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The goal of this free online learning center is to help high school students prepare for comprehensive exams in English, math, global history, U.S. history, earth science, biology, chemistry, and physics.
The Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math
- The Internet's premier ask-an-expert math service. Ask Dr. Math a question using the Dr. Math Web form, or browse the extensive archive of previous questions and answers.
The Math Forum Home Page - The Math Forum is the comprehensive resource for math education on the Internet. Some features include a K-12 math expert service, an extensive database of math sites, online resources for teaching and learning math, plus much more.
Math Central - Teaching resources for mathematics teachers, a question and answer service for teachers and students, a mailing list for teachers and more.
Math.com - The world of math online. Students, teachers, parents, and everyone can find solutions to their math problems. Math.com offers carefully reviewed products and books about math and math education, tutoring, lessons and more.
Allmath.com - math site for kids! Home of flashcards, math biographies and Ask The Experts - Free flashcards for math students everywhere. Learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with our free, easy to use arithmetic flash cards. View the biographies of math, or Ask the Experts, your questions on math.
Cool Math - Welcome to COOLMATH.COM by Karen!! - Very cool math stuff! Algebra, Calculus, Geometry, math puzzles and problems, tessellations, functions, limits, math links. Math for kids too!
PBS TeacherSource - Math - PBS teacher lesson plans, online activities, classroom resources, and professional development projects are available at this public PBS education Web site.
This is an excellent site which includes hands-on-math workshops, math activities, book reviews, and seminars for mathematics teachers. These small personalized workshops are perfect for teachers of the gifted and talented, curriculum planners, administrators, mathematics coordinators and mathematics teachers.
Algebra Program--Girls to the Fourth Power
Algebra tutoring program written especially for girls. This site includes a chat room, California-style algebra problems (related to high interest topics for teens), algebra attitude page, sample problems using a "fresh approach", and a spot called K.I.S.S. (contains cool graphics that move). WARNING: While this site has high "student appeal", it does contain some profanity (I saw two words) in the fun scenarios that present problems in a unique format. It would seem that this site is produced by a consensus of both adults and students.
Junior Math Assessment Database
On this site there were strands of student performance standards. It included the traditional content areas such as numbers, space, measurement, chance, data and algebra. It included fractions, integers, order of operations, as well as countless other lesson plans.
It is geared for the middle school math. This is a lesson using the NCAA basketball finals. The objective is to have students read and interpret graphs of data sets.
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
Another challenge math activity. For gifted elementary and upper grades. Over 1100 biographies of mathematicians. Also articles on the development of mathematical ideas.
You will find each week a motivational problem for your students. Links to last weeks problem and solution are found plus a link to the archives of past problems. This is recommended for grades three through eight.
Colorful Mathematics is a series of educational software presenting advanced mathematical concepts to K-12 students in a game-oriented approach. The five games offered utilize simple coloring and/or drawing techniques to illustrate some state of the art mathematical concepts from graph theory and computer science.
Welcome to Bamdad's Math Comics Page
Add a bit of humor in your classroom. To address the specific needs of non-motivated participants, this website affords students the opportunity to enjoy reading various math comic strips. This experience also provides educational enjoyment as well as critical thinking in math. A great way to entice students to look at Math in a fun way. If students shared the jokes with other classmates, explaining why they are funny, then language, communication, comparison, and contrasting skills are developed. A really fun way to integrate language in mathematics for all ages. It provides English as a second language skill development. Students learn while engaging in laughter. This modality of instruction stimulates all learning styles and promotes participation of all students. A wide variety of math comics will be a motivator and, perhaps, a relaxing activity in your classroom. Humor catches the attention of many people. This site is a collection of comics that relate to math.
MO--DESE--Missouri's Frameworks for Curriculum Development
Online, find the Outstanding Schools Act, Missouri School Improvement Program, Show-Me Standards, Missouri Frameworks, Strategies, and what the Frameworks are/are not. Contains overview of mathematics education, purpose of framework, major organizing strands, performance (process) strands, knowledge (content) strands.
This site includes middle school math activities set up by NASA. It includes projects dealing with probability, estimation, etc.
Here is your chance to find out who shares your birthday. Visit this site and also find the names of the mathematicians born on the present day. In addition is a list of those who died on this day. A biographical index is provided. This gives an easy to read life history of the mathematician of your choice as well as access to his contributions to mathematics.
History of Mathematics Archive
INFORMATION! This site has plenty of Mathematical background information. If you are looking for information to make-up a math trivia game this is a good place to look for math facts.
This website addresses the need for students to do research. This is an excellent resource that enlightens students to the history of numerals, counting, algebra, and mathematical analysis.. This site integrates language arts, math, and study skills. Students that enjoy history but dislike math may find a different modality of gaining information.
