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Resources for parents and teachers

Nancy Pi

Nancy Pi’s Excellent Math Walkthroughs for Algebra and Beyond Nancy is an MIT grad who *slowly and carefully* walks through mathematics procedures ranging from Algebra 1 through second year calculus. The videos are essential for understanding step-by-step calculations, but they are not heavily focused on concepts (for that, see a different series). They’re excellent for …

Desmos calculator activities

Desmos is an online graphic calculator available for free to students. The Desmos website also provides activities for students categorized by topic for high school level math topics. Teachers and caregivers can access the teacher resource page here to browse for your activity and grade level. To view activities, students can go to student.desmos.com and …

NAEYC

NAEYC is providing a free math toolkit for at home learning. They provide material, research, guidelines, and common core-aligned content for online instruction. The site offers free research based resources for teachers and families to support math instruction and student progress. 

PBS LearningMedia

Teachers and students can create a free account and receive access to a variety of resources for grades preschool to high school for online learning at home. Parents can also sign up as informal educators. Teachers can connect their account to their google classrooms to support ease of use and communication to students. Teachers and …

Lakeshore

Lakeshore is providing more than 1,000 free resources during COVID-19. They are providing lesson plans across grade levels, activities, templates, writing prompts, and craft ideas. Lakeshore is a store that provides a wide-range of elementary school resources. The free resources they are providing support online learning at home for teachers, parents/guardians, families, and students.

Storyline Online

Books are read aloud to students by different celebrities and famous people. It’s a fun and engaging way to participate in reading that students can access anywhere that have internet and a computer, phone, or tablet. Each book provides a video of the book read aloud, captions, and a teacher’s guide with addressed common core …

Reading A to Z

Reading A-Z provides reading resources for use online or in the classroom. Students can access a variety of texts and resources that are Common core-aligned. For student access through a school or teacher, students will need their login. If they have it, it has tons of books and comprehension questions to go with each book. …

IXL

IXL provides a comprehensive math curriculum for schools, teachers, and families. It provides placement assessments, progress reporting, and individualized student guidance. This site is great for math instruction for families and teachers. Usually it would cost to become a member, but they are providing resources and instruction during school closures for free. They organize resources …

XtraMath

XtraMath is allows users to sign up for an account for free. Teachers may already have an account for students to log into, or parents and sign up for their child and monitor their progress. This supports students’ math facts fluency and supports the needs to practice remedial math skills. A really nice feature is …

Typing Club

This program is great to learn how to type! It has interactive lessons, engaging videos, and games that actually support the learning process. It’s free and does not require a school, class, or teacher to register them for the free access. I tried it out to see how the lessons were organized and taught, and …

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