Assessment |
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| UTIPS Teacher Login | Teacher Log-In: Set up 6th grade tests for your students |
| UTIPS tutorial | In case you have forgotten how! |
| Jeopardy | Use this powerpoint to informally assess 6th grade math skills |
Lesson Plans |
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| USU Core Academy | Access handbooks from USU Core Academy. Math core: 2003 and 2005; Science Core: 2004 and 2006. |
| Jordan School District Mathematics Page | Great selection of hands-on pre-algebra lesson plans |
| SCORE Mathematics Lessons | Schools of California Online Resources for Educators Cross-curricular lesson plans organized by standard and level |
| Illuminations | NCTM lesson plan site |
| New York Times Daily Lesson Plans | Archive of lesson plans developed around recent newspaper articles. Link to article plus activities. |
| Math Forum | 87 lesson plans for 6th grade |
| Discovery School | Lesson plans developed by Discovery Channel |
| Harcourt Brace eLab | Interactive activities with printable companion worksheets |
Portals |
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| National Library of Virtual Manipulatives | The ultimate virtual manipulate site maintained by USU |
| Internet 4 Classrooms | Links for interactive activities organized by standard |
Interactive Activities |
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| Ratio | Ratio Tutorial: Skip Intro and choose Lesson 3 |
| Place Value | AAA math: When given a numeral, indentify the place value of digits |
| Mega Penny Project: Explore large numbers | |
| Math Cats: Type in a large number and convert to words | |
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AAA math: Write the numeral the expanded form represents |
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| Place Value Pirates: Includes Decimals | |
| Exponents | Tutorial and Quiz |
| Order of Operations | Funbrain: Operation Order |
| Amby Tutorial | |
| Regents Practice Activities | |
| Grid matching game download | |
| Estimation | AAA Math: Front End Estimation |
| Decimals | Great video tutorial (Click Skip Intro, then click Lesson 1) |
| Kidport: Adding with 2 decimal digits | |
| Kidport: Adding with 3 decimal digits | |
| Funbrain: Mulitiplying decimals | |
| NLVM: Adding and subtracting decimals using base 10 blocks | |
| Adding Decimals: Push the green blocks into holes to make the target number | |
| Fun Brain: Multiplying Decimals | |
| Variables and Expressions | Alginon's Algebra Explorer |
| Equation Match from BBC | |
| Computation | I Know That Mathblox: (Click Maybe Later on registration screen) Multiplication Facts |
| Rockhopper | |
| Multiplication mystery http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/tunnel/multiply.htm | |
| Mulitiplication Tunnel Blaster | |
| The Digit Workout | |
| Fractions | NLVM-adding fractions with mixed denominators |
| Illuminations Fraction Game | |
| Spy Guys Interactive: Improper Fractions and Mixed Numbers. (Click Skip Intro, then click Lesson 2) | |
| Adding fractions with like denominators (Circle Graphs) | |
| Soccer Shootout--FunBrain game multiplying fractions and writing in lowest terms | |
| Find Grampy: Visualizing fractions | |
| NLVM: Visualizing division of fractions | |
| Fractions/Decimals | Death to Decimals--Converting fractions and decimals |
| Comparing Fractions and Decimals--Toon University | |
| Factors, Multiples, and Prime Numbers | Factor Tree --Find the prime factors of given numbers or insert your own |
| Spy Guys Interactive: Factors, Multiples, and Prime Numbers (Click Skip Intro, then click Lesson 7) | |
| Divisibility Rules--Even one for 7! | |
| Sieve of Eratosthenes--Gradually reveal all the prime numbers between 1 and 400. | |
| Number Cop--Choose Prime Numbers (also good for multiplication practice) | |
| Ratio | Ratio Tutorial: Skip Intro and choose Lesson 3 Ratio Tutorial: Skip Intro and choose Lesson 3 |
| Measurement | Surface Area Tutorial: Skip Intro and choose lesson 14 |
| Volume Tutorial: Skip Intro and choose lesson 15 | |
Miscellaneous |
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| Mapleton Sixth Grade | Lots of cross curricular links |
| Dictionary | Interactive math dictionary for kids (and parents!) |
| Calculator | Larger than the Windows version |
| Classic Math Fallacies | Proofs that defy common sense, such as 1=2 |
| Math Magic Tricks | |
| Daily Dose of Brainteasers | |