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Lesson Plans

The Academy One Curriculum Exchange

The Curriculum Exchange is an area where teachers can deposit their favorite lesson plans and teachers, parents, and students can get what they want. The original group of lesson plans came from the Columbia Education Center's Summer Workshops. The lessons plans for mathematics are organized into Elementary (K-5), Intermediate (6-8) and High School (9-12).

Allegheny Schools Parntership - Lesson Plans

AskERIC - Lesson Plans

Big Sky Telegraph Math Lesson Plans

Explorer

The Explorer is part of the Unified Network Informatics Technology for Education (UNITE) efforts at the University of Kansas. The Explorer is part of a research and development effort to establish an on time and user friendly means of delivering a full range of information resources to educators and students. This site includes information on software, lab materials, lesson plans, video tapes, etc. for the teaching of mathematics at the k-12 grade levels.

Lessons Plans in High School Mathematics by Susan Boone.

Lesson plans using statistics and the Internet

With all the data currently on the Internet, the Office for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education felt it would be beneficial to have lesson resources for teachers who would like to involve statistics and the Internet in their classroom. This document contains the results of a search for interesting data that could be integrated into different subjects.

Math Central's Resource Room

Neufeld & Associates

Publishers of The UNDERSTANDING MATH Programs, collection of programs for interactive learning for grades 6-10. Topics include algebra, equations, exponents, geometry and integers. Software is available in both English and French. Demos are available. The company also provides lessons plans related to these packages and organizes workshops.

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction - Lesson Plans

PI Mathematics

PI Mathematics, a collaborative project, using the concept of PI as the focus, is a home page on the WWW. This multidisciplinary project which includes math, history, English and thinking skills is designed for fifth through eighth graders. It will allow students to discover the approximate value of PI, an irrational number, using measurement and reporting the data, applying formulas, problem solving and participating in a collaborative project utilizing Internet resources. Students will also explore the history of PI, using Internet references.

Spacelink - Lesson Plans from NASA

Various lessons plans about space and mathematics from NASA. Most lesson plans are in pdf format.

TEACHERS HELPING TEACHERS - Math Section

A collection of teaching ideas and tips for k-12 mathematics teachers.

Teacher Talk Forum - Math Section

Teacher's Edition Online - Math Section

Weather Here and There

WEATHER HERE AND THERE is an integrated weather unit which incorporates interaction with the Internet and hands-on collaborative, problem solving activites for students in grades four through six. This unit is divided into six lessons. The lessons integrate math, science, geography, and language arts in the process of teaching and learning about weather phenomena.

Schools

Alabama School of Mathematics and Science

The Bronx High School of Science Mathematics Bulletin

The Math Bulletin is Bronx Science's official mathematics journal. It publishes noteworthy papers writen by Science students, as well as interesting or useful games, interviews graphics and infromation.

Demonstration School for Science, Math and Technology, Dublin, Virginia

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

This information server provides information about the activities and events that constitute the culture and life of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, a residential public high school for students talented in the fields of science and mathematics. It is also the state of Illinois' research and development laboratory for K-12 mathematics and science education.

Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science

The Massachusetts Academy of Mathematics and Science is a public high school for students in grades 11 and 12. It is a collaborative effort among the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the high schools of Massachusetts to identify and nurture the potential of students with exceptional aptitude for mathematics and science.

Minnesota Academy of Mathematics & Science

The Minnesota Academy of Mathematics & Science is the nation's first private, residential, nonsectarian, specialized program providing high school students (grades 9-12) an exceptional education in mathematics, the sciences, and technology.

Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science

Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science is a public state-supported high school for intellectually gifted 11th and 12th graders. It is located in Columbus, MS, on the campus of the Mississippi University for Women.

Montgomery Blair High School's Math, Science and Computer Science Magnet Program

Located just outside of Washington DC, Montgomery Blair is a school housing two special academic programs - the Communication Arts Program, and the Math, Sciences, and Computer Sciences Magnet Program. Check out their Student Projects in Mathematics and Science

North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics

Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics

The Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics (OSSM) was created through legislative action in 1983 and is designed as a two-year residential public high school for the academically gifted students in mathematics and science. The mission of the school is two-fold: to foster the educational development of Oklahoma high school students who are academically talented in science and mathematics and who show promise of exceptional development through participation in a residential educational setting; and to assist in the improvement of science and mathematics education for the state by developing, evaluating, and disseminating instructional programs and resources to all schools and students of the state.

Shaler Area High School, Department of Mathematics

Sir Francis Drake High School, Department of Mathematics

Southwest Science & Math Magnet High School, Kansas City, MO

University High School, University of Illinois UC Department of Mathematics

Software

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Other K-12 Internet Sites

AAAS Project 2061

Project 2061 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is a long-term initiative to reform K-12 education nationwide so that all high-school graduates are science literate. In the first stage of its work, Project 2061 commissioned panels of scientists, mathematicians, and technologists to identify the knowledge and skills students should have in five subject areas. These panel reports--Biological and Health Sciences, Mathematics, Physical & Information Sciences and Engineering, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Technology were integrated into the Project's 1989 report, Science for All Americans (SFAA), which outlines what all students should know and be able to do in science, mathematics, and technology after 13 years of schooling.

