Fun With Shapes is an interactive
way for young students to gain a better understanding of shapes. The concept
of geometric shapes is important for students to develop throughout their
school career. By completing Mallory Baker's interactive activities, students
will hopefully develop a positive attitude toward math and be able to identify
the basic shapes! (K-1)
Math Lives
in Your Home: There is no longer any need to get nervous
when it is time for math! Math is fun and familiar. After all,
it is around you in your home all the time! Join us as we see where
math has been hiding. Susan Kay's webquest is a place where you can
practice beginning math skills using examples from your home. (K-1)
Skip-Counting
with Skip-A-Roo: Good day, mate! My name is Skip-A-Roo Kangaroo
and I would like to introduce to you a new and exciting way of counting.
It is called skip-counting and you only use "special numbers" to skip count
such as the numbers 2, 5, and 10. Created by Jo Anne Chism-Minter. (1-2)
Mo'Money!,
Mo'Money!, Mo'Money! is Angela Walton-Gross' webquest. At the end
of her activity students will be able to add money by denomination and
determine the total, make change by telling how many of what denominations
are required to make a given amount, solve word problems involving money,
recognize the face value of coins and bills, and understand the whole concept
of money.
Julie Keith's Clocks
. . . Telling Time WebQuest will explore the concept
of time and the measurement of time. Children will practice reading time
to the hour and half-hour. They will also place times in the appropriate
sequence.
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Math Detectives: You are the
greatest math detective and have been hired to find the missing answers
to different problems. Once you have received your assignment, please
remember this is a top secret mission!!!! Read on to receive your first
assignment.... (This page written by Kiasi Bobo and Peggy Noble.)
Adding
and Subtracting: A WebQuest designed by Debora Corlew to
help you become more familiar with the skills of adding and subtracting
numbers. You will practice adding and subtracting numbers to eighteen.
This knowledge will then be used to add or subtract two digit numbers.
Do You
Know Your Place? ... Values, that is! Tameka McGhee's WebQuest
will help you to identify whole numbers in exciting ways. You will enjoy
learning how to recognize the differences between ones, tens, and hundreds
place, while gaining a better concept of numbers through exciting games
and challenging practice drills.
The Order
of Operations webquest by DeVondria Brady is designed to offer
assistance to students having difficulties solving problems using order
of operations. Prior knowledge of solving problems using addition,
subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponents will help tremendously
as you solve problems in this webquest.
Do You Have a Problem With That?
Add! Subtract! Multiply! Divide! Oh, no!!
I have a problem with that. How often are you frustrated because
you cannot figure out how to solve a problem? You know how to add,
subtract, multiply and divide, but you do not know when to do it.
Rosalind Blake's website will give you practice in solving math problems.
You will go on a math safari, help a little pig build his house, be quizzed
by a sphinx, sell lemonade, and compete with children around the world.
Have fun!!! (4th)
Eddie Chalmers created a webquest designed to
help you with The
Skill of Averaging. You will apply prior learned knowledge of addition
and division to complete this webquest on batting averages and other averaging
activities.
Sharon Share will help you Learn
Basic Fractions. She enjoys sharing with her friends, but she has
made several friends now and she wants to be able to share equally with
them all. In this WebQuest by Jo-Annette Johnson, you will assist
Sharon Share as she learns about fractions. Now that you are one
of her friends, maybe she will allow you to share in her goodies.
This webquest by Nia Wallace is designed to see
how well you know Equivalent
Fractions. A helpful hint in finding equivalent fractions is to
divide the numerator and denominator by the same number to get a smaller
fraction or multiply the numerator and denominator by the same number to
get a larger fraction.
Dividing
Fractions: What is a denominator? A denominator is
the bottom number of a fraction. When you are dividing fractions, you will
invert (flip) the second fraction and multiply. Written by Angela M. Buntyn.
"Dealing with
Devilish Division" -- Does your stomach hurt every time you think
about long division? James Suggs' site will help you conquer your fear
of long division. This WebQuest teaches you how to calculate long division
and shows you how to check your answers to see if you have done your problems
correctly.
Multiplication will develop into a simple process, if you are familiar
with different tips. Do you ever wonder how some people can calculate
large numbers in their minds in seconds? Or how some people are more
efficient in Math? Well, think no longer -- you're about to learn
Desmond White's Multiplisimplicity
Tricks. (5-6)
Michelle L. Davis designed this webquest on Manipulating
Integers for 7th grade students. Recall the rules for adding, subtracting,
multiplying and dividing integers. Recall the common terminology used with
integers. Apply the integer rules while solving problems.
Do you sometimes find yourself moaning and groaning
when your teacher tells you to take out a sheet of paper for your multiplication
problems? Well, Tamika Patterson has good news for you! There is a new
and exciting way of multiplying called Lattice
Multiplication.
Math
Skills for Life, created by Debbie Taylor and Catina Miller, helps
students count money, write a check, shop within a budget, balance a check
book, and make out a deposit slip.
Do
You Measure Up? -- Have you ever wanted to redecorate your bedroom
with an entertainment center, or an up-dated video game station, or just
turn your room into a state-of-the-art movie theater. Well, here is your
chance with Cedric D. Franklin's site. It is a fun activity that involves
using measurements of different capacities to redecorate your room.
