Dinah Zike is known for designing hands-on manipulatives that are used nationally and internationally by teachers, parents, and educational publishing companies.

 The Mathematical Association of America is the largest professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Our members include college and university faculty; mathematical scientists, industry, and government; graduate and undergraduate students; teachers; and others in fields related to mathematics. We invite all who are interested in the mathematical sciences, including pure and applied mathematics, statistics, operations research and computer science, to enjoy and benefit from our programs, publications, and resources.

 This partnership is dedicated to jointly increasing mathematics achievement levels for all students (K-14) and narrowing differences between diverse student populations.

 The Washington State Mathematics Council is a professional organization that exists to promote and influence mathematics education. The membership is committed to developing, supporting, and encouraging opportunities that lead to quality mathematics curricula and effective instruction. WSMC promotes high professional standards and serves as a communication network for anyone interested in mathematics education.

 MathVIDS is an interactive website for teachers who are teaching mathematics to struggling learners made possible through funding by the Virginia Department of Education. The primary theme of MathVIDS is to help educators connect why struggling learners have difficutly learning matheamtics to effective instructional practices for these students. Use the navigation menus and links at the top of the page to explore the MathVIDS website and find information and resources pertinent to your interests and needs or click on "site index " at the top right hand corner for a quick overview of the website.

 FactMonster.com (formerly known as Infopleasekids.com) was launched in August 2000 by Information Please. Fact Monster and its Homework Center have received national recognition for their unbeatable reference materials, fun facts and features, and individualized homework help.

  OELA's National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA) collects, analyzes, synthesizes and disseminates information about language instruction educational programs for English language learners and related programs. This section includes resources for developing content knowledge in the mathematics classroom.

 Strange specialty calculators for cooks, construction, etc.

 

On the following pages you will find notes about the teaching of decimal fractions and percents, prepared by:

Peter Price, PhD

  The Curriculum Exchange is an area where teachers can find a variety of lesson plans. The original group of 700 lesson plans came from the Columbia Education Center's Summer Workshops. These lessons were done by a consortium of teachers from 14 states dedicated to improving the quality of education in the rural, western, United States, particularly the quality of math and science education. These lesson plans are available with permission from Big Sky Telegraph, which distributed these lesson plans.

 This website is designed to assist elementary teachers in teaching Data Collection and Probability to children.  There are many practical activities provided here that can be directly implemented into elementary classrooms.

 We at the World of Escher are proud to be here to tell you stories, discuss M.C. Escher's works, provide insight, and offer our high quality products promoting the intriguing work of Escher.

 This page would be an excellent resource for any upper elementary students, or adults, who may want to brush up on their geometry vocabulary. Topics include angles, triangles, circles, and many other topics, with notes and diagrams to represent to concepts to the user.

 With this applet you can explore cut-outs of polyhedra. The cut-outs (or nets) can be built into a 3D object. With the mouse you can rotate the objects and fold the sides in and out. Select a 3D form and use the slide bar to see how the cut-out forms from 2D to 3D.

  With this page, the Canadian Mathematical Society wishes to highlight quality Mathematics Education resources available on the web. A particular interest is shown for Canadian sites.

 The Resource Room is a place where mathematics educators can share resources. Teachers are encouraged to send us notes, ideas, lesson plans or any other resource having to do with the teaching of mathematics. Resources are stored in a database that can be searched and browsed by educators and parents.

 Exam Prep Pages

 Oswego City School District Regents Exam Prep Center

 A collection of two colors of fish is to be placed into three ponds to create specified ratios within each pond. Students should find out if there is more than one solution and then make up similar problems for their classmates.

 Visualizing Fractions to Decimals to Percents Using Web-based Manipulatives  From George Mason University

 Look at the Fractions, Decimals, Percentages, Radio and Proportion ideas and resources listed below, or browse around the other Maths sections using the bar above.

 From Carne Barnett, Donna Goldenstein, & Babette Jackson, eds., (1994). Fractions, Decimals, Ratios, and Percents: Mathematics Teaching Cases and Facilitator's Discussion Guide, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. These excerpts reprinted with permission of WestEd Laboratory for Educational Research and Development.

 Arcytech is a one person organization that was started during the summer of 1996. After a year helping wire one of the local middle schools and working on many infrastructure projects, I was very eager to start working on developing tools and applications that could be used inside the class or at home to have very direct influence to improving education. One of the strong missions for Arcytech is to make all of the tools freely available under this non-profit organization.

