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Make Your Own Odd One Out

Get some chalk or a piece of paper and pen and head outside. create a "plus sign" with four quadrants and fill it with your own Odd One Out. Use whatever you can forrage in your backyard, playground or park. Consider using sticks, rocks, seeds, and flowers. Share you creations at the email address below and we will feature on our website.

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Get some chalk or a piece of paper and pen and head outside. create a "plus sign" with four quadrants and fill it with your own Odd One Out. Use whatever you can forrage in your backyard, playground or park. Consider using sticks, rocks, seeds, and flowers.

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Same But Different is a powerful routine for use in math classrooms. The images can be used for teaching a way of thinking: grayscale thinking, categorical thinking; helping students to build a network of ideas and an approach for learning and thinking about mathematics.

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Structured tasks with videos to get students problem solving in a logical sequence.

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Basic manipulatives. Easy to use. Suitable for Junior to Mid.

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From Number Lines to Base Ten, Pattern Blocks to Place Value, Disks our collection of free Virtual Manipulatives gives educators and families access to visual and hands-on digital resources that lead to understanding. Students can use these resources in class and at home to practice math concepts, reinforce their growing math understanding, technology they love in the process.

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Demonstrate key math concepts in your classroom using our new virtual manipulatives!

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Includes tanagrams, 3D nets, games. Suitable for Mid to Senior.

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Unleash your creativity with the world's best virtual manipulatives!

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Manipulatives, games and tools. Good for student use on iPads.

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Any suggestions, comments on the toolkit4maths welcome here

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Great visuals to open a lesson and start maths talk,

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This amazing artists uses children to create pictures, these are excellent visual stimuli and can be used to talk about number, shape, pattern - how about recreating your own pictures like this? His work can be seen here
http://www.janvonholleben.com/portfolio/

Below are a set of colouring pictures that would be brilliant for maths. There are shapes, patterns, symmetry and to be honest doesn't everybody like to colour - enjoy.

Below are a series of Visual stimulus pictures. Great for children to look at and talk about.
Questions you may want to ask are:
What shapes can you see?
Can you see any repeating patterns?
What numbers can you see?
How many (insert objects) can you see?
Look at preposition language.

The picture below is great for preposition, talk about the various characters in the picture and where they are.

I love these pictures of old calculators. Great for discussion to talk about how you think they may have worked. Could we recreate them now?
If you would like to recreate the 'Monkey calculator' download the PDF with template and instructions below.

This brilliant picture has so many hidden game and film references hidden in it. Can you find them all?
Can you spot the Smurfette?
How about Indiana Jones?

The picture was created by @retronator

Can you find the numbers hidden in these pictures?

This a a great picture to use as a visual stimulus for looking at shape. You could ask:
What shapes can you see?
How many (Add shape name) can you see?
How many triangles help to make the bridge?
Can you see any symmetrical patterns in the picture?
Can you see any right angles in the picture?
What time of the year do you think this picture is set in? How do we know?

These amazing houses are a great stimulus for maths. The Hungarian Cube (Magyar kocka) or Kádár-kocka (Kadar Cube) is named after János Kádár, the Communist leader of Hungary between 1956 and 1988. It's a standardized type of residential house built in Hungary after WWII. There are still tens of thousands of them left, and people have personalized them in gorgeous ways. History lesson over.

Maths Links:
Shape, both 2d and 3d.
look for symmetry.
Counting - How many squares, triangles etc.
Create your own cube house using shapes.
Make a plan of the house, what would the perimeter / area be.

There is so much going on in this very busy picture, that there are many possibilities for maths talk. Here are a few suggestions. (please click the picture to zoom)

How many flags can you see? n.b. flags can be substituted with anything in this picture, queens guards, balloons, barrels etc.

What shapes can you see? Can you spot any repeating patterns?

How many planes can you see? how many wings do they have?

How many people do you think are in this scene? How could we find out or have a best guess without counting all of the people?

Picture like this can be great for just a starter or to base a whole lesson around, especially for younger children.

Suggestions.
How many red/blue/yellow/multi-coloured balloons can you see?

How many balloons all together?

Do any of the balloons have a repeating pattern?

Which balloon is closest to us? Which balloon is furthest away?

What shapes can you see in this picture?

Word Problems: These can be adapted to suit your children.
There are 18 balloons, unfortunately 3 are blown away, how many are left?

There are 5 balloons, each need 5 blasts of gas before they will take off, how many blasts are used?

There are 22 balloons with 2 people in each basket, how many people are there?

