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Links and Resources
(The following links and resources may be helpful.)
Standards
http://www.pde.state.pa.us/
http://www.nctm.org
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study
(TIMSS)
http://nces.ed.gov/timss
General Resources, Search Engines, and Research
Sites
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/about/about_index.aspx
The site is called MarcoPolo. It has an Internet search engine to find
content topics for the classroom. There are seven content websites with
lesson plans, interactive content, worksheets, and additional resources
created by the nation's leading educational organizations. Just click on
Search when you get to the home page and type in the topic you are
interested in.
http://www.enc.org/
This site is The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse. It is an extensive
source for educational news and articles. It's great for research. There
are links to lessons and activities and any math topic you can think of.
It's easy to use. Just click on a topic or article listed on the home
page.
http://mathforum.org/
Math Forum @ Drexel University
This extensive site lists everything from professional development
events and programs to online courses, discussion groups, Internet
newsletters, problems of the week, and its own library. You can link to
Ask Dr. Math from this site, and type in topics for Internet searches.
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/%7Ejudyann/LP/lessons/
Leadership Program Exploring Discrete Mathematics in the classroom. This
site has seasonal lesson plans that are teacher created. The great
Twelve Days of Christmas activity, New Year's Magic, the Star of David
are some examples.
http://www.pbs.org/
PBS
You can search a topic in the search engine or click on teacher source
for free lesson plans. It is not just math oriented; you can use the
search engine to find anything you are interested in. However,
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math.htm is specifically for math.
You can do a site search for a topic that has to do with math. It's very
easy to use.
http://mathforum.com/ncsm/
This is the home page for the National Council of Supervisors of
Mathematics. There is updated information on the organization, but a
very useful part of this site is the search engine. If you type in a
topic it will pull up links to articles and lesson plans. It is a good
tool for research.
http://math.nmsu.edu/~history/#articles
This site is called Teaching With Original Historical Sources In
Mathematics. It has a list of topics related to history of math with
links to the articles or ideas described. It is a nice resource to use
when lesson planning.
http://www.eduplace.com/
This is Houghton Mifflin's website for grades K–8. There are resources
for parents, students, and teachers. If you click on Mathematics, it
will take you to a page where you can choose activities, projects, a
database, graphic organizers, and brain teasers.
http://nces.ed.gov/practitioners/teachers.asp
This site is the NCES (National Center for Educational Statistics)
website. It was developed and is maintained by the U.S. Department of
Education. It gives a broad range of statistical information on
education in the U.S. and it helps administrators, teachers, policy
makers, librarians, and parents find data easily. If you click on the
appropriate category, it will have a variety of updated information on
different topics. You can then input a search topic in your area of
interest. This would be helpful for research.
http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/LESSONS/twelfth.html
The University of Illinois Collaborative Lesson Archive. This site lists
lesson plans in every content area for preschool–undergraduate college
courses. There are links to many lessons in all areas and levels.
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/math.html
This site is a list of lesson plans for grades K–12 of math lessons
written by teachers. They are listed by topic. Just click on the desired
lesson.
http://mathforum.org/sum95/sinclair/alg1.html
This is an algebra site, which links to a wealth of resources under the
content of teaching ideas, computer software, applications, history,
careers, and the Math Forum page.
http://www.learner.org/
This is the Annenberg website. It allows you to find programs related to
whatever topic you enter on the search.
http://www.mcrel.org/hpc/index.html
This site is the Mid-Continent Eisenhower Regional Consortium for
Information on Standards. It lists descriptions of a variety of
standards and curricula from some states as well as national standards
and curricula.
http://www.aldea.com/guides/ag/attframes2.html
This is the UniGuide Academic Guide to the Internet. It links to a
wealth of topics in math or science. If you click on Mathematical and
Physical Sciences and then on Mathematical Sciences again, you will see
a long list of topics. If you click on any of these topics, it links you
to websites for that topic. It also rates the website before you take
your time to go there.
Tutorial Sites for Students and Teachers
http://www.hotmath.org/
This site is for students, and it has a selection of textbook tutorials
for pre-algebra, algebra I and II, geometry, pre-calculus, and calculus.
You select your book and the page and problem number and it will give
hints on how to do the problem.
http://www.wtamu.edu/academic/anns/mps/math/mathlab/index.htm
This site is from West Texas A&M University. It is called the Virtual
Math Lab and is a tutorial site for college algebra, intermediate
algebra, and beginning algebra. Just click on the topic you need help
with.
http://education.ti.com/educationportal/index.jsp
This is the Texas Instruments website. It is very extensive. You can
link to programs for the graphing calculator, homework help, and
tutorials for students; and ideas, activities and programs for the
teacher.
http://www.math.com/
This is a tutorial site for students, parents, and teachers. You can
select a subject from a list that ranges from basic math to pre-algebra,
algebra, geometry, trigonometry, statistics, calculus or other advanced
topics. There are mini lessons for each topic given in an easy
step-by-step process.
