Mathville Library Now that you've all brushed up on your math skills, it's time to explore how to build those skills in your students. Use this virtual "site library" to find math lesson plans, projects and applications. A Homepage for New Math Teachers is great for those getting started, and as a possible rejuvenator for more experienced teachers. There are links to "most loved problems," information on multicultural math and suggestions for classroom management. Added 11/28/00 http://people.clarityconnect.com/webpages/terri/terri.html About the Numbers in Today's Date is just that--information on the date. If you click on the 30, for example, you will learn what months have thirty days, that 30 is a pyramidal number and more information. This is a fun site for interesting facts. Added 8/17/00 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/education/number/ If you are teaching algebra, take a look at AlgebraHelp. You will find lessons arranged on short pages that students can read through, and worksheets that can be printed out (with links to the answers). This is an excellent resource for algebra teachers. Added 8/24/00 http://www.algebrahelp.com/ Aunty Math, from the DuPage Children's Museum. has to come to visit with interesting math challenges. Every two weeks, students can try to figure out the math challenge and send their answer and strategy to Aunty Math. Teachers can look to see what NCTM strands are addressed with each challenge, and how to extend the learning possibilities. The math challenges are appropriate for grades 1 - 5. Added 11/28/00 http://www.dcmrats.org/auntymath.html Big Sky Math Lesson Plans has a large list of lesson plans for grades K - 12 in gopher format. (Gopher format is a page of links with no pictures or graphics. You click on the links to look at a lesson.) You can look at the title, click on the link, and then view the lesson. Browse through the Descriptions of the Big Sky Telegraph Math Links before you explore this page. The lessons are grouped by grade levels (K-4, 6-7, etc.).  gopher://bvsd.k12.co.us:70/11/Educational_Resources/Lesson_Plans/Big%20Sky/math Blue Web'n, a service of Pacific Bell, supports a searchable database of projects, lessons and web sites. Specific information on math topics can be found at http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/categories.html#Mathematics. The year 2000 is important for many reasons, one of which is the national census. Census 2000 has posted appropriate activities for students on their Census in Schools website. You will find activities for K-12 students. Added 6/15/00 http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/schindex.htm The goal of the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) is to help bring technology experience to K-12 teachers and administrators. You will find collaborative projects for all grade levels that link to standards in math and science. You will also find information on Internet safety for students as well as links to other resources. Added 2/28/00 http://www.k12science.org/ Cool Math for Kids is exactly that. Students can practice basic arithmetic facts, play games and learn about geometry, fractals and other concepts. There are both teacher and parent areas. Added 11/7/00 http://www.coolmath4kids.com/ Creative Math Teaching provides lessons plans for middle and high school teachers. The lesson plans are written to address the NCTM standards. Added 11/9/00 http://www6.ewebcity.com/creativemath/ Creativille is a place where math and the real world meet. In Creativille, you can learn about math in construction through activities tied to California's math standards. Created througha partnership between the Kern County Office of Education and CTAP, the site offers activities for elementary, middle and high school students. Added 12/12/00 http://www.creativille.org/ Curious and Useful Math will show you some fun and intriguing math tricks for kids and adults. The problems range from those requiring simple addition and subtraction to square roots. This is a good site for students to practice some basic skills. Added 10/23/00 http://personal.cfw.com/~clayford/ If you have ever taught multiplication or division to students, you know how hard it can be. Education 4 Kids has several math games, including Math Flashcards for Kids. You can have your students practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts, as well as other drills. The web site will also keep "score" of your session, if you are interested. There are also some language arts resources at this site. http://www.edu4kids.com Education by Design, from the Antioch New England Graduate School, shares a variety of resources for planning and implementing problem-based learning in the classroom. There are links to steps for creating the "problems" as well as links to situations that have already been created. This is an interesting website for teachers at any grade level. Added 11/28/00 http://www.edbydesign.org/index.html ERIC Clearinghouse for Science, Math and Environmental Education has a collection of information "related to math teaching and learning." You can find journals, bulletins, conferences and other resources. http://www.ericse.org/ ExploreMath.com is a web site with many multimedia activities that allow the user