mousewatch: Amy Sinclair

mousewatch: Amy Sinclair

Amy Sinclair of Charleston School, Aberdeen, counts up some great sites for maths..

1 Tutpup
A fantastic website for practising maths and spelling. Pupils can play against peers from around the world, and teachers can view a record of how many games each pupil has played and won. A great source of motivation.

2 Krazydad
The place to go for number puzzles. With Suduko, Kakuro, mazes and more, it will hook your pupils into the addictive world of number logic puzzles!

3 Korthalsaltes
A fantastic site full of printable nets for 3D shape work. It has the nets for basic shapes, but why not challenge older pupils to create a Cubohemioctahedron or even a Dodecahemidodecahedron?!

4 Multiplication
Full of games and resources to help teach multiplication. It has everything from racing games to dress up games but pupils must first complete several rounds of times table questions.

5 Arcademic Skill Builders
Full of games, both single player and multiplayer, where pupils can practise basic number skills. Also includes some language games.

6 Del.icio.us
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site, which means you can create a favourites list anyone can access – a great way to share websites with your pupils. To see my example, visit Del.icio.us: Miss Sinclair.

7 SEN Teacher
Although this website is for students with special needs and learning disabilities, it also offers fantastic, free resources for all pupils.

8 Super teacher worksheets
Provides worksheets and games for homework tasks for lots of maths topics but beware American spellings!

9 Mathematics Enrichment
A brilliant site for problem solving challenges, arranged by topic and level of difficulty. Each puzzle has solutions which have been submitted by pupils, showing different ways to solve it.

10 ICT games
These games for literacy and numeracy are great for modelling concepts in whole class lessons but also as independent follow-up work.