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Recommend your favorite website! |
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Fraction Fun for Students is an entertaining fraction resource for
students. There are free games, tutorials, and worksheets as well as
homework helpers and lesson plans. |
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Math interactives from Scholastic is an awesome collection Subjects
range from Place Value to Number Lines and Estimating Whole Numbers.
They'll work well on your interactive whiteboards and there is also a
Science section if you click along the top menu! |
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Toys
from Trash Arvind Gupta's step-by-step photographic instructions
for building elegantly simple, do-it-yourself constructions include the
"Math Magic" manipulatives
 | Paper Protractor
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| No-Glue Cube
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| Prismatic Patterns
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| Square Box
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| Circle to Ellipse |
Some of these homemade constructions come with "one
minute films" in English, Hindi, Malaysian, Marathi, Bangla, Tamil,
Kannada, and other languages. Others feature PDFs to download more detailed
instructional prompts. More "toys" repurposed out of everyday
items playfully illustrate principles of astronomy, electricity, magnetism,
pressure, light, acoustics, and more. |
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Alberta Education's online
math glossary. It will provide students with a visual
demonstration of a variety of math terms. As well, some pages also
have applets (activities) to do while there to help with student
understanding. Click the grade level for your class and then scroll
down to locate the term you want to share – using the SMART board this
would be amazing. |
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“What does this
mean? When will I use this?”If you’re a math
teacher, you’ve probably heard these questions
before. We’re here to help you answer them. At
Mathalicious, we believe that math isn’t
something to learn, but a tool to learn about
other things. Our mission is to help transform
the way math is taught by providing you with the
best, most meaningful and most relevant math
content available. Our lessons are aligned to
traditional state standards but, unlike most
content, emphasize conceptual understanding
through engaging real-world applications.
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Who Wants to Be a Mathionaire?! A fun general math knowledge game. Use
your lifelines! Try to win a million bucks! Source code is available here
to customize and/or create your own game. |
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Math is fun
includes puzzles, games, worksheets, searchable by subject area. Math is
fun! Math
is fun illustrated mathematics dictionary |
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Math open
reference (geometry) page is searchable by topic |
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Use Senteo “clickers” with these
SmartExchange presentations. Searchable by math topic!
http://exchange.smarttech.com/search.html?sbj=math |
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Other SmartBoard sources:
http://teachingwithsmartboard.com/
http://smartboards.typepad.com/
http://www.smartboardlounge.com/ |
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University of Sioux Falls
Education Web site
http://faculty.usiouxfalls.edu/ArPeterson/ |
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The motherlode for math
information online!
http://www.mindomo.com/view?m=38cc4f6a467acbfde4be796e68399450 |
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On MathTV.com real teachers
explain math concepts from pre-algebra to pre-calculus searchable
http://mathtv.com/ |
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www.YouTube.com - search math and you will get a variety of videos –
I like the Abbott and Costello math explanations |
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www.TeacherTube.com -- search math
and you will find lessons, videos done by students, etc |
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http://guest.portaportal.com/vanderwiltd -- WOW this site is full of
good math education information, sorted by grade level |
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http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/math-me/id319065456?mt=8 features
addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems at four
different skill levels. |
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Mathematics Animated provides animations to explain higher level or more
abstract mathematics |
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At
Mathalicious,
they believe that math isn't something to learn, but a tool to learn about
other things. Lessons are aligned to traditional state standards but, unlike
most content, emphasize conceptual understanding through engaging real-world
applications. |
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A new free teacher resource site called
"TeacherZone" has
thousands of math video lessons for k12 -Most videos are 3-5 minutes long,
and can be used in class, as homework help, and shared with parents and
students. |
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Visualizing extremely large
numbers is hard. Here is a video demonstrating
President Obama's
budget cuts as a proportion of the federal budget. |
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Did you know that Michael Jordan
was a math major? This and other career information is available at the
When
will I use math? site sponsored by BYU and MAA. |
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Large collection of
Mathematics
Blackline Masters. They're all available in pdf or MS Word format. Just
download and print what you need. |
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A
list
of picture books categorized by math subject area: It was created by Dr.
Jeanne White who presented early numeracy topics at the NCTM conference and
who gave permission to share. Though her focus was grades k-2, there are
many books on here suitable for up to grades 7 and 8.(Word doc) |
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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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Math and science
clipart database: searchable, extensive, free! |
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Mathisfun.com has ideas and interactive activities for
algebra and geometry. Noteworthy: algebra balance and conic
sections drawing |
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Math Central is
an Internet service for mathematics students and teachers. The site is
maintained by faculty and students in Mathematics and Statistics and
Mathematics Education at the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan,
Canada. |
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Mr.
Duey raps the fractions--extremely cool TeacherTube video
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South Dakota's own
Dick
Termes and his termespheres |
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Count Calcula explains order of operations on TeacherTube
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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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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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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 |
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Mathematical Idol: Students perform
math songs! |
