Matific

Matific

Matific is a free elementary math product that consists of engaging activities and games that teach students problem solving and critical thinking through discovery. They use game based principles to encourage students to learn through discovery, and we also have all the usual stuff schools may like such as worksheets, lesson plans, and of course real time reporting. Their concept-based challenges puts students into the role of mathematician and has them thinking like mathematicians.

The Matific privacy policy states: “(For users accessing from Canada) In accordance with various Canadian provinces’ privacy legislations applicable to many of our school customers we do not store Canadian students’ personal identifiable information outside of Canada.”

Wordnik

Wordnik

Wordnik is the world’s biggest online English dictionary, by number of words. Wordnik shows definitions from multiple sources, so you can see as many different takes on a word’s meaning as possible.

Google Books

Google Books

In alignment with their corporate mission statement “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”, Google Books boasts the world’s most comprehensive index of full-text books. It also allows users with Google Accounts to create a personal library as is shown in the image for this post (blue text, beneath the search bar). Google Books also allows for the borrowing of certain books.

Coggle

Coggle

Whether you’re taking notes, brainstorming, planning, or doing something awesomely creative, it is super simple to visualise your ideas with Coggle. Share with as many friends or colleagues as you like. Changes you make will show up instantly in their browser, wherever they are in the world. This is a fantastic tool for collaboration and planning in group projects.