Math Links

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MATHEMATICS

http://www.calculus7.com - Calculus animations, graphics and lecture notes for classroom use. 

http://www.mathopenref.com - Math Open Reference – Definitions and examples of High School Math topics.
 
http://www.tsusmell.org/images/MELL_MathTerms.pdf - Spanish translations of some common math terms used in Middle and High School.

http://mathforum.org - Mathforum is a great site for teachers and students. Ask Dr. Math, Problems of the Week, Discussion Groups, and a library are some of the things at this site.

http://www.mathsciencenetwork.org/products - The National Network of Eisenhower:
This is a new online compilation of math and science resources.

http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html - The Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: This free website makes it easy to find teaching resources on federal government web sites. It was developed with the cooperation of more than 35 federal agencies and is updated each week.

http://nationsreportcard.gov - Videos of teachers and students, data tools, and reference guides.
 
http://www.acoe.org/acoe/EdServices/ProgramsandServices/Math/K12Resources  - For lessons on topics such as: fractions, factoring, graphs or linear and quadratic functions, and many others.

http://dww.ed.gov - Doing What Works  brings online the recommendations outlined in Encouraging Girls in Math and Science, a previously released practice guide sponsored by the department's Institute of Education Sciences. The guide is available for download from http://dww.ed.gov/launcher.cfm?media/MathScience/Girls/TopicLevel/gms_practice_guide.pdf
 
http://www.aleks.com - This online math program provides targeted assessment and learning with standards-based content for grades 3-12.  Through adaptive questioning, ALEKS accurately assesses a student’s knowledge and then delivers targeted instruction.
 
http://nw.pima.edu/dmeeks/spandict/ - This is an English-Spanish dictionary that lists English terms with their corresponding Spanish translations.


http://convergence.mathdl.org - Convergence is a resource and forum for mathematics teachers of high school classes and lower division college classes who want to use the history of mathematics to engage and motivate their students, and help them better understand the mathematical ideas. The magazine is currently free to all, although registration is required.

http://www.nctm.org/resources/families.aspx - This site offers brochures and other online materials that recommend practical ways for families to discuss and do math at home together.
 
http://www.learner.org/ - Annenberg media programs and games. Try the Taxicab Treasure Hunt.
 
http://nlvm.usu.edu/ - The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is an NSF supported project that began in 1999 to develop a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, for mathematics instruction (K-12). The project includes dissemination and extensive internal and external evaluation.

http://www.funbasedlearning.com - Algebra games and much more. Be sure to check out Graph Mole at different levels.
 
http://www.321know.com/ - AAA Math features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons. Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows thorough mastery of the concepts. A wide range of lessons (K-8 grades) enables learning or review to occur at each individual's current level.

http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/index.htm-  Principles and Standards for School Mathematics shares electronic examples (interactive figures/virtual manipulatives) for Pre-K-12. 

http://mathforum.org/ncsm/NCSMPublications/2000/pdf/CMTR_Elem_List.pdf-
The National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics provides a list of tools to use to teach different concepts. Download list as a PDF file.

http://mathforum.org/t2t/faq/faq.manipulatives.html- Math Forum’s Teacher2Teacher is a resource for teachers and parents who have questions about mathematics.                                                
http://www.pbs.org/parents/earlymath/grades_games.html -Browse to find the games that interest your child. You can use the Parent Pointers and Hints sections for ways to help your child get the most enjoyment from them.

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/-Parents and student can use these online resources at home to support grade-level standard skills in mathematics, reading and language arts, science, social studies, art, and health and fitness.

http://mathforum.org/pow/- Here is the index to all of Math Forum’s current and archived Problems of the Week. These non-routine challenges are for students in grades 3-8.                           

http://www.nwrel.org/msec/mpm/-The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory provides resources for teaching and assessing open-ended problem-solving. Included on-site are the components of the problem-solving model, developing performance assessments, scoring student work, and using assessment to guide instruction.                                                                               
http://www.stfx.ca/special/mathproblems/-These word problems are organized by grade levels. Each grade level has over 40 problems and answers. If needed, a hint is provided for each problem. 

http://www.thefutureschannel.com/problem_solving.php -The Futures Channel produces quality multimedia content for educators to enliven curriculum and engage students. Resources include short video clips, activities, and lessons to connect mathematics, science, technology, and engineering to the real world of careers and achievement.

http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/careers/aa/lessons/math.htm -How is math used in the real world? The Ministry of Education of the Government of British Columbia shares lessons that show how math is used in everyday applications.

http://mathstar.lacoe.edu/lessonlinks/welcome.html - The Los Angeles County Office of Education produced online student activities for Menu Math, Introducing Integers, Adding Integers, and Subtracting Integers. Students can independently use these online activities to test their math knowledge.

Other Great Links:

Ask Dr. Math

Beat the Calculator    is filled with mental tips to do quick arithmetic in your head. Gives shortcuts for squaring numbers, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction and so on.

Brain Teasers  

Cyberbee Math  Wonderful math activities online.

Flash Cards for Kids K-6 students practice multiplication, addition, subtraction, and division at this site. It lets the students know when their answers are correct or incorrect. You can also adapt the difficulty to the students' needs. Have K-3 students use manipulatives to solve incorrect answers; for grades 4-6 students can choose a problem and write a math story about it. 

Funbrain.com a web site where kids can score runs with their math skills; write their own crazy story; and never get short-changed with the cash register game.

Good News Bears Stock Market Good News Bears is a Web-based interactive stock market learning project for K-12. Using a variety of lesson plans, online forms, and activities, classmates engage in an interactive stock market competition and apply real-time stock market data from the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. The students play the roles of buyer and seller, deciding what stocks are worth trading.

Helping Your Child Learn Math Math activities for students ages 5-13 are the focus of this Web site, hosted by the U.S. Department of Education. Topics include things that kids can do at home, at the store, or in transit. It is designed for parents, but could easily be adapted for classroom use.

How Far Is It? Using this site, students can find the distance between cities, their populations, latitude and longitude, elevation, and telephone area code! Visitors type in the names of the cities, like New York and London, in the appropriate areas and click on the "Look it up" button. Within a matter of seconds, the shortest distance between the cities is displayed. You can also link to an online map if you want to view the cities.

Math Baseball 

The Math Forum   web-based math units and a Problem of the Week

Math Facts   Student practice math facts interactively. Great site. 10/99

Math TV  Write and solve multi-step word problems, step-by-step video solutions to problems, archived math problems

Math Lesson Plans  EXTENSIVE lists of plans and worksheets per topic

Mathematics, Schools of California Online Resources for Education (SCORE)

Math Stories   This math web site has over 2,500 word problems classified according to grade level and topics, and teachers are allowed to make copies free of charge.  9/24/99

Mega-Math

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics. Interactive manipulatives using java applets allow student to manipulate physical objects to explore various mathematics concepts. The site covers Numbers & Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Data Analysis, and Probability. Materials are grouped by grade levels of PreK-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12/

RESA   downloadable graphic organizers in MS Word format, PowerPoints of various topics and math songs, math Aerobics games

Web Graphing Calculator   Includes a basic, intermediate & advanced calculators. has equation plotting for algebra and analytic geometry,  multiple equation for solving systems of equations, inequality graphing in 1D and 2D.