• In the computer lab to provide students with extra practice in hundreds of different skills.
• For practice. Students can practice thousands of different skills in any subject by using my interactive activities, flash cards, quizzes, reading comprehension exercises, drag and drop applications, cloze reading and much, much more.
• In the classroom when students are finished with work.
• For remediation or enrichment. Most of the games on MrNussbaum.com are customizable by skill level, or progress from easy rounds to harder rounds.
• On the SmartBoard or interactive whiteboard to show practical uses of skills on any of dozens of original MrNussbaum.com games
• For assessments. Teachers can use the premium site to make and deploy quizzes to their students. Results are recorded in gradebook fashion with statistical breakdowns including class rankings. Teachers can even use the games as assessments by setting specific goals for students to reach.
• As an incentive. Kids love MrNussbaum.com and will work hard to play the games as a reward.
• As a research tool. Students can conduct research on papers, posters, and projects on hundreds of different science and social studies topics on one internet page.
• As a challenge - Students will respond to challenges and goals set by teachers. For example, challenge your students to get 50 on speed math.
• For fun. The games on MrNussbaum.com will make any concept seem like a game including fractions, decimals, and metric conversions.
• For competition. Teachers who use the free premium site can set up and run online tournaments with their class or other class on any of the 23 available games.

Read what experts say about MrNussbaum.com

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I am a parent, how do I use this site?

Parents and home-schoolers use the site in a variety of ways, including the following:

• For practice. Parents can help reinforce critical skills learned at school.
• For fun. Parents can show students that learning hard concepts can be accomplished through games and interactive activities.
• To set goals. Parents can register their students on the FREE mrnussbaum.com premium and set goals for accomplishing scores on any of the 23 skill-based games. All scores are recorded and both students and parents can view progress over time, and compare the student's scores to the scores of his or her peers.
• As part of a home schooling curriculum. MrNussbaum.com activities are perfectly suited for home schoolers and serve as useful and fun remediation, enrichment, practice, and assessment.

• Always return to the home page by clicking on the large logo at the top of most pages.
• Navigate to different parts of the site by using the nine buttons located below the main logo.
• Use the site map to see text links of all available activities
• Use the search tool to locate anything in the site.
• There are not links to grade-level pages, but, rather, activities on each page are organized by grade level. If you are looking for, say, Cloze Reading activities for third grade, first visit the Cloze Reading page, then, scroll down until you find third grade. Grade level activities are organized by color. See below.

What will this site do for my child/student?

Kids love MrNussbaum.com. Parents and teachers tell me all of the time how much their students enjoy using the site. Many report that it keeps students engaged, challenged and entertained for long periods of time. The average user spends over 8 minutes on the site and views 20 pages! It can serve as enrichment for advanced students and remediation for students who have fallen behind. The games can help boost the confidence of students who have had trouble in school and change their attitudes toward learning. It is both challenging and easy to use; fun, yet educational. Many students don't even realize how much they are learning because they are having so much fun.

Teacher Tools

The site's most popular teacher tools are listed below. There are hundreds of other teacher tools on the site.

• mrnussbaum.com premium Register your class and students and gain the ability to do the following:

  * Make and deploy interactive multiple choice, true or false, or short answer questions. Student results are recorded in gradebook format and compared to their classmates. Teachers can view student scores or quiz scores.

  * Give all of your spelling tests in the computer lab with our system and never grade another one again!

  * Analyze student performance and improvement on any of 23 interactive, skill-based games. Results are recorded in gradebook format with number of times played, average score, last score, high score, and average score of all users.

  * Conduct friendly competitions by making an inter-class (with students in the class participating) tournament, or, challenging another registered class by using our Global tournaments system.

  * Bookmark other sites and deploy them to students.

  * Make weekly assignment sheets and deploy them to students.

  * Manage classroom ,messaging system in which teachers can communicate with students, and students can communicate with students.

• worksheet generators Use our math worksheet generate printable math worksheets with answer keys, or, have students generate customizable interactive worksheets.

Instructional Tools

Just about everything on mrnussbaum.com is an instructional tool. Below are A FEW tools designed for interactivity!

• word search maker Need students to practice a spelling list? Try using our interactive perfect for spelling list practice.
• interactive graphing programs Conducting a classroom poll? Have students use our amazing graphing programs to enter data and generate beautiful bar graphs and pie charts.
• interactive drill library Find worksheets, flash cards, drag & drop, and timed exercises in virtually any math skill.
• cloze reading and reading comprehension Use our interactive exercises to improve language skills!
• interactive games - Use my 50 plus games to help make hard-to-teach concepts fun and exciting!

Can I link to this site?

Yes, please do. No permission is needed.