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Student Game Websites:

1. Gamequarium is a website that has a variety of measurement games and activities for students to engage in. It provides links to other mathematics game websites and allows students to develop important skills such as practice at reading measurements on different types of rulers.

2. FunBrain.com is another child friendly website that includes mathematical games and content. The measurement games are available in centimeters as well as inches so it is relevant to Australian school students. It is here also that the poptropica game is linked.

3. The apples4theteacher website contains a range of mathematics games which stretch across each of the content strands. The content covered includes measurement, geometry, number sense, addition, subtraction, money games and time.

4. Johnnie's Math Page is a site that contains collated mathematicsgames that have been grouped into strands. The games are all interactive and because they are organised by topic the content is easily accessible.

Teacher Resources:

1. This is an American website for year five students however the mathematics content is relevant for Australian students as well. It allows teachers to explore different mathematics games and activities they can do with their class. As well as having measurement content the website also covers the other mathematics strands.

2. The Teacher Zone is a free library of Mathematics teaching videos. The videos are mostly collated from youtube and are instructional videos aimed to assist teachers in teaching specific mathematics concepts they may not remember or be unsure of. The videos are simple and to the point.

3. This lesson plan website is a one stop site for lesson planning. It has collated resources all related to lesson planning from the web. This site gives teachers access not only to various Mathematics and other KLA lesson plans but also lesson plan guidelines, hints for finding lesson plans online, lesson plan templates and access to free lesson planning software. It is American based but Australian Teachers could easily adapt content and find that a lot of the material fits into the Essential Learnings.

4. The Learning Federation website has this great teacher resource which would assist students completing the [|'wish bedroom'] design task. In this unit of work students develop their knowledge of 3D shapes. They learn about how 3D shapes can look different when viewed from different angles. They explore basic arrangements of shapes, where groups of shapes are placed together and visualised from different angles. Finally, students use knowledge and skills gained through the unit to design and construct a 'model' city or town block.

5. The Cities taking shape unit of work provided by the Learning Federation would assist students learning about 2D and 3D shapes when it comes to making models for their 'wish bedroom' design. This Teacher idea includes comments following the teaching of the Mathematics unit of work, 'Cities taking shape'. The unit promotes students' knowledge of 2D and 3D shapes, and the relationship between them. It offers interactive and hands-on tasks to develop, consolidate and extend students' understandings in real-world contexts.

6. The aussie educator page is a collation of mathematics teaching resources and websites. It contains a collection of resources for all areas of Mathematics from algebra to trigonometry, Maths portals to lessons, interactive activities to games & puzzles and covering all levels. They should be taken in conjunction with Historical, Biographical and Other Mathematics Systems resources found on the [|Mathematics] page.

7. Smartkiddies mathematics is a website for all students, parents and teachers. The welcome page allows you to choose who you are and takes you to a different area depending on this. The teacher area gives teachers access to reviews of the site as well as valuable teaching resources such as printable worksheets, printable posters and interactive whiteboard presentations. There is also a place where certificates can be made to give out to students to reward achievements. The website is free for students and teachers during school time however a free trial option is also available.

9. Fact monster is website that contains not only great mathematics teaching resources and student games but is also a great site for other KLA areas. It has Science and SOSE resources as well as world news which could also be used for creating real life mathematics problems with students. This website should be explored by all teachers as it contains highly relevant content that would be engaging for all students across KLA areas.

Students please leave any comments you have on the online resources here: [Suggestion made by Nicole Demaine]
 * I really liked the Smart Kiddies website it had fun games and helped me improve on my fractions. Lisa.B
 * I really enjoyed the FunBrain website as the games were easy to play and really fun. Aaron. M
 * GameAquarium is great I have been playing it all the time now and told my friends about it. Andrew. W

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