Math Tasks

Where can I find lesson ideas and math tasks?

Check out some samples organized by standard at Illustrative Mathematics or use the tasks in the units developed by Georgia.
Share mylesson is a place for teachers to post lessons and share ideas.

More K-5 Lessons can be found at K-5 Math Teaching Resources.
Curriculum exemplars from Engage NY can be found here.
Illuminations provides great lessons and learning tasks as well as web links to hundreds of online resources for each strand.
Math Landings has a collection of lessons and classroom resources.
The Math Forum @ Drexel has developed problems of the week for a variety of learning levels. The site requires membership (about $25 a year per classroom). Inside Mathemati cs .org has free problems of the month and MARS tasks.
The California Math Project has curriculum resources sorted by area of focus.
Teacher created math tasks can be found here.
NCTM has a list of online resources can be found here.
MathLanding provides a search engine to look for lessons, videos, and interactive games or activities around the web.
Edu.americangrad uate.org has a nice page of math activities and links to other sites.
SoutheastComprehensiveCenter has videos for teachers on how to teach math concepts from the Core
NorthDakota has "I can" statements for all grade levels as well as some teaching tasks for each grade level.
Goshen, North Dakota has a template for planning units.
Blackline masters for all kinds of math lessons can be found here. Pe arson has others.
Number l ines created to your specifications.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources has excellent lessons activities.
CCSSM Math has an amazing search engine to look for materials from all over the internet by standard.

What about literature connections?

Ohio has an amazing list of literature connections organized by grade level and strand.
CCSSM Math has an amazing search engine to look for materials from all over the internet by standard.

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America Achieves has lessons with sample videos.
You can search lessons at Open Educational Resources.
Utah has lots of lessons available by grade level.
Delaware and Missouri have sample lessons for each grade level.
West Virginia has sample lessons on their Learn 21 site.