Who Wants Pizza? A Fun Way to Learn About Fractions

 These materials were developed or gathered for use in professional development workshops for elementary school teachers.  They are being made available here both to support such workshops and as a resource for teachers looking for new ideas and materials to support their teaching.  From Acadia University

 Math Playground is an action-packed educational site for elementary and middle school students. Practice your math skills, play a logic game, and have some fun!

 Need help with algebra?  You've found the right place!

 Whole Number Algorithms and a Bit of Algebra!  Using Base Ten Blocks to "See" Algorithms

 Every time you revisit or refresh one of these mathematics computation worksheets, it's all new! Teachers may copy single worksheets for all their students, or give each one a similar but unique set of math examples. Students can print their own worksheets and keys to check their work.

 The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: "What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?"

 Visit this webpage to find a list of activities that other teachers are doing to celebrate the 100th Day of School.

  These pages are about approximation, and some of the fun it enables.

 Puzzles, games, and cool math for the classroom.

 Learning about Number Relationships and Properties of Numbers Using Calculators and Hundred Boards: Displaying Number Patterns

 Virtual manipulatives related to the NCTM Number & Operations standard for grades 3 - 5.

 The goal of SpeedMath Deluxe is to create an equation, as quickly as possible, from the four digits the computer gives you.

 Math Flashcards for Kids

 How many computer-generated arithmetic problems can you answer in 60 seconds?

 Using Palm™ OS Handhelds within the Curriculum

 T³ · Teachers Teaching with Technology - Our goal is to provide quality professional development that enables the mathematics and science educator to be successful in the classroom through the appropriate use of technology.

 Interactivate is a set of free, online courseware for exploration in science and mathematics. It is comprised of activities, lessons, and discussions.

 The eNLVM is an NSF funded project to develop interactive online learning units (eModules) for 3-12 mathematics.

 This matrix is intended to serve as a resource that matches technology tools with supporting literature on promising practices for the instruction of K-8 mathematics for students with disabilities.

This Web site contains Java™ applets whose purpose is to be used as tools to help and enhance the education of children. A more detailed site description is provided.

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 And Insights into the History of Mathematics

 Eratosthenes was a Greek mathematician who is famous for his work on prime numbers and for measuring the diameter of the earth

  Mathematics is a live science with new discoveries being made every day. The frontier of mathematics is an exciting place, where mathematicians experiment and play with creative and imaginative ideas. Many of these ideas are accessible to young children.

 for teachers, parents and only those learners with the time &
 patience & will  to sit down & study. No work, no gain.

 The following is a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons. These lessons may be freely copied and used in a classroom but they remain the copyright property of the author.

The Mathematics of Rainbows

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How are rainbows formed? Why do they only occur when the sun is behind the observer? If the sun is low on the horizon, at what angle in the sky should we expect to see a rainbow?

 Welcome to PlaneMath, a place to learn cool things about math and aeronautics!

  This is a help resource for 4th through 8th grades.

 This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively.

 This site provides information about basic math, algebra, study skills, math anxiety and learning styles
and specifically addresses the needs of the community college adult learner.

 Columbus State University’s College of Education is now the home of the Problem of the Week math contest, which was started in 1996 by David Rock and Doug Brumbaugh. The math educators also supply problems and answers that are part of the current White House Math Challenge, a presidential effort to boost interest in math and foster problem-solving skills.

 A glossary of mathematics terms, by McGraw-Hill Education, translated in the following languages: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, Haitian, Hmong, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu, and Vietnamese.

 A Conference of the Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson Leadership Program for Teachers

 EQUALS programs at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California at Berkeley, provide workshops and curriculum materials in mathematics and equity. We serve PreK–12 teachers, parents, families, and community members.

 These pages are part of an on-going project at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics. Here you can find biographical essays or comments on the women mathematicians profiled on this site, as well as additional resources about women in mathematics.

 Here you can learn about (and even before) the first African Americans in the Mathematical Sciences

 Kings County Office of Education

  Welcome to Getsmarter.org, sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Department of Commerce. We give students, parents and teachers a free, fun and private way to compare science and math skills to students worldwide.

 Join us as we explore how math can help us in our daily lives.

 Teachers, administrators and curriculum developers will find it useful to bookmark this page. It serves as the benchmark for developing a coherent approach to problem solving across the curriculum.

