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=Math Goodies (http://www.mathgoodies.com/)=

**Grades:** 5-8

**Description:** Math goodies provides in-depth lesson plans that are engaging for students of all ability levels. Math Goodies also provide interactive games for students that will allow students to manipulate math in fun and meaningful ways. These games could be used to help students make mathematical concepts more concrete in student's minds. The most impressive aspect of the Math Goodies website is their Web Quest, these webquest take students on a journey to connect math with things like sports or the weather. Students are given a task to complete and must use their own skills follow each step and accomplish the task presented to them. These webquest could be used in the classroom as an activity to finish a unit by connecting what students have learned in a final activity. Math goodies also provides many puzzles that promote vocabulary in mathematics in a fun way. These vocabulary activities can be used in the classroom as seat work to introduce new material or review upcoming information.

**Frameworks** Standards for Mathematical Practice Used:


 * 1) Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
 * 2) Reasoning abstractly and quantitatively
 * 3) Model with mathematics
 * 4) Use appropriate tools strategically
 * 5) Attend to precision
 * 6) Look for and make use of structure
 * 7) Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning