use both in and out of the classroom to practice their math skills. What is unique about this site is that students can input specific math questions and problems and the site will generate an answer and show the student how to arrive at the correct answer. A great resource for students to use at home when they need that extra help. www.webmath.com

Math Live is a series of math videos that demonstrate math concepts in an entertaining way. It covers basic arithmetic to geometry and probability. www.learnalberta.ca



Conceptua Math is a provider of interactive visual mathematics lessons. [|Conceptua Math's] primary focus is on the development of tools to aid teachers in the instruction of lessons on fractions. [|Conceptua Math's] offerings are a mix of free and premium (paid) tools. There are a total of fifteen free interactive tools for teachers and students. Each of the free tools has an introductory video and a sample lesson plan. []

Yummy Math is a website designed for the purpose of sharing mathematics problems and scenarios based on things happening in the world today. For example, the activity for December 4th was based on Lebron James's return to Cleveland. Yummy Math lists activities chronologically as well as by mathematics subject area. Two mathematics teachers, Brian Marks and Leslie Lewis, developed Yummy Math. [|http://www.yummymath.com]



Brain Nook is a virtual world in which students can practice their mathematics and English skills. [|Brain Nook] provides students with a series of scenarios that they have to resolve by answering mathematics and language arts questions. []