For higher ability / keystage 2 children you could look at ratio, money (cost of flight, how many people are paying, cost to owners, percentage of profit) thanks to @bryngoodman for those suggestions.

Resources:
Colour and make your own hot air balloon.
http://www.colorwithleo.com/LES0012-HotAirBalloons.pdf
Hot air balloon numbers 1 to 50
http://portal.meathvec.ie/schools/Ardri/ParentsResources/JuniorInfants/Maths/Document%20Library/Counting%20Balloons.pdf

Here are a series of pictures that have the numbers 1-20 hidden in them, can you find them all?

This picture has numbers other than 1-20 hidden in it.

So much to talk about and discuss in this lovely picture: Some things you could ask:How many birds can you see?How many creatures with wings?How many rabbits? How many foxes? How many all together? How many ears do they have? How many legs?What shapes can you see in the picture?Can you see any patterns?These are just a few selections, you could get an awful lot of stimulus from this picture.

Below are a set of posters that I found for Maths in 1894, amazing that so many of the methods, especially when multiplying are relevant now. If you would like a bigger copy of a picture, click it and it will send you to the original link where you can do what you like with it.

During World Mathematical Year 2000, a sequence of posters designed at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences were displayed month by month in the trains of the London Underground.
These posters are below and could be a great starting point for a lesson, or to stimulate discussion on how maths can be used to help us with the various problems. The pictures can be clicked to go to larger versions.

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Definitions of maths terms in simple accessible language. Good for introducing a new topic or refocusing to task.

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Free maths dictionary for students with over 955 common math words, math terms and maths definitions explained in simple language with visual examples. A math glossary with mathematics definitions, explanations, examples, math charts and posters for students and teachers. © Jenny Eather 2020.

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Huge amount of pDfs and powerpoints. Can be clunky to find material but lots of nice resources to make maths relevant for your students.

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A website to inspire creativity in maths

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Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software - Canva

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Check out this Presentation designed by Miss Bell.

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Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software - Canva

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Check out this Presentation designed by Miss Bell.

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Number Chart - for skip counting/multiples

Number Cards - for maths vocabulary

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Selection of simply laid out games across all topics

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We have loved Math Mammoth for the past 6 years. I've taught high school math since before I had children, using Foerster's and Jacobs' books in both private schools and homeschool co-ops. When parents with younger children ask what I recommend, I tell them about the great experiences my children have had and how well my oldest was prepared for Algebra. I've even recommended it for remediation for students I tutor who never grasped integers or percents.
Thank you for such a great program!

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Jennifer Drury

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Ad-free Online Practice for Math Topics (grades 1-8)

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This area of MathMammoth.com focuses on providing online practice of various math topics. Choose a topic from the list below or from the main menu. Topics include Mulitplication Tables, Exponents, Basic Division Facts, and much more.

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Simple but engaging games. Great for early finishers.

NOTE: Beware, lots of Ads so give warning not to click!

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It can be very difficult for parents to find productive and worthwhile activities for children on the Internet; however fun online math games do offer a wonderful alternative.

This free section of Sheppard Software was written for children. Mostly all of the material you'll find at the site is completely free for kids to use. These fun online math games cover all of the math fundamentals, including early math, basic and mixed operations, fractions, pre-algebra, dollars & cents and place value. While teachers often use worksheets to solidify the math concepts learned in the classroom, these sort of games actually have the same educational impact on the child, and the format of the examples as an exciting game keeps the child engaged, interested and coming back for more.

From the main page parents or children will find a simple and easy to navigate menu featuring the different levels of math games and the various math concepts that are available. Children from pre-k up to 8th grade will find fun online math games that teach important math skills that are appropriate for their age level.

Sheppard Software offers a couple of cute games for the youngest math students. In this game, called Bugabaloo Addition, children are shown a number of "bug shoes" on the left and the right. The game asks the child to add the two groups of shoes together, and then pick the bug with the correct number printed on it. This game teaches addition through a graphical display that lets the child see and count the shoes. With the numbers right underneath, children easily make the association between the visual cues and the act of addition.

For slightly older kids, there are a number of very popular arcade-style "popup" math games. In these games, the child is presented with a math problem and must find the creature that's holding the correct answer and smack it on the head with the hammer. The comical expression the creature makes and the sound effects make this game so fun that children will forget that they're learning math! "
--Written March 30, 2010 by Ryan Dube in Educational Freeware -- Reviews of the best learning games, software, and websites --http://www.educational-freeware.com/online/sheppard-math.aspx