Usefulness of math instruction: The activities are common core aligned and include over 300,000 math problems and explanations. Adaptedmind identifies each student’s strengths and weaknesses. This program customizes a student learning plan accordingly. Positive aspects of website: Adaptedmind provides a pretest for each student to determine the starting point in the curriculum. Students feel as though they’re playing a game. The difficulty level is adjusted automatically helping close gaps and continually assesses students on new and old skills. Negative aspects of the website: Need to become a member and pay to have your students receive the whole program. If you are not a member, students have limited amount of accessibility. Ways to expand on concepts taught in regular math instruction: Provides a customized learning plan for each student. So student are working on what they individually need and being challenged. This program would be great for a math workshop setting. Students are able to work independently because if they miss a problem, a teacher within the program explains it to them in a video.
Usefulness of math instruction: Students play engaging games in a variety of math topics including multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, and geometry. Positive aspects of website: 10Monkeys is very kid friendly and interactive. Students really enjoy the graphics and it can be used on a wide variety of devices including desktops, laptops, tablets, and interactive whiteboards. 10Monkey’s also includes a progress tracker to help evaluate student’s understanding and skills. Negative aspects of the website: Need to become a member and pay to have your students receive the whole program. If you are not a member, students have limited amount of accessibility. It also includes a lot of options which could be a positive aspect, but if you really want your students working on specific task, this could be difficult to get them all to the right activity. Ways to expand on concepts taught in regular math instruction: This would be a great website to use for small groups during math workshop or when a student has finished the day’s work. 10Monkeys could also be a great resource for students to practice math concepts at home and practice math fact fluency. Website #3: multiplication.com
Age/grade level appropriateness: 2nd grade – high school
Usefulness of math instruction: Students play engaging games in a variety of math concepts including multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction. Positive aspects of website: The website is very engaging with animated movies, exciting games and activities and even allows multi-player competition. Multiplication.com is self-paced so it adjusts to the student’s ability and provides reporting tools that track a student’s fluency, accuracy, and time. Negative aspects of the website: You do need to become a premium member to have all ads removed and to allow access to full screen of all the games and activities. Ways to expand on concepts taught in regular math instruction: This would be a great website to use for small groups during math workshop. It would also be a great resource for teachers trying to expand on student mathematical operations and increase fact fluency.