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South Dakota Mathematics Content Standards K-12 May 2004

SD Math Content Standards  (Condensed Version)
(pdf format)        K-6        7-12

Performance Exemplars Follow the "teaching resources" links

Professional Development for EducatorsSouth Dakota Professional Development is a clearinghouse of staff development opportunities provided by South Dakota not-for-profit education partners     More Information!

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SDSU Calculus Gateway Exam: What and Why?

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Math Discussion lists and Bulletin Boards

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Help Wanted: SD DOE Math Listserv

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Math Forum

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SDCTM Annual Symposium

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SDCTM/SDSTA Annual Joint Conference

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Professional Development

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NCTM Regional conference information

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DECA Math Clinic photos and notes (December 2002)

Awards and Opportunities

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Presidential Awards for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching 

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Further information about Presidential Awards from Diana McCann

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RadioShack National Teacher Awards

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American Stars of Teaching Awards

Affiliates and Professional Organizations
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)

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South Dakota Science Teachers Association (SDSTA)

Math Content Links and Further Information

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SDCTM Members' Favorite Websites

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Recommend your favorite website!

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Mr. Duey raps the fractions--extremely cool TeacherTube video

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Calculicious It's delicious on YouTube!

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Mathmaticious- Rated for all students! Fantastic! YouTube

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National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is housed at Utah State University.  This project was funded by NSF to create Java applets to be used by K-12 mathematics educators.

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Key Curriculum Press offers software such as Geometer’s Sketchpad, Fathom, TinkerPlots for use in the mathematics classroom.  They also sell books that contain activities using the software.  Activities similar to those in the book can sometimes be found online by doing a google search.

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NCTM Illuminations  offers hundreds of lesson that you can access even if you are not a member of NCTM.  Of course, if you are a member, you can access more at the Lessons and Resources page of www.nctm.org

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Numb3rs TI and NCTM have worked together to create this website that has lesson plans related to various episodes of the popular TV show.

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Math for America is a non-profit organization with a mission of improving math education in our public schools.  This website has links to other resource pages, such as activities & lesson plans and virtual manipulatives.

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Geogebra is free software that can be used for geometry, algebra, and calculus.  In addition, if you visit the GeoGebraWiki page, there is a free pool of teaching materials for this software.

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Winplot is a free general purpose graphing software

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Serpinski carpet cookies by Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

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I Will Derive! A calculus music-video based on Gloria Gaynor's 80's hit! Hysterical!

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Lawrenceville Math Resources provides applets with many interactive graphs. Samples include sinusoids, unit circle, transformations, normal curve, and tangent/secant lines. Also calculus and 2-D 3-D graphs. Fantastic!

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Collection of Math, Science, Engineering, Reference, and Related Humor Links (courtesy of Abe Mantell, Nassau Community College, NY, USA)

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At last! A search engine with an attitude! Turn over your search to Ms. Dewey at http://msdewey.com/

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 Weekly e-mail activities from Texas Instruments: These free weekly activities incorporate the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus families of graphing calculators. Sign up at TIalgebra.com.

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Rebecca Newburn's Resources for Teachers includes strategies, videos and resources for grades 7+. The Information Age Education Blog includes essays and comments about best practices, cooperative learning, and many other topics of interest to teachers.

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Nets for common 3-D shapes including cube, cuboid, cone, regular pyramid, octahedron, rhomboid, tetrahedron, pentagonal prism and pyramid

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NUMB3RS: Texas Instruments and CBS Continue Award-Winning "We All Use Math Every Day" Education Program

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ICTM has a great graphing page. Download and save your own graph paper: rectangular, polar, trig and much more!

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Hands-on math activities A wide range of topics are dealt with such as angles, symmetry, scale drawing, balance algebra, tables, combinations, statistics, probability, reasoning, finding rules and formulas, problem solving, etc.

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Coin Stacking :This isn't the one that shows how big a stack of a million (etc.) pennies would be. Created by a civil engineering student who use pennies to create interesting stacks to form bridges, towers, and more. Glue? No way! That'd be cheating! Extraordinary!

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Numbers from 1 to 31 : A page for each day of the month with interesting facts and trivia about the number. Elementary-High School

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Mathematical Idol: Students perform math songs!

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History of Mathematics Archive includes famous mathematicians born on this date, and a math quote of the day. (University of St. Andrews Scotland)

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Calculus-help.com includes songs, animations, and many interesting mathematical distractions. Don't miss this guy's version of the quadratic equation song!

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TI-84+ Calculator tutorials by Atomic Learning (Quicktime movie) provide keystroke by keystroke instructions with narration and animation.

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Figure This!  Mathematical challenges for families provides interesting math challenges that middle-school students can do at home with their families. (NCTM sponsored)

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Geometry from the Land of the Incas provides an eclectic mix of sound, science, and Incan history in order to raise students’ interest in Geometry. Highlights: beautiful theorems animations  and mathematical quotes.

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Larry Green's Homepage of virtual manipulates and interactive java applets

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USU National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics

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MAA Mathematics Digital Library provides digital classroom resources for teachers and students

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Devlin's Angle Archives --Math essays
(Mathematics Association of America)

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Become an Educator Astronaut

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Mathematics Communities

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Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) website searchable or browse by topic

State and Federal Resources for Educators

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The National Mathematics Advisory Panel Final Report: March 13, 2008

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South Dakota Space Grant Consortium

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MATHCOUNTS SD Coordinator
Jenny Sorensen (605) 641-2581. jensorensen@rushmore.com

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No Child Left Behind: US Department of Education Links and Information

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Free Guide Offers Parent Tips on Helping Your Child Learn Math

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No Child Left Behind: South Dakota Links and Information

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SD Department of Education Homepage

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SD Department of Education (teachers)

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South Dakota Mathematics Content Standards

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Certification and endorsement requirements
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Middle School/Junior High Gr. 5-8

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High School Gr. 9-12

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South Dakota EdWeb Education Website 

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Famous Math Quotes

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Math Humor

Featured links are sites recommended by SDCTM members, and are not necessarily endorsed by NCTM or SDCTM.

Last updated 08/07/2008

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