AAA Math - new math web site for K-8 students. It has hundreds of pages of interactive practice and math explanations. There is no charge for using this site.
About Today's Date - a nice site that gives history and facts about the numbers in today's date.
Animated Math Glossary - definitions and visuals of math vocabulary for grades one through eight.
Appetizers and Lessons for Math and Reason - Interesting site for developing your own lessons or tutoring and enrichment beyond classroom instruction. Useful to high school students and math teachers.
Arithmetic Lesson Plans - This list contains some of the best sites for individual arithmetic lesson plans or materials on which to base them.
Baseball and Math - problems by difficulty, baseball trivia and more.
Basic Arithmetic - Upon complettion of this unit, students will have practice on positive/negative numbers, numerical expressions, properties of numbers, estimation, and problem solving.
The ExplorerTM is a collection of educational resources (instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans, student created materials ...) for K-12 mathematics and science education. Many resources are available in the Adobe Acrobat format that is readable by Macintosh, Windows and other OSs.
Good News Bears - On line interdisciplinary project specifically designed for middle school students and teachers. This project revolves around an interactive stock market competetition between classmates using real time stock market data from the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. There are lesson plans, reproducible pages, and student forms.
Governmental Resources for Mathematics - lessons, activities and more from sites including the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, Regional Educational Labs, and U.S. Department of Education!
History of Math - wonderful sites for all kinds of research!
Java Kali - explore symmetry and make fantastic patterns
Just an Usual Day at Unusual School - Students perform a play which takes place in a school where some of the students always lie and the rest alway s tell the truth. Terry, the protagonist, is trying to find out which students are which, but at the beginning, there is no way of knowing whom to believe.
Magic Squares This unit by Forum Teacher Associate Suzanne Alejandre is designed for middle and older elementary school students, and includes classroom activities for four different squares: Lo Shu, Sator, Dürer, and Franklin, demonstrating number complexity and symmetry. Links and suggestions for history, geography, and writing activities for teachers interested in interdisciplinary work are included.
Magic Squares, Magic Stars & Other Patterns - This site has three sections, with pages on magic squares, magic stars (a lot of original material) and miscellaneous number patterns. This site should be of interest to middle and high school students and teachers, and anyone interested in recreational mathematics.
Mandelbrot Midlevels Competition - The topics covered in the Competition are similar to those covered in MathCounts, such as arithmetic, counting techniques, elementary algebra, and geometry.
Math BaseballTake a swing to solve a problem and get a hit, on this fun Website for
practicing math.
MathMagic is a K-12 telecommunications project developed in El Paso, Texas. It provides strong motivation for students to use computer technology while increasing problem-solving strategies and communications skills. MathMagic posts challenges in each of four categories (k-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12) to trigger each registered team to pair up with another team and engage in a problem-solving dialog. When an agreement has been reached, one solution is posted for every pair.
MegaMath! 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. Activities included in this well-designed site are supported by background information, concepts, materials, and more. These lessons cover all the strands and grade levels K-8.
Miami Zoo Students will work with measurment, area, and volume. This lesson can be easily modified to work with a local attraction.
Mr. Pitonyak's Pyramid Puzzle - How much would it cost to build an ancient Egyptian pyramid today? An interdisciplinary math project idea for middle school students.
Our
Town This lesson uses and/or introduces new tools in geography, math, and science to make observations and draws conclusions on the local temperature variations in your area.
Pentominoes - explorations, activities, lessons and more!
PlaneMath is a set of on-line lessons and activities that invites children to experience the excitement, power, and fun of mathematics and aeronautics. The project targets 4-7th grade students in schools across the country. The on-line lessons and activities will be useful to students in mainstream general education as well as special education settings. All lessons are responsive to the standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Polyhedra - all you'll ever need to know about these 3-D geometrical shapes!
SkyMath -- This Web Page is designed for middle school mathematics teachers by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. The goal of the pilot project is to demonstrate that acquiring and using current environmental and real-time weather data in middle school classrooms, in ways that embrace the dynamic and the uncertain natures of these data, will promote the teaching and learning of significant mathematics, consistent with the standards set by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Teaching Mathematics in the Middle and Secondary Schools - 40 lesson plans created by teachers from Florida. Covers grades 4-12. Lessons contain detailed explanations and directions. A number of the lessons are integrated with other disciplines. NCTM standards are documented. Some lessons utilize websites. Projects require practical use of math in real life situations. More than 30 lessons with fairly simple preparation. Lessons require 1 to 2 days.
Understanding Algebraic Factoring While working through algebraic factoring it is helpful to remember that all you are doing is working with breaking up and putting back together squares and rectangles!
Understanding Factoring Through GeometryA collection of lessons on factoring from Forum Teacher Associate Suzanne Alejandre. Using algebra tiles, students find a geometric basis for factoring.
Weather - Finding Averages Students use temperature data to find the high, the low, as well as the mean, median, and mode.
Word Problems - problems are arranged in grade levels - Grades 5 through 12
Nancy Powell is a Web Mentor for the Teachers Network and the Lead Teacher of the Mathematics Department at Bloomington High School
in Bloomington, IL
For more information or comments about these math pages, contact Nancy
Powell at npowell@bhs-ms.org
Nancy
Powell at npowell@bhs-ms.org