Homeschooling in Poquoson

Resources for the other Poquoson school.

Math

General

  • USA Mathematical Talent Search
    A free mathematics competition open to all United States middle and high school students.

  • Flashcard Exchange
    The world's largest flashcard library

  • Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching
    Scroll down near the bottom for full year math curriculums for various ages (British site)

  • Teacher 2 Teacher
    Welcome to our teacher-made materials store. (hundred boards, flashcards, function grids, etc)

  • Handwriting for Kids
    Worksheets - both online and printed (Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and money)

  • The Art of Problem Solving
    A challenging curriculum in problem solving mathematics for strong math students in grades 6-12

  • Math Olympiads
    Build Better Math Students Through Contests!

  • Try Engineering
    ...a resource for students (ages 8-18), their parents, their teachers and their school counselors. This is a portal about engineering and engineering careers, and we hope it will help young people understand better what engineering means, and how an engineering career can be made part of their future

  • Discover Engineering
    If you surf your way through this site, you'll know way more about engineers and engineering than most adults. You might even decide that you want to become an engineer.

  • Math2.org
    sharing math on the web

  • Trigger Memory Systems
    Education through Imagination

  • Inventing Homemade Instruments with Math and Measurement
    ....where common household items are transformed into musical marvels using math and measurement!

  • National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
    Online 'virtual' math manipulatives such abacus, Montessori-like bas blocks, etc

  • Gisele's Big Backyard
    Online learning games for primary grades

  • Grace Church School's ABACUS International Math Challenge
    ...is open to any child, anywhere in each of three age groups (approx ages 9-14)

  • Exploratorium
    The museum of science, art and human perception. (Try the 'Ten Cool Sites' link for additional links in art, science, math, history and more)

  • Key Curriculum Press
    It's our mission to...Develop effective, high quality mathematics and science educational materials that engage students, open their eyes to math and science in the world around them, teach both ideas and skills, and ignite their interest in learning.

  • Finger Multiplication
    A learning trick for the 6-9's tables.

  • Multiplication.com
    This site contains the techniques, tips, and secrets used by master teachers

  • Mathematical Sciences Digital Library
    A scholarly journal of MathDL as well as a select collection of free online learning materials which are available through the site. These materials have been classroom tested and peer reviewed.

  • Mathematics Pentathlon
    A program of interactive problem-solving games, supportive curricular and instructional activities, and evaluation and assessment instruments. Designed for students in grades K-7.

  • Larson Math (paid)
    is comprehensive, online math software that covers all topics from grade 3 through all middle school math plus topics in prealgebra and algebra

  • MASSIVE: Math And Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere
    Contains information on over 2500 science and math songs. Some of these songs are suitable for 2nd graders; others might only appeal to tenured professors. Some songs have been professionally recorded; others haven't. Some are quite silly; others are downright serious.

  • Living Math
    This site is dedicated to sharing resources for learning, exploring and enjoying math in a dynamic and holistic manner, for all ages.

  • Singapore Math (paid)
    K-12 Mathematics and other educational material from Singapore is suitable for classroom, home-school and enrichment (supplementary) settings

  • Illuminations
    Illuminations is designed to: Provide Standards-based resources that improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students and Provide materials that illuminate the vision for school mathematics set forth in Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. Illuminations is part of the prestigious MarcoPolo Internet Content for the Classroom program.

  • Project Euler
    A series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.

  • Comprhensive School Mathematics Program
    CSMP was developed to be an exemplary curriculum by National Institute of Education for others to emulate. While many pieces have been adapted, some thirty years later there are few curricula that compare.

  • Math Mammoth (paid, but cheap)
    Fully reproducible math books and worksheets above the drill and kill of ordinary worksheets!

  • Math U See (paid)
    Math·U·See's goal is to help produce confident problem solvers who enjoy the study of math.

Time and Money

Games

  Online

  • Maths Mansion
    You are trapped in a Gothic mansion by Bad Man until you can successfully crack the maths challenges! Enter the television adventure game for 9 - 11 year olds

  • Class Brains - Lemonade Stand
    You now have your very own lemonade stand and 30 days to try and make some money.

  • Escape from Knab
    "Earn and save enough money on the planet Knab in order to buy your return ticket to Earth." Very neat game about earning money, making a budget, writing checks and other necessary financial tasks.

  • Funbrain
    Variety site of learning games

  • Learning Planet
    Variety site of learning games

  Board

Calculus

  • Calculus Without Tears
    A revolutionary approach to learning calculus.

  • Calculus: The Musical!
    Using musical parodies that span genres from light opera to hip hop, we introduce and illuminate such concepts as limits, integration and differentiation.

  • HMC Mathematics Online Tutorials
    Online tutorials for Pre-Calculus, Single Variable Calculus, Multi-variable Calculus, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations

Statistics

  • SOCR: Statistics online Computational Resource
    The goals of the Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) are to design, validate and freely disseminate knowledge. Our Resource specifically provides portable online aids for probability and statistics education, technology based instruction and statistical computing. SOCR tools and resources include a repository of interactive applets, computational and graphing tools, instructional and course materials.