MATH TOOLS
Part of The Math Forum developed by NSF's National
Science Digital Library offers hundreds of lesson plans and learning activities for teachers and students from Pre-K through calculus. At this page, you can quickly explore the lessons and downloadable software tools by grade level, topic (number theory, integers, etc.) and more. You can also join discussion forums and submit your own ideas and materials. The site is still under development, but there are many great resources already available.
HELP WITH ALGEBRA!
The PurpleMath website offers "plain and simple, practical and pithy"
lessons that can help 7th and 8th graders figure out algebra. The
lessons range from the preliminaries (absolute value, negative
numbers, etc.) to intermediate and advanced algebra that can
challenge high-flying math students.
About.com
This website has an enormous collection of materials relating to k-12 teaching including lesson plans, links and tips for all disciplines and age levels. It is a very useful site for new teachers, seasoned teachers, and even home school. Get tips on how to prepare for your first day and classroom management strategies, find fun games for students, and discover even more of those web sites that make your job just a little bit easier! It is a bottomless pit of information.
Math Games & Activities For Middle Schoolers
Use these "Math Explorer" activities in classrooms, after-school, or youth group programs. Developed by San Francisco's Exploratorium, these fun games, tricks, and activities provide teachers, youth group leaders, and parents with fun ways to explore mathematics. If you like what you find at this sample page, you may want to order the book, which we've seen. It's full of great material, all developed based on work supported by the National Science Foundation.
MathNerds
A discovery-style, volunteer-based, free service providing help in mathematics to students, teachers, parents and industry. The project grew out of two ideas, which we believe are both of interest to educators in mathematics.MathNerds provides FREE, discovery-based, mathematical guidance (does not supply answers to homework, take home tests and the like; rather, they provide hints, suggestions, and references to help) via an international, volunteer network of mathematicians.
Mathematics Curriculum Framework
The Massachusetts Department of Education's Office of Mathematics, Science, and Technology/Engineering is pleased to announce the release of the new Interactive Version of the Mathematics Curriculum Framework. This interactive version has been enhanced with additional problems and activities. In addition, all of the activities, problems, and definitions are linked directly to each learning standard, enabling teachers to focus on a particular standard or on a subject area. These will be continually updated and expanded as we create new examples and annually add the newly released MCAS items.
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC)
"We want your opinion!" declares a pop-up survey on topics like assessment, equity, and curriculum. The ENC site identifies effective curriculum resources; creates high-quality professional development materials; and offers information to benefit teachers, students, and families interested in K-12 math and science teaching and learning. Go to this site to find descriptions of hundreds of math-related Web sites, details and links about TIMMS (the international math test), math history, lesson plans, and professional development resources.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics
"Hands on" gets virtual at this site, which collects uniquely interactive, Web-based manipulative or concept tutorials aimed at K-8 math learners. With the aid of JAVA applets, students can visualize such concepts as the Pythagorean Theorem, tessellation, base 10, or comparing fractions. This site has received an award from the National Science Foundation.
Mega Math
"Mathematics is lively and exciting; it is a field more akin to art and poetry than many people think," say the Mega Math authors at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. This said, they go on to provide activities and explanations for some high-level mathematical concepts. What is infinity plus 1? Why does a map never need to contain more than four colors? How does a minimum dominating set help people figure out where to put airports and subway stations?
Figure This!
"Mark McGuire's 70th home run ball sold for million in 1999. If Babe Ruth's 60th home run ball was worth ,000 in 1927, and doubles its value every seven years, which would be worth more today?" This site features real-world math questions designed to motivate middle school students to learn higher-level math operations involving angles, volumes, number patterns, etc. By using high-interest everyday subjects for the activities, students become aware of how useful math is outside the classroom.
Math Archives
This University of Tennessee site offers a host of math-related links, teaching materials, and shareware for teachers and students at all levels of math. Here are just two appealing sources of info: Project NExT and POPMathematics.
EconStats
This website allows one to quickly access a wide range of economic data from the United States and all over the world. Information about our nation's inflation, unemployment levels, productivity, new factory orders, and the price of crude oil can all be quickly accessed. The homepage also contains links to economic data from Canada, Britain, Germany, the European Union, France, Italy, Russia, and China. Visitors can check out interest rates, various stock markets, and look up commodity and futures prices for dozens of countries. Those individuals looking for quick help with pressing questions can post queries to the "Econ Chat" section of the homepage.
Math DL: Loci [Macromedia Flash Player, pdf]
Following in a long line of excellent online publications from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), the Loci brings together a wide range of educational resources, interesting pieces of math history, and other ephemera for general consumption. On the homepage, visitors will find access to the "Convergence" site, which provides a range of teaching modules and activities for students. Also, users can avail themselves of the Loci-specific resources, which include such gems as "The Beauty of Parametric Curves". The site's homepage also includes "Featured Items" culled from the MAA's separate publications. Finally, visitors can search all of Loci's vast resources via a search engine that sits on the upper left-hand corner of the page.
MAA Minute Math
In September 2008, the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) launched a new resource MinuteMath which features a host of problems from the MAA's American Mathematics Competitions. These problems can be used in the classroom or just in a fun mathematical-loving setting. Questions deal with sums, geometry, and positive integers.