History of Mathematics Archive
A cute mystery story about the Hotel Infinity introduces students to the concept of infinity. It can be done in combination with an art lesson that would provide illustrations of the hotel. Problem solving skills and critical thinking are utilized. According to the author, "infinities come in different sizes but also there are infinitely many of them."
Internet Resources for the Middle School
Excellent resources for math & science teachers, complete with lesson plans, connection to NCTM standards, using web sites, math journals and using local attractions to increase learning.
Math Archives - k12 Lesson plans
AskEric, Big Sky Telegraph, and Columbia Education Center math lesson plans for all grade levels are included at this web site. The plans are written in a very simple format; overview, objective, materials, activities, tying it all together. Many are hands-on. Choose from a wide range of math skills covered.
ACADEMY OF CURRICULAR EXCHANGE
For the intermediate math student (6-8). Many helpful lesson plans for areas of difficulty for the middle school student in mathematics. These are complete with objectives, resource materials and activities.
INTEGRATING THE WORLD WIDE WEB WITH MATH
This site is a collection of math lessons supplied from Santa Cruz, CA.
Proportional Reasoning Lesson Plan
This site consists of six lessons, a 14 minute video, and an extension activity. Satisfies NCTM Standard 7 for grades 5-8. Purpose is to develop, analyze, explain, and use methods for solving proportions while solving problems in a variety of situations.
Spatial Sense Middle School Lesson Plan
This site has students explore the use of straight lines and angles to create an illusion of curved lines. This lesson plan emphasizes estimating and computing the circumference and area of circles. Satisfies NCTM Standard 12 for Grades 5-8.
This gives many lesson plans for all types of math activities that use many hands on ideas. Grade levels are given at the beginning, and the titles are quite clears as to what concepts are being taught.
This is a resource directly benefiting Missouri K-12 math, science, and technology teachers. Find solutions to math and science questions through personal interaction with Answerline staff members, who will also research topics, locate lesson plans and activities for teachers, and disseminate curriculum reform information and materials from state and national professional organizations.
Mathematics Archives - K12 Internet Sites
This has SOooooo MANY internet sites with everything from math and science lesson plans, graphing calculator lessons, Geometer's sketchpad lessons, and too many to describe.
Math Central is a service for parents, teachers, and students in grades k-12. Math Central includes five areas to investigate.
Teacher Talk (discussion forum for teachers of mathematics).
Resource Room (database by educational level, curriculum strand, keyword, and author). The Resource Room includes a Mathematics Glossary, educational related WEB sites and sites of particular interest to teachers.
Quandaries and Queries (questions and answer area for students and teachers. Anyone may submit a question or browse the database for previously asked questions).
Bulletin Board (data base of newsletters, periodicals, addresses for Math Central and organizations).
Site Information (description of site and its location).
K-12, Math. This website is designed with the classroom teacher and school curriculum in mind. It provides a safe place on the net for students to begin work quickly and safely, and helps to keep students on task with geometry activities & ideas, puzzles & problem solving, games, and miscellaneous activities.
This site offers a collection of exciting and unusual mathematics topics for elementary level through middle school level. It includes map coloring, networks, topology, infinity, and logical reasoning. It provides good integration with Language Art skills.
A set of challenging math activities for students emphasizing logic and problem solving skills. A menu for each activity includes NCTM standards involved, background information, vocabulary, key concepts, lesson plans and additional enrichment activities. Activities are colorful and appealing to students. This site has many different types of activities for students to do. Included with each type of activity are several activities, vocabulary, background information, big ideas and key concepts, prep and materials, how the activity is related to NCTM standards, methods of evaluation, and ideas for further study. 6-12, Math. This website has examples of math experiment. Students will be using creative and imaginative ideas while working with this site.
This site gives much information about the metric system. There are articles to read and ideas that could lead to many lessons at many grade levels. One article deals with why the United States needs to convert to the metric system. There is a cookbook with easy recipes in both measurements.
Students with Problems with Multiplication
This site is ideal for students who have a problem with multiplication. In the site it teaches the basic facts for any of the four fundamental operations of arithmetic. It is set up as a game for students who can not remember the "rules" for multiplication.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The NCTM News Bulletin and articles about hot topics can be found here. The list of special days and contests along with the search engine for previous issues is a great time saver.
At this site, a hands-on experiment is conducted to estimate pi by finding the area and circumference of a circle. A great pizza project is also available. References are made to the radius and diameter of the planets in our solar system as well as how to get a video entitled A Slice of Pi. An interesting history and time line of pi is also included.