Make
Room! It's a sad day because you're moving -- but only two
blocks away. Your old house is just too small. The exciting
part is that you get to furnish the upstairs all by yourself with the best
paint, wallpaper, carpet, tile, and furniture in the colors, designs, styles,
and products that will be most appropriate for you. The problem is
that you're on a budget of $2,500.00 and Dad, who likes to be called your
CFO - chief financial officer, wants to know how much everything costs.
Amanda Pearcy's WebQuest will keep you on budget! (7-8)
Angles
with Attitude is a webquest designed by Keela Higgs and Kim Mullins
to introduce you to different types of angles; enable you to construct
your own angles; test your angle knowledge; and draw different geometric
shapes using equilateral triangles.
Polygons
Angle to Rock Your World! is Mavis Ford's webquest that invites
students to explore the wonderful world of learning about polygons and
angles. Interactive activities will challenge them to think critically
and logically about polygons and angles.
Metric
Prefixes can be used to convert metric units easily. By simply
changing the prefix in front of the basic unit of measure, the value of
the unit is changed. Marsha Thompson's WebQuest is designed to give you
information and practice converting metric measures by changing the prefixes.
You are at your grandma's house for the weekend, but you've decided you're
ready to go home. Your mom says the only way you can come home is if you
tell her exactly how many miles is the shortest distance from Grandma's,
before you can leave. She tells you that your street and Grandma's
street meet to form an L at your school. Grandma's house is two miles
east of the your school and your house is one mile north of your school.
She also tells you the shortest distance home does not involve passing
your school again. How can you do this? Why not Let
Pythagoras Help You Home? Created by Tiffani S. Ellison.
(8th Pre-Algebra)
Ooh-la-la! Paris on a Budget:
Bonjour! Comment allez-vous? You are doing well because your Grandmother
Kristen Hester has just given you and your cousin $2,000 to spend on your
first trip to Paris. After you two have stopped jumping up and down in
excitement, you realize that a trip to France may be fun, but it will also
involve some planning and budgeting, too. You'll need to choose airfare,
hotels, and tickets to museums and concerts, all the while staying within
your budget. (Hopefully, there will be even be enough left over to buy
your sister an Eiffel Tower keychain.) But you can handle that, right?
After all, you're going to Paris! Bon voyage! (9th)
Understanding
Probability:
Do you know what the
word "probability" means? If not, how about the word "chance"? If you know
what chance means, then you have a good idea what probability is. This
lesson by Jim Carter and Donna Taylor provides an introduction and activities
centered around this concept.
Algebraic
Expressions: X + 25; if X = 6. Algebraic expressions
can be a fun and interesting part of solving problems in Algebra. In solving
expressions, you will use the four operations in math along with understanding
the use of variables. This page, authored by Michael Davis, has been created
to offer some helpful links, as well as provide various algebraic expressions
for you to solve.
Do you look or act like your mother or your father? Does your Mom
ever say, "You are just like your father!"? Math functions, like
people, resemble their parent functions. Even more importantly, if we know
the behavior of the parent we can predict the behavior of the "child".
Shirley Wallace's unit will allow you to identify the parent function,
describe the behavior of the child, and graph the function at a glance.
You will be able to impress friends and entertain at parties with your
new-found mathematical ability. So get started and "More
Power to You"! (8-9 Algebra I)
Solving
One-Step Equations is a webquest written by Anita Tucker to provide
a variety of activities to help one become proficient in solving one-step
equations. Solving equations is a basic fundamental in Algebra I and after
completing this page, you should be able to solve and check one-step equations
efficiently and with confidence which is very important as you move on
to solving multi-step equations in Algebra.
Mission Impossible: The Unknown
Good Morning, Agent Student. Your mission, if you should decide to accept
it, will be to identify each variable, simplify each expression, and evaluate
each equation in this material from Professor Romond Arnold. Good Luck!
(9-12 Algebra I)
Solving
Quadratic Equations: Craig McNatt will assist you in solving quadratic
equations in a variety of ways: factoring, completing the square, and the
quadratic formula. Some methods can be used at all times, while others
are only effective for some types of quadratic equations. You may find
it easier to use one method for some equations, while other equations can
be solved more easily with another method.
Tessellations:
Charlotte Fields' webquest will help you locate and design patterns. There
are three types of mathematical symmetry that are commonly found in tessellations:
translational symmetry, rotational symmetry, and glide reflection symmetry.
Symmetries create patterns that help us organize our world conceptionally.
Symmetric patterns occur in nature, and are invented by artists, craftspeople,
musicians, choreographers, and mathematicians. In mathematics, the idea
of symmetry gives us a precise way to think about a particular object or
subject.
Super Solids
of Revolution: Imagining the solid formed when a function
is revolved about an axis is sometimes difficult. Once you become efficient
at determining the shape formed, it will become necessary to decide upon
the best method for finding the volume. Visuals in this activity will activate
your imagination, making the images come to life in your mind's eye. Teresa
Sloan's intention is to help you understand the teacher's instruction more
completely.
In this lesson written by Earnestine Boyd, students
will have the opportunity to learn the basics of Graphing
on a Coordinate Plane. After reviewing integers, students will
visually and concretely draw horizontal and vertical number lines. Students
will practice and become familiar with plotting points and labeling points
on a coordinate grid. Students will learn key terms associated with coordinate
plane.
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