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OAME - // Review by Robin Kay //
 * **Brief Description:** This is the Ontario Association for Mathematics Education website that provides very useful information on the annual conference (which you should go to from May 2 to 4, 2013 in Toronto), fantastic links to a series of great websites that support the teaching of mathematics in Ontario, and the OAME Gazette which publishes lots of good teaching ideas.
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BetterLesson // Review by Caroline and Nabgha //
 * **Brief Description:** This site is essentially a database of lesson plans and activities provided by teachers in all disciplines. The free, universally accessible website was founded "to connect educators and help them create, organize, and share their curricula."
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Desmos Sean and Justin
 * **Brief Description:** Desmos is a user friendly graphing calculator online. Allows student's to plot multiple graphs, adjust values and identify coordinate points anywhere on the graph. It is a useful tool to visually represent functions and how they vary as you change certain values of the function.
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Edmodo - //Review by Diana and Stephanie//
 * **Brief Description:** This is a free website similar to Facebook, where teachers can create their own classroom group to post notes, alerts, assignments, quizzes, and polls. Students and parents both have access to the classroom groups to keep up with school work, news, events, and monitor the student's progress.
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GeoGebra - Review Inga and Sylvia
 * **Brief Description**:GeoGebra is a free useful math resource where teachers and students could create worksheets (or quizzes), share and access to thousands of free materials created by other users. The resource covers interactive topics like geometry, algebra, statistics and calculus that can be used from elementary school through university. This resource is offered in multiple languages and available for desktops and tablets. The resource has lots of helpful resources such as online manual, tutorials, blog, wiki, forum and conferences.
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Gizmos - Review by Jacob and Keith
 * **Brief Description**: This resource allows students and teachers to access hundreds of curriculum-based activities and simulations (grades 3-12). Although the focus is on the Gizmos themselves, some of the most impressive aspects of the site are related to its search criteria, user-friendly interface, customizability, and community features.
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Illuminations //Review by Alisa and Kelly//
 * **Brief Description:** This site is a database of resources for teaching math. It contains both lesson plans and interactives, or interactive activities, that teachers can use for all grade levels K - 12 and all topics in math. It is free to access and easy to navigate.
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Khan Academy Reviewed by Ted Baarda & Lauren Quinto
 * **Brief Description:** Khan Academy is a free online resource where students and teachers can access online tutorials and activities to assist with student learning. Subjects in Khan Academy include Math, Science, and Social Science. Teachers can set up an online classroom to track student progress as well.
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Math Aids - Denise & Adele
 * ** Brief Description: ** Math Aids is a dynamic and random worksheet generator. Using this resource teachers, students, and parents can pick a mathematical topic such as graphing, algebra, integers, factors, percents and word problems and create a unique, customized worksheet.
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Math TV - Review by Peter and Lukas
 * **Brief Description:** This website provides step-by-step videos of how to solve math problems. Almost all problems have several different people showing their work (so you get multiple perspectives) and they are done in English and Spanish. There is a massive amount of content which is organized by topic and focuses on concepts covered in high school and early post-secondary study.
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Microsoft Excel and Excelets - //Review by Warren & Bryan//
 * Brief Description: Microsoft Excel is an overlooked but highly versatile tool which can be used to complement classroom learning. With some understanding of how the program works, a teacher can develop applications ("Excelets") for student knowledge to solidify understanding of new materials, provoke further thought on a subject, or assist struggling students to grasp difficult concepts. Alternatively, pre-made Excelets are available online.
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Nerdfighteria - //Review by Shima and Andrew//
 * ** Brief Description: ** Nerdfighteria is an online community from the makers of vlogbrothers. Author John Green and Ecoblog-ist Hank Green are responsible for educational content such as Crash Course and Sci-Show. Further, their philanthropic projects (P4A), current events blogs (youtube), and rich community of educational vblogers (Numberphile, Veritasium, C G P Grey, etc.) provide unlimited and fresh intellectual material to generate interest and dialogue in the classroom.
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RealWorldMath.Org - //Review by Katie and Christine//
 * **Brief Description:** Real World Math is a free online website containing Math and Science technology-based activities for Google Earth. Teachers can access a wide range of lesson downloads; these include concept lessons, measurement lessons, project-based lessons and exploratory lessons. This resource is highly encouraged since it is free for educators and the activities emphasize problem solving, active learning and higher level thinking skills.
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ShareMyLesson.com -Review by Tiffany Lee >
 * ****Brief Description:**** It’s an online space where educators can share their ideas, skills and classroom resources and it’s __free__ to join. As a member, you can access, download and share high-quality teaching resources such as lesson plans, worksheets, activities, presentations and so much more.

SMART Exchange - // Review by Joe Anne //
 * **Brief Description:** This website allows people to share different resources that can be used with a smart board, such as SMART notebook lessons, manipulatives, videos, PDFs, etc. You can search by grade and by subject, and these resources are available to download and incorporate into your lessons.
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Wolfram|Alpha - //Review by K.V. & Stefan//
 * **Brief Description:** Wolfram|Alpha is free and online "Knowledge Engine" that goes through its own servers and data to provide a factual answer for users, rather than produce a generated list of potential answers from the Internet like standard "Search Engines" do, such as Google. Wolfram|Alpha covers numerous topic and subjects, producing the most up-to-date facts and figures in visual form.
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Ezy Apps - Taylor & Jason
 * **Brief Description:** These series of three apps (Ezy Trigonometry, Ezy Triangles, and Ezy Graphs) are great visual manipulatives for teaching secondary math in a variety of strands. These free user friendly apps are great for both teachers and students, and can be useful for most secondary grades.
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