AIMS Education Foundation

AIMS is the acronym for "Activities Integrating Mathematics and Science." The mission of the AIMS Education Foundation is to enrich the education of students in K-9 through hands-on activities that integrate mathematics, science, and other disciplines. AIMS implements the recommendations put forth in reform documents such as Science for All Americans (American Association for the Advancement of Science),Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) and the National Research Council's Standards.

Alan Selby's Home Page

Alan Selby is the author of three books on Understanding and Explaining Math and Reason.

Allegheny Schools Partnership

Here you will find information related to the Partnership's work on High School Mathematics Teaching Reform.

American Mathematics Competitions

The American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) seek to increase interest in mathematics and to develop problem solving ability through a series of friendly mathematics competitions for junior/middle and senior high school students (grades 7 through 12).

AP Mathematics - College Board

Contains information about the College Board's AP Mathematics Exams and Courses.

Arkansas Crusades Math, Science & K-4

Information on the Arkansas Statewide Systemic Initiative.

ArtMath Transformations

Art often involves symmetry, and no artist shows this more than M. C. Escher. The resources linked to this page are intended for a Standards based project covering the Transformational Geometry units in Newfoundland's grade 9 and 10 curricula, and Unit 3 of the Standards' Core Curriculum for Year 2. Student worksheets, materials, links to Internet resources, and a teacher's guide are included.

Ask Dr. Math!

Ask Dr. Math is an Internet project based at Swarthmore College and staffed mainly by Swarthmore students, staff, and faculty. Students are encouraged to send math questions to

              dr.math@forum.swarthmore.edu

You can also meet the Swat Team!, those excellent folks who labor day and night to answer your every mathematical whimsy.

AskERIC

This site is under development for use as an automated information outlet for the AskERIC project, a pilot project of the ERIC system and the Department of Education. The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a federally-funded national information system that provides access to an extensive body of education-related literature. ERIC provides a variety of services and products at all education levels. AskERIC is an Internet-based question-answering service for teachers, library media specialists, and administrators. Anyone involved with K-12 education can send a message to AskERIC. Drawing on the extensive resources of the ERIC system, AskERIC staff will respond with an answer within 48 working hours. Many of these resources are accessible on this link.

Association of Teachers of Mathematics

The Association of Teachers of Mathematics aims to relate mathematical education more closely to the powers and needs of the learner. The Association was formed in 1950 and has about 4000 members, mainly teachers in primary and secondary schools. It is a registered charity and re-invests all profits back into mathematics education. The ATM provides opportunities to bring together all concerned with mathematical education for all age ranges. It supports local branches, local and national working groups, informal support networks, courses and conferences.

Balanced Assessment in Mathematics Project

Balanced Assessment in Mathematics is a National Science Foundation project charged with developing new approaches to the assessment of mathematical competence in the elementary and secondary grades. This project has created a type of mathematics assessment that contrasts sharply with traditional forms of testing, which rely primarily on multiple-choice questions. Balanced Assessment focuses on rich, mathematically complex work that requires students to create a plan, make a decision, or solve a problem -- and then justify their thinking.

Blue Web'n Applications: Mathematics Resources

In our daily work designing applications for Internet and Videoconferencing, we see a multitude of web pages for students, educators, and librarians. This webspace is our attempt to share the best of these sites in an organized manner. In addition to the Mathematics Resources they also have Mathematics Activities, and Mathematics References for teachers of Mathematics.

Calculus&Mathematica Distance Education Program

The Calculus&Mathematica Distance Education Program (C&M DEP) runs on the electronic highway to bring top rural and inner city high school students to the university and to send top university undergraduates to rural and inner city high schools to form a human, electronic community devoted to mathematics learning.

CAMSED - Coalition of Automated Mathematics and Science Education Databases

The Coalition of Automated Mathematics and Science Education Databases (CAMSED) is an emerging collaborative effort, striving to increase access to materials useful to individuals in the mathematics and science education community through a system of federated electronic information services.

Canadian Forum on Education in Mathematics

The Canadian Forum for Education in Mathematics was designed to bring together participants in mathematics education in Canada (government, teachers - kindergarten through graduate school and industry) with the intent of providing a unique opportunity to talk about mathematics from elementary school to the workplace.

CAS Workshop for High School Mathematics Teachers

This is the home page for Computer Algebra System Workshop at Vanderbilt University. Some of the files and handouts used during the workshop are included.

Center of Excellence for Science and Mathematics Education (CESME)

The Center of Excellence for Science and Mathematics Education (CESME) is located at the University of Tennessee at Martin in Martin, Tennessee. The mission of the CESME is to encourage and support the improvement of science and mathematics education at all levels. The purpose of this WWW site is to serve as a resource for teachers who are looking for ways to improve their science or mathematics teaching.

Center for Innovation in Education

The Center for Innovation in Education was founded by Mary and Bob Baratta-Lorton as a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to developing, evaluating, and