Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Interactive - Math

I was all set to talk about math and how its used in cards but I came across this interactive web site when I was looking for an interactive activity on the Pythagorean Theorem for one of my students. It lead me to Interactive - Maths, a cool site. This is a site, I've not seen before so I was pleased to find it.

The owner of the site, offers several choices such as topic resources, mixed topic generators, starters puzzles, and enrichment, crypto center, and a blog.  I'll take you through everything.

First the topic resources. This page looks at all of the activities available along with an explanation of the type each activity is, and a few generators.  The topics range from arithmetic, to Algebra, to geometry, trig, transformations, and even some college level activities. Some topics have randomly generated questions, one at a time, or ten at a time, or done in relay form so they have to answer one question before it allows them to go onto the next, bingo, worksheets, or a geogebra activity.  Quite a variety.

The mixed topic generator allows you to create either worksheets or questions that are totally random or topic specific.  There is also a treasure hunt creator, and a bingo creator so you can make what you need for the activity you need.  The starters, puzzles, and enrichment has a nice long list of activities that can be used to start the class, add enrichment, or are just fun to do.  One of the puzzles is a generator that creates a puzzle based on the day's date.  Sound like fun.  I looked at one that gave 2, 5, 4, 2, 3 as the digits one can use and by using the four operations, you have to come up with the answers of 1 to 30.  Rather a cool, challenging puzzle.

Crypto corner is dedicated to codes and cyphers so students get a better idea of how cryptography work. This comes with all sorts of codes, resources and such that one could create a fun unit towards the end of school.  Finally, there is a blog that runs between December 2012 and August 2021 with all sorts of how to do it topics.  Some of the topics are really cool.  

Please go check this site out if you need some cool things for your classroom.  Let me know what you think, I'd love to hear.  Have a great day.

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