to manipulate equations. If you join, you can also post online courses for your students. This would be an excellent resource for a middle or high school teacher who would like an interactive method of presenting equations and graphs. However, to use the multimedia portions of the site, you must have a Shockwave plug-in installed. There are directions on the site on how to access and install the plug-in. Added 2/29/00 http://exploremath.com The Explorer, developed by the Great Lakes Collaborative and the University of Kansas UNITE group, brings together resources in the areas of math and science. Teachers will find resources and lesson plans for grades K-12. http://unite.ukans.edu/ Figure This! presents "Math Challenges for Families" to work on at home. (This would be a great site to suggest to parents, or you could use the same activities in the classroom.) Kids can try to figure out how long it would take for their heart to beat a million times, or which irregularly-shaped cookie would have the most chocolate topping. The site is well-designed and easy to use. Added 2/29/00 http://www.figurethis.org/ Free Puzzles gives you geometry, logic and math puzzles. You can challenge your students to some serious thinking. You need to register at the site to view the solutions. Registration is free. This site would be most appropriate for middle and high school students. Added 9/5/00 http://www.freepuzzles.com/ Do you find yourself fascinated by pi? If so, browse through Fun With Numbers. This site presents links to various sets of numbers, such as 50,000 random numbers or "the first 28,915 primes". This page would be most appropriate for high school teachers or students, or people who just love numbers! http://newdream.net/~sage/old/numbers/ In the Global Sun/Temperature Project, classes from around the world sign up for the project and measure temperature and minutes of sunlight for a specified week. Then, the data is sent to the website database and made available for download and analysis. This would be a great sciene/math activity, with lots of graphing possibilities. Added 9/25/00 http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/tempproj/ The Glossary of Math Mistakes is exactly that--a growing archive of math mistakes made by many "non-math" people, such as advertisers or reporters. The math mistakes are probably most recognizable to adults or high school students. However, teachers in grades 4 and up could use the "Puzzles & Problems" area with their students. You can find word problems and answers. http://www.mathmistakes.com/ This U. S. Department of Education publication, Helping Your Child Learn Math, lists almost 200 single concept lessons. They are designed to be used at home with parents, but could be adapted for use in the classroom or in learning centers. This would also be a good resource to share with parents. http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Math/index.html Shasta County Office of Education in California has compiled resources for the High School Exit Exam in Mathematics. Beginning in 2001, California students will be required to pass an exit exam to receive a high school diploma. The exam is based upon the California state standards. This year, ninth graders can voluntarily take the exam. Use these resources to start preparing your students now! Added 10/3/00 http://www.shastalink.k12.ca.us/curriculum/exitexam/math_resources.htm Terri Husted's Homepage for New Math Teachers gives examples of thinking problems in the monthly problem sections. You will also find links to other math and general education web sites as well as professional suggestions for teachers. Added 3/1/00 http://people.clarityconnect.com/webpages/terri/terri.html The Internet Learning Network is a free, publicly available website which allows elementary, middle and high school students to test themselves on math and science concepts. Then, using data from the TIMSS study, students see how their contemporaries from other countries scored on similar questions. Students can also play games. You will need the Shockwave plug-in to see the questions. For more information on Shockwave, click here. Added 11/21/00 http://www.getsmarter.org/ If your school uses Scott Foresman, Silver Burdett Ginn or Prentice Hall math textbooks, you should investigate the Know Zone. This website is a "direct interactive link between classroom math and at-home study." Teachers can set up accounts for their students, and students can progress through lessons, activities and tests that are specifically correlated to the textbook. Note: If you are using an Apple computer, you must use Netscape Navigator to access the Know Zone site. Added 7/12/00 http://kz.com Think you have a good head for numbers and business? Give the Lemonade Stand a try! You set up your stand in one of a handful of cities across the country, and see how large a profit you can build over 25 days. The site allows students to use calculations and make predictions as well as learning some economics. This would be a good site for fourth - eighth graders. There are advertisements on the website pages. Added 10/23/00 http://www.littlejason.com/lemonade/index.html High school algebra students will benefit from the Linear Algebra Toolkit. Designed by the staff of Old Dominion University, students can work through various types of problems. Added 3/14/01 http://www.math.odu.edu/~bogacki/lat/ The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive contains biographies of over a 1,000 mathematicians, as well as articles on famous curves and discussions of development of mathematical ideas. High school students or teachers would probably find more uses of this site than other students. