A video streaming site

Unitedstreaming.com – Rockville High School students have access to this site with the correct user name and password. Your media specialists knows what these are if you have forgotten.

A good site to use to find math / science links

SCI – Math World – provides links to math / science sites.

How Math is used in Daily life.

What Good is Math? – An explanation of how math is used in daily life, including how grades are calculate; banking, including calculating interest; and the relationship between math and sports, cooking, travel ( distance and gas mileage ) and shopping. Created by math and education students at the University of Richmond.

Date visited: 10/4/2003

http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/as/education/projects/webunits/math/home.htm

Math in Daily Life – This site shows how math helps us in our daily lives. It demonstrates math concepts such as probability, compounding, growth, geometry, and relationships in situations such as gambling, savings and investing, population growth, home decorating, and cooking.

Date visited: 10/4/2003

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/dailymath/index.html

Math activities and lessons.

Explore Math - Varying topics uses interactive applications caused gizmos which require shockwave to run.

Date visited: 10/7/2003

http://www.exploremath.com/index.cfm

Math online -Multimedia learning units on mathematical subjects for secondary school, highschool, college, and university.

Date visited: 10/7/2003

http://www.univie.ac.at/future.media/moe/

MathNet - This World Wide Web (WWW) site, created by Bryan Dye, the head of mathematics at a high school in Norwich, United Kingdom, aims to provide free online resources for making math interesting and relevant for both high school teachers and students. Topics at this site range from Aerobi-graphs (six sessions showing videos of students using their bodies to animate concepts in graphing linear, quadratic, and trigonometric functions) to information about popular brands of graphing calculators.

Date visited: 10/7/2003

http://www.mathsnet.net/

MathChallenge.net - This web site has collections of problems from many different levels of mathematics. The Junior and Senior Problems, with solutions and new problems published monthly, are aimed at middle and high school students respectively.

Date visited: 10/7/2003

http://www.mathschallenge.net/

NCTM illuminations - This Internet site, maintained by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), contains lesson plans, activities, and resources for mathematics teachers of grades 9-12. Based on NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, the site contains plans for lessons centered around internet resources, as well as lesson plans reprinted from previous NCTM publications.

Date visited: 10/7/2003

http://illuminations.nctm.org/pages/912.html

Manipula math with JAVA - The material presented at this site are for middle school students, high school students, college students, and all who are interested in mathematics. You will find interactive programs that you can manipulate and a lot of animation that helps you to grasp the meaning of mathematical ideas.

Date visited: 10/4/2003

http://www.ies.co.jp/math/java/index.html

Math activities – These are math activities you can do with your middle school aged student.

They include:

Building viewpoints, an activity done with six cubes. Drawing the different views of the structure, front, side, and top and having another student see if they can replicate the structure.

The outline of things.-recognizing the geometric shapes of common household items.

Fractional parts the “Tan” way – constructing a seven- piece tangram.

Date visited: 10/4/2003

http://www.learner.org/catalog/resources/activities/middle/mid_math.html

Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles – This site is also listed under the problems of the weeks and puzzles site. This site provides many different activities which are free. Some of the activities are interactive as javascripts or as java applets.

Date visited: 10/4/2003

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/content.shtml

Math goodies - free math help site featuring interactive lessons, homework help, worksheets and forums! We have over 400 pages of activities for students, teachers and parents.

Date visited: 10/4/2003

http://www.mathgoodies.com/

Geometry step by step from the Land of the Incas – interactive activities on geometry topics.

Date visited: 10/4/2003

http://agutie.homestead.com/

Jefferson Lab – math games, puzzles and activities including speed math which challenges the user to math problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Date visited: 10/4/2003

http://education.jlab.org/

Mudd Math Fun Facts – designed for lower-division college courses where the typical student is not a math student. The point of Fun Facts is to generate interest, arouse curiosity, and cause such students to look at mathematics differently. Includes tidbits of varying levels of difficulty from algebra, calculus, geometry, probability and number theory. The site is hosted by Harvey Mudd College math department.

Date visited: 10/4/2003

http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/

Problems of the week and puzzles

Math forum problem of the week – algebra problem

Date visited: 10/4/2003

http://www.mathforum.com/algpow/

Math magic problems of the week- archived in Microsoft Word format

Date visited: 10/4/2003

http://mathforum.org/mathmagic/

Math world interactive – problems arranged by grade level/ age.

Date visited: 10/4/2003

http://www.mathforum.com/mathworld/

Math puzzlers – This portion of the Annenburg site has math puzzles on it.

Date visited: 10/4/2003

http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/math/puzzlers.html

Dan’s math contest – free contest problems – no calculus required.

Date visited: 10/4/2003

http://www.dansmath.com/probofwk/probofwk.html

Ken Duisenberg’s math puzzle of the week – free contest problems

Date visited: 10/4/2003

http://ken.duisenberg.com/potw/

Interactive puzzles – finding pattern and order.

Date visited: 10/4/2003

http://www.sprucelog.com/lmp/interactive/

MathCounts problem of the week - Although founded by engineers to promote middle school math mathematics, these problems can be challenging to students at higher levels of math.

Date visited: 10/4/2003

http://mathcounts.org/Queries/View_POW.taf?function=search

Math puzzles – puzzles and problems geared toward elementary , middle and high school students.

Date visited: 10/4/2003

http://www.mav.vic.edu.au/PSTC/general/

Math contest – correct submissions are eligible for drawing with the prize being a TI-83 plus calculator.

Date visited: 10/4/2003

http://www.olemiss.edu/mathed/contest/

Math puzzles and activities - puzzles are interactive on this page as javascripts or java applets.

Date visited: 10/4/2003http:

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