Math Cats

Math Cats (www.mathcats.com) is a website with interactive games/ activities that engage children with mathematics topics. I have not actually used this site, but I've used a similar one (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, NCTM, site, Illuminations). I think this would be a really cool website to use with the Smartboards. I used the smartboard for the first time last Wednesday for that 5th grade science teacher's workshop. I was able to get it hooked to my computer and get it hooked up to work with the powerpoint. Even the limited amount of use, it was cool! A teacher friend that I asked about what she uses with her smartboard said that anything she does on it completely rivets the children's attention!
Apparently, the Teaching Children Mathematics journal (the elementary journal of NCTM) has written several reviews and an article on the use of mathcats. Here's the link for one of the reviews: http://www.mathcats.com/reviews.html#teachingchildrenmathematics

(I've forgotten my password for my NCTM membership and I've changed my email, so I have to wait until monday to get that straightened out. So when that happens, I'll email my team and those interested either my password, or the article).