Articles and Literature Sites
http://www.edweek.org/register/register.cfm?mode=restricted
This is the publication Education Week on the web. You have to register
first, but then there is a very nice web newsletter concerning
educational issues.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/scimathlit/index.html
This site is Literature for Science and Mathematics: Kindergarten
Through Grade Twelve. It is a collection of outstanding science- and
mathematics-related literature for children and adolescents. The
recommended titles reflect the quality and the complexity of the types
of materials students should be reading at school and outside of class.
http://www.cmc-math.org/Polya
This is a link from the California Mathematics Council website. This
particular site is an article written by George Polya about "The Goals
of Mathematical Education."
http://www.ams.org/new-in-math
This site is the American Mathematical Society's website. It has links
to articles on different topics on the home page. However, if you go to
the upper-right corner and scroll down the choice of topics, you will
see that you can select Math on the Web, a Math Reviews Database, and
MathSciNet. If you select one of these, it will link you to many
resources containing articles on a wealth of topics. Great for research
or lesson planning.
http://www.mathsoft.com/mathresources/webresources/
Mathsoft offers a list of links to other websites (some mentioned
previously) in which you can find journals and articles. It is easy to
use because the sites are listed for you. You just click on the one you
want.
http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~jameis/index.html
This site is called Mathematical Tale Winds. If you click on Story
Resources Corner, it will list three book sources related to math at the
elementary level. This site has the complete stories. There is also a
choice called Book Corner, which lists many books that involve math
topics. It describes each book when you click on your choice but this
does not give the actual story. It is only a description so you can
choose what to look for at the library or bookstore.
http://www.maa.org/news/columns.html
This site contains the MAA (Mathematical Association of America) Online
Columns. It has links to different articles that are listed by topics.
The articles change, but there is an archive as well. You can think of
it as a newsletter where all of the columns are about math topics. The
main page is
http://www.maa.org/. This is a much more extensive site that
includes a search engine. If you type in a topic it will bring up
columns and articles related to that topic.
Puzzles, Games, and Brainteaser Sites
http://www.gamequarium.com/prealgebra.html
This site has pre-algebra games. Click on a topic and there is a
matching game for the topic. It tests the skills of pre-algebra
curriculum.
http://www.puzzlemaker.com/
This site is Puzzlemaker by DiscoverySchool.com. You can create puzzles
online, which you can print out and use for the classroom.
http://www.domath.org/
This site is by NCTM and is called Do Math. It has math challenges for
families. When you click on Challenge, it will give you choices of
different activities.
http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain/
This site poses brainteasers for grades 3–8. It does not give the answer
until the next week, so it is intended to be used week after week. It
would be nice to use as a problem-of-the-week online.
Content-specific Sites
http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/
This is the MegaPenny Project. It contains graphics of different amounts
of pennies. It is good for visualizing numbers. It is very conceptual.
For example, it shows relationships with real-life objects and the
number of pennies.
http://www.math.toronto.edu/mathnet/falseProofs/fallacies.html
This site is Classic Fallacies. You discover what is wrong with each of
the proofs. There is one for each of these topics: beginning algebra,
complex numbers, math induction, calculus, and natural numbers.
http://www.exploremath.com/
These are interactive math activities for students and teachers. It
lists activities by category: points in the plane, lines, linear
equations, quadratics and polynomials, systems, inequalities, conic
sections, exponentials and logarithms, trigonometry, complex numbers,
absolute value, reflections, probability, and more. Just click on the
topic.
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/frac/index.html
This site has a lot of information about fractals. It has links to other
sites that have even more information on fractals.
http://www.stfx.ca/special/mathproblems/welcome.html
This website contains word problems for students and teachers. The
problems are classified into grade levels from grades 5–12. These are
carefully selected problems that can help you improve your
problem-solving skills. You can try any problem you like and if the
problem is a little difficult, you can get helpful hints by following
the hints link.
http://www.iit.edu/~smile/mathinde.html
This is the Smile program mathematics index. It is a collection of
almost 200 single concept lessons. The lessons are divided into
categories: Geometry and Measurement, Patterns and Logic, Probability
and Statistics, Recreational and Creative Math, Practical and Applied
Math, Arithmetic, Graphs and Visuals, Algebra and Trigonometry, and
Miscellaneous. Just click on the desired topic.
http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/largest.html
This site is all about prime numbers. There are links to different ideas
and topics related to prime numbers.
http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/graphics.html
This great site has animated graphics of different calculus topics, such
as tangent and secant line, differentials, and limits. The site is great
for teachers and students.
http://www.math.brown.edu/~banchoff/gc/Flatland/
This site is the book (perhaps in its entirety) of the famous Flatland
(Edwin A. Abbott 1838–1926). It is a great extension for your geometry
course.
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/
The extensive Shodor site has excellent activities listed in the index
under Project Interactivate. Interactive activities, arranged according
to the NCTM PSSM and the NCEE Performance Standards for Middle School,
include many selections for numbers and operation concepts, geometry and
measurement concepts, function and algebra concepts, and probability and
data analysis concepts.
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