Sunday, February 2, 2014

YouCubed

YouCubed is a not-for-profit organization that provides free math resources for students and teachers of K-12. YouCubed strives to make mathematics fun, interesting, and relevant to students in order to provide a deeper understanding of what they have learned. Youcubed describes itself as a "revolutionary way to teach math education", as they provide real-life math problems from corporations such as Google. Furthermore, they will provide tools with which parents will be able to assist their children in learning mathematics at home.

I think that this is an invaluable organization that can definitely make the difference in a students' courage and confidence in mathematics.  It takes basic mathematics concepts, such as addition or subtraction, and makes them fun and exciting for students! One game in particular that I thought was fun was tic-tac-toe sums and products. This takes a simple game (Which, let's face it, students are already playing in class anyway!) and turns it into a learning experience for students that may otherwise be struggling, or thinking about how "boring" their math class is!

YouCubed is not yet fully operational, but encourages students, parents and teachers to sign up to receive emails and updates about new resources and news about when the project will be fully operational. (They even have a skill-testing question when you sign up. Fun!)