Check out these sites for sharing curriculum materials!

Vanessa Vega, a Edutopia research analyst ---- and if you have not yet checked out Edutopia -- http://www.edutopia.org/ -- make sure you do ---- suggests several websites where educators can collaborate and share curriculum resources.  Check out Curriki.org and Digital Is (website affiliated with the National Writing Project) are sites that allow teachers to network and share materials with peers, while other sites like The Ohio Resource Center for Mathematics, Science, & Reading and the Ohio Social Studies Resource Center offer free resources that are aligned with state and national curriculum standards.

Yes, and you guessed it if your follow our blog ---- free resources to check out! 

Happy back to school!

Math and the Books Kids Love

Are you ready for some FUN and LEARNING too! Come join the Library, the ECE Initiative and SERC Community Initiative on Saturday, April 16th from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm for Math and the Books Kids Love! Children in kindergarten through Grade 2 are welcome to come with their parents to experience the fascinating world of math found within the books children love to hear and to read!

A variety of hands-on activities, a FREE book, and materials and directions to replicate the activities at home will be provided. Come join us in exploring MATH and Books! Please register in advance for this free activity by contacting: Suequanna Lewis, Project Assistant, CT PIRC, 860.632.1485 x 288 or lewis@ctserc.org.

MATH ---- Free sites, resources!

In conjunction with SERC's Math Conference on Tuesday, September 28^th, here are some sites to check out!

Learning Today blog, http://blog.learningtoday.com/ excellent free resources are offered by this software company. Also check out the "Teacher Resource" tab. Lots of K-5 stuff including materials for all levels of learners that will help with differentiation.

Math Snacks, http://www.mathsnacks.org/, designed by educators at New Mexico State University with NSF funds are engaging animations and games designed to help learner in grades 6-8 truly understand math concepts.

Harcourt School Publishers at http://www.hbschool.com/thinkmath/index.html is indexed by grade level for K-5, web-based math activities and concepts including numbers, data analysis, operations, algebra, geometry, time money and measurement.

Math Apprentice, http://www.mathapprentice.com/ provides opportunity for students in grades 4-8 to put math skills to work in one of eight businesses.

Jim Dornberg has created a wiki housed at http://smartmeasurement.wikispaces.com/ . Grades K-6 can view activities about length, time, money, perimeter, area, temperature, weight, volume, surface area, and angles.

Minute Math, http://www.10minutemath.com math.com is a high school teacher sharing knowledge with students and colleagues across the world. There are extra assignments for his calculus class, a set of non-linear graphs with the labels and scale hidden in a Word document for teaching exponential growth, a review Jeopardy game created with a Flash-based online game creator, explore some of the past posts for more.

And last but not least, Math and the Movies!, http://mathbits.com/MathBits/MathMovies/MathMovies.htm uses over 20 movies as teaching tools. Movie options contain information about which clip to show and provides student worksheets. Most activities are developed for grades 6-12 and movies range from a 1941 Abbott and Costello film, Proof, Castaway, Star Wars, Star Trek, to Harry Potter.

Wow – that's a lot of FUN Math!