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Flashcards: Complete the flashcard activity. It is a review of math vocabulary.

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Mazzucca, Michelle Week 1 yes Week 3 yes Week 5 yes

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===Becket Jadush - Week 5 [] - Featuring original **free math problem solving worksheets** for teachers and parents to copy for their kids. Use these free math worksheets for **teaching**, **reinforcement**, and **review**. These math word problems are most appropriate for grades four and five, but many are designed to be challenging and informative to older and more advanced students as well.===

I love this website [] because it provides fun problem solving activities for students. I use to use this resource at my old school and can't wait to implement again this year with my new students - Melissa Morales Week 5

Melissa Dolak
This activity allows students to compare and contrast area and circumference of a circle to its diameter and radius. [] Meghan Torbik - Week 5

[|http://www.thinkfinity.org] This site is a great curriculum resource for ALL subjects. You can search subject specific content. What I found are some great activities that are cross-curricular that have quite a bit of problem solving activities (particularly science). -Mike Zwanch

[|www.studyisland.com] This site is a great website that allows your students to practice word problems similiare to the questions on PSSA. You can also use it as a formative assessment or a math center where students are allowed to play games. Renee LaFrance Week 5 ==[] This site is a great website to help with problem solving skills. A lot of the games involve mental math with beating the clock. There is a Pascal's Triangle game that involves subtraction instead of adding.== Deanna Hummel- Week 4

[] lists various activities that involve mathematics such as baking with fractions, creating tessellations, finding distance on maps, etc.
Melissa Morales- Week 4

Rachel Hoffman Week 4 //TY RM W4//
//This site offers step by step problem solving from basic math to statistics.// //[|www.mathway.com]// //Nicole Angelini//

At The Problem Site you can play educational games and daily puzzles, find interesting reference pages and enagage in fun problem solving activities. [] Jennifer Combellack W4

[] This is a really helpful websites for students from elementary to middle school problem solving math. Webmath is a math-help web site that generates answers to specific math questions and problems.In addition to the answers, Webmath also shows the student how to arrive at the answer. This is a great tool to help guide students! Mary Ann Durkin, W#3

[] is a website that you can use to print out problem solving problems for your students to solve. Amy Kunec

Here is a mnemonic device for students when solving word problems. It is important for students to make sure they understand what a word problem is asking. STAR Charlene Daugherty
 * S**earch the word problem.
 * T**ranslate the words into an equation.
 * A**nswer the problem.
 * R**eview the solution.

This website has nothing to do with problem solving but it was very useful when taking the quiz online. [] Beth Kunec

This site has some great interactive brain stimulating and problem solving ideas, it offers, games, interactive brain teasers, worksheets [] Carrie Paulin

This site offers lesson plans and activities that promote problem solving: [] Kathy Wychock

[] This site provide many different rules for the students to review for mathematics. It also has links to games dealing with many different topics. - Megan Leonard

[] This is a good video to use in the classroom, sometimes I find a video teachign the exact thing I am teaching gets through to the students because it is different! Regina

[] I LOVE this site, it offers so many diffrent problems for students to solve. It is made by Drexel university and would be a great classroom enrichment activity to see where your students are at in problem solving techniques_ Regina Fidiam

[] This site provides many activities focusing on problem solving, as well as offering many other interactive games for other math concepts. Valerie Bartle W2

[] **This website can be helpful in providing you with assistance with various different types of math problems. It contains directions for solving problems and interative activities where you can practice solving problems. ENJOY!!**
 * Jen Ferro**


 * http://www.mathstories.com/strategies.htm This website is an excellent source of problem solving strategies. It enables the teacher or student to look at various methods for solving problems. Linda Cywinski**

[] This website is very fun for teachers, parents, and students. The website is broken down to many subgroups that are very user friendly that will reinforce the math concepts. Students can play games, review topics, and even complete sample problems.

This website is dedicated to providing ways to gain problem solving skills and to develop conceptual understanding of fundamental mathematics for students. The best way to improve problem solving skills is to practice them. This website contains plenty of mathematics problems at different difficulty levels ranging from easy to challenging. [] Tracy Toole

I thought this was a great websites that provides questions we can use to lead students through the problem-solving process without actually giving away the solution. I know at least I at times struggle as to what questions I can ask that would be helpful but not all that helpful. [] kathy Layton W2

[|www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/index.shtml] This is an interactive website that has a variety of topics to choose from. It allows you to learn while playing games. It focuses on number sense, geometric ideas, and interpreting data. Lauran Weiler

The goal of this math website is to help elementary school (Grade 1st through 6th) children boost their math problem solving and critical-thinking skills. MathStories.com has over 15,000 online and printable NCTM compliant math word problems for children to enjoy! Word problems are available in both English and Spanish. MathStories.com is the website for busy teachers, eager students, and involved parents. MathStories.com is comprehensive and easy to navigate. [] ~DANA COOPER

[|www.funbrain.com]- this is a great website for drill in game fun om math facts. It has games, it has archade type games and student can challenge each other on this site. This site can also be used for other subjects besides math. I also like this site because you can diversify the game. They have easy, medium and hard levels. Paula Fine

This website provides many unique and meaningful word problems for students to solve. I have students complete a Problem of the Day or “PDN” as soon as they enter the room each day. These different problems can be used for PDN’s throughout the school year to practice problem solving and the arithmetic concepts presented in each. [] Shanon Sitoski

[] - This site allows students to solve a variety of interactive math word problems. It is probably best for k-6. Amy Canjar

[] This site has a lot of interactive math activites. Many are beyond my comprehension! It also has the Tower of Hanoi and other combinatorics. Sharon Majesky

[] I found this websiter great for problem solving skills. The game is kid friendly and encourages students to take a guess even if they unaware of the answer. The games that are offered vary from easy to difficult to help students level of learning. Jessica Zmijewski

