Math Resources & Links
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z.
X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
Standards Toolkit website
The Standards Toolkit website premiered on 1/22/14 as part of Milwee Middle Schools Student-Led Conference Initiatives. Milwee Middle School and our Parent Advisory Team partnered to create this website to provide students, parents and guardians with resources on "how" to help students in 6th - 8th grades strengthen their needed academic skills. This website will offer clarification of the skills for each standard as well as free tutorial and/or practice lessons (when available).
Our students received assessment data for both prior year FCAT scores and current year Discovery Education (DE) assessments in Reading/Language Arts (LA) and Mathematics. This information identified student's scores in the specific standards areas they are proficient in as well as those that need improvement. Students/Parents can use this information to guide you to the corresponding area on this website for additional information and help for improvement.
Our students received assessment data for both prior year FCAT scores and current year Discovery Education (DE) assessments in Reading/Language Arts (LA) and Mathematics. This information identified student's scores in the specific standards areas they are proficient in as well as those that need improvement. Students/Parents can use this information to guide you to the corresponding area on this website for additional information and help for improvement.
YOU can help your child succeed! Be Engaged!
Being engaged means being informed and taking appropriate action.
The following is intended to provide relevant and timely information so you can be better informed about available resources that can help your child improve their skills in Mathematics. Now it's up to you to take the appropriate action needed for your child's success.
Being engaged means being informed and taking appropriate action.
The following is intended to provide relevant and timely information so you can be better informed about available resources that can help your child improve their skills in Mathematics. Now it's up to you to take the appropriate action needed for your child's success.
Utilize your child's current and relevant test results to better understand their strengths and challenges. With this information, you can better understand your child's strengths and challenges so focused and effective teaching and practice can occur for their challenged areas.
What can parents do to make sure your child succeeds in math?
Get involved! Research shows that parents’ attitudes toward their children’s education, and their involvement in it, have a significant impact on children’s success in school. The mathematics your child learns, especially in middle and high school, can play a major role in determining his or her future education and career opportunities. It’s important for you to know what the long-range plan is for your child’s math classes and whether he or she is getting the same opportunities in math as everyone else. Make sure that doors aren’t closing because your child isn’t learning the math that will open them.
Working With Your Child's School - How can I work with the school to make sure my child gets the most out of math?
Just like your child, schools need your support—especially in the middle school years. Since choices made in middle school determine high school courses that either increase or limit future education and career opportunities, your participation is critical.
Two people you should get to know are your child's math teacher and the school counselor. Working with you and your child, they can help you decide the math your child will take in the future. Talk with them often. Let them know that you want to participate in making decisions.
How do you begin? Ask questions. After all, you have a right to know.
Find out if your child is getting the same opportunities in math as everyone else. Ask if a plan is already in place for your child's future math classes. If so, ask to see it. State that you have high expectations. Make it clear that you want your child to take challenging math classes each year through high school.
You'll find that teachers and counselors will be happy to answer your questions. After all, you're in this together.
Be sure to attend Back-to-School Night, parent-teacher conferences, and other scheduled events to ask questions (click for suggested questions) and find out more about your child’s math program and how he or she is doing. Click "Family Resources" to read more.
Working With Your Child's School - How can I work with the school to make sure my child gets the most out of math?
Just like your child, schools need your support—especially in the middle school years. Since choices made in middle school determine high school courses that either increase or limit future education and career opportunities, your participation is critical.
Two people you should get to know are your child's math teacher and the school counselor. Working with you and your child, they can help you decide the math your child will take in the future. Talk with them often. Let them know that you want to participate in making decisions.
How do you begin? Ask questions. After all, you have a right to know.
Find out if your child is getting the same opportunities in math as everyone else. Ask if a plan is already in place for your child's future math classes. If so, ask to see it. State that you have high expectations. Make it clear that you want your child to take challenging math classes each year through high school.
You'll find that teachers and counselors will be happy to answer your questions. After all, you're in this together.
Be sure to attend Back-to-School Night, parent-teacher conferences, and other scheduled events to ask questions (click for suggested questions) and find out more about your child’s math program and how he or she is doing. Click "Family Resources" to read more.
The Council of the Great City Schools has developed content and grade-specific parent roadmaps that provide detailed information for parents about the expectations of the Common Core in Mathematics. Grades K-8 Parent Roadmaps for Mathematics have been posted and Spanish-language versions are available in grades K-5. More translations will follow throughout the school year, and high school-level guides will be posted later this fall. These parent roadmaps include:
- examples of grade-level focus in the content area using parent-friendly language,
- sample progressions of learning across three grade levels in the Common Core, and
- tips to parents on communicating with teachers about their child’s work and how to support student learning at home.
Featured Game:
Timez Attack by http://www.bigbrainz.com/ offers free video gaming fun through downloadable computer games. Students will have a blast playing! Games available to practice multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction. Check out the following video.
Online Games & Learning
IXL.com is a online site students can access math games by topic and grade level. Math is about so much more than just numbers—so, IXL is too! We approach each math concept from all angles, offering visual representations, word problems, interactive activities, and more. With an abundance of math problems for every learning style, students can't help but build lasting skills and confidence.
http://www.ixl.com/
http://www.ixl.com/
Khanacademy.org Our library of videos covers K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer.
Students can make use of our extensive video library, interactive challenges, and assessments from any computer with access to the web.
Coaches, parents, and teachers have unprecedented visibility into what their students are learning and doing on the Khan Academy.
Students can make use of our extensive video library, interactive challenges, and assessments from any computer with access to the web.
- Complete custom self-paced learning tool
- A dynamic system for getting help
- A custom profile, points, and badges to measure progress
Coaches, parents, and teachers have unprecedented visibility into what their students are learning and doing on the Khan Academy.
- Ability to see any student in detail
- A real-time class report for all students
- Better intelligence for doing targeted interventions
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. NCES Kids' Zone provides information to help you learn about schools; decide on a college; find a public library; engage in several games, quizzes and skill building about math, probability, graphing, and mathematicians; and to learn many interesting facts about education.
Math related - free games
Timez Attack is a free download of a FUN "video gaming" pc application to practice multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction - all are downloadable games. http://www.bigbrainz.com/
IXL.com is a online site students can access math games by topic and grade level
http://www.ixl.com/
Khanacademy.org Our library of videos covers K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer.
Mathplayground.com
IXL.com is a online site students can access math games by topic and grade level
http://www.ixl.com/
Khanacademy.org Our library of videos covers K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer.
Mathplayground.com
- Arcademic Skill Builders: Online educational games for learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills. Math games include addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, and fraction and ratio games.
- Gamequarium: Interactive mathematics games, virtual manipulatives, online calculators, and graphing tools.
- Math123xyz.com: Interactive multimedia math resources, including math lessons, interactive tutorials, learning tools, enrichment, and extra practice. Basic Skills, Pre-Algebra, Geometry, Algebra, and Trigonometry.
- Math Dictionary for Kids: More than 600 interactive mathematical definitions for students.
- Math Playground: Play logic games, solve word problems, and watch math videos.
- Mathwire.com: Activities, worksheets, and creative ideas for teaching math that are classroom-tested by teachers. Based on NCTM Standards.
- Superkids: Online resource for teachers or parents to create math worksheets on topics
