- Appetizers and Lessons
for Mathematics and Reason
This site provides links to lessons and activities
for math students and teachers.
- Awesome
Library
The Awesome Library is a resource for teacher made
lesson plans in a wide variety of subjects. You can
search the database by subject area and grade level.
- Canada's
Schoolnet
This site contains different word problems at various
levels from Grade 5 through Grade 12. I would
recommend this site as a teacher lesson site only
because the answers are too easily accessible from
the page. These would make excellent bridge
type problems to connect two days of work or as an
"in the door" activity. May also be used as
test type questions. The site is easy to use
and would prove very friendly to students as well.
Answers are provided as well as hint pages.
- Crystallographic Polyhedra New
This site has an
applet that shows the structure of various polyhedra.
You can rotate and change the size of the figures.
Really cool site.
- Ed helper/math New
At the beginning of the school
year, sign-up for ed helper.com…just a reminder
to teachers. A great site for math resources for
teachers K-5 grades.
- Estimating
Scoops
This is a video lesson that will help teachers of
small children prepare for a lesson of estimating.
Suggestions for an activiy are given.
- Free Function Plotting New
MathGV(tm) is a mathematical
function graphing software program for Windows 95/98/ME,
NT4, 2000 and XP. It can plot 2 dimensional, parametric,
polar, and 3 dimension functions.
- GirlTECH
Math Site
GirlTECH teachers designed these lesson plans to take
full advantage of Internet resources and to teach
mathematics and science concepts in new and exciting
ways. This site contains many lesson plans and activities
which allow students to work on math problems.
- Imagine
the Universe! Lesson Plans
This has several lesson plans that relate to math
and science used at the Goddard Space Flight Center.
Really good Lesson Plans!
- Lesson
Plans with Student Interactive applets
A collection of lesson plans with worksheets and interactive
applets for student use. Multiple topics are included:
Number and Operations, Geometry and Measurement, Function
and Algebra, Probability and Data Analysis.
- Mathematics
and Children's Literature
This is a unit using children's literature to connect
to a number of the NCTM standards. The five lessons
can be geared toward the grade level of your choosing
by modifiying the worksheets included in the lessons.
The literature used is fun for any grade level. At
the high school and middle school levels, you may
need a "buy in" from your students as you
are using stories generally geared toward younger
children
- Math.com
This site is a database of lesson plans. Type in a
key word and it will give you several lessons.
- Math
Files
Teachers can print off crossword puzzles, charts,
checks, and other activities to use with their students
for number sense, algebra, shapes, measurement, and
data handling. Also, by clicking on "games" teachers
can find interactive games for students to play.
- Math
Goodies
Math Goodies is a free educational web site featuring
interactive math lessons, homework help, worksheets,
puzzles, message boards, and more! They have over
400 pages of free math activities and resources for
students, teachers, and parents. This site also includes
homework help. This is designed primarily for grades
4-7. The lessons are free, however not all items
are free.
- Math
Practice
This site is for teachers. You can create worksheets
for Pre-Algebra and Algebra. They will also
provide answers. It will generate hundreds of
problems for you if you want them. They can
be printed and used right away.
- Math
Stories
This site offers a variety of worksheets in all areas
of mathematics and is organized according to grade
level. The worksheets contain story problems that
address different computation areas. A basic
yearly membership fee is needed to access this site.
- Mega
Math
This teacher resource site provides background information,
vocabulary, materials, key concepts, activities, and
evaluation suggestions for unusual yet important elementary
mathematical ideas. The seven unit topics range from
graphs to algorithms.
- New
York Times
Data base of lesson plans for all subjects.
Teachers can sign up and have a lesson plan for their
subject and grade level emailed to them once a week.
Lesson plans are arvchived and searchable. This
site also offers word of the day, test prep question
of the day, and much more.
- PBS
Teacher Resources
Lesson Plans, activities and more can be found using
a keyword search or you can browse at this PBS teacher
resource site.
- Pi
and Simulation
This site is a good resource for teachers when teaching
about pi. Several activities are given for finding
pi through probability.
- Problems
With A Point
This site provides a range of lessons, some
of which incorporate technology. The users search
by math topic and sub-topic; math background; problem
solving skills; list of technology; and key words.
Each lesson presents a short description of the activity,
the technology required (if any), and printable versions
of the problems, hints, and solutions.
- Purplemath:
Your Algebra Resource
- Informational site consisting of lesson plans relating
to topics from beginning algebra to advanced algebra.
- Lesson
Plans Page.com
A site that links to lesson plans. Most activities
or lessons are for grades K-4.
- Project
SkyMath
This web page is designed for middle school mathematics
teachers. It contains all of the information needed
for teachers to use the 16 classroom activities of
SkyMath, including the module itself. The 16
activities take at least 6 weeks to cover. These
activities cover a variety of math strands, which
are covered through weather measurement. The module
may be downloaded in sections, each section containing
3-4 activities. Each activity may be used independently,
or the entire module may be used. This is an excellent
site!
- Smallville's
Prairie Project
This interactive Internet and hands-on project focuses
on a highly engaging problem regarding potential development
of a prairie site. The problem is open-ended and lends
itself to a variety of investigatory directions. Students
solve a problem similar to a wide variety of real-life
problems in many communities. Appropriate for grades
9-10. Connections to social studies, biology, environmental
science and English.
- Smile
Program Mathematics Index
This is a great general site for many diffent lesson
plans K-12. It covers many of the benchmarks for Geometry
and Measurement from elementary to high school.
- Supplying
Our Water Needs
The goal is to investigate the problem (water supply),
as defined by the students, using a variety of tools:
appropriate technology to collect and analyze water
data; telecomunications to gather data and for collaborative
research with experts and other students; and multimedia
technology to report and present the process and results
of their research. During the project, each team is
responsible for developing a plan for conducting their
research and for managing their plan. Appropriate
for high school math or science as this is an interdisciplinary
project.
- Teacher
Vision - Learning Network
This site provides lots of good things for teachers
and students, including lesson plans, on-line puzzles,
classroom management ideas, math handouts and reference
sheets, graphic organizers, and free newsletters.
There are on-line projects and quizzes for students.
- The
Educator's Reference Desk
This site includes grade specific lesson plans by
other educators (K-8) that can be implemented by the
teacher. Some of the lesson plans include printable
worksheets.
- The
MathPage
Lessons in: Skill in Arithmetic, Topics in Trigonometry,
Topics in PreCalculus, The Evolution of the Real Numbers.
- The
MathPage - Trigonometry
This site includes several trigonometry topics including
ratio and proportion, pythagorean theorem, radicals,
solving right triangles, measurement of angles, radian
measure, evaluating pi, law of sines, law of cosines,
etc.
- The
National Math Trail
This site is an excellent project site. "Math
is all around you" is the central tenant of this site.
It allows teachers/students to look at and post math
problems from every day life. If a teacher needs
a long term project, then this is the site for you!
- The
Skyscraper Page
This site is a super teacher resource that uses some
excellent illustrations and actual pictures of skyscrapers
and other architecture. Illustrations of skyscrapers
are displayed on a graph with a bevy of statistics.
This would be a good resource for spreadsheets because
of all the data present. Many uses for real
life applications.
- Trigonometry Helper New
Solves your trigonometry
problems with step-by-step explanations, as well
as giving definitions and examples of different trig
terms.
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