Digital Tools to Support Mathematics
Atlanta Public Schools' Office of Instructional Technology is committed to providing our students with the tools and resources to allow them to practice valuable mathematics skills.
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Math Resources by Grade Level
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Tools to support your child with practicing math skills at home. Practice is essential in math. It helps build confidence while helping students learn and understand a topic. Math problems have multiple steps for solving (seeing the problem, calculating, and practicing the process). Each time a student practices a math concept, they are building a stronger foundation and improving their critical thinking skills.
Math Playground is a K-6 platform comprised entirely of math games. Math Playground is filled with educational games and practice drills to help students develop an understanding of basic math concepts in a fun way.
Virtual math manipulatives are visual representations of concrete math manipulatives that are digitally accessed used as teaching tools to engage students in the hands-on learning of mathematics to introduce math concepts.
How would your child like to learn multiplication while shooting hoops? They can do that and more at Toy Theater, which teaches early math concepts through game-based learning.
This National Science Foundation–supported project provides a large library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives and concept tutorials for math instruction. CLICK HERE to access.
Tools to support your child with practicing math skills at home.
Freckle allows students to practice math at their own level and pace. It has more than 30,000 math questions, starting with a diagnostic that assigns material at just the right level.
Math Playground is a K-6 platform comprised entirely of math games. Math Playground is filled with educational games and practice drills to help students develop an understanding of basic math concepts in a fun way.
Khan Academy is on a mission to give a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Their personalized learning resources are available for all ages, in a huge array of subjects with lots of math resources.
Explore digital content based on interest and subject areas.
Curate resources using Studio and use Immersive Reader to support reading skills.
Additional websites with practice or game-based activities focusing on math skills
Prodigy Math is one of North America's most popular classroom tools. Prodigy is a free, adaptive math game that integrates Georgia math standards (grades 1-8) into a fantasy style game that students love playing.
ABCya provides over 300 fun and educational games for grades PreK through 6. Our activities are designed by parents and educators, who understand that children learn better if they are having fun. Games are categorized by grade and subject, and cover topics such as multiplication, parts of speech, typing, pattern recognition, and more.
Legends of Learning was created to help engage students with a different modality. Using this tool provides students an opportunity to learn through the gamification of science and math content. This is a novel way of learning which encourages students to want to be challenged..
Freerice is an educational trivia game that helps you get smarter while making a difference for people around the world. Every question you answer correctly raises 10 grains of rice for the World Food Programme (WFP) to support its work saving and changing lives around the world.
Tools to support your child with practicing math skills at home.
Figure This is a site designed to encourage families to practice math together. It includes fun and engaging math games and high-quality challenges. It even offers challenges in Spanish.
Get the Math is about algebra in the real world. See how professionals use math in music, fashion, video games, restaurants, basketball, and special effects. Then take on interactive challenges related to those careers
Most learners do best when they can see a problem walk-through, step-by-step. Math TV features multiple example problems, with walk-throughs by three separate instructors (including one in Spanish). They offer some basic math but are focused on advanced subjects from algebra on up
Tools to support your child with practicing rmath skills at home.
Virtual Nerd has over 1,200 of the best math videos covering middle grades through Algebra 2. The video tutorials are high-quality and easy to follow; they cover a wide range of math topics.
Get the Math is about algebra in the real world. See how professionals use math in music, fashion, video games, restaurants, basketball, and special effects. Then take on interactive challenges related to those careers
Most learners do best when they can see a problem walk-through, step-by-step. Math TV features multiple example problems, with walk-throughs by three separate instructors (including one in Spanish). They offer some basic math but are focused on advanced subjects from algebra on up
Explore digital content based on interest and subject areas.
Curate resources using Studio and use Immersive Reader to support reading skills. Log into myBackpack to access.
Additional websites with practice or game-based activities focusing on math skills
Prodigy Math is one of North America's most popular classroom tools. Prodigy is a free, adaptive math game that integrates Georgia math standards (grades 1-8) into a fantasy style game that students love playing.
Legends of Learning was created to help engage students with a different modality. Using this tool provides students an opportunity to learn through the gamification of science and math content. This is a novel way of learning which encourages students to want to be challenged..
Freerice is an educational trivia game that helps you get smarter while making a difference for people around the world. Every question you answer correctly raises 10 grains of rice for the World Food Programme (WFP) to support its work saving and changing lives around the world.
Tools to support your student with practicing math skills at home.
Get the Math is about algebra in the real world. See how professionals use math in music, fashion, video games, restaurants, basketball, and special effects. Then take on interactive challenges related to those careers
Most learners do best when they can see a problem walk-through, step-by-step. Math TV features multiple example problems, with walk-throughs by three separate instructors (including one in Spanish). They offer some basic math but are focused on advanced subjects from algebra on up
Upper-level math students will appreciate the no-frills information that’s easy to find on this site. Get overviews and see examples of advanced math subjects. CLICK HERE to access.
Virtual Nerd has over 1,200 of the best math videos covering middle grades through Algebra 2. The video tutorials are high-quality and easy to follow; they cover a wide range of math topics.
Tools to support your student with practicing math skills at home.
Khan Academy is on a mission to give a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Their personalized learning resources are available for all ages, in a huge array of subjects with lots of math resources.
Desmos is a free online graphic calculator. Explore math with the fast and powerful Desmos Graphing Calculator. Plot any equation, from lines and parabolas to derivatives and Fourier series. Add sliders to demonstrate function transformations, create tables to input and plot data, animate your graphs, and more—all for free.
Geogebra is another graphing calculator for functions, geometry, algebra, calculus, statistics, and 3D math, along with a variety of math resources.