Math Resource Sites
The following are only a few of the many math resource sites on the web...
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The following are only a few of the many math resource sites on the web. Use these sites as stepping stones to web pages of interest to your students.
The Math Forum at Drexel, a popular, well-designed site in the networking community, contains an annotated collection of math resources. It also holds online discussions and summer institutes. This project is seeking remote partners.
Tie problem-solving and inquiry skills to national standards by taking advantage of Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Focus project.
Within the Modern Curriculum Press catalog excellent lesson activities have been include for younger students. They can be replicated with hands-on materials and extended to several subjects.
Chance! fixes on common mis-guesses in everyday life and transforms them into understandable problems.
Aunty Math offers story problems for students who finish their seatwork before their peers. It originates at the Dupage Children's Museum in Illinois.
WebMath takes pride in maintaining up-to-the-minute portals and graphical resources about the status of math on the Web. It is maintained by the WorldWideWeb 3 consortium.
The lessons at the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)are not noteworthy for their use of advanced technology but have been well-prepared by teachers in K-12 classrooms.
Apple Learning Exchange (ALI) contains teacher-created lessons for technology integration. The math sub-set is particularly good.
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has sponsored the World's Largest Math Event, an ingenious set of problems linked to everyday life, one could say. For instance, a whole school can be engaged in comparing Superman's speed with their cars or calculate the volume of bodies who might have attended a performance at the Globe theater.
While not directly relevant for technology, The Five Biggest Unsolved Problems in Science by Wiggins and Wynn, published by John Wiley 2003, would jump start original research thinking and underline the crucial concept that not all problems can be solved. You can order this book online!
Zoombinis, the featured characters in several logic software games, were developed by TERC to enhance meta-cognitive thinking in grades 3-8.
Teaching Math Through Culture (RPI) utilize subcultures, Africa, Native American, and Latino, in applets to address geometry, fractions, and pre-algebra. Lesson plans and assessment tools are included.
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Some educators downplay problem-solving efficiency as too stressful and competitive. For students, though, mathematicians attest to the need for cultivating this skill.
Many schools challenge the full student body with a brainteaser of the week.
