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Showing posts with label Mathematics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mathematics. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Mathematics Recourses

Local Suppliers

Box'nDiceis a creative Maths package for young children. It consists of a variety of manipulatives, a DVD with activities and an electronic parent guide Email Marise Oberholzer

Foonda-Mat1x Logooffers a series of maths games are a hybrid of text book content and computer technology intelligently packaged for endless use by all. Email African Intellect

Jade Educationpresents the Singapore approach to Maths, Science, English & IT.

Marshall Cavendish Educationis the leading K-12 educational publisher in Singapore and has more than 40 years of experience in educational publishing.

MasterMathsoffers extra maths help for grades 4 to 12. Classes are ‘lessons’ supported by highly trained tutors teaching mathematics. Maths tutoring throughout SA is also available in Afrikaans.

Mathleticsis the next generation in learning, helping students enjoy maths and improve their results. It covers the full Reception to Year 12 curriculum.

SuricatePublishingfor step-by-step full curriculum Maths Workbooks.

International Suppliers

CarrotSticksis a fun mathematics game environment for K-6 students that challenges students to develop their basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills. It can be played individually or in a head to head format with another player. (FREE Basic version only allows addition)

Making Math More Fun Printable Math Games gives you 4 books jam packed full of kids math games and fun math activities to make math exciting and easy to learn.

MathBlasterMathblaster saving the galaxy using math skills.

TeachingTextBooksWe’ve been using this for our youngest with great success. He is a strong Kinaesthetic learner and hates worksheets, but with TT he easily manages 54 questions in 30 minutes as opposed to 1 worksheet in 1 hour.

VideoText Interactive

complete, easy-to-understand Algebra and Geometry courses on DVD! You get Video Lessons, Course Notes, WorkTexts, Solutions Manuals, Progress Tests, Instructor’s Guides, and unlimited Toll-Free Telephone Support.

Multiplication facts made easy & fun! Times Tales works by turning an abstract multiplication problem into easily remembered stories that the child can relate to.

Numbers become consistent,  familiar characters that come together in different combinations, each time with the multiplication fact

hidden in the story. First the child learns the stories, then, step-by-step, the story elements are peeled away. Finally, the child is left with a basic multiplication fact but his mind is triggered to recall the story involving those characters, thus revealing the answer to the problem.

City Creek PressCity Creek Press offers Times Alive the Times Tables Fun Way Deluxe Kit 808 which is a popular kit for the student that thrives on multi-sensory learning methods.  It has everything to teach multiplication and simple division inside and out. They also have a multiplication CD-Rom/Download available.

Free Resources

  • KhanAcademyoffers 2,400 FREE videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history to help your student learn whatever they want, whenever they want, at their own pace. They have also added 125 FREE practice exercises to enable students to practice concepts. Parents can also sign up as coaches to track their students’ progress.
  • Bars, Lines & Pies, an instalment in The Actuarial Foundation’s "Expect the Unexpected With Math®" series, opens students’ minds to the practical power of mathematics while learning about the environment and recycling. (Free Printable Math Lesson Plan and Activities)

  • Using a fictional rock band called The Conversions, Conversions Rock helps students improve their math skills through exciting examples of how to convert fractions into decimals and percents and vice versa. (Free Printable Math Lesson Plan and Activities)

  • Cool Math is an amusement park of math and more… Lessons and games designed for fun!

  • Cool Math 4 Kids is an amusement park of math, games and more – especially designed for fun, fun, FUN! For Pre-Algebra and up (ages 13-100)

  • Cool Math Games offers strategy, skill, numbers, shapes/colour, pictures, logic, memory & board games for kids aged 2 – 5

  • Decimal Squares provides simple games for students to use to develop their math skills.

  • Gamequarium developed by Diana Dell offers an excellent catalogue of mathematics games and video demonstrations of mathematics functions.

