Links and Resources

Hello Everyone!

This page is meant to act as a resource for anyone who needs a starting point and it complements my November post on "Strategies for helping students in math at home". If you find another great resource and/or link please send me an email and I will add it to this page.

Ontario Curriculum


Here is a site dedicated for elementary teachers (K-6). It contains easy to follow e-workshops available for grades K-6. They are separated by divisions (Primary, Junior). They also talk about “Big Ideas” which is crucial to understand what the curriculum is concentrating on and where it is heading for each division - it it good to have a bird's view of where your child is moving towards!.

Below are just a few examples:

Primary (Grades K-3)
(Google it: “eworkshop grade 1ontario math curriculum”)
Junior (Grades 4-6)
Intermediate (Grades 7-8) - Ontario Curriculum - Grades 1-8

University of Waterloo

Want to keep math fun and engaging? Look no further! University of Waterloo has a site developed just for that - for every grade (elementary and high school) and it complements the curriculum taught in school. It has content for both students and teachers, it has hundreds of fun web resources and games, including problem of the week and real life applications. Oh, and for the developer student you may have, it also has a site that introduces programming. As a bonus, it also has links to the famous University of Waterloo math contests for students of various grades.

It all happens at the Centre for Education in Mathematics & Computing.

Here are a few sub-links I picked out for you:

Various Other Interesting compiled links for online activities
For younger audiences (Kindergarten & Primary)

Useful Workbooks for your consideration

Here are some workbooks you may found useful. If there are others you have used please let me know and I will share!

1. Canadian Curriculum MathSmart or Complete MathSmart workbooks for the relevant grade (publisher: Popular Book Company).

2. Complete Canadian Curriculum for the relevant grade – it provides curriculum based exercises for all the subjects, not just math (publisher: Popular Book Company).

3. Teacher Created Resources books (publisher: Teacher Created Resources) are great and fun activity books, especially for younger grades and/or summer fun.

4. Kumon Speed and Accuracy series – great in mastering addition &subtraction (more commontly known as math facts), multiplication, and division.

5. Singapore Math (publisher: Singapore Asia publishers, Carson-Dellosa Publishing).

I have seen the above books in Scholar’s Choice, Mastermind Toys, Chapters/Indigo, Amazon, even Real Canadian Superstore and Costco at select times of the year (beginning of school and beginning of summer). I’m sure there are many others and all you have to do is Google to find these – these were just a few I have used in the past.

I do want to mention that while all these books are available online from most of the above mentioned places, I found Scholar’s Choice to be always stocked up with these books in-store, allowing a parent to browse through the content, look at specific examples, and then decide which book might be best suited for their student’s needs.

*Please note that I utilize 80/20 rule when publishing. Therefore, any errors that may arise in my blogs will be fixed as they are found.






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