Carrot Sticks and Gooru Math Websites

Carrotsticks.com

Carrot Sticks, a Mathematics based website for elementary students, grades 1 -5. Students can create their own characters and used them while practicing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. The site provides several levels of difficulty that students can advance through and allows teachers to track their progress. In addition teachers can differentiate according to the students' needs by starting them on a level that is conducive to the child's level of learning.

The site is free to teachers giving them unlimited access between 7am and 3pm and has very good rates for those that would like to subscribe.

This is a great website for the learner that has difficulty remembering basic math facts. This site provides rigorous practice in a format that students can relate to.

Goorulearning.org

Gooru, a Mathematics and Science based website for 5th - 12th grade students. It offers students and teachers a variety of featured resources to include a discussion board, videos, interactive activities, websites, and slides. It is also has digital textbooks, animation, a note taking tab as well as assessments for student learning. Teachers can setup their students by using the classroom feature.

The information presented is based on the Core Curriculum Standards as well as California Science Curriculum Standards.

For these and more math websites click on the link below.

http://www.pearltrees.com/switch2teach/mathematic-websites/id4553214

Please give readers your feedback on these websites or if you know of others send your suggestions to authorsmouthpiece@gmail.com or respond to this post.

Sharing Our Resources

During every teacher meeting/training that I have attended, teachers are more than willing to share the resources that they have found and used in their classrooms. Many of these resources include websites that allow students an interactive experience in the topic that is being taught. Some websites even allow teachers to assign graded activities and track students progress.

I have listed many websites in my book, Corporate to Classroom: A Career Switchers Guide to Teaching, but there are new websites being introduced all of the time. That being said, I am going to change the focus of this blog to share some of the websites that I or others have found useful in their classrooms.

If you have a website that you have found useful, please email authorsmouthpiece@gmail.com or respond to this entry and I will post in full or in part your experiences.

I will post one or more reviews or informational blurbs every Sunday. Let's help our students learn through mediums that they use daily. Technology is helping our students and teachers keep up with the times.

See you Sunday!