Rainforest Maths website
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June
Many of you may know this website already, but in case not I wanted to share the Australian Rainforest Maths website by Jenny Eather. It has some of the best online interactive activities I have seen for kindy through to upper primary. Each year level includes the seven mathematics outcomes. One of the strategies promoted in the First Steps Mathematics course is giving students a variety of different learning opportunities to match each aspect. In particular using online activities to provide instantaneous feedback to the child as to whether they have the key understanding or not - if not the child can quickly try another strategy. This is one of the most under-rated bonuses of using interactive activities. It frees up the teacher to provide more guided feedback to students in need of specific assistance. The activities are easily aligned with the key understandings and could also be used as supplemental diagnostic tasks.
The website states that it contains:
“Over 800 interactive mathematics activities for Kindergarten to Year 6 covering the math strands of Number, Number Systems, Operations & Calculations, Strategies & Processes, Patterns & Algebra, Measurement, Space & Geometry, Chance & Probability, Data Analysis and Money.”
Paul
1. Steve Adcock | June 13th, 2006 at 9:56 am
Cheers Paul Looks good I have already sent it to my Year 6/7 Community Teachers Ta.
Steve
2. Bryn Jones | June 13th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
Yes a great resource. jenny has also produced “A Maths Dictionary for Kids” - a beautiful site which provides interactive explanations of 500 key terms in Maths. All ages. Some have interactives.
http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/
3. Judy Kealy | June 14th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
We have a link to Rainforest Maths on our intranet. Ed support student in our class accesses it regularly and because it covers most numeracy areas she can usually find something that mirrors what the others in class are doing but at her level. We need more good Aussie sites like this
4. Janice Millard | August 12th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
its not fair that my class can’t go on rain forest maths because of other people copying
we were going to do a test on it but it was closed down my class was very upset not very happy!
5. Azam Ali | August 30th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
my kids love this site, they come on rainforest to learn.
Anyone trying to stop kids education is playing with our future.
Shame on people who are greedy for money and dont care for the future.
6. Ingrid | September 10th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
I’m distraught that rain forest maths is not available. My 3/4 kids loved it. My kids loved it and it is so easy to cater for their abilities with the different levels. Anyone know if there’s a chance it will be up and running again?
7. Jen Zupp | September 17th, 2008 at 4:29 am
I totally agree with Jenny’s reason to take it off. I have spent thousands of hours keeping my website up which is pretty much a directory of quality websites I find online. If I had created a masterpiece like she did and the people did to me what they did to her, I would be furious! Yes, it is a wonderful site but if you were in her shoes, what would you do?
8. Julie | September 21st, 2008 at 10:14 am
I am sorry that Rainbow Maths has been forced off the web. My daughter loved it so it is missed. Any idea when Jenny may put it back on the web with added security measures to prevent it being copied etc?
9. Suzanne | September 24th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
I am so upset that this site has been removed, however I fully understand why. My Year One children and my pre-primary children loved using the site and it catered for all ability levels in my class. i do hope that it comes back soon. I used it every day in my class.
10. Debbie | October 3rd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I, too am upset that this website has been taken off-line. My special education students loved it, and I knew I could always find an activity geared their levels and abilities. I hope that it will soon be running again.