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My random collection of math sites from across the math Twitter blogosphere.  More data dump than carefully curated, but I have gotten something from everything here.

Why this button? Because desmos is that great

Some of my all-time favorite blog posts 

 Math: The Angry, Injured Wolverine:  

The Chinese Room

Two Faces of Smartness by Cheesemonkey

Number Theory

Factors and Multiples Game from NRich

Fractions

Fawn on Fraction Division

Bar Modeling (aka Bar diagrams, tape diagrams, etc.)

http://thesingaporemaths.com/index.html

Thinking Blocks

Number Sense

Sadie Estrella on Counting Circles (also read Number Talks) and here.



Expressions and Equations

MARS: Real-Life Equations

MARS: Laws of Arithmetic

Sue Mercer's unit on Order of Operations (if you use this please pay at TeachersPayTeachers.com)
See more at supermathunits.com

Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

Ratio and Proportion

Mary Dooms 6th grade wiki

MARS [ Proportional and Non-proportional Situations

Lots of good stuff on Mathalicious and in 3-acts

Data and Stats 

Learner.org 

MAD with Tinkerplots 

MARS:  Mean, Median, Mode, Range

TuVa labs data sets

Problem Solving Resources

Yummy Math

Math Forum

Hotel Snap from Fawn Nguyen and Andrew Stadel

Fawn on Problem Solving

Three Act Math/Rich Tasks

Mathalicious.com (paywall to get all their lessons, but they have a lot to samples)  Lots of good stuff on ratio and proportion

Mr Stadel 3 Act Math Catalog

Dan Meyer 3 Act Math Catalog

Robert Kaplinsky


YouCubed

To Help Struggling Students

Gap Closing

Reteaching v. Reengaging

Number Sense Games from Butterworth

Survivor Algebra on CoolMath.com 

Special Purpose Sites

Visual Patterns

Graphing Stories

Estimation 180

Math Mistakes

101 Questions

Math Arguments 180

Math Talks by Fawn Nguyen

Nix the Tricks by Tina Cardone et al 

Which One Doesn't Belong?  Mary Bourassa

6th Grade Common Core Resources

Awesome well-organized collection of Grade 6 Tasks by Geoff Krall (I think) 
 
Howard County Common Core resources

Mr Kraft 6th grade math wiki

Inside Mathematics - 6th grade Content Tasks and Problems of the Month

Engage NY -- NY State Common Core aligned curriculum materials

Ohio Resource Center - not just grade six, lots of common core stuff

7th Grade Resources

Teacher Resource Page
http://cstonercommoncore.pbworks.com/w/page/60666531/7th%20Grade

Mattress scaling lesson from Fawn

Mullet Ratios by Mr. Vaudrey

Function Carnival and Desmos for Teachers from Desmos and Dan Meyers

Barbie Bungee 

 Number Warrior On multiplying with signed numbers

Probability Carnival -- from divisible by 3 (Andrew Stadel)

Scientific notation - ask a different question

8th Grade Resources

Teacher Created Text Book - found link through Mary Dooms

Stats and Probability Resources

Great approach to factoring quadratics two posts:  Here and here

James Tanton has great stuff on quadratics and more.  Although still pretty abstract, his videos are everything Khan Academy's aren't. Check out his YouTube channel also.

Problem Solving/Enrichment Resources

NRICH

Math Forum

Grace Church Abacus Math

Math Munch

Exeter problem sets

Gday Math from James Tanton

Five Triangles Math

Sidwell Friends Enrichment for Elementary Students

Math Contest Problems
  • Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing, Waterloo (found link from David Wees)
  • Math Counts
  • MOEMS.org

Standards-Based Grading

Think Thank Thunk Shawn Cornally's brilliant series on SBG

Action-Reaction Frank Noschese (who teaches physics) on SBG

How Maths Must Assess from 2006! by Dan Meyer

Jason Buell on SGB

SBG grade books:  Active Grade  and Jumpro.pe

Miscellaneous Math Teacher Resources

National STEM Centre UK

Illinois Council of Mathematics TEachers - Resources Page

Kansas Common Core Site (flip books, etc.) 

Three to 11 (mental math, teacher resources) including curated math games links

Center for Innovation in Math Teaching - Book 9

For New Teachers

Nice collection of blogposts from Mathy

Building Our Classroom

Malcolm Swan Must Read for New Math Teachers

For Elementary Teachers

A collection of fractions games. from Max Ray at the Math Forum

Number Talks Videos from Inside Mathematics

Math Frames (lots of games, many for primary age)

Other teacher stuff

Gary Rubinstein's excellent series on VAM

My favorite source of online graph paper.

Blogroll
(some of my favorites)

Dy/Dan 
(Dan Meyer's blog)

Fawn Nyguen

Julie Ruelbach

Andrew Stadel

Sam Shah

Kate Nowak

Avery Pickford

Jason Buell

Math Hombre
and so many more ...

Books (with pages made of paper)

Beyond Pizzas and Pies

Teaching with  Problems and the Problem of Teacher, Lampert

Number Talks, 

Thinking Mathematically,

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