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/index.html MainXed has a stock market game you and your students can play. Once your students register (which is free), they receive $100,000 in "money" to purchase stocks. There is a team competition that is open to students as well as lesson plans for teachers. The "game" is correlated to both national and state standards (just click on the Teacher's Lounge and follow the Standards link). Added 8/3/00 http://www.mainxed.com/ MCI Worldcom has joined forces with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, among others, to create Marcopolo. This site's goal it to provide ". . . no-cost, standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and the classroom . . ." Visit "Illuminations," which is the site devoted to mathematics. http://www.wcom.com/marcopolo/ California Polytechnic State University and the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center have jointly created Math Activities and Lesson Plans for K-12 Teachers. All of the lessons are tied to concepts about flight or other real-world problems NASA might encounter, such as how many tiles would be lost on a space shuttle mission. The lessons would be difficult for young (K-2) students, but would be very useful and interesting for 8-12 graders. http://daniel.calpoly.edu/~dfrc/Robin/ The Indianapolis Museum of Art and AT&T have created Math and Art, a web site that shows examples of mathematical concepts in art. For example, you can see examples of symmetry or line in various art works, and then find related activities. The art represents a variety of cultures. This would probably be most suited to middle or high school students. Once you are at the home page, click on School Programs, and then click on Math and Art. Added 2/7/00 http://www.ima-art.org T.H.E. Journal has created a Math Education page , which provides links to Math Projects, Activities & Lessons, Math Articles and Discussion Groups. http://www.luc.edu/schools/education/csimath/zmathed.htm Frisbie Middle School in California has created a Math 8 website that aligns with the Glencoe instructional materials for students in general mathematics. You will find links to support interactive units, links for each mathematical strand and a link to a similar page for Math 7. You will also find links to the California Math Framework and the NCTM Standards. Added 7/13/00 http://www.rialto.k12.ca.us/frisbie/math8.html Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies presents interactive lessons geared toward 5-8 grade math topics. However, some of the concepts can be used with younger students. In addition, the site has a "MathChat," which is several threaded discussion groups where individuals can post ideas or questions, a newsletter and puzzles. Read the "About Our Lessons" information first, so you know what kind of computer and browser you need to use the site. http://www.mathgoodies.com/ to the top California State University at Northridge (CSUN) has created a list of Math links to lesson plans, activities and other resources on the web. Teachers will be able to find many relevant resources at this site. http://www.csun.edu/~vceed009/math.html Swarthmore University, home of Ask Dr. Math, maintains this list of Math Resources for Elementary Teachers. Teachers at any grade level should find something of value here, from professional/career information to math puzzles for your classroom. http://forum.swarthmore.edu/teachers/elem/ Math Teacher Link is a Professional Development Consortium for Mathematics Teachers. The website, developed as a partnership project of University of Illinois, Illinois State University, and Eastern Illinois University, offers a classroom resource bank, message board, and course modules that can be taken for credit. If you want to receive units for the modules, you have to pay a fee, but you can sign on for a guest membership to review most of them. Added 2/17/00 http://mtl.math.uiuc.edu/index.htm Hopefully no one will be offended if you suggest they visit MathDork, because it would be helpful and fun for algebra students. MathDork is a pay service, where students can progress through Internet-based lessons at their own pace. However, there are some fun games that are free, and you evaluate whether the service is worthwhile or not. You will need a shockwave plug-in to play most of the games. Added 8/22/00 http://www.mathdork.com/ The Franklin Institute Science Museum in Pennsylvania has published a Mathematics Hotlist, with 80 links to other math and computer sites. http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/math.html The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has put together a Mathematics Lesson Database for all grade levels. Look on the bottom left of this page for the search field. There are more lesson for the secondary level than for the elementary level, but this is still