Great Math HyperLinks
A Math Website - A Learning Site for Middle School Students
http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~jobrown/math.html
The site consists of 16 excellent middle school level math activities for students to complete on-line. The sites range from brainteasers, clever games, to real life problems involving travel. Great site for enrichment. The web page ends with a link to a lesson plan that incorporates this site.
http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/math.html
This website is a wealth of resources in one location. It contains over 25 hyperlinks to other math sites. A great place to begin looking for lesson plans and activities for your classes.
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/dailymath/
How do numbers affect everyday decisions? Six different lessons ranging from Casinos, loans, cooking to population growth are topics used to teach math in daily living.
Games to Learn Math Fundamentals (Conway)
http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~casey931/conway/games.html
Great site to allow students to play simple games to learn about math and numbers.
http://www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC/GT/sboone/Lessons/lptitle.html
Great math and science related lessons dealing with area, population growth and others like buying a house.
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/
From the Los Alamos National Laboratory, this Web site presents puzzle-like scenarios that provide a background for the presentation of many of the basic concepts in math.
A site dedicated strictly to mathematics. There are sections for students, teachers, and parents. Many other hyperlinks are also provided to challenge and entice every math learner.
Despite its name, there’s much more to this high-tech site than just help with homework problems. Linked to a huge collection of math sites, some featured links include a math dictionary; formulas from algebra and trigonometry; postulates, theorems, and corollaries from geometry, and more. Email addresses allow students (and teachers) to ask for help with math homework.
http://www.stfx.ca/special/mathproblems/welcome.html
Solving word problems isn’t just for kids. This carefully selected collection of word problems for students in grades 5 through 12 contains problems designed to improve problem-solving skills. Helpful hints are provided with links. Teachers can receive detailed solutions through email on request.
http://www.useekufind.com/learningquest/tmath.htm
Twelve categories for teachers and students that range from Elementary and Secondary Math Lesson Plans; Games and Puzzles; Problem-Solving; to Materials for Teachers make this site worthwhile. Each category links to lists of other excellent sites that will keep any person interested for hours.
http://mighty-mm-math.caffeinated.org/main.htm
Mighty m &m Math teaches fractions and percentages in a motivating and mouth-watering way. Lesson plan that can be completed on-line or off that includes a worksheet for data collection.
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/mathworld/
MathWorld is dedicated to helping educators and parents motivate their students to solve open-ended word problems, communicate mathematically, and share cultural and geographical information.
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~sarah/hamilton/
A site perfect for learning about math’s use in the real world. Math to Build On covers much of the basic math used in the construction trades and gives practice in its application.
PlaneMath
Created in cooperation with NASA, PlaneMath applies mathematics to issues of flight. Mathematics activities revolve around such as issues as flight path, plane capacity, runways and take-offs, lift-off and other areas important to flight. Students can learn math while helping Amelia Earhart fly a straight course to Howland Island, or helping Jimmy Doolittle fly his helicopter over a high mountain range. Students can even design and test their own airplanes.
Eisenhower National Clearing House for Mathematics and Science Education
The ENC is funded through a contract with the U. S. Department of Education to provide K-12 teachers with a central source of information on mathematics and science curriculum materials. ENC was established in 1992 at The Ohio State University and is located in Columbus, Ohio. Provides an online copy of the NCTM standards for K-12 mathematics.
AP Calculus
http://www.seresc.k12.nh.us/www/alvirne.html
This site is by teachers and students at Alvirne High School and includes problems of the week, multiple choice AP Calculus exam questions and solutions, and problem archives. A treasure chest of problems for any Calculus student preparing for the AP Calculus exam.
Fun Math Lessons by Cynthia Lanius
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/
Cynthia Lanius is a mathematics teacher, currently working at Rice University in Education and Outreach. Her "Math Lessons" site offers lessons in algebra, exponential growth, the mathematics of cartography, geometry, polynomials.
Math: Teaching Ideas and Tips
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/Math.html
From the Teachers Helping Teachers Site, assorted lessons & activities all related to teaching math using manipulatives that can be easily collected around the house or school. Great lessons!
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/index.html
An excellent resource on the history of thought behind mathematics. By the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Includes Biographies of mathematicians; birthplace maps of mathematicians, famous mathematical curves; Interactive, Java version of famous mathematical curves. Great for projects.
S.O.S. Math
http://www.sosmath.com/index.html
In their own words, "S.O.S. MATHematics is the website of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at The University of Texas at El Paso, where you can work with materials to help you: do your homework; prepare for a test; get ready for class. The material presented here reviews the most important results, techniques and formulas in college and pre-college mathematics. The learning units are presented in worksheet format and require your active participation.
Ask Dr. Math
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/
Doctor Math is actually a team of college students, professors, and teachers. Site is an archive of questions and answers organized by elementary, middle school, and high school grade levels. Topic search feature is also provided. Maintained by Swarthmore College.