Math Workshop

How-To: Go Math! Online Resources for your Second Grader

Go to https://www-k6.thinkcentral.com/ePC/start.do

After inputting information about our country, state, district, and school, please type your child’s username and password from below:

Username (Student ID Number) : _____________________________

Password (Student ID Number + !) : _____________________________

**Make sure to check the “Remember my school” box and add ThinkCentral to your “Safe Sites” list to ensure Pop Ups will be allowed. **

You will then come to a homepage that looks like the following picture:

Now that you are logged in, you have a variety of options for helping your child reinforce, practice, and review Go Math! concepts being taught in his/her classroom.

From the home screen, click “My Library” to access important resources

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The next screen displays all of the different online resources available to you and your child whenever you need it!

If you are looking for…

an electronic copy of your child’s textbook, go to the Student Edition eBook section.

multisensory and interactive activities, go to the ISE section.

videos that provide step by step models for math problem-solving that occur in each lesson, go to the Math on the Spot Videos section.

reinforcement videos for strengthening particular math skills, go to the Animated Math Models section.

Within these lessons you will see Think Smarter Problems that help your child develop stronger problem-solving skills. Accompanying some of these math problems are QR codes (the box to the right with the puppet seen below) that will lead you to a Math on the Spot video which will give step by step models of how to solve the example provided.

When you use a QR Reader app to scan the code, the Math on the Spot video URL will pop up on the device you used to scan! To find Math on the Spot videos through Go Math! online, please see the Math on the Spot section of this document.

The next screen will allow you to find the chapter and lesson for which you are looking.

The video will begin with an essential question then move through a lesson opener and examples.

The video concludes with the Personal Math Trainer questions that provide appropriate scaffolds for your child.

Questions can be multiple choice or fill in the blank. Support options are provided in the menu to the right.

For instance, clicking “View Example” will bring about an explanation for the problem, a tip, and the correct answer, then allow the student to “Try Another!”