Test Desinger

Test Designer is a FREE web site that allows you to create tests to use in your classroom.


The site has pre-created over 1,000 questions in various subject areas. Simply search for the topic that you are looking for. Next, you can select the pre-made questions that you want to add to your quiz, and print!
You will need to sign up for Test Designer by providing an email as a user name and create a password.

Inferencing

Teaching students how to inference can be a challenging task. Mandy Gregory has a site filled with resources to assist teachers in teaching students how to inference.

The page titled Inferencing Mini Lessons is filled with lesson plans and down-loadable activities.

One of my favorites is the Printable Inference Card Game.

This site is filled with numerous activties that you will enjoy exploring.

Probability

MathPlayground.com has a few interactive lessons to help your students explore probability.

An interactive spinner allows results to be tracked on a bar graph.
There is also a virtual coin toss, where you determine the number of tosses.

Growth of a Nation

Animatedatlas.com has an interactive atlas that allows you to explore how the nation grew from 1790 to the year 2000. This history spans from the development of the 13 colonies to 50 states. The site hosts a 10 minute video that can be played all the way through, or paused when needed. Also during the video any state can be clicked on to show details of the state's history.


This site can be used to teach about the 13 colonies, the civil war, the revolutionary war, or just to give an overall summary of how the United States developed through history.

Order Of Operations - Math

Solving equations can be confusing if students do not understand order of operations.

Amby.com has a web-based interactive tutorial that can help students remember and practice order of operations.Funbrain.com also has an interactive game to help students learn the importance of order of operations. There are 3 levels of games for Order of Operations. There is an Easy level that only uses addition and subtraction. The Medium level uses addition, subtraction, and multiplications, and the Hard level uses all operations.

Decimals, Fractions, and Percentages

This site describes a card game that is similar to war but instead of using a regular deck of cards, the players use cards that have a mixture of decimals, fractions, and percentages. (The teacher will have to construct the cards.)

This game will help students understand the concepts of equality and inequality among decimals, fractions, and percents. This game will be a fun way for students to become more familiar with various representations of the same number.

Hi-Lo Using Fractions

This interactive Web page allows students to play Hi-Lo using fractions instead of whole numbers. The rationale behind this game is that students will be challenged to order fractions while using the clues to discover the fraction that the computer is thinking of.

One advantage of having students play the computer instead of each other is that partnering students may have difficulty monitoring each other if they do not know fractions well enough.