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- A
Comprehensive Table of all SI Prefixes
This site provides a good reference for teachers.
The table shows powers of 10 along with the metric
and English prefixes.
- AAA Math
This site is a great resource for
teachers and students who work with grades K- 8.
There are definitions,examples and student activities.
- Awesome Library Middle-High School Math
This
site offers teachers a wide variety of sites that
they can reference. There are forums, games, lesson
plans and activities from Pre-Algebra to Pre-Calculus.
- BBC
School's MegaShapes
Outstanding Excellent
geometry site for ages 4 to 11. Follow
the Investigate link for student activities
that involve multiple choice questions about
familiar regular shapes and irregular shapes. While
students complete these activites, they have
access to a shape book that provides drawings
and information about each shape. Click
on the bouncing triangle for interactive java
activities that allow students to use their
knowledge about shapes, symmetry, and transformations. Follow
the teacher link for information about the
skills that are covered at this website, along
with printable activities and resources.
- Calculator City
This site contains converters
and calculators for finance, geometry, algebra, trigonometry,
calculus, astornomy, chemistry, physics, basic math,
misc. and ultra calculators. This page also has links
to other resources. There is a lot of advertising
on pages, but the calculators have directions and
examples.
- DMP
Homepage
The Discrete Mathematics Project homepage for the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
- Education
World: Teacher Tools and Templates New
Collection
of blank templates for just about anything; including
assessments, graphic organizers, awards, parent contacts,
icebreakers, 3-D shapes, etc.
- Enough of Euclid
This site is on something
called Taxi Cab Geometry. It compares the idea of
Taxi Cab Geometry to Euclidian Geometry. This is
a great site for your over-achieving students that
need something else to work on. It will cause them
to think in a whole new way. There are many similarities
between Taxi Cab and Euclidian.
- eThemes
eThemes is an extensive database of content-rich,
age-appropriate resources organized around specific
themes. These resources are created for educators
to use in their classrooms.
- Famous Mathematicians Names This site gives
pictures and names of famous mathematicians.
- Figure
This! Math Challenges For Families
A thought-provoking site for grades 5-8 that presents
students and their families with math challenges
to
figure out. Each challenge has suggestions for getting
started and provides hints, an answer, other related
problems, extensions, interesting facts, and resources.
Teachers could use these as extensions of their lessons
in the classroom or they could have students access
the site and work through the challenges. A site with
problems and challenges from Algebra, Number Sense,
Geometry, Measurement, and Statistics and Probability. Excellent
resources for families in English and in Spanish
can be found by following the Family Corner
link.
- Games
and Things
This site takes students through games to learn money
skills. It describes information on getting
a paycheck and paying income taxes. It also
explains saving, investing, and borrowing money.
Teachers must register at the site before using it.
- Geometry
Constructions
Here you will find 13 geometry constructions explained
step by step with illustrations provided. It can be
printed out for an easy, well-organized, and complete
reference guide to constructions.
- Kids
Know It Network
Four
catchy math songs. Great way to teach vocabulary and
difficult concepts.
- Links
For Teacher-Ed
This site offers a directory of math links for teachers
of grades 5-12. The cool math site also offers
math activities.
- LiveBinders
LiveBinders is a free organization
site for keeping together links and materials on
a subject. You can upload documents from your desktop
to LiveBinders. The total upload is currently limited
to 100MB of storage space per account, but you can
create as many LiveBinders as you want.
- Livegrpahics
3d applets
This site has a very large array of 3d animations.
- Make
a FractalThis site allows a student to design their
own fractal by changing colors and patterns within
it. Student
designed fracts can be saved in poster form. It also
describes how fractals are generated, and has many
links to other sites about fractals.
- Making
Mathematics
This site contains a list of mathematics research
projects for students in grades seven through twelve.
The list of projects tells to which category of math
the project relates such as algebra, patterns, or
reasoning. The site also has examples of completed
projects.
- Mathematics
Animated
This site has animations that show proof of the Pythagorean
Theorem as well as higher mathematics.
- Math.com
This site is a good resource for teachers. The site
have various calculators (basic, scientific, square
root, circle, prime number, quadratic equation, percent
probability, savings, and trigonometry), games,
conversion
tools, and other resources.
- Math
Dictionary for Kids
An easy to use dictionary for math students.
- Mathematics
Internet 4 Classrooms
Outstanding!
This database contains games, activities, and resources
for teachers at the elementary, middle school, and
high school level.
- Math
in the Home
Games and activities to explore math concepts for
grades K-4. Will work very well in a hands-on atmosphere.
Makes use of inexpensive household items.
- Math Reference
Tables
Good reference site containing a variety of reference
tables including multiplication and addition charts,
conversion charts, and lists of formulas. Labeled
and easily accessed.
- NASA
- Learning Resources
This site is the start point for anyone that wants
to find ANYTHING to relate NASA to the classroom.
It shows you how to use and search the site as well
as where to look for other resources.
- National
Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive
Math
Outstanding!.
This site is an excellent teacher resource. It contains
numerous student interactive virtual activities that
are listed according to grade-level and subject-matter.
- Online
Graphing
Outstanding -
Will graph functions like a graphing calculator
would
do, only easier. Great for those without access
to graphing calculators.
- Practical
Uses of Math and Science
Pumas is a collection of one-page examples of how
math and science topics taught in K-12 classes can
be used in interesting settings, including everyday
life. The examples are written primarily by scientists
and engineers, and are available to teachers, students,
and other interested parties via the PUMAS Web Site.
Our goal is to capture, for the benefit of pre-college
education, the flavor of the vast experience that
working scientists have with interesting and practical
uses of math and science...
- Prime
Number
This site is a good reference for teachers to use
when teaching prime numbers. The definition of a
prime
number is given as well as a list of primes. Special
prime numbers are also given for example palindromic
primes are listed.
- Read,
Write, Think New
Great ideas for linking literacy
and mathematics using reading and writing.
- Sieve
of EratosthenesStudents explore an interactive Sieve of Eratosthenes
to predict what numbers are factors of one another
and make predictions based on patterns that develop.
Worksheets, lesson plans and other teacher resources
are available.
- The
Math Forum (MS & HS)
General site for multiple math topics. Includes the
following categories: Student Center, Teachers Place,
Research Division, Parents and Citizens. Includes
problems of the week that students respond to and
solutions are given the following week. Past problems
are also available.
- The
Mint
Designed to teach children to be money smart.
The Site covers earning, saving, spending, tracking,
investing, and owing.
- The
Online Teacher Resource-Math New
Outstanding: This
site has all the resources a teacher needs in mathematics.
It has lesson, rubrics, worksheets, etc.
- Top Rated Math Sites
This is a general site
for educators to use as a resource for finding web
materials.
- Using
a TI 83/84 Calculator New
Step by Step tutorial
on using a TI 83 or TI 84 graphing calculator.
- Using
a TI 83/84 Calculator New
Step by Step tutorial
on using a TI 83 or TI 84 graphing calculator.
- Venn
Diagram
This is a source for teachers or students to
learn more about Venn diagrams.The site includes
ways
to
use Venns and how to create your own. There
is a database of Venn Diagrams to view also.
- Virtual
Manipulatives
A library of virtual manipulatives for all areas
of math. Students can use these or a teacher
could use them for demonstration during instruction.
- WolframAlpha
- Computational Knowledge EngineOutstanding Today's
Wolfram Alpha is the first step in an ambitious,
long-term project to make all systematic knowledge
immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question
or calculation, and Wolfram Alpha uses its built-in
algorithms and a growing collection of data to
compute the answer.
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