an excellent resource. Added 1/13/00 http://mstemac4.ed.uiuc.edu/ Cynthia Lanius has written Mathematics Lessons That Are Fun, Fun, Fun! Teachers will be able to find activities that to use with their students to teach patterns, calendars or fractals. The fractions lessons would be very useful in a fourth or fifth grade class. http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/ MATHguide is available to help students, teachers and parents. There is a help center (consisting of newsgroup posts) where you can ask or answer questions, links to interesting puzzles and problems, and a list of lessons. Most of the material is appropriate for middle or high school students. Added 7/25/00 http://www.mathguide.com/ From England, you will find Maths Year 2000. This website is geared to the English school system, but has fun and challenging games as well as a link to the math Matrix Museum. Many of the exhibits (such as scales and weights) in the museum are interactive. Added 11/22/00 http://www.mathsyear2000.org/ If you've ever drawn clocks for students to practice telling time, you know it can be tiring. Try Mathwork Worksheets instead! If you are using Netscape or Internet Explorer 4.0 or better, you will probably be able to select a type of problem and get a printable math worksheet. Types of problems include addition, subtraction, fractions and measurement. Added 7/25/00 http://www.coastlink.com/users/sbryce/mathwork/index.htm Tired of trying to think of interesting word problems for your students? Investigate MathStories.com, and you might be able to rest for a while! There are over 2,000 math word problems to solve, divided by grade level. Teachers may use any of the problems on the site, but the problems may not be copied by anyone else. http://www.mathstories.com/ The Measurements Converter will do some math for you! Choose the type of units you want converted (weight, length, speed, etc.), enter the measurement in the correct box, and press the "tab" key on your keyboard. Look at all of the different measurements! However, be sure to read the disclaimer,which states that the translations aren't always accurate. http://www.ur.ru/~sg/transl/ Measure 4 Measure is a collection of interactive sites that estimate, calculate, evaluate, translate, etc. In other words, they do the work for you. Teachers of all ages could find something useful to use in their classroom at this site. You could also specify one of the interactive sites for students to visit and use. http://www.wolinskyweb.com/measure.htm The Mighty M&M® Math page gives math teachers the opportunity to be part of an ongoing math project. Students would graph information from packages of M&M®s and submit the data. The web site also suggests further activities for students. http://mighty-mm-math.caffeinated.org/main.htm One of the goals of the Millennium Mathematics Project, from the United Kingdom, is to "help people of all ages and abilities share in the excitement of mathematics." The project has several aspects: a primary enrichment website, an online newsletter focused on mathematics and a videoconferencing program that later posts problems from the session on the web. This site has many worthwhile sections. Added 6/16/00 http://mmp.maths.org/index.html Multiplication.com will make any fourth grade teachers day! At this site, you will find links to purchase a multiplication book as well as links to multiplication games, worksheets, charts and information for parents. This is a helpful site for students learning multiplication. Added 10/11/00 http://www.multiplication.com MySchoolhouse.com provides self-correcting lessons and quizzes in math and reading. Students log in and can complete different lessons and "quizzes." As the teacher, you can access a report of each student's progress. The site is still in progress, so other additions, such as teacher lessons, will be added over time. Added 5/2/00 http://www.funschool.com/ Taking your students along the National Math Trail will help them learn math skills from real-world problems. Classes can use the site to do some math, or get out into their communities, create problems and submit them to the trail site. Added 3/16/01 http://www.nationalmathtrail.org/ This ThinkQuest Junior site, called Online Math Applications, teaches kids of all ages a simple and interesting approach to math that applies to real world situations. It includes a simulated stock market game. which could be valuable for both teachers and students. http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4116/ Visit Problem of the Week to find a word problem to challenge your students. Students can e-mail their solution as well as their own problems. There is also a section on problem solving strategies. This site would be helpful for fourth graders or older students. Added 9/19/00 http://www.potw.net/ Problem solving and introductions to Algebra for K-12 has links to a list of thinking problems and solutions for a variety of grade levels. The approach advocated by this site is to determine the request, formulate a response and generate the result. This site could be useful for both teachers and students. http://www.hawaii.edu/suremath/k4_12dir/k4_12menu.html Project Interactive, funded in part by the Office of Dependent Education of