Math+Wire

=Math Wire ([])=

**Grade Level:** K-8

**Description**:

"Mathwire.com is designed to provide activities and appropriate worksheets for teachers to use in their classrooms. All activities and worksheets support the constructivist approach to learning mathematics and the NCTM Standards." "Each of these Mathwire.com webpages discusses activities and games that support student development of number sense and the concept of mathematical operations. Pictures on each webpage capture students doing the activity or represent student work. PDF files are available for download with game mats, directions, recording sheets, etc. as required by each game or activity." Math Wire is a very thorough website and needs little extra description from me since they do an excellent job explaining what they do on their website. Math Wire is a website for teachers, with every month they provide new activities and offer methods for modification or accommodations to make activities accessible for every student. Mathwire can be used by the teacher to Math Wire would be very helpful in the classroom because they align all of their materials with the NCTM standards and provide all the materials for each activities.

Mathwire aligns all of their activities to the NCTM standards for mathematics. Though these standards do not match identically the standards for Massachusetts Frameworks they are close enough to be valid for use in Massachusetts classrooms. The NCTM standards were the foundation for the creation of the 2011 Massachusetts Frameworks so many of these activities will be useful in the classroom and congruent to the Curriculum used in class. Standards for Mathematical Practice Used
 * Frameworks:﻿ **
 * 1) Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
 * 2) Reasoning abstractly and quantitatively
 * 3) Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
 * 4) Model with mathematics
 * 5) Use appropriate tools strategically
 * 6) Attend to precision
 * 7) Look for and make use of structure
 * 8) Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning