Selected Math
Education Websites
Reviewed and
Annotated by
Amy Johnson, Graduate
Student
Email: aajohn01@morehead-st.edu
Morehead State
University
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Links
http://www.rosyth.moe.edu.sg/mathlinks.html
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Access
Indiana Teaching & Learning Center
Provides
a collection of math lesson plans for grades K-12. Categories include general math, algebra, calculus,
fractals, fractions, geometry, and measurement.
ALI
Featured Curriculum Resources
http://henson.austin.apple.com/edres/curric.shtml
The
Apple Learning Interchange (ALI) provides a library of computer and online
lesson plans for the elementary, middle, and secondary schools. At each level, you will find plans for
mathematics.
ALI Resources
The
Apple Learning Interchange provides a collection of thousands of Internet
resources for teaching and learning in grades K-12. You can search this online catalog by subject and level, or
by keyword. To find mathematics
lesson plans and ideas,
use the
subject pull-down menu.
All
Math
Includes
flash cards, a metric converter, and games likes “The Magic
Square”. Also includes reference
pages about the biography’s of mathematicians, a math glossary, math help
and humor, as well as references for teachers and students, math
articles
and math job listings.
Allegan
County Area Math Center
Provides
teaching resources, equipment, support staff, student and teacher programs, and
educational television.
Archive.edu
Archive.edu,
from the University of Houston’s College of Education, is a storehouse of
instructional materials on a variety of topics for grades K-12. The site includes technology-related
lesson plans for mathematics.
Autumn’s
Free Activity Page for Kids
http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Dell/5232
Provides
weekly a variety of printable worksheets for the primary grades to compliment
lessons in math and other subject areas.
Bamburg-Calhoun-Orangeburg
Math/Science Hub
Provides
K-12 teachers with access to the newest and most effective teaching methods in
math and science.
Blue
Web’N
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
Sponsored
by Pacific Bell, this site provides an online library of 19 lesson plan sites
for mathematics. To find math
plans, scroll to “Browse the Content Table”. You can also search the library for
math resources. The site, suitable
for grades
3-12,
is updated weekly.
Brain
Teasers
http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain
A kid’s
place for brain teasers, this site posts puzzles for ages 3 and up, which are
fun for all ages.
Browse
by Theme
http://www.eduplace.com/search/frames
Browse
by Theme from Houghton Mifflin contains a collection of cross-curricular lesson
plans for grades K-6. Some of the
themes that include plans for math are Disasters, Family, Weather, and
Observation.
Chicago
Systemic Initiative Math Education Resources
http://www.luc.edu/schools/education/csi.htm
Resources
for K-12, including lesson plans, software recommendations, and more.
Columbia
Education Center’s Mini Lesson
The
Columbia Education Center provides a collection of lesson plans for grades K-12
contributed by teachers attending summer workshops. The site includes over 50 mathematics plans for grades K-5,
6-8, and 9-12.
Connections+
http://www.mcrel.org/connect/plus
Connections+
from McRel provides a collection of lesson plans and activites for calculator,
patterns, fractal, algebra, polyhedra, place value, and other topics in grades
K-12. The find these resources,
scroll to “Mathematics”.
In addition, the
site
offers Currency Exchange resources.
Core
Knowledge Lesson Plans from National Conferences
http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/
Provides
a collections of integrated lesson plans and units developed by teachers for
use in grades preK-8. To find math
plans, click on grade level.
Crayola
Art Education Lesson Plans
http://education.crayola.com/lessons/
Binney
& Smith provides a searchable collection of lesson plans for grades
K-12. To find math plans for
grades K-6, choose “math” as the subject area and “any”
for the other categories. To find
available lessons, select “any” for all the categories.
Cuisenaire
Learning Place: Teacher’s Edition
http://www.cuisenaire.com/activities.html
The
Cuisenaire Learning Place provides teaching notes containing a collection of
hands-on math activies for grades K-6 that can be printed to use as worksheets.
Educast
Lesson Plan Search
http://www.educast.com/arc/lp/lessonplansrch/html
Educast,
designed by Davidson and Associates for grades K-12, provides a collection of
lesson plans that is updated weekly.
To search for math plans, choose all the grade levels, select math or
brain teasers as your subject, and click on Search. To
narrow
a math search, select one grade level and use the keyword search option. Each lesson plan includes printable
student activity sheets that require Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your
computer.
Educational
Java Programs for Math
http://www.best.com/~ejad/java
Educational
java applets in the areas of mathematics and science with emphasis in problem
solving for grades K to 12.
