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Interactive Math Websites
Lots of good sites for student motivation or group work.
Suzanne's
Mathematics Lessons
Lessons aligned with the NCTM Standards for Numbers and Operations, Algebra,
Data Analysis and Probability, Measurement, Geometry, and other Math
Resources.
Math Playground
An action-packed site for elementary and middle school students. Practice your
math skills, play a logic game, and have some fun!
Math Games
Virtual Stopwatch and Virtual Timer
This site has a free stopwatch and timer. The stopwatch counts down
to zero and the timer counts up from zero.
Math
Den
Online math question to practice math skills. The stages are loosely based
on grades 7-12. New questions are added every Thursday.
Math
Night Modules
Math Night is a fun event for kids in elementary school and their parents.
It lets kids show off their math skills and introduces them to mathematical
topics beyond their everyday schoolwork. Meanwhile, their parents see what
their kids are learning in math and maybe learn something new about mathematics
themselves. These modules are available to download to use for your own Math
Night.
Everyday
Math Resources
A list of sites with interactive manipulatives. Designed to go with a specific
K-5 series, but can apply to any series.
A Maths Dictionary for Kids
An animated, interactivce dictionary for students which explains more
than 400 common mathematical terms in simple language.
Lessons
in Fractals, Complex Patterns, and Chaos
The topics of this lesson book do not fall neatly in the traditional
math
topics, but they touch upon many areas, such as algebra, numbers, function,
geometry, probability, etc. The lessons can be downloaded as Word files
to
be printed and the programs can be downloaded for Windows, or used
on the
web (if you have Flash).
Fractals
Theme Page
Collections of useful Internet educational resources within a narrow
curricular topic and contain links to two types of information. Students
and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...) to
help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are links to instructional
materials (lesson plans), which will help teachers provide instruction in
this theme.
Houghton
Mifflin's Brain Teasers
Weekly brain teasers with answers. An archive of past teasers is available.
Math
History Theme Page
Collections of useful Internet educational resources within a narrow
curricular topic and contain links to two types of information. Students
and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...) to
help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are links to instructional
materials (lesson plans), which will help teachers provide instruction in
this theme.
Pi
on the Web Field Trip
Pi is a very important number in mathematics and has a very interesting history.
This tour will helpstudents and other students learn about pi.
Tessellations
Theme Page
Collections of useful Internet educational resources within a narrow curricular
topic and contain links to two types of information. Students and teachers will
find curricular resources (information, content...) to help them learn about
this topic. In addition, there are links to instructional materials (lesson plans),
which will help teachers provide instruction in this theme.
Rainforest
Maths
Interactive math activities for grades K-6
Math
Curriculuar Materials
Information/explanations for students and teachers wishing to learn more about
Mathematics
Math
Instructional Materials
Lesson plans and teaching tips/ideas for Mathematics teachers
Math
Portal
Offers a large collection of math lesson plans, resources, and links
to other web sites.
....AND THE ANSWER IS
Lesson Plan: Students must cooperatively or individually think creatively and
logically to come up with answers to a question. This is a great way to get
students to realize that there might be more than one answer to a situation
and to use their creative thinking skills.
Surf
the Net with Kids: Math
Links to online math worksheets, flashcards, activities, and games.
CoolMath.com
Fun math for kids of all ages. Includes math lessons, math problems,
math games, and a math dictionary. There are also areas for teachers
and parents.
Eisenhower
National Clearinghouse (ENC)
This site provides K-12 mathematics and science resources you can easily
link to on the Internet! (fee-based)
ExploreLearning
Interactive math and science simulations for grades 6-12.
Figure This! Math Challenges for Families
Mathematical challenges for families provide interesting math challenges
that middle-school students can do at home with their families.
Fun Mathematics Lessons by Cynthia Lanius
This site has lots of fun K-12 mathematics lessons. Some of the topics
are ratios, fractions, graphs, etc.
Games
for Math and Social Skills
A collection of links to games for building math and social skills.
Internet
Based Math and Science Lesson Plans
Links to some great lesson plans for both math and science. Categorized
by elementary and secondary.
Fun Math and Science
This site features some activites to make science, math, and technology fun.
MathCounts
MathCounts is the national math coaching and competition program for 7th and
8th grade students. It increases math interest through creative curriculum
materials and dedicated volunteers.
Math
Solutions Newsletter Lessons Archive
This is a collection of lessons from the Math Solutions Online Newsletter.
They are divided by grade levels from K-8.
Math & Science
Gateway
This award-winning site is maintained by the Cornell Deptartment of Education.
