WLMS Mathematics Information

Mathematics Assistant Principal: Erick Martin
Email: erick.martin@humbleisd.net

Mathematics Instructional Coach: Kelsey Haas
Email: kelsey.haas@humbleisd.net

We value your children and strive daily to meet their needs. Our goal as a mathematics department is to ensure that every child meets grade level benchmarks, and that every child is challenged at his or her appropriate level. We believe a strong connection with families and open communication about instructional practices allow us to work together to serve our students well. This webpage provides information about our curriculum and resources you can use to help your students with math at home, including recommended apps, websites worth exploring, current research related to mindsets in mathematics, and articles from the greater world of math education. Keep scrolling down the page for current mathematics information and relevant links. Thank you for partnering with us! 

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1st Link: Mathematics Instruction Website
The Academic Leadership Team at West Lake wants to partner with our community to support student achievement. This campus level website is designed to provide a means of communication between the instructional team and members of the West Lake community.

2nd Link: Mathematics Content Website
Textbooks are a thing of the past, and now access to mathematics content is all around us. This website entitled "Mathematical Connections" is designed to be a one-stop shop for students, parents, and teachers to dive into any mathematical concept or skill.

3rd Link: Mathematics Resources Document
This document contains several icons and links to some of the best mathematics resources and manipulatives available to anyone.

Calculation Nation
Calculation Nation® uses the power of the Web to let students challenge opponents from anywhere in the world. At the same time, students are able to challenge themselves by investigating significant mathematical content and practicing fundamental skills. The element of competition adds an extra layer of excitement.

Desmos
Desmos and Geogebra are similar sites with their graphing capabilities. Desmos offers some great teaching resources and pre-designed lessons that include formative assessments.

Game About Squares
This cool math game puts you directly into the fire. See if you can figure out how to play with no directions, just your mind. What level can you get to?

Geogebra
This online tool is great for graphing and visual math. There are many apps and resources that offer specific manupulatives and visuals to engage the learner.

How We Teach
Teaching math well is hard work, but it is possible. At How We Teach, we amplify important ideas in mathematics education to help teachers grow their practice and our profession. Join us.

Illustrative Mathematics
This online mathematics curriculum is free and full of lessons for all levels of math. While it is not aligned to Texas standards, the activities and lessons are well-designed and they are easy to navigate. This website is a great resource for learning at home.

Interactivate
The goals of Interactivate are the creation, collection, evaluation, and dissemination of interactive courseware for exploration in science and mathematics.

IXL Math
At IXL Learning, we are passionate about creating and supporting the best educational technology possible. We develop first-of-their-kind products used by millions of learners, from children to adults. People count on us to make learning as effective as it can be, and we are deeply committed to solving the real-world challenges faced by students and teachers around the planet.

Khan Academy
This educational resource is comprised of an organized set of videos and information related to the maths taught at any level. This site is great for students that need clarification on any topic.

Legends of Learning
Children need new education heroes, teachers dedicated to using modern and engaging methods for delivering their curriculum. Legends of Learning helps teachers make classrooms fun and productive learning environments through research driven curriculum-based games. We use ongoing original research to create a marketplace filled with an epic range of curriculum-based games for stronger subject mastery and classroom engagement.

Make Math Moments Matter
Wondering how to create a classroom culture in your district where students don’t want to stop exploring mathematics when the bell rings? Get introduced to our 3-part framework for building easy to plan and fun to deliver lessons that kids will not only love, but also learn from regardless of their level of readiness.

Mashup Math
Helping your kids to enjoy learning math is challenging for both math teachers and parents alike. Mashup Math shares time and energy-saving resources and information that makes learning math more enjoyable and engaging for students of all ages and abilities—because strong math skills are a requirement for success in our modern society.

Math4Texas
This website is organized to explain the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) which provide the foundation of our mathematical content. The explanations and examples effectively communicate the skills needed to excel in mathematics.

Math Antics
This is a great website for basic math videos and worksheets. Go to the website and click on the video on the home screen to find out more information.

Math Counts
We provide engaging math programs to U.S. middle school students of all ability levels to build confidence and improve attitudes towards math and problem solving.

Math for Love
Dan Finkel's website is all about the involvement of play in mathematics. At Math for Love, we teach mathematics in its whole context. Mathematics begins by playing…with games, puzzles, patterns, shapes, numbers, structures, rules, and ideas. From there, you observe and ask questions. Owning your question leads to the rest: refinement, searching for solutions, discovering the connections that allow you to not just solve but understand your problem, and finally, rigorous writing and presentation of your solution.

Math Olympiads
Created in 1977 by Dr. George Lenchner, an internationally known math educator, the Math Olympiads went public in 1979. Last year nearly 170,000 students from about 6,000 teams on 6 continents participated in the Olympiads. All 50 states and 39 other countries were represented. What is it? Math Problem solving contests for teams of up to 35 students in grades 4 through 8. It is open only to schools, school districts, home schools, and institutes.

NCTM Illuminations
Illuminations works to serve you by increasing access to quality standards-based resources for teaching and learning mathematics, including interactive tools for students and instructional support for teachers.

NRich
The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice.

Schoology
All math teachers use Schoology as the primary classroom management program. Schoology allows teachers to communicate with both parents and students about all classroom events, lessons, activities, grades, and discussions.

Study Pug
Join the 716,869 students who no longer fear math! Take control of math with our precise, step-by-step help, friendly test prep, and your very own unique study plan. This website is full of courses, it offers a free 7-day trial, then bi-annual or annual purchase options.

TEKS Resource System
Welcome to the TEKS Resource System. This site provides curriculum and assessment components aligned to the most current versions of the State Board of Education-adopted TEKS for Mathematics. This site offers great explanations and examples of TEKS.

That Tutor Guy
Break the monotony. Try our concise, relatively fun (fun-ish, really) math & science tutorials for middle school thru college. There is a fee to access this material, but it is cheaper than a personal tutor. $7 trial for one week, then $16 per month if prepayed.

Virtual Manipulatives
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) is an NSF supported project that began in 1999 to develop a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis).

Visual Patterns
Hi there. This is Fawn Nguyen. I started VisualPatterns.org in late 2013, and a lot of cool people have contributed to make the site what it is. See if you can find the equations from the visual patterns shown.

When Math Happens
This 3 Act Math format was developed by Dan Meyer. Storytelling gives us a framework for certain mathematical tasks that is both prescriptive enough to be useful and flexible enough to be usable. Many stories divide into three acts, each of which maps neatly onto these mathematical tasks.

Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha has broad knowledge and deep computational power when it comes to math. Whether it be arithmetic, algebra, calculus, differential equations or anything in between, Wolfram Alpha is up to the challenge. Get help with math homework, solve specific math problems or find information on mathematical subjects and topics.

Youcubed
Jo Boaler is a Professor of Mathematics Education at Stanford University. She recently formed www.youcubed.org to give teachers, parents and students the resources and ideas they need to inspire and excite students about mathematics. Her work has been published in the New York Times, TIME magazine, The Telegraph, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal and many other news outlets.