This website offers games that include arithmetic, logical reasoning, and quantitative reasoning. http://www.lumosity.com/brain-games/problem-solving-games Kate McLane- Week 5

http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit/1688 This website offers a great variety of word problem sites. The top toolbar takes you to a multiple of sites to find what you are looking for. Katie Holzman

This website has ready-made pages of word problems for each month of the year. Many of which are open-ended that allow students to get extra practice for test taking. [] Mary Nunes W4

G. Polya, How to Solve It
Summary taken from G. Polya, "How to Solve It", [] Rosann Moskel

[] The above site gives links to several interactive problem solving websites with many different problems for students to work through. Jamie Janesky

[]: This is a cool website that students can use as an reference for finding the volume of liquids. Brion Stone-"w3"

http://www.mathstories.com/strategies.htm This is a website with strategies for solving math problems. It gives an example of the strategy as well. Not all problems will fall into these categories but will work for most early math problems. Megan O'Rourke

I wasn't sure where to put this information, but I figured there would be some type of measurement question on the test. While converting between measurements, remember this rule: Changing from a **BIG** unit to a **SMALL** unit- **Multiply** Changing from a **SMALL** unit to **BIG** unit- **Divide**. Elizabeth Cooney W3

This website has a ton of great problem solving worksheets that allow you to choose whether to use them as review, introduction or enrichment for students. [] Tracy Biehl W4

When problem solving look for key words that can assist you with the operation to perform.List what is given and identify what must be found. Marisa Langan

A free online practice prep site. Free basic algebra questions. [] Jerry Potis

[]-- Links to economics. IT is a self check for problem solving. Syudents are given word problems related to economics and choose correct answer. Great link to the real world. Kristen Danko-- W3

[] This site is for middle school students. It provides open ended problem which can be used to identify a variety of problem solving skills. There are 3 levels of difficulty. The problems are organized into months and are aligned with math standards. Julie Maloney W4

Odds in favor = number of favorable events **:** number of unfavorable events 1 out of 3 marbles are green 2 out of 3 marbles are not green 1 favorable outcome for every 2 unfavorable outcomes the odds in favor of choosing a green marble is **1: 2 Kelly Klecha week 5**
 * Odds of an event**: Choosing marbles at random. The probability of choosing a green marble is 1/3. What are the odds in favor of choosing a green marble?

This website has some nice puzzles and math related problems to solve for kids.
 * http://www.adrianbruce.com/problem-solving/problem-solving.htm**

Donna M. MelvinW3

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 * Zap!** Problem Solving Virtual Game: A math game that just might give you brain cramps. It's a sliding tile puzzle that forces you to do mental arithmetic while racing against the clock. []=====

-Michelle Mazzucca
Mnemonic for distance formula: D=rate x time or d=rxt Remember **D**i**RT**
 * Melissa Groncki**


 * [|www.figurethis.org/]**
 * This website is useful for families who want to work together in solving math word problems. It actually gives problems that are applicable to everyday life.**
 * -Kim Kunec**
 * This site is so much fun for students! There is problem solving (word problems) in it, but many other concepts as well. I think students would really like this one!**
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 * Amanda Fischer**

Nancylee J. Fenicchia
 * http://www.ixl.com/** This is a great website to use for Pre K-8 math. I love how it is broken down by grade level.

This is an awesome website where a problem can be submitted and then solved. I particularly liked that it breaks down the solution into steps so that you are able to see the steps that go into the solution. It even graphs equations! [] Kathy Layton

[|http://www.helpingwithmath.com] This is another site that breaks down information into grades and topics. Teachers can find many good worksheets here and I also find that the site gives me good ideas to create my own activities. John Beggs

[] - this is a great site that has many links to other sites incorperating all areas of mathematics Jennifer Daniels TY //RM W4//

On the website [] is a poster with the strategies for problem solving. There is also a teaching hints poster and worksheets for middle school and el mementary students on problem solving. There are also answer keys included with the worksheets. Lori Argot week 5

Here is a suggestion that I use with my SPED students whenever they are given a word problem to solve. I tell them to use the three step method to help chunck out what is expected of them. The great thing about the three step process is that it gives the student multiple ways to earn half credit if they don't exactly know how to solve the problem. This allows the teacher to see there thinking and then see where the breakdown occurs. -Karen Hertzog
 * __Step 1__: Circle the best answer. Am I going to ( ||
 * +, -, x, ÷** ) to find my answer?
 * __Step 2__: Show me your work. Include your work that you did on the calculator. ||
 * __Step 3:__ Write your answer and at LEAST 1 sentence explaining how you got your answer.

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__Explanation:__ || http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/web/2000/heal/mathsites.htm This website is a combination of learning math activities and a resource for other websites to help students with math. I haven't reviewed the entire site but it looks to have links to fun and interactive learning activities. Sometimes if I knew a student had a computer at home and he/she was still stuck on doing a certain type of problem, I would reteach it to them using a website, then send a note home to the parents explaining what it is the student is learning and how we used the website. The parents and student would follow up at home with some reinforcement practice, and the lesson prompts were right there for them if they needed to hear/see the prompts again, as well as practice through the interactive sites. Also, "you tube" has some nice math lessons with graphics and oral explanations as well. (week 5) //Who is the contributer for this link???// //[|www.math.about.com/testprep.a/ps.htm] Information for problem solving, worksheets-basic math concepts, algebra, pre-algebra, geometry. You name it they have it. Mary Kay Tempesta// //[]// //This web site has problem solving strategies and some other very interesting materials.// //Donna L. Celuck (week 5)//

//http://www.gamequarium.com/problemsolving.html// //Anthony Shipula//