The Gateway
provides links to resources in mathematics and science for educators and students
in grades 9-12,
although teachers of other levels may find these materials helpful.
Math in Daily Life
Think that just because you're out of school means that you can forget allabout
trigonometry and calculus? Guess again. Check out this site to see how big
a part math plays in everyday life.
MegaMath
The MegaMath project is intended to bring unusual and important mathematical
ideas to elementary school classrooms so that young people and their teachers
can think about them together.
Quilted
Math
Quilts have much to do with both geometry and American heritage. Investigate
quilting further with Riverdeep's feature, "Quilted Math". Several
excellent activities and resources accompany the article. Consider having your
students create their own patchwork classroom quilt for a winter project, with
each student creating a square representing their own unique heritage and traditions.
[Classroom Flyer, 1/17/03]
ShapesQuest
Kindergarten students click on mystery shapes and attempt to identify them,
not only as the common items they can find every day around their house, but
also as a box (rectangle), ball (circle), or cylinder. They will also be asked
to draw three pictures of each shape of items they find around their own household
and bring their drawings back to the classroom to share... [Classroom Flyer,
1/17/03]
Silver Burdett Ginn Math
This site leads to teacher activity guides and student activity sheets for
grades K-6.
Teachnet.com-Math Lessons Ideas
Middle School Portal: Mathmatics Pathway
A collection of online resources to help you and your students
thoroughly explore topics. Includes Algebra, Measurement, Discrete Mathematics,
Statistics, Trigonometry, etc.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
The eNLVM is an NSF funded project to develop interactive online learning units
(eModules) for 3-12 mathematics. It provides easy-to-use teaching tools
and resources that promote student understanding of important mathematics.
portaportal.com: Math Correlations
Links to math activities that correlate to standards in grades K-6.
Interactivate
Interactive Java-based courseware for exploration in science and mathematics,
along with lessons and discussions.
Less Than, Greater Than Practice
A game to practice less than and greater than.
Missing Number Game
A game to identify missing numbers.
Minimum and Maximum Practice
A game to practice finding the minimum and maximum
Prime Number
A game to practice finding the prime number.
Find Place Value
A game to practice finding place value.
Find Odd or Even Number
A practice exercise to identify odd or even numbers.
Percent Calculation
A game to practice percentages.
Square Root Practice
A game to practice finding the square root of a number.
Roman Numerals Conversion and Chart
Catch the Fly
Mr. Frog needs you to give him the x, y coordinates for a fly so he
can dine! (middle school and up)
Bar Graph - Basics
A simple explanation on how to create a bar graph in Excel.
Bar Graph - Pictogram
A simple explanation on how to turn a bar graph into a pictogram (in
Excel).
Algebra Notation
Practice and game to find algebraic notations.
Algebra vs. the Cockroaches
It's you against the cockroaches crawling on your graph paper! (high school and
up)
Algebra.help
Algebrahelp.com is a collection of lessons, calculators, and worksheets
created to assist students and teachers of algebra.
Info on PUMP (Pittsburgh Urban Mathematics Project) Algebra Project
Geometry
Geometry Practice and worksheets.
Types of Triangles
A geometry quiz about types of triangles.
The Geometry Center Welcome Page
MathStories.com - http://www.mathstories.com/
The house of math word problems for children. The goal of this web site is to
help grade school children improve their math problem-solving skills. The pages
are sorted by topic and level of difficulty. Try a level. If it is too easy
or too difficult, move up or down levels accordingly. Once you have completed
a level, move up to the next challenge! Each ready-to-use worksheet has enough
room for students to show their work. You can print and use these worksheets
free of charge.
Math Mysteries - http://www.teachtsp2.com/mathmysteries/
You can submit your own word problems for other schools and students to work
out. There are also math word problems for your class to try. Some problems
also have worksheets to download.
Calculator
Pattern Puzzles
Originally planned for gifted students, but tried and adapted for heterogeneous
classrooms, where it can also be very successful. Students will recognize and
explore the patterns based on their current concept level with numbers. First
and Second Graders will instantly make connections to the idea of multiplication.
Third Graders will refine and extend that same concept.
Ask
Dr. Math
This page is for teachers and students of all ages. If you have a math question,
then this is the place to come. Try the Teacher 2 Teacher page with questions
on how to teach math for teachers and parents alike. For e.g. How can I teach
first grade addition without finger counting? Or what is the best way to teach
borrowing? There is an ongoing math forum, with searchable archives.
Hotmath.com
Homework help for Math. (subscription required)
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