Fun+Brain

=Fun Brain (http://www.funbrain.com/)=

**Grades:** PreK - 8

**Description:** Fun Brain is a website created to be kid friendly to allow even pre-school students a chance to learn using fun interactive games. Fun Brain isn't just a website for math, but has sections for math, reading, and literacy. In the math section Fun Brain is a good tool for teachers because it has fun games for teachers to use in the classroom, but it also provides an index of the games according to where they are in the curriculum and the website provides the underlying standards that the games are built upon. The Math Arcade allows students to choose their level and works through a series of games that allows the students to progress to harder games. This site could be used by the teacher for individual practice or as a group activity in the classroom. This site allows the teacher to see that the games used aren't just fun, but align with the standards that are being used in the curriculum.

**Frameworks:﻿** Fun Brain's underlying standards are very similar to the standards established to by the NCTM and there for congruent with Massachusetts standards. Content Standards


 * Counting and Cardinality
 * Number and Operations in Base Ten
 * Operations and Algebraic Thinking
 * Measurement and Data
 * Geometry
 * Number and Operations—Fractions
 * The Number System
 * Measurement and Data
 * Ratios and Proportional Relationships
 * Statistics and Probability
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Expressions and Equations
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Functions

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Standards for Mathematical Practice Used:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Reasoning abstractly and quantitatively
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Model with mathematics
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Use appropriate tools strategically
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Attend to precision
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Look for and make use of structure
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning