Math Sites

www.algebasics.com -  Verbal lessons and examples for all Algebra. Excellent help site.

www.mathpower.com  uses math videos and student written tutorials to help students on almost any area of math

National Council of Teacher's of Mathematics: 

http://standards.nctm.org/document/chapter1/index.htm 

At this site you can learn more about the principles underlying high quality math instruction.

Word Problems for Kids:

www.stfx.ca/special/mathproblems/welcome.html 

Can't get enough practice with math word problems? At this Canadian Web site for students in grades 5-12 you'll find dozens of word problems (with problem solving hints and answers) organized by grade level.

Math Problems with a Point:

http://www2.edc.org/MathProblems/ 

Selected by the NCTM as an exemplary Web site, this math -oriented resource focuses on problem solving. Targeting students in grades 6-12, it provides practice with a variety of problem types. Users can search for resources by math topic ( i.e. discrete math, topology, calculus), time required, problem solving strategies, technology (such as graphing calculators)  

Online Logic Puzzles/Games: Battleship

www.primarygames.com/puzzles/strategy/battleship/start.htm 

Welcome to Math is Fun:

www.mathisfun.com 

Started by a British math teacher who wanted to encourage an interest in math, this site now hosts a variety of multiage, basic math activities for instruction, review  and fun. Children can practice math facts, solve puzzles, learn how to calculate the area of several shapes, and print worksheets and math tables for offline review. 

321 Know Math

www.321know.com/div.htm 

Featuring dozens of activities, this resource for teaching offers interactive practice with division facts, divisibility, dividing fractions and decimals, and division problems.

An excellent site for drill practice on math facts. Access to the drill games is from the side navigation. Within each area, access to a specific drill game is from the tabs for that drill section. Since we offer so many math drills we have split them up into sections. General Math is where you will find Math Flashcards and Math Tables as well as some of the other more general drill games. The other math sections have been established to cover math in specific areas, like time and money. While there may be some changes to the site, we think we will be keeping these basic structures for math as well as for the other areas:

  http://www.edu4kids.com/

An incredible math site of math virtual manipulatives- you have to check this out- for all grades and levels!

http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html  

www.themathworksite.com 

The Wonders of Mathematics Inquiry-based math activities K-12. URL: http://www.galileo.org/math/ REVIEW: A+ Math teachers will appreciate the carefully planned math lessons and activities in the investigations section. More than a dozen thought provoking investigations are available for both elementary and secondary students that cover such topics as statistics, finances, area, geometric models and more. If you really want to challenge your students to do some creative thinking, click on the Puzzles link to find more than sixty puzzles that can be printed and used in the classroom. Each puzzle includes the area of mathematics and the objectives that it addresses. There is an extensive list of online and print resources available to help improve mathematics instruction. Also worth a look is the “Classroom Examples” (found in the top menu) that features completed inquiry-based projects in grades K-12. This is a great place to spark your thinking in creating your own projects in the humanities or science.

Math Center
Ed World's Math Center offers dozens of lesson ideas for engaging students in mathematics.
http://www.educationworld.com/math/ 

Other great math sites:

1.       A+ Math: Advanced Problems
Select the type of addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division problem you want to practice. Then click Start.

2.      Ask Dr. Math
Students can use this site to ask questions or get assistance with their math homework from experts or discuss math topics with other students.

3.      Mathflash!
Select an operation, a level, either Practice or Play Game, and a time limit. How well can you solve the problems?

4.      National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
A wide range of math manipulatives is now available online. This is a good place to start exploring some of these "virtual manipulatives."

5.  SuperKids' Math Worksheet Creator
Parents and teachers can create printable math worksheets that teach different skills. Select the type of problem, the maximum and minimum numbers to be used in the problems, then click!

Eisenhower Math & Science Site:

http://www.enc.org/about/  is a webpage from the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse  (ENC). ENC provides a collection of Math and science curriculum resources. More than 16,000 resources are housed here and growing daily. The collection includes print materials, software and CD-ROMS, kits and manipulatives from free sources of government agencies and professional organizations.  Has a good search engine to save time.

The Math Forum:  Look no further – here is the ultimate Math web sites:

http://mathforum.org/   The math Forum @Drexel delivers math resources galore to teachers and students such as the popular ask Dr. Math, which provides students with expert help in math problem solving.

http://www.geom.umn.edu/   has extensive resources on teaching geometry at any level. It offers links to a variety of projects, professional materials and downloadable software. It is especially strong in the interactive application, “Gallery of Interactive Geometry”! Check it out!

Math Site:

 The students in Euclidean Geometry select a mathematician or a mathematical concept to investigate. They are given a rubric that states what their finished timeline must look like. I use Timeline Software in class to demonstrate how it works. Some students choose to use MS Word or PowerPoint to illustrate their timelines. I inform the students to use whatever software they like. We access the site Mac Tutor- History of Mathematics- http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/ together in class and many of the students use this site to collect information about their mathematician or concept. They learn skills such as inserting a picture in a document, drawing in a word processing document, scanning pictures, and following a rubric. An excellent social studies across the curriculum project.

Math:

1. Tangrams   http://www.matti.usu.edu/nlvm/enu/navd/frames_asid_112_g_1_t_2.html -interactive math site
2.                   www.tangram.i-p.com - interactive on-line site Print instruction sheet for your class.
3.                   http://www.kidscom.com/orakc/Games/Tangram/index.shtml- interactive on-line site
4.                   http://www.strongmuseum.org/kids/tangram.html - to create your own tangrams from paper
5. www.coolmath4kids.com - Printable student instruction sheet for your class.
6. http://www.matti.usu.edu/nlvm/enu/navd/grade_g_1.html - National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics k-12 interactive math site
7. www.mathstories.com
8. http://www.coe.uh.edu/archive/math/math_lessons/mathles3/tutor.htm - Money tutorials
9. http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/ - Graphing

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/enu/navd/index.html

GRADE LEVEL: Pre-K-12

REVIEW:   A+

This is a great site for teachers to use as a supplement to the math curriculum to help students visualize relationships and applications. The virtual manipulatives are developed to correlate with the NCTM standards and are appropriate for use in grades Pre-K through 12. For younger students, teachers may want to use them as a whole-group demonstration. Older students will be able to use them independently. Each grade-level group of manipulatives is divided into five topics: Number & Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and Data Analysis & Probability. Plans are in the works to add teacher pages and activities, but creative teachers will have no problem using these learning tools in their classrooms with just the instructions.

MathDL
The Mathematical Sciences Digital Library is enormous and excellent.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2004/r1104-12.shtml

URL:
http://www.mathdl.org/

REVIEW: A+
MathDL offers a wealth of resources for the teaching and learning of math. The highly interactive modules are not only engaging for students but can also be used by teachers for demonstrations or discussions with small groups. The online magazine, Convergence, is a resource for math teachers using mathematics history as a learning/teaching tool. It includes expository articles, classroom experiences, animated mathematical demonstrations that can be downloaded for classroom use, translations and commentaries of mathematical works and reviews of materials, books, Web sites, teaching aids and more. JOMA (The Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications) includes research articles, ideas for developing and using Web based resources in the classroom, modules and mathlets that can be used in the classroom, reviews of online resources and a developers area with articles on the process of designing and developing online materials. The Digital Classroom Resources provides classroom tested and peer reviewed free online learning materials. Many of them are linked to moderated discussion groups and editorial reviews

	CONTENT: Algebra Solutions is a part of the larger GoMath site and offers students the opportunity to practice pre-algebra and algebra problems online and get step-by-step instructions for finding the solutions, worksheets, and mini-lessons.
	SITE DESIGN: The site is designed with an index of topics listed on the left side of the page for quick and easy access. Topics are divided into two categories: Algebra and Pre-Algebra. Mini lessons include graphics and examples.
	REVIEW: This site is great for students wanting to brush up on their algebra skills or get help with homework assignments. There are twelve pre-algebra topics including negative numbers, square root, and reducing to the lowest term. More than twenty algebra topics, including factorials, logarithm, and the Pythagorean Theorem, are discussed. Each topic page features examples, rules, a link to a complete mini-lesson including graphics and examples, and a link to a printable worksheet for practice offline. Students will want to check out the nifty calculator that not only provides the answers to their problems but also gives them a step-by-step description of how the solution is computed. Students can enter their own problems or have the calculator generate the problems for them by clicking on the practice button.

