“Best of”

Lesson Plans

This website lists a few of the best lessons out there. There are not a “bazillion” lessons to choose from, but the ones that are listed are leveled and meet NCTM standards.

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/ntti/resources/lessons/math.html

This site provides a comprehensive, standards based list of math lessons. The activities within the lessons are some of the most motivating and hands-on lessons I found during my quest for lesson plans.

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math/3-5_geometry.shtm

This site offers a wide range of lesson plans for every area of mathematics. Users can search by grade level and then individual topic. Lesson plans are fun and many of the activities contain interactive web explorations.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/

This site offers great math lessons. The site allows the user to search other websites that have large collections of lesson plans in order to narrow the search. They even have ideas for LEP students!

http://www.proteacher.com/100000.shtml

This is the lesson plan clearinghouse. If you are searching for an obscure lesson topic, you will probably find an idea or two here. I also noticed that many of the math lessons included references to literature that could be used to teach the skill. Check it out!

http://askeric.org:8765/lessons/query.html?col=lessons&qc=lessons&op0=&ty0=w&fl0=&tx0=math&qs=%7C&qs=GEM.grade%3A5