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Bar Modeling samples and practice can be found using "Thinking Blocks" on [|www.mathplayground.com]

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) has a great website called Illuminations for lessons and activities organized by grade and topic. []

 Chapter 1: Whole Numbers  How much is a trillion dollars? - This puts it in perspective! usdebtclock.org - WOW! - See if you can wrap your brain around this!

 Chapter 2: Whole Number Multiplication and Division  Thinking Blocks - Bar Models   Try this timed test! (Extended Facts)   Estimating Products   [|www.multiplication.com] - lots of games and strategies for learning facts   mathplayground.com - division facts aaamath.com - more division practice  aaamath.com - long division practice   Order of Operations - Make 24 game at mathplayground.com

 Chapter 3:Fractions - Adding/Subtracting   Thinking Blocks - Bar Models   Baseball Math - Take a swing at simplifying fractions   Football Math - Find the receiver to add unlike fractions   Fractotron - Quickly decide if the fraction is 1/2 to boost your estimation skills.  Coolmath.com - Adding and subtracting with whole numbers and fractions <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Least Common Denominator (LCD) game

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Khan Academy - Fractions Everything you need to know!

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Chapter 4:Fractions - Multiplying/Dividing <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">  Thinking Blocks - Bar Models  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Multiplication - fractions and mixed numbers - you enter the numbers, see the result, and make sense of the process. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> mathplayground.com - solve and simplify multiplication of fractions <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> What is the rule?  See multiplying fractions using letters to gain insight into algebra. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Multiplying mixed numbers- See it with pizza! <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> 1 or 2 player jeopardy game - multiplying and dividing fractions / mixed numbers

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Chapter 5: Algebra <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Thinking Blocks - Bar Models that you create   <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> (click on **"Problems"** tab in the lower right corner, then the **Green** tab in top right corner, followed by **"Algebra"** tab on left side)  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Coolmath.com - Mini-lesson on solving equations  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Khan Academy - distributive property lesson  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Khan Academy - Commutative and associative properties

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Chapter 8: Decimals (to the thousandths) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Thinking Blocks - Bar Models that you create (click on ** "Problems" ** tab in the lower right corner, then the ** Green ** tab in top right corner, followed by ** "Decimals and %" ** tab on left side) mathisfun.com - addition and subtraction <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> funbrain.com - regrouping to the hundredths  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> eclassroom - rounding decimals "Fling the Teacher" game  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> shodor.org - rounding decimals playing "connect 4" with a friend  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">  Quia - decimals and whole numbers jeopardy game

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Chapter 9: Multiplying and Dividing Decimals <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Thinking Blocks - Bar Models that you create   <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> (click on ** "Problems" ** tab in the lower right corner, then the ** Green ** tab in top right corner, followed by ** "Decimals and %" ** tab on left side)  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">  math-play.com - Decimals jeopardy game (adding/subtracting/multiplying)  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> ixl.com - estimating products with whole numbers review  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> studyzone.org - estimating products with decimals  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> mathisfun.com - dividing decimals with long division review (click here for animation)  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> mathplayground.com - dividing decimals by decimals video  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> studyzone.org - estimating quotients  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> virtualnerd.com - review of estimating quotient with compatible numbers

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Chapter 11: Graphs and Probability <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> commoncoresheets.com - review worksheets to download/print  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">  shodor.org - mini-lesson and interactive tool activity  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> softschools.com - double bar graph maker  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> sciencekids.co.nz - mean, median, mode activity  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> mathplayground.com - coordinate grid "Find the Aliens" game  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> purplemath.com - using a T-chart to find plot points  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> KhanAcademy - graphing lines tutorial  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> sciencekids.co.nz - likelihood problems  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> math-play.com - theoretical probability  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> shodor.org - experimental probability  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> (read a discussion about theoretical versus experimental probability)  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Studyjams.scholastic.com - Tree diagrams

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Chapter 12: Angles <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> mathisfun.com - types of angles + interactive model  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> mathplayground.com - measuring with a half-protractor  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> sciencekids.co.nz - Go ahead. Squirt the dog! <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> mathisfun.com - vertical angles + interactive model

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Chapter 13: Properties of Triangles and Four-sided Figures <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> mathisfun.com - classifying triangles + interactive model  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> mathisfun.com - quadrangles interactive model  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Khanacademy.com - triangle inequality theorem

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Chapter 14: Three Dimensional Shapes <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> learner.org - click on shape: interactive prisms and pyramids with various bases  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> education-portal.com - types of pyramids and more  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> mathisfun.com - click on shape: prisms, cylinder, sphere, cone <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> mathisfun.com - platonic solids (contains edges, faces, vertices, nets, and formulas for surface area and volume)

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Chapter 15: Surface Area and Volume <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> nationalgeographic.com - 1 cubic foot video (more available at website)  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> learner.org - rectangles and cylinders  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> mathworksheets4kids.com - surface area worksheets for various solids  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> mathworksheets4kids.com - volume worksheets for various solids

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Chapter 6: Area of a Triangle <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> flocabulary.com - music video  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> ixl.com - online practice  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> mathopenref.com - includes examples with decimals  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> shodor.org - change difficulty to include height outside of the triangle  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> glencoe.com - use your knowledge of triangles and quadrangles to solve complex figures

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Chapter 7: Ratio <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Thinking Blocks - Bar Models

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> aaamath.com - find the ratio <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> aaamath.com - determine number based on ratio  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">  math.rice.edu - word problems with visual aids  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> shodor.org - a thinker if you // dare // to follow the tortoise and the // hare //. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> articlesforeducators.com - challenging problem only for those who //really// want to think!

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Chapter 10: Percent <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Thinking Blocks - Bar Models that you create (click on ** "Problems" ** tab in the lower right corner, then the ** Green ** tab in top right corner, followed by ** "Decimals and %" ** tab on left side) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> mathplayground.com - Percent Shopping  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> mathplayground.com - Percent Invaders (you set the percentage to practice)  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> math-play.com - percent/fractions/decimals jeopardy game  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gill Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> sciencekids.co.nz - design a park based on given numbers
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