Sumdog is a fun website for numeracy from the people behind Crocodile Clips and Yenka / Absorb Science.
Sumdog’s free maths games are designed to improve numeracy in upper primary and lower secondary (students aged 9 to 13).
Covering 100 fine grained numeracy topics, ranging from simple addition to square roots, Sumdog adapts to the skill level [...]
iBoard first caught my eye last year at the BETT exhibition. They produce an excellent bank of interactive resources for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 classes in several subjects, including literacy, numeracy and science.
Since then, iBoard has been purchased by the Times Educational Supplement (TES) and made available free of charge to all teachers, [...]
12.23Smart Measurement
Jim Dornberg (@jdornberg) has put together a wiki of links to useful interactive resources for the teaching of measurement.
There are some very cool links which would be useful for supporting primary school maths sessions. The links are mainly flash-based, so are not restricted to just Smartboards – you could use these on any brand of [...]
Here is a collection of interactive SMART Board games for educators from PBS KIDS.
This is a collection of different Flash games to explore the curriculum from trusted programs such as Curious George, Super Why and Arthur. Although the site says it’s for Smartboards, it will work fine on any brand of Interactive Whiteboard.
The site offers [...]
Here’s a new site that you might be interested in if you are looking for games to play on your interactive whiteboard: Primary Games Arena
While I’m a little uncomfortable about a site repacking other people’s material on their own site, you can’t doubt there’s a tonne of useful games to be found here.
Personally I think [...]
Smart today announced that their new SMART Notebook Math beta is now available to download. This is a plugin that adds additional capability to your existing Smart Notebook 10 installation.
To quote the Smart press release:
SMART Notebook Math extends the capabilities of SMART Notebook software with a dynamic set of math-specific tools and features, so when [...]
Here’s a nice website for Primary teachers to use in their maths lessons.
Mathsframe.co.uk was created by a primary school teacher who “thought it ridiculous that he spent most of his Sunday evenings searching for resources to use on his interactive whiteboard”. So he made his own resources instead.
Their aim is to provide simple, high quality [...]
03.16Sudoku Starters
The Sudoku puzzle has been around for a while now, so I shouldn’t have to explain how to do them. If you want a quick activity to use as a mental warmup then a Sudoku puzzle could be just the thing.
One way to use them on your IWB would be to use the desktop annotation [...]
02.27Primary Maths Games
Thanks to Jonathan Lurie on Twitter who sent me some links to a collection of primary maths games hosted by Oswego City School District in New York. These are fantastic to use on the IWB for lesson starters or plenaries. Go here and add it to your bookmark list now!
The games are in flash format [...]
I received this email from SMART yesterday. It should definitely be of interest to secondary maths teachers and KS2 school teachers. UK teachers, just stick an “S” after each use of the word Math
“Math tools for SMART Notebook software are high on educators’ wish lists. This June, SMART will grant their wish with [...]