Algorithms and Ice Cream for All
Small or whole group project to foster cooperation in problem solving. No one right answer to the problem. Teacher can add own limits or extensions. Level 5 and up. A good activity for Math Club or for advanced students to do on their own.
Words problems for students are presented in the website to help improve problem solving skills. Helpful hints are furnished for those students who experience difficulty. Solutions are also available for teachers with e-mail addresses if requested.
Houghton Mifflin Mathematics Center
There are contests and brainteasers in this site.
Games and puzzles. For use with advanced 5 & 6 grade students. Great for Math Club activities. Develop thinking and problem solving skills.
Recommended by my own student internet users, this source covers answers to math questions, quotations, unusual and important mathematical ideas, specific topics such as chaos or complex patterns or geometry or history. Also included are lists of mathematics problems and puzzles available on the internet, problems of the week and projects of the month, collaboration sites for students to solve math problems--sorted by grade level, and tricks based on math not magic.
Clever Games for Clever People
It has a collection of 15 problem-solving games using logic and numbers. These games are taken from John Conway's book, On Numbers and Games . It is suitable for adaptation for most grade levels. Games are not played on-line, unfortunately. Could be a good source for student generated games to be made and played in school or at home.
A new contest problem is listed each week. A Casio scientific calculator is given as a prize. The winners names are published. A list of past problems and winners can also be found. The difficulty level ranges from middle school to high school. Wouldn't it be fun to win and to have your name published!.
This site offers word problems on the eight grade level. The answer and a hint is available for each of the 51 problems. If you want more word problems click here. Math Detective gives the teacher 51 prepared word problems, ready to print & use in the classroom. Answers & hints are also available at the site.
The problem that is explained in the story is easy to understand, but, surprisingly, there is no simple, straightforward way to solve it. Students will find themselves experimenting with a variety of approaches.
This site contains activities related to the teaching of statistics in grades 1-12. The activities are categorized to the NCTM objectives in the statistics area. Given on the first page of the site are the objective number, the stated objective, titles of activities, authors, and a brief description . These are useable activities that are very "teacher friendly".
At this site you will find a stock market project for grades K-12. This project guides students (and teachers) through a step by step process in evaluating stocks toward the creation of an investment portfolio. The project is simple enough for lower grades but it also can be made more challenging for upper grades. Additional enrichment activities include how to read the NYSE pages and determining your chances in the lottery. A great, practical project for many levels.
Invest in the stockmarket for grades 5 to 12. Only 50 schools per session can enter, so sign up early.
How to make a set of tangrams from a piece of paper, and with your set of tangram pieces, 3 puzzles to work..
This site has multiple lesson plans that are written out step by step. Elementary through high school grades. The lessons are set up to be run as a lab-type situation, mostly hands-on. Basic facts, fractions, tessellation's, and graphing are some of the lessons available. Definitely some that I will make use of in my classroom. A variety of teaching ideas and tips that can be immediately implemented into the classroom are offered in the site. Experience teachers share their expertise and teaching tips with colleagues. This site also provides new concepts in teaching methodologies for all teachers. An excellent resource for beginning teachers!
Hands-on workshops and educational ideas and material through teachers edition on line. Teachers helping teachers with new ideas each week. This is a helpful way of getting help and keeping up with new idea.
Several days of tessellation lesson plans that integrate reading, art, language arts, and science with the math lessons. A wide geometry vocabulary is covered. Grade 5 lesson plans but can easily be adjusted to higher levels. Taught in small group setting. Good resource for Middle School Math Club activities.
Provided at this site is an illustration of concept-based problem solving. The 3 R's of problem solving, Request, Response, Result, are demonstrated. Example word problems are included in algebra, chemistry, and physics. This illustrates to students how to slow down and take apart a word problem.
The Franklin Institute's Educational Hotspots - An outstanding collection of science hotspots: online interactive education and online educational exhibits!
Global On-line Adventure Learning Site (GOALS) - Explorers of all ages are invited to embark on a growing list of exciting adventures.
Math: The Geometry Center - The Geometry Center is a mathematics research and education center at the University of Minnesota.
American Mathematical Society's home page
Mathematics and Molecules at the Academic Computing Facility at New York University.
Mathematics Archives WWW Server
Non-Euclidean Geometry - Description of non-Euclidean geometry, along with NonEuclid, a simulation of the Poincare Model of Hyperbolic Geometry.
Mandelbrot Explorer - An interactive web page to let you investigate the Mandelbrot set by zooming and setting the drawing area.
The Fractal Microscope - Further discussion of fractals, and a description of NCSA's Fractal Microscope software.
Graphics for the calculus classroom - This is a collection of graphical demonstrations developed for first year calculus, but suitable and interesting for high school students as well.
A Gallery of Interactive On-Line Geometry