The Educational Technology Clearing House has links to numerous interactive websites for students in all grade levels. This would be a great place to direct math students and parents for summer enrichment and/or remediation activities. If you’re sending an end-of-year letter home to parents, consider listing this resource.
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Looking for a fun activity for your algebra students? Try Spaghetti Bridges! I have done this lesson and found it to be a success in the classroom. It is appropriate for middle and high school math students. The Sunshine State Standards addressed are: MA.8.S.3.1 (Select, organize and construct appropriate data displays, including box and whisker plots, scatter plots, and lines of best fit to convey information and make conjectures about possible relationships) and MA.912.A.3.11 (Write an equation of a line that models a data set and use the equation or the graph to make predictions. Describe the slope of the line in terms of the data, recognizing that the slope is the rate of change). The lesson plan includes teacher notes and student activity sheets, in addition to assessment questions. Especially helpful is the video clip and narrative showing real students in action on this lab. Your classes will enjoy collecting their own data and then interpreting the results.