Resources+and+Opportunities

== =Resources, Grants and Awards=
 * [|NCDPI Wikispace]- information from the NC Department of Public Instruction Mathematics - latest updates and releases... Click Elementary!
 * [|Common Core Hexagonal Trajectory Map] information provided from NC State professor Dr. Jere Confrey and the Friday Institute
 * Massachusetts website- out of the #1 state for mathematics - full of resources, pacing ideas, released test items, and sample summer packets for each grade level
 * [|IXL] - Comprehensive math practice site. Popular among educators and families, //IXL // provides unlimited questions in more than 2000 topics.
 * [|Arcademics] - Academics + Arcade = FUN!!! Skill builders can be sorted by grade level or concepts.
 * [|Math Playground] - Action packed site with fun and challenging online //math // games. Play with numbers and give your brain a workout!
 * [|KhanAcademy -]With a library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 180 practice activities to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.
 * [|NCTM Grants and Awards][[image:http://static.wetpaint.com/img/bg/1.png?v=20110602150104]]NCTM offers several grants that can be used to conduct action research or improve instruction in your classroom. As a Bridges participant, you have a membership to NCTM which makes you eligible to submit a grant.
 * **Crosswalks and Unpacked Content -**the transitional documents to help support the 2012-2013 implementation of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.
 * John Van de Walle Blackline Masters- blackline masters to Teaching Student Centered Mathematics Volumes I - III.
 * [|Teaching K-5 Math Resources]- tons of activites aligned with the Common Core State Standards (domains and objectives).
 * [|Moby Math]- free 3 month trial that allows you to establish curriculum deficits, aligned to CCSS, and will help create RtI or IEP learning targets.
 * [|Doing What Works]- focused on Developing a Deeper Effective Fraction Instruction grades K-8
 * Illuminations- site sponsored by NCTM full of activites/lesson plans that are all engaging and promote critical thinking and problem solving.
 * Thinkfinity - www.thinkfinity.orgsponsored by Verizon Foundation - Excellent source of classroom lesson plans!
 * [|Math Solutions]- founded by Marilyn Burns - it's free lessons (teacher approved) leveled by grade
 * The National Library of Virtual Manipulativeshas many virtual programs that can be used for demonstrations and activities.
 * NC WISE OWL (Elementary Zone) is great place to search for professional journal articles and activities..
 * MathLearnNChouses the NCDPI's Week by Week Essentials, Math Super Stars, Grade Level Observation Profiles for On-going Assessment and End of the Year Evaluation.
 * Shodor.org is for both students and teachers. This website has activities, tools, a dictionary, lessons, and discussions related specifically to almost every NCSCOS goal and Common Core State Standards' objectives ( @http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/standards/).
 * Quantiles - www.quantiles.com- great source of activities and skill builders that are aligned to the NCSCOS. This gauge of measurement is what a Lexile is to the reading world!
 * Metric - U.S. Measurement Conversions- Click and scroll up. Endless online conversions of length, area, volume, temperature, time, etc. Try it out! See if your students can discover the "rules" on their own!
 * Celebrate National Metric Week(October 10-17) - check out page 125 of the October 2010 volume of "Teaching Children Mathematics" magazine.
 * MathBits.com- a great source of free, downloadable, printable stuff - like Graph Paper and other cool templates.
 * @http://www.math.com/homeworkhelp/Geometry.html- Online math instruction. Great way to review basic concepts.
 * [|NRICH] Great site from Cambridge University, Nice Math Posters.