  • Learn With Math Games is a site that I like because it offers online games as well as PDF templates for games that teachers and students can play in their classrooms.

  • Math Academy Real-life applications of mathematics while having fun? Is it possible? Yes! Created by teachers for teachers, the Math Academy tools and activities included in these booklets were designed to create hands-on activities and a fun learning environment for the teaching of mathematics to students. You can use these free printable lessons to enhance your math instruction while staying true to the academic rigor required by the state standards framework.

  • Math Cats is a website full of short math activities and math games. The activities and games are based on word problems. What is nice about the games is that they are fairly straight-forward and easy for students to self-start. Math Cats is appropriate for students in elementary and lower middle school grades.

  • Math Game Time is your destination for the best math games and homework help online. Our games are fun, educational as well as approved by parents and teachers!

  • Math Run is a simple and fun game for practicing math skills. Math Run presents players with a scrolling series of mathematics problems. The players respond to each problem by using the right and left arrow keys on their keyboards. If a problem is displayed with its correct answer press the left arrow and if the wrong answer is displayed press the right arrow. The game begins with simple addition problems and gets progressively more difficult as players advance through the levels.

  • Maths Excellence Striving towards excellence in mathematics education. Maths Olympiad questions and solutions (1997 – 2010) as well as FREE online video lessons.

  • MathTutor This is good source of Maths Video’s and is based in the UK. (Leicester University)

  • Maths is Fun is a FREE resource to help your kids learn maths.

  • Multiplication.com has four pages of games for kids to use to practice the multiplication tables. (There are also addition, subtraction, and division games). I played a couple of the "car wash" games today and they were quite enjoyable. After playing the games I can see how kids would get addicted to the games in a good way.

  • Rader’s NumberNut is a part of Rader’s family of educational games and activities. Number Nut provides some great games with which students can practice and develop their math skills. It also includes some word problems that force students to problem solve rather than just recall information from rote memorization.

  • Shake, Rattle & Roll, an instalment in The Actuarial Foundation’s "Expect the Unexpected With Math®" series, is designed to provide teachers and students with math literacy-based materials that meet NCTM standards and are in alignment with core middle school curriculum. (Free Printable Math Lesson Plan and Activities)

  • Smarty Games features six mathematics games covering basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. In addition to the mathematics and reading activities, Smarty Games offers activities for learning to read a clock, puzzles, mazes, colouring activities.

  • Sumdog's free educational games motivate your students to practise maths and Reading - while you have full control over what they learn. Students play educational games against others worldwide, while teachers control what they learn.

  • Timez Attack has revolutionized multiplication games. It’s as polished as a high-end real video game, yet as effective as a top math tutor one-on-one. The built-in assessment, adaptation, and post-test research data guarantee total mastery. FREE Basic Version teaches multiplication facts 2 – 12 and paid version has additional themes & features.

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Algebra

~ Group theory – Group representation) ~ Ring theory ~ Field theory ~ Linear algebra (Vector space) ~ Multilinear algebra ~ Lie algebra ~ Associative algebra ~ Non-associative algebra ~ Universal algebra ~ Homological algebra ~ Category theory ~ Lattice theory (Order theory) ~ Differential algebra

         

  • Algebra Equations consists of three levels.  At each level the students learn how to setup and solve the equations using the game pieces;  once they have mastered this approach, they are taught how to setup and solve the equations using only paper and pencil with the pictorial notation. Make Algebra child’s play.

  • Algebra Homework Help — People’s Math! Algebra, math homework solvers, lessons and free tutors online.Pre-algebra, Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, Physics. Our FREE tutors create solvers with work shown, write algebra lessons, help you solve your homework problems. Interactive solvers for algebra word problems. Ask questions on our question board. Created by the people. Can you help?

