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 **Illuminate Your Lessons with the Dynamic Paper Tool ** Have you ever looked for that special graph paper or wished you could put your hands on a number line that had the parameters that you needed for a specific problem? Need a pentagonal pyramid that's six inches tall? Or a number line that goes from ‑18 to 32 by 5's? Or a set of pattern blocks where all shapes have one-inch sides? Look no further than NCTM! You can create all those things and more with the Dynamic Paper tool, one of the latest additions to the illuminations website. Place the images you want, then export it as a PDF activity sheet for your students or as a JPEG image for use in other applications or on the web. []  Thinking of integrating the upcoming census with a thematic/team unit? Scholastic.com has numerous resources for grades K-12. []  CNN student news allows you to tie in current events with your curriculum. You may subscribe for free and receive a daily email with information about that day’s news. There are even downloadable worksheets. http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/   Free Rice website (This site has the option of changing subjects in the math area of basic math, which will go up through pre-algebra, or multiplication facts. The level of difficulty increases as correct answers are given and grains of rice earned. Although the grains of rice are not earned exponentially on the site, I have tied it in with exponential growth and the literature book entitled __One Grain of Rice__ and made it an interdisciplinary lesson.) []  I Know That (K-6) [] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Logic & Reasoning Games (all) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Soft Schools - free math worksheets and games <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> [] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">New and improved version of the free Schoolnotes teacher website <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> __<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">High Quality Teaching and Learning in Math __ <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(I would highly recommend the following sight which offers short video clips of classrooms utilizing ** cognitive complexity ** in math.   <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">[]    **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">This is the last year that they will still have extended response **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> items for grades 5, 8, and 10. The link below will take you to a sharepoint site. If you click on the second document that says ** FCAT Math ** it will take you to another page with presentation information. The top document that says ** FCAT Grids (Public) ** will show the changes in the grids for the different grade levels this year. You may copy and paste them into your own practice pages. [] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Accessing the online video tutors from Prentice Hall. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> www.phschool.com <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">It will take you through a mini review lesson. **Great for use with Smart Boards** or to assist absent students. Many lessons are available in Spanish also.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Interesting Websites **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">
 * 1) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In the **<span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Course Content **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> box, (lower right hand corner), click where it says Click Here. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
 * 2) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Next, select Companion Web Sites from the list toward the bottom. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
 * 3) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Under Textbook Resources, choose **Mathematics.**
 * 4) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Select the 2nd book (Middle School) or 3rd book (High School) in the top row, depending on the class you are taking. Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1 are considered High School textbooks.
 * 5) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Choose the book that would go with your grade level. (Course 1 is 6th grade, Course 2 is 7th grade, and Course 3 is 8th grade.)
 * 6) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Select **Homework Video Tutors.**
 * 7) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Select a chapter and then a lesson in an area that you need to study.

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