Investigating Patterns: Symmetry and Tessellations

http://www.camosun.bc.ca/~jbritton/jbsymteslk.htm

GRADE LEVEL: 5-8

REVIEW:   A

Author and consultant Jill Britton has put together this site to accompany her book by the same name, but the resources will be helpful to any grade 5-8 mathematics teacher. The links are grouped into 30 topics, including an introduction to symmetry, symmetry in the alphabet, reflectional and rotational symmetry, regular polygons, and more. Each topic has an annotated list of links to other sites that offer fun activities, tutorials, and lesson plans. This is a great resource for finding Web sites to integrate into your math curriculum or for students looking to practice their skills and find help with their math homework.

Visual Math
Now you see it, now you know fractions!

URL:
http://www.visualmathlearning.com

REVIEW: A+
Visual Math Learning is a great resource for teachers, students and parents. It provides free interactive tutorials for elementary and middle age students that can be used in the classroom as a supplement to the curriculum, by parents helping their children with homework or by home schools. The tutorials are animated and visually teach concepts such as number bases, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, integers, natural numbers, and more. The games and exercises include interactive multiplication, addition, subtraction and division tables, factogram, equivalent fractions and more. Each of the exercises includes easy to follow directions that can be found by just clicking on the question in the lower right corner of the game. Rounding out the site is a list of suggested related resources on the Web.

Calculus Help Site:

I am the webmaster of a very valuable web resource for high school

calculus teachers (http://www.calculus-help.com). Of course my view may be

biased, as I have spent the last few years building this web site. My goal

was to create an on-line archive of calculus help that presents a sense of

humor, is approachable, understandable, and exhibits what a single teacher

can do with a web presence. My commitment is a free web site that

entertains as well as educates and provides new and engaging content every

week of the school year.

What an amazing Math site for fun, informative review, practice and games on every imaginable aspect of math k-9:

http://www.aaamath.com/index.html

is an excellent interactive arithmetic site that provides explanations of

topics as well as challenge games for practice that are self-scoring and

timed. Site is well organized by grade and math skill. My students were

excited by the geometry challenges. Great site!

Have students make their own puzzles to review ELA and Math!

A great web-site to make them at is www.puzzlemaker.com. The students absolutely love going to the site to make their word searches and crossword puzzles, or criss-cross puzzles as the site calls them. The directions for making each of the puzzles is clear and easy to follow. I use the same site for making word searches or crossword puzzles in other subject areas. At this site you can also make math puzzles, Cryptograms, Falling Phrases, Double Puzzles, and more. Check it out!

"MathTools" offers hundreds of lesson plans & learning activities

for precalculus & for math instruction in grades 2 & 7.

Estimation, fractions, factors, patterns, percents, functions,

fractals, tessellations, platonic solids, area, geometric shapes,

& probability are among the topics. (NSF)

     http://mathforum.org/mathtools/

Number Patterns Fun With Curves & Topology

http://www.camosun.bc.ca/~jbritton/jbfunpatt.htm

GRADE LEVEL: 6-8

CONTENT: A

This math metasite, created by educational consultant and textbook author Jill Britton, is an index of 18 subtopics relating to number patterns.

AESTHETICS: B+

With not a lot of glitz and glamour, the site has a simple layout with few graphics.

ORGANIZATION: B+

Links are grouped into 18 subtopics that are listed in index format on the main page. Links lead to outside sources so users will need to use the Back button on their browsers to return to the index.

REVIEW: A

Math teachers will appreciate the work put into this excellent resource for supplementing the math curriculum. The author has scoured the Internet to find the best sites available for teaching such topics as prime numbers, the golden ratio, Pascal's triangle, mazes and maps, moiré patterns and more. The Web resources listed under each topic are annotated and lead to tutorials, applets, and fun activities for students and lesson plans for teachers.

Calculus-

http://www.calculus-help.com

GRADE LEVEL: 9-12, Advanced

CONTENT: A

Calculus-Help.com was developed by a calculus instructor to provide additional help for his high school students. Since its development, it has expanded to provide practice and help for college students in addition to advanced high school math students. The site offers two weekly problems -- one considered to be at a College Calculus 2 level and the other a slightly lower level problem. The following week, the solutions to the problems are shown -- complete, detailed, easy-to-understand, plain English answers, according to the site. There are also some tutorial modules being developed to walk students through the subjects like a personal tutor.

AESTHETICS: B   

The colored backgrounds make this site a little difficult to read.

ORGANIZATION:  A

The site is easy to navigate. The link to the Problem of the Week is easily found on the home page. There is also a search feature for the problem archive.

REVIEW: A

Calculus-Help.com offers advanced math students a place to practice. By searching for the type of problem they need help with, students can see a detailed solution. At the present, there is a section on the site related to the Superbowl of High School Calculus, an online competition between teams of high school calculus students. In the Calculus Fun Stuff section, there are several tutorials being developed using Flash animation. These loaded very slowly on a slow modem connection. This section also offers the Calculus-Help.com's Interactive Cheat Sheet, which contains all the formulas students need to memorize for Calculus I and II.

Concepts and Applications of Inferential Statistics

http://faculty.vassar.edu/~lowry/webtext.html

GRADE LEVEL: 9-12, Advanced 

www.getsmarter.org offers students from K-12 a chance to test their skills in science and math against their international peers- and have fun in the process . There are modules that show how math and science relate to our daily lives.

What an amazing Math site for fun, informative review, practice and games on every imaginable aspect of math k-9:

http://www.aaamath.com/index.html

is an excellent interactive arithmetic site that provides explanations of

topics as well as challenge games for practice that are self-scoring and

timed. Site is well organized by grade and math skill. My students were

excited by the geometry challenges. Great site!

	CONTENT: This site teaches middle grades students all about U.S. Savings Bonds. It includes a downloadable curriculum booklet that teaches math using real-life examples from personal finance.
	SITE DESIGN: The site has a simple look and organization with links in the left side menu. A search option is available and for those needing help with downloading a link for help can be found at the bottom of the lesson page.
	REVIEW: Engage your middle school students in life-lessons about personal finance. Students learn personal finance concepts such as how to manage their money, stay out of debt, and save for retirement. The standards-based lesson plans in the downloadable teachers' guide teach such math concepts as percent, data analysis, measurement, average, reasoning, spreadsheet and problem solving. Included are reproducible activity pages and teaching tips. Additionally at the site visitors will find questions and answers about savings bonds, fun facts, a slide show to introduce teachers to the curriculum, an email link for asking questions, printable games, a glossary and links to personal finance education resources on the Web.

It All Adds Up!
Dynamic site for teens on personal finance.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2005/r0205-23.shtml

URL:
http://www.italladdsup.org/

REVIEW: A+
This engaging site will give teens a leg up on managing their financial future. Students play online games and simulations to learn planning techniques for buying a car, paying for college, budgeting, saving and investing and managing credit cards. The activities are aligned to standards in economics and math and provide high school students an opportunity to practice their skills in a format that is relevant to their interests. The teacher’s guide offers objectives, keyword vocabulary, standards, a description of the activity and additional resources for each of the five modules: Getting and Using a Credit Card, Buying a Car, Budget Odyssey, Saving and Investing Blitz, and You’re Going to College. Teachers will find this to be a useful resource for supplementing the economics curriculum.

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Balanced Assessment
More than 300 free K-12 math assessments developed at Harvard.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2004/r1104-03.shtml

URL:
http://balancedassessment.concord.org/

REVIEW: A+
“Balanced Assessment in Mathematics was a National Science Foundation Project charged with developing new approaches to the assessment of mathematical competence in the elementary and secondary grades.” The site provides a wealth of assessment tasks that are ready to use, include rubrics and answers, and best of all they’re free! Busy math teachers will consider this a gold mine. The assessments cover grade levels K-12 and a variety of topics such as averages, addition, area, graphing, logarithms, rectangles, shapes, stock market, volume and much more. The tasks can be browsed by letter or by number. Teachers can obtain a password to access the scoring rubrics and solutions by ordering any of the inexpensive publications. Included at the site are articles that explain the approach to assessment and scoring and a downloadable MCAPS Scoring Tool

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