  • Solving the Unknown with Algebra is the fifth instalment inThe Actuarial Foundation’s "Expect the Unexpected With Math®"series. (Free Printable Math Lesson Plan and Activities)

Analysis

~ Real analysis – Calculus ~ Complex analysis ~ Functional analysis – perator theory ~ Non-standard analysis ~ Harmonic analysis ~ p-adic analysis ~ Ordinary differential equations ~ Partial differential equations

Probability Theory

~ Measure theory ~ Ergodic theory ~ Stochastic process

Geometry and Topology

~ General topology ~ Algebraic topology ~ Geometric topology ~ Differential topology ~ Algebraic geometry ~ Differential geometry ~ Projective geometry ~ Affine geometry ~ Non-Euclidean geometry ~ Convex geometry ~ Discrete geometry

         

Setting the Stage with Geometry, an instalment in The Actuarial Foundation’s "Expect the Unexpected With Math®" series, is designed to help students in grades 6-8 build and reinforce basic geometry skills for measuring 2D and 3D shapes. This program provides skill-building math activities to help your students become successful in the classroom and in real-world situations outside of school. (Free Printable Math Lesson Plan and Activities)

Trigonometry

Number Theory

~ Analytic number theory ~ Algebraic number theory ~ Geometric number theory

Logic and Foundations of Mathematics

~ Set theory ~ Proof theory ~ Model theory ~ Recursion theory ~ Modal logic ~ Intuitionistic logic

Applied Mathematics

~ Mathematical statistics – Probability ~ Approximation theory ~ Numerical analysis ~ Optimization (Mathematical programming) – Operations research – Linear programming ~ Dynamical systems – Chaos theory – Fractal geometry ~ Mathematical physics – Quantum field theory – Statistical mechanics ~ Information theory ~ Cryptography ~ Combinatorics – Coding theory ~ Graph theory ~ Game theory

Please visit this page frequently as I will be posting regular updates as I find more resources.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Curricula

“I know that it will be impossible to teach them everything that is now known. Knowing this, I have determined that it is much more important to provide an excellent basic education as well as to teach them how to think and find answers. “

~ Amanda B.

Local Suppliers

imageThe Department of Basic Education has introduced English & Afrikaans Literacy as well as Maths Workbooks for Grades 1 – 6. Soft copies of Workbooks 1 & 2 (Terms 1 – 4) can be downloaded for free at this link. I saw these workbooks at the FutureEd Expo & they are stunning. These bright & colourful workbooks would appeal to visual learners.
Cami6offers programs for Science ~ Physics (ages 5 –18), Maths (ages 5-18), Reader (ages 5 –18), Perceptual (ages 4 – 10) & Literacy (ages 6 – 11). Email CAMI Education or contact +27 (11) 883-8885.
imageis a South African literature-based Homeschool curriculum series in unit study format for multi-level learning that adds a local flavour to your studies.
Jade-Education4presents the Singapore approach to Maths, Science, English & IT.
LearningChanneloffers a comprehensive range of Grades 10, 11 and 12 courses that cover all the Learning Outcomes, Assessment Standards, knowledge, key concepts and skills as reflected in the National Curriculum Statement — everything you need to make a success of your world!
The Learning Channel programmes consist of three integrated components:
  • Lessons to watch on DVD.
  • A learner workbook that includes:
    • Learner-friendly style and text;
    • Real-life problems in different contexts;
    • Varied texts, for example, tables, graphs, charts; and
    • Regular assessment tools.
Le-Amenis registered with the Department of Education, the IEB as well as provisionally accredited at UMALUSI. They serve as a monitoring & support centre for home-school students from grade K-12. The education of the students remains the responsibility of the parents. They supply the curriculum material & exam papers. At the end of the school year they issue the student with a school report.
The primary school material is mostly worksheet based and not at all suitable for a kinaesthetic or visual learner. They’re colourless & very mundane. My son disliked them and was extremely happy when I allowed him to cut them up to add them to his lapbooks. We also found the high school material was not very self study friendly & fulfilling their requirements very strenuous. It is very much a “school at home” scenario that doesn’t work well for my boys or myself
Although, initially this may seem the cheapest option for matric, you have to purchase their material as guideline & after adding additional material & tutor fees to assist with the non-self study friendly material, this may become just as expensive as most of the other curricula available. I would not recommend them due to the many mistakes on the answer sheets as well as utterly poor service & support.
Maragonmedia6
offers a range of manuals that cover a range of learning areas: English, Afrikaans, Life Orientation, Mathematics, Natural Science, History, Technology, Geography, Art & Culture & Economic Management Science.
logo_left_06offers a complete classroom solution with their CAPS curriculum compliant courses for Grades 1-3 and Grade 10.
Nukleus10Nukleus Onderwys offers Afrikaans distance learning curriculum. Email Nukleus or contact +27 (44) 873-0346.
Pearson5
offers a variety of home learning materials to assist learners in gaining a clear understanding of their subjects so that they can master essential skills and excel in their tests and examinations. Range include Boost Maths, Find Out About, Kumon, Smart-Kids, Train Your Brain & X-Kit Study Guides. Email Veronica Napier or contact +27 (11) 347-0809 or +27 (82) 936-2622
SmartKids4offers brand-new range of Grade 4 to 6 workbooks that are Slimkoppe4packed with all the colourful activities you’ve come to expect from Smart-Kids, but they’re older…cooler and smarter!