the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), presents Internet-based interactive math activities for middle school students and teachers. The activities are tied to standards, such as the NCTM standards. Added 10/3/00 http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/index.html Purplemath, created by a professor at Western International University, is a great resource for high school algebra teachers. The modules give an explanation and example of a topic, such as absolute value or fractions. The section on homework guidelines should be required reading for all students. Added 8/22/00 http://www.purplemath.com/index.htm If your students can never find the correct answer, try QuickMath. This is an automated service, where you type in an equation or inequality, and get an immediate answer in your web browser. However, you do not see the step-by-step solution. Added 8/24/00 http://www.quickmath.com/ Schools of California On-Line Resources for Education (SCORE) has created a mathematics site. The site has links to state frameworks, standards and lessons developed to match the standards. It is an excellent mathematics resource for teachers. http://score.kings.k12.ca.us/ TEAMS Distance Learning, a part of the Los Angeles County Office of Education, has compiled lesson plans for various subject areas. Check out the Mathematics links! http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/places/lessons.html#top If you or your students want to convert degrees Fahrenheit to degrees Celsius, use this Temperature Conversion Calculator. There is also a brief discussion of temperature on this page. This would probably be most useful for older students (such as high schoolers) or teachers. http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/ChemResources/temperature.html This is MegaMath, created in part by the Computer Research and Applications Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is a project which brings big mathematical ideas to elementary school students and other young people. Teachers can browse the site and choose the activities their class will work on. Each topic, such as graphs or knots, has activities, background, vocabulary and evaluation presented, as well as the NCTM standards the project links to. http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/ TOPS (Teacher Opportunities to Promote Science) is a project created with Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists and teachers from New Mexico. The teachers go through several summers of training workshops to learn to teach using TOPS and to create units which are available on-line. The focus for many of the projects is science, but math skills are also used. The projects are for students in 6-12, but often have levels which range from simple to complex (so they can be used with other grade levels, too). This site was featured in Electronic School magazine. http://set.lanl.gov/programs/tops/main.htm UBUYACAR is a problem-based learning unit for students in which they do just that--buy a car. However, the students need to determine what car they want, what options they desire, what their income is and what their debt-to-income ratio is, amongst other things. The site has links to a student manual, a teacher manual and online resources. This would be an excellent project for high school students. Added 4/27/00 http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/pbl/materials.html What Good is Math?, created by education students at the University of Richmond, is more a site for students to explore than for teachers. You could use it to brush up on some concepts, such as averages. However, the graphics would probably appeal more to children than to adults. http://www.richmond.edu/~ed344/webunits/math/home.htm Ever wonder Which Pennies Are Still in Circulation? Students at Erving Elementary School in Massachussetts did, and created this website to share their information. Look at the results of their study and share your own data through an interactive form. This would be a great site for fourth - eighth graders. Added 10/23/00 http://www.erving.com/coinproject/home.htm Whilloughby Wanderings, a ThinkQuest site, has interactive games and puzzles to help your students learn math skills and practice logical thinking. Some of the pages need plug-ins, but the directions are very clear. This site would be a lot of fun for 3-6 grade students. Added 2/7/00 http://schoolcentral.com/willoughby/ Challenge your students and yourself by trying to solve some of the Word Problems for Kids. Written for grade five through twelve, students will practice a variety of skills and strategies to generate answers. You will find hints for many of the problems. Added 11/9/00 http://www.stfx.ca/special/mathproblems/welcome.html Zona Land is a place where you can learn about math and science. A high school teacher has created this site, which has two main parts: More Mathematics than Science and More Science than Mathematics. A high school student can learn about the slope-intercept formula, for example, by reading about it and then manipulating on-screen elements to see how the line changes with different inputs. This is an excellent high school website. Added 4/27/00 http://id.mind.net/~zona/ to the top
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