Illuminations

=**Illuminations** ([])=

**Grades:** Pre-k-12

**Description:** Illuminations is a website that is created by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The goal of Illuminations is to,"Provide Standards-based resources that improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students" and provide materials for teachers that match the goals of the NCTM. Illuminations provides teachers resources that can be used in the classroom with over a hundred online activities that can follow the standards of the NCTM. Illuminations has activities for students from Pre-K to 12th grade, with games like Five Frame, which gives students practice counting in a variety of different ways, to Algebra Tiles, that gives students practice solving Algebraic problems and representing them with tiles. Many of the activities on Illuminations can be used as a whole class activity or practice for individual practice. The great thing about these activities is it allows students to manipulate math in a positive way to reinforce their learning.

**Frameworks:** The Standards in the Massachusetts Frameworks and the NCTM Standards are aligned because their is a lot of collaboration between the two. Since Illuminations is the activity section of the NCTM's website the activities provided are constructed to be valid practice for each standard. 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
 * 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