This collection provides a list of free educational resources for K-12 students, parents, and teachers. Here you will find free video lessons/tutorials; free mobile apps; free audiobooks, eBooks, and textbooks; quality YouTube channels; test prep materials; and free web resources in a variety of academic areas that will enhance your classroom. We continually update this page to ensure that we are sharing the latest resources. Please message us at info@ascendtestprep.com if we are missing something valuable.
Elementary School Math
Algebra Resources
Algebra-Class.com offers help with solving equations, graphing equations, writing equations, inequalities, functions, exponents and monomials, polynomials, and the quadratic equation.
Algebra.help contains lessons on topics that include equations, simplifying, factoring, distribution, and trinomials, as well as equation calculators and worksheets. This site also has an extensive list of math resources and study tips.
College-Cram.com allows students to choose the algebra subject they are struggling with from a drop down menu, select the appropriate chapter, and pick your resources. The pages will feature formula solvers, bottomless worksheets, flashcards, quizzes, interactive overviews, and brief lessons and study sheets.
Interactive Mathematics has a large section on algebra, including information on factoring and fractions, the quadratic equation, exponents and radicals, systems of equations, matrices and determinants, and inequalities.
Math Expression has videos, worksheets, and lessons to help you develop your algebra skills. Math topics include algebra, exponents, symmetry, fractions, measurements, angles, and more. The site also includes a list of useful resources.
STEM/STEAM Resources
Science Experiments for All Around Your Home - Offers examples of science experiments that students can do at home.
Tips for Getting Girls Involved in STEM - Site that offers ideas and encouragement for females to explore careers in STEM.
Understanding Science — How science really works – site from the UC Berkeley that helps to explain the scientific process with links for teacher resources for primary, middle school, high school and even undergraduate students.
Share My Lesson — an award-winning, online professional development community created by the American Federation of Teachers, a union of 1.6 million professionals, and TSL Education, creator of TES Connect, the largest network of teachers in the world. Offers teaching resources and best practices at no cost.
EverFi —cutting-edge education technology free of cost to K-12 schools.
Future Goals — a North American education initiative launched by the NHL and the NHL Players Association that helps students build their science, technology, engineering, and math skills using hockey as a learning vehicle.
eGFI Dream the Future — lesson plans, classroom activities, outreach programs, web resources to strengthen skills in math and science through engineering projects.
MASTER Tools — interactive tools and simulation environments to create authentic scientific experiences.
PBS STEM Education Resource Center — offers nearly 4,000 STEM resources from Public Broadcasting Services.
NSF Resources for STEM Education — offers information on teacher development, educational resources, assessments, and research syntheses. Check out Whyville, an interactive website where students can become “citizens” and learn to work on a variety of issues.
STEMfinity — free STEM resources to complement project-based learning for pre-K to 12.
Women in STEM – offers activities to engage young girls in STEM projects along with other information on colleges, scholarships, etc.
Geometry Resources
edHelper.com : Looking for free, printable geometry worksheets – with optional answer keys – for both middle school- and high school-level geometry? This site is the place for you!
Math Activities
Activity Village has an assortment of games using dice! Students will enjoy this site because they will feel like they are playing a game, but they’re also learning math, too! Dice are usually available at dollar or discount stores and can be an inexpensive way to spice up the classroom.
Crewton Ramone’s House of Math shares some interesting ways of changing up card games in order to help promote math skills. There are so many ways to change up the games so that differentiation becomes a little easier while still allowing everyone a chance to play.
Homeschooling Hearts and Minds shares a simple way to help students practice place value and other math concepts through the use of an abacus. When students ask why they can’t use a calculator in your class, you can tell them to use their abacus!
Cut the Knot features almost 1500 different activities to make learning math more exciting. Activities are organized into categories to help you quickly find what you are looking to teach. Many of the activities would be suitable to the high school crowd.
Science Buddies has a list of projects suitable for science fairs, but they also include ideas for math. The projects are organized into three difficulty levels. You can use these ideas to create class projects.
David Gardner has put together 17 pages worth of games designed for primary school students. Again, some of these games can be adapted for use in lessons other than the ones mentioned on the site. In addition, many of the games require little-to-no cost or preparation.
Trigonometry Resources
Dave’s Short Trig Course : Easy to navigate, this site has a table of contents containing sixteen different topics, including applications of trigonometry, angle measurement, chords, sines, cosines, tangents and slope, right triangles, trigonometric functions, and the area of a triangle
S.O.S. Mathematics: Trigonometry : This site is equipped with detailed explanations and examples of angle measures, trigonometric functions, and trigonometric equations. In addition, there is an entire section devoted to solving equations, with sample problems and solutions. A table of trigonometric identities is also available as a helpful reference.
Calculus Resources
Calculus Help presents explanations for topics ranging from the chain rule to integration by parts.
Calculus-Help.com contains tutorials with audio clips on limits, continuity, and derivatives. This site also offers sample problems and other calculus tips.
TCalculus.org offers problems with step-by-step solutions, as well as information on derivatives, exponents, and logarithms and a glossary of terms.
S.O.S. Mathematics: Calculus provides detailed descriptions for the following topics: sequences, series, limit and continuity, differentiation, integration, techniques of integration, local behavior of functions, Power Series, and Fourier Series. Numerous examples and sample problems are included.
Visual Calculus : This site contains explanations, tutorials, and animations covering the following topics: limits and continuity, derivatives, applications of differentiation, integration, applications of integration, and sequences and series.
Math Contests
Mathcounts has a Math Video Challenge. Students make a video showing a math problem and its real life applications. Students get a chance to mix their math skills with the technology. In the end, teachers have an archive of videos that answer the age old question, “When are we going to use this?”
The Mathematical Association holds the Primary Maths Challenge, a competition specifically designed for elementary students. The competition takes place in November, and students that do really well will be asked to take part in a bonus round in February.
The University of Alabama offers a Math by Mail contest. There is no traveling required, and there are cash prizes to be won! The entire contest is done through the mail.
Here is yet another contest for elementary students. Over at Noetic Learning, students can take part in a contest where they will have 45 minutes to answer 20 questions. The top students will earn a medal, and the top 50% will have their names placed on the Noetic Learning website.
The Art of Problem Solving has a great list of competitions categorized by state so that you can find even more way to challenge your students. There are other national competitions listed above as well.