 MathWorld Interactive, a project by Carolynn S. Mortensen, began as MathMagic FidoNet in 1991, and was an interactive project on the Math Forum site through May 30, 1999. In June, 2002, Carolynn re-launched the project but found it necessary to close it again in November, 2002.

 MATHCOUNTS® is a national math enrichment, coaching & competition program that promotes middle school mathematics achievement in every U.S. state & territory.

  Easily read and absorbed in an hour or so, Platonic Realms MiniTexts present foundational and popular mathematics topics at an introductory level.

  The PRIME encyclopedia is designed to be browsed alphabetically.

  This is the Home page for Dr Ron Knott's multimedia web site on the Fibonacci numbers, the Golden section and the Golden string hosted by the Mathematics Department of the University of Surrey, UK.

 COMAP, the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, is an award-winning non-profit organization whose mission is to improve mathematics education for students of all ages. Since 1980, COMAP has worked with teachers, students, and business people to create learning environments where mathematics is used to investigate and model real issues in our world.

 The ARC Center promotes the wide-scale and effective implementation of standards-based mathematics curricula. 

 Explore our library of 92 online activities that help to make math come alive in the classroom or at home

 Welcome to the Investigations web site. Investigations is a complete K-5 mathematics curriculum, developed at TERC in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is designed to help all children understand the fundamental ideas of number and arithmetic, geometry, data, measurement and early algebra.

  MathStar New Mexico is part of the MathStar project, which was a five year federal project funded through the Star Schools Program at the United States Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement.

 The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.

 A National Science Foundation project supporting implementation of standards-based middle grades mathematics curricula

 Library > Math

 Ask-A-Scientist Archive Mathematics Topics

 Classroom Activities What activities fit your classroom? Developed by teachers for teachers, our activities provide ready-to-use ideas for incorporating TI educational technology into your classroom

 From Federal Agencies

  The Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative is a comprehensive effort to improve mathematics instruction and student learning.

 Welcome to the Teachers' Place! Here you'll find what we consider to be the best resources for teaching math at all levels.

 AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use.

 The Digital Classroom Resources (DCR) provides a select collection of free online learning materials which are available through the site. These materials have been classroom tested and peer reviewed.

 Multimedia resources & professional development for America's preK-12 educators.

  the goal of the CMP is to enhance the quality of California’s K-12 mathematics education by increasing teachers’ mathematical content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge, and by supporting and developing leadership skills.

 Welcome to Mathematics

 JASON is committed to giving educators exciting new ways to teach standards-based mathematics. As students use our hands-on approach to solving real scientific problems, the activities challenge them to learn important mathematics skills and concepts too.

 The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) provides reliable and timely data on the mathematics and science achievement of U.S. students compared to that of students in other countries.

 Reviewed Sites - Math

 This Gateway provides links to resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9-12, although teachers of other levels may find these materials helpful.

 Illuminations has links to 726 math resources on the web. Click on a Standard below to find the types of resources you’re looking for

 Over 400 free quality websites carefully chosen for their interactivity and grouped into five search categories.  Ideal for individual learning, homework, demonstrations or explorations.

 The following are Internet sites which contain significant collections of materials which can be used in the teaching of mathematics at the K-12 level. We have organized these materials into the following categories:

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 Mathematics and Science Education Around the World: What Can We Learn From The Survey of Mathematics and Science Opportunities (SMSO) and the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)? (1996)

 From the National Academies

 Mathematics Education in the Middle Grades: Teaching to Meet the Needs of Middle Grades Learners and to Maintain High Expectations: Proceedings of a National Convocation and Action Conferences (2000)
Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education

 The Preparation of Teachers of Mathematics: Considerations and Challenges: A Letter Report (1996)
Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education

 The Nature and Role of Algebra in the K-14 Curriculum: Proceedings of a National Symposium (1998)
Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education

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 iPASS™ is a fully-automated self-contained web-based math program that provides fully-differentiated instruction to meet the individual needs of each student while freeing the teacher to monitor and facilitate learning on a one-to-one basis.

 Math Essentials, Middle School Level gives middle school math teachers the tools they need to help prepare all types of students (including gifted and learning disabled) for mathematics testing and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards. Math Essentials highlights Dr. Thompson's proven approach by incorporating manipulatives, diagrams, and independent practice.

  Jeff Weeks’ Topology and Geometry Software

 Math and science have never been more important to the future of our children and our nation. ENC provides the resources and support for math and science educators needed to help raise student achievement in these vital subjects.

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