Explorer
http://explorer.scrtec.org/explorer/
Provides
a searchable database of math lesson plans and activities for grades K-12. To view the entire collection organized
by topic, click on “Mathematics Curriculum”. Math topics include problem solving and
reasoning, whole numbers and numeration, geometry, measurement, and others.
Explorer
Home Page
http://explorer.scrtec.org/explorer
A
collection of educational resources including lesson plans, instructional
software, and lab activities for K-12 math and science education. There are also tools for problem
solving and reasoning, whole numbers and numeration, number properties,
fractions,
decimals, ratio, percents, measurement, geometry, statistics, and algebraic
ideas.
Exploring
Discrete Mathematics in the Classroom
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/~judyann/LP/lessons/
Contains
five holiday-related lesson plans created by teachers and for grades K-8. One lesson plan is Judy Ann
Brown’s Mathematician Birthday Calendar in which students are asked to
design a birthday card, write a report, identify pictures, and create a
bulletin board of mathematicians on the calendar.
Filamentality
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fi/
This
site helps teachers create online lesson and activities for their
students. Other lessons created by
teachers can be viewed, sorted by Format and Grade Level. Also provided are step-by-step
procedures for creating a variety of page formats
including
hotlist page, a treasure hunt, and a Web-based activitiy page. There is also on-line help, tutorials,
and guidelines for creating your own Web documents.
Fractals
Unit
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/frac
Teaches
fractal geometry to elementary and middle school students by explaining what
the interesting pictures are all about: math and fun.
Free
Math Worksheets for K-6
http://www.mathgen.com/free/htm
The
MathGen Software Company provides online a collection of over two dozen free
worksheets for the whole numbers that elementary school teachers can print and
recopy for use in their classrooms.
Each worksheet also has an answer sheet.
Gateway
to Educational Materials (GEM)
GEM,
sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, provides access to lesson plans
on the Internet, curriculum units, and other education resources for grades
K-12. Click on
“Subject” to scroll to “Mathematics” to find a list of
topics containing these resources.
Hands-On
Math: Activities for the Elementary Classroom
http://www.xmission.com/~dparker/mathpage/handson/html
Hands-on activities for the elementary classroom contain classroom-tested
lesson plans in geometry, number patterns, and topology. The geometry plans include step-by-step
instructions for constructing the Platonic solids out of toothpicks and
gumdrops.
Henri
Picciotto’s Mathematics Education Page
http://www.picciotto.org/math-edu
Includes
articles and lessons, with an emphasis on intelligent reform in pedagogy.
History
of Mathematics
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history
This
site gives the history behind any match topic, from Aristotle to
Zeno.Instructor: Curriculum
Activities and Strategies
Scholastic
http://www.scholastic.com/Instructor/curriculum
Scholastic’s
“Instructor” magazine offers online lessons in various curricular
areas for grades K-6. To find
lesson ideas for math, scroll to Marilyn Burns’ plans and
activities. Also included are
thematic teaching strategies organized by grade level, renewed monthly.
Intel
ACE Project Lesson Plans
http://www.eduniverse.com/edu/lessonp/asp
The
Applying Computers in Education (ACE) Project, sponsored by Intel,
Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft, provides a searchable collection of nearly
1,000 technology-enhanced lesson plans created by teachers. The lessons, covering all subject areas
for
grades
K-12, are searchable by topic, grade level, and keyword. Teachers can find plans for arithmetic,
algebra, and other math topics.
Internet
Educational Workbook (INEW)
http://www.accessone.com/inew/
Provides
an extensive collection of printable math worksheets (hardcopy version) for
elementary school teachers to recopy for classroom use. In addition, the site offers numerous
online interactive activities for elementary school students to
improve
their math skills. Some of the
topics covered are addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole
numbers and fractions, U.S. coins & money, place value, rounding numbers,
Roman numerals, and the metric system.
Leafy
Greens Council
Leafy
Greens Council features “Cruciferous Crusaders”, an integrated
26-page unit with a collection of lesson plans for grades K-3. The math plans contain printable game
activities, student handouts, test items, and an answer key.
LETSNet:
Math Lesson Plans
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/letsnet/noframes/subjects/math
The
Learning Exchange for Teachers and Students through the Internet, designed for
the K-12 classroom, contain a collection of math teaching units with online
student activities. The units
include Fat Counting, What’s for Dinner?, Fact Checking the News, Earth Day Trash Surve, and
Destination: Anywhere.
Math
Activities for K-12 Teachers
http://daniel.calpoly.edu/~dfrd/Robin
Developed
at California Polytechnic University in conjunction with NASA Dryden Flight
Research Center, this site contains a collection of space-related lesson plans
for grades K-6, and up. The plans,
based on aeronautical themes and NASA projects,
cover
geometry in the constellations; fractions, decimals, and gravity; and
predicting and estimating the speed of aircraft topics. Each lesson offers printable activity
worksheets, photos, video clips, related links, and useful background info.
Math
Advantage
http://www.hbschool.com/justforkids/math/math.html
Features
a collection of interactive lesson activities, games, and puzzles to coordinate
with Harcourt Braces’s K-8 math series. Each grade level offers online activities for students and
resources for teachers. All this
lesson material fits into
any K-8
math curriculum, and teachers can also print out projects and activities,
listed by grade level, to complement their math programs.
Math
Central
For
K-12 mathematics education, providing a teacher’s mailing list, a
question and answer corner, and a resource sharing area.
Math
Jokes
http://www.csun.edu/~hcmth014/comics.html
This
site contains a large collection of math jokes.
Math
Online
www.kqed.org/cell/math/mathmenu.html
If you
need math lesson plans for K-12, try Math Online. It’s chock-full of fresh approaches to tough concepts
like pi and probability. You will
also find a “problem of the week,” where elementary students pose a
math question for high school students to answer.
Math
Puzzles and Games
Click
on “math puzzles and games”.
Geared more for children in 6th grade or higher. Requires pencils and paper and includes
a “tips and hints” section.
Has Grid Puzzles for addition, subtraction, and fraction grids.
Math
Quotations
http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mquot.html
This
site provides mathematics quotations arranged alphebetically by author. An example is, “Life is good for
only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics”
–
Simeon
Poisson Math Sites
http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway/math.html
A great
connection to other math sites.
Sites include help with alegebra, calculus, flash cards for kids, plus
tutorials, puzzles, journals, and games.
Math
Software Packages
This
site lists math-related software packages and their sources. Also included are teaching materials,
math archive features, and links to other math sites for undergraduates,
University department members, and professional societies.
Mathematical
Resources
Links
for educators to lesson plans, software sites, internet math activites, and new
groups.
Mathematics
Activity Guide
http://cesme.utm.edu/resources/math/MAG/MAG.html
For
grades K-8, this site features a collection of lesson plans developed by
Tennesse teachers attending a summer workshop. There is a guide for grades K-2, 3-5, and 6-8. Each guide contains the following
topics: number sense and theory,
estimation,
measurement, and computation, patterns, functions, and algebraic thinking, and
more. To view or print the guides,
you much have Adobe’s free Acrobat Reader.
Mathematics
Archives-K-12
http://archives.math.utk.edu/k12.html
A
collection of materials to be used in teaching math. Included are lesson plans, software, contests, and links to
professional societies. There is a
very comprehensive range of math topics, ranging in levels from K - 12.
Mathematics
Lessons Database
“Mathematics
materials for tomorrow’s teacher’s” is a search tool for
internet-based math lessons and activities. Included are surveys, fun facts, and resources.
MathMol
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/
Provides
K-12 students and teachers with basic concepts in mathematics and their
connection to molecular modeling.
MegaMathmatics!
This
site features a series of fun activities that bring math to life. In “Algorithms and Ice Cream for
All,” for example, students learn about algorithms by choosing wher eto
locate a town’s ice cream stand.
Each activity has complete teacher support, including vocabulary and evaluation guides.
Montessori
Math Album
http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfsjy/mts/_link.htm
Montessori
math activies for ages 3 to 6.
National
Center for Improving Student Learning and Acheivement in Mathematics and
Science
http://www.ed.gov/americacounts/glenn/
Conducts
research on K-12 education in mathematics, science, and teacher professional
development.
NCTM
Homepage
The
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics homepage, containing information
about the NCTM and its publications, events, and a catalog of math
products. Also includes lastest
hot topics, news, and conference information. “Dedicated to the highest-quality mathematics education for all
students.”
Science
Gems & Mathematics
http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/Inter-Links/puzzles.html
Among
many genre’s of science, a math section is included which includes
reasoning, numbers, algebra, geometry, functions, probability, and number
theory. Levels of difficulty range
from kindergarten through college level.
There are also some nteresting
links.
Teacher2Teacher
Where
you need ideas on helping students to memorize multiplication tables or tackle
geometry proofs, this site can help.
Post a question and other teachers can respond. Or browse the archives by grade level
or math topic and find specific plans.
Direct
your students to the “Ask Dr. Math” section, and the “doctor
on call” will answer their questions by e-mail. Arranged by Drexel University.
Teachers
Helping Teachers
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/index.html
Updated
frequently, here are some education links, lesson plans for all subjects,
humor, and a networking place to meet teachers from around the world.
Visually
Impaired
Information
and guidance in teaching math to visually impaired students.