The different kinds of educational applications used to teach math concepts, math skills, and problem solving

I talked about in prior blog posts the importance of finding an educational application that works for each individual student's needs. A big factor is the tool must match their developmental level. 

Some useful tools are:




Utah State University's National Library of Virtual Manipulatives this website helps to support the development of math for grades K-12. It offers categories such as Algebra. Measurements, or it goes by specific grades like 6-8.








Illuminations offers various activities on their website for helping students develop math concepts. This website is available to students in K-12 and run by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. 









Computing Technology for Math Excellence is a website that helps students understand math using virtual manipulatives. 













Internet 4 Classroom is a free website used by educators to help reenforce content or to for materials to use in classroom instruction. There is content for grades K-12.









Math Playground is a website that helps support new or confusing concepts, skills, and problem solving to students. The best part is this website is 100% free and students can go back and look a their work after each step and receive feedback from the website.






Conceptua Math is a website that focuses on fractions and it also offers tools for educators to use in their classroom. This program works best with he younger grades (2-7). It shows visual models and spoken text to help students understand the content better.







Destination Math is a tool that helps math reasoning,conceptual understanding, and problem solving skills to students in grades K-12. This program uses animation and audio to keep students engaged and learning in a fun way.







There are certain math applications offered solely to students with cognitive disabilities such as  the Attainment Company who offers a program that teachers students how to compute, have basic money skills, and tell time. IntelliKeys is available for students who need an alternative keyboard to use any or all of these programs/websites. 

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