International Suppliers

  • Lesson Pathways FREE K-5 Curriculum and Teaching Resources. Your unique source for creating custom homeschool and classroom curriculum!
  • Softschools.com provides free math worksheets, free math games, grammar quizzes and free phonics worksheets and games. Worksheets and games are organized by grades and topics. These printable math and phonics worksheets are auto generated.
  • Apologia Educational Ministries ~ Science: Science Curriculum·Lab Equipment, Press: Worldview·Inspiration·Resources, Academy: Online Academy, Live: Conferences for Homeschool Moms, World: e-Newsletter·Facebook·Twitter & Mission: Missionary Support·Scholarships.
  • image15is the leading K-12 educational publisher in Singapore and has more than 40 years of experience in educational publishing.

Subject Areas

Please note only the main links to pts. 1-10 are links to my subject link pages. The other links are informative to demonstrate the wide variety of sub-fields available & will take you to Wikipedia definitions of the subjects.

1.   Bible

2.   English
  • Reading & Comprehension
  • Grammar
  • Spelling & Vocabulary
  • Writing / Composition
3.   Foreign Languages
4.   Mathematics
5.   Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world. The fields of science are outlined below:
5.1 Natural Sciences is an encompassing term for the branches of natural science and science that study non-living systems, in contrast to the life sciences. However, the term “physical” creates an unintended, somewhat arbitrary distinction, since many branches of physical science also study biological phenomena
A. Physical sciences are the branches of science that seek to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world by applying an empirical and scientific method to the study of the universe. It is an encompassing term for the branches of natural science and science that study non-living systems, in contrast to the life sciences. However, the term “physical” creates an unintended, somewhat arbitrary distinction, since many branches of physical science also study biologicalphenomena.
  • Physics ~ is the study of the fundamental constituents of the universe, the forces and interactions they exert on one another, and the results produced by these interactions.
B. Life sciences (Biology) ~ is concerned with thecharacteristics, classification and behaviours oforganisms, as well as how species were formed and their interactions with each other and theenvironment. It comprises all fields of science that involve the scientific study of living organisms, likeplants, animals, and human beings.
5.2  Formal Sciences are the branches of knowledge that are concerned with formal systems, such as logic, mathematics, theoretical computer science, information theory, systems theory, decision theory, statistics, and some aspects of linguistics.
5.3 Social & Behavioural Sciences (Social Studies) ~  is the “integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence,”. It studies human behavior and societies.
A. Physical Geography ~ examines the natural environment and how the climate, vegetation & life,soil, water and landforms are produced and interact.
B. Human Geography ~ focuses largely on the built environment and how space is created, viewed and managed by humans as well as the influence humans have on the space they occupy. It studies patterns and processes that shape human interaction with various environments. It encompasses human, political,cultural, social, and economic aspects.Various approaches to the study of human geography have also arisen through time and include:
C. Environmental Geography ~ combines physical and human geography and looks at the interactions between the environment and humans. Examples of areas of research in environmental geography includeemergency management, environmental management, sustainability, and political ecology.
D. Geomatics ~ involves the use of traditional spatial techniques used in cartography and topography and their application to computers.
E. Regional Geography ~ studies the regions of all sizes across the Earth with the  main aim of understanding or defining the uniqueness or character of a particular region which consists of natural as well as human elements. Attention is paid also toregionalisation which covers the proper techniques of space delimitation into regions.
5.5. Behavioural Sciences encompasses all the disciplines that explore the activities of and interactions among organisms in the natural world. It involves the systematic analysis and investigation of human and animalbehaviour through controlled and naturalistic observation, and disciplined scientific experimentation.
A. Neural ~ decision sciences involves those disciplines primarily dealing with the decision processes and individual functioning used in the survival of organism in a social environment. These include Anthropology,Psychology, Cognitive Science, Organization Theory,Psychobiology, Social Neuroscience
B. Social ~ communication sciences include those fields which study the communication strategies used by organisms and its dynamics between organisms in an environment. These include fields likeanthropology, organizational behaviour, organization studies, sociology and social networks.
5.6. Applied sciences is the application of scientific knowledge transferred into a physical environment. Examples include testing a theoretical model through the use of formal science or solving a practical problem through the use of natural science.Fields of engineering are closely related to applied sciences. Applied science is important fortechnology development. Its use in industrial settings is usually referred to as research and development (R&D).
6.   Technology
7.   Economic Management Sciences
8.   Information Technology (Computers)
9.   Handwriting
10. Life Orientation (Life Skills)

Alternative Teaching Methods

Study Tools

studyboost5offers courses in study skills for children from Grade four to high school with a focus on extracting key words and ideas, mind-mapping, memory skills and improving reading comprehension. Email or contact +27 (83) 414-0508
  • Keys Learning Keys to Reading Success not only identifies a student’s reading level, but shows you why students are struggling and how to solve the problem in the shortest time.
    • Reduce training time and costs while increasing productivity.
    • Make your training function a profit center in your company.
    • Learn anything more easily.
    • Enhance your thinking skills.
    • Cope with change and make technology work for you.
    • Learn a foreign language five times faster than using conventional methods.

Assessments

  1. QuizTree offers FREE educational games and quizzes on many subjects, including Math, Reading, Spanish, Geography, SAT, Spelling, Music and more. All activities come with animated interface, fun sounds and other cool features that make learning more enjoyable.
  2. Easy Test Maker is a free online test generator to help you create your tests. You can create multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions all on the same test. You can also insert instructions and divide your test into multiple sections.
  3. Homeschool Assessment Tests The Private Examinations Board offers homeschooling assessment tests as well as a remedial support service to parents educating their children at home  & aims to provide an objective and impartial assessment for all children studying outside the formal education system in order to ensure that excellent standards are maintained and to assess a child’s achievement as an individual.
  4. Triangle Assessments for homeschool tests and information plus K-12 Achievement, Cognitive and Practise Tests
  5. MasteryConnect learning community for Free sharing of common assessments with teachers, schools, and districts that have adopted the new Common Core Standards.
  6. ExtremePapers for past Cambridge Exam Papers.

Other Helpful Links:

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StudyStack ~ Find flashcards to study or create your own flashcards. Study flashcards or use the other activities such as matching, crosswords, hangman, scrambled word, or bug chase. Study flashcards anytime/anywhere by printing your flashcards or by using a flashcard app.
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Please visit this page frequently as I will be posting regular updates as I find more resources.