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One subject that almost
every student (and teacher) seems to have trouble with at some point in time is
math. I have compiled a list of great MATH
websites that provide interesting and innovative lesson plans, extra help
activities for the students, or just helpful ideas for teachers, parents and
students.
This website helps teachers, students and parents in
many math areas. There are interactive
lesson, homework help, worksheets and discussion forums. This all-inclusive website is hard to
beat. Mrs. Glosser’s Math Goodies has
been given positive review on the radio, television and major market
newspapers.
http://www.mathgoodies.com/
Date visited: 4/23/04
Great for teachers who need some ideas with math
lesson plans, the Math Forum is an Internet Mathematics Library. You can easily enter the grade level you are
looking for or click on the subject you need and receive a multitude of lesson
plans.
http://mathforum.org/library/
Date visited: 4/23/04
This website is for both teachers and parents of
students who are working at middle to high school level. It’s a helpful site that guides you with
homework problems and lesson plans.
http://www.math.com
Date visited: 4/23/04
This is awesome if you’re a
teacher and you’re stuck! There are
lists of creative lessons organized by grade level.
http://www.teachers.net/cgi-bin/lessons/sort.cgi?searchterm=Mathematics
Date visited: 4/23/04
Have a shortened math slot
because of an assembly or another special event? That’s okay … you can pull a mini-math lesson from this
websites. There are lots of interesting
ideas here for grades K-5! The lessons
are short, yet meaningful and important.
http://www.youth.net/cec/cecmath/math-elem.html
Date visited: 4/23/04
This is another website to
help you out of the same ole’ math rut!
The Lesson Plan page offers more lessons than I’ve seen so far AND has
the lessons organized by grade!
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/Math.htm
Date visited: 4/23/04
Another great resource for
the math educator, again there are a lot of different areas to choose from that
will help with instruction. A bonus for
this page is that it links to mathematical standards. Also this website shows you how you can incorporate your math
lesson into other subject areas!
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math.htm
Date visited: 4/23/04
This is a specific and
important part of the National Council of Teacher Mathematics (NCTM)
website. It is Internet resources to
improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students. I like this site, because there is a
definite link to the standards and the lessons come directly from the best math
experts in our country. It also
contains lesson plans, web resources and interactive math tools.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/index.html
Date visited: 4/23/04
National
Council of Teacher Mathematics – More and Better Math for all Students
The NCTM website is useful
for information on Mathematics Principles and Standards. There are also other facts available about
this organization. There is a link to
Illuminations, (already noted), which is a great source for helping to teach
math to elementary students at any level.
http://nctm.org/
Date visited: 4/23/04
This website is the National
Council for Education Statistics. It offers
activities for young children that will enhance their understanding of various
mathematical concepts. Children can
explore topics like building graphs and probability. Although some of the math might be difficult for the children, it
is a great resources for teachers and lesson planning. http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/
Date visited: 4/23/04
Mathematics Archives WWW Server
This is a good resource for
teaching mathematics, finding teaching materials for mathematics, accessing
other links to mathematics sites, and obtaining information on mathematics and
the Internet.
http://archives.math.utk.edu/
Date visited: 4/23/04
Dubbed as an “amusement park
of math designed for fun,” Cool Math is a resource for teachers, parents and
students. There are resources on this
website like on-line graphing calculators and much more … even “cool math for
ages 13-100!”
http://
http://www.coolmath.com/
Date visited: 4/23/04
Having
trouble with Algebra? This site can
help. “Do as many problems as you need
to, at whatever pace you wish to go.
The problems
are generated at random. They're different every time. Every time you get to see
the answer, and how to do the problem!”
http://www.veazeys.com/math/lessons.htm
Date visited: 4/23/04
Are
you tired of math and need to have some fun?
Well, don’t give up math just yet … this website provides links to “really cool math websites, Algebra sites,
and Geometry sites. There are even Discrete Math, Trigonometry and Calculus
sites! There are links to math puzzles and brain teasers, math web quests, and
even math humor. This is a good site
for elementary, middle school and high school teachers.
http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/web/2000/heal/mathsites.htm
Date
visited: 4/23/04
If
you need extra worksheets for help with your math lessons, look no
further. EdHelper.com gives you tons of
worksheets that you can use as supplements to lessons or for extra work for
your students. This is better for
students in younger grades.
http://www.edhelper.com
Date
visited: 4/23/04
This website is great,
because it incorporates math and science.
It has educational games for all ages … from 6 and under to 17 +. There is also a section for parents and
teachers. The teacher section is
especially nice, because it provides game suggestions for your class’s learning
level as well as grade level. There is
also homework help.
http://www.funbrain.com/
Date visited: 4/23/04
This is another great page
for math challenges and games for children.
There is a parent’s corner and a teacher’s corner and it incorporates
geometry (many other math sites did not do).
There is a how-to-guide for the site.
Another great feature is that it works in English and in Spanish for our
bilingual families. All pages are
available to download and the challenges are fun and interesting (like, how can
you calculate on what day of the week you were born? Or, Will women ever earn as much money as men?)
http://www.figurethis.com
Date visited: 4/23/04
Are you tired of just
reading websites? Do you want to
interact? AAA Math provides hundreds of pages of Basic
Math Skills, Interactive Practice on every page, an Explanation of the math
topic on each page, and several Challenge Games on every page.
http://www.aaamath.com/
Date visited: 4/23/04
Interactive math help for
young children … Aplus math has on-line flash cards, homework help and a game
room. Easy for kids to navigate, this
website is great for kids.
http://www.aplusmath.com/
Date visited: 4/23/04
This
website is definitely all for teachers.
There are tons of resources, lesson plans, and thematic units, as well
as seasonal/subject activities. It’s
another great place to find new and exciting ideas! This website can help you to add some fun to your math lessons. http://www.theteacherscorner.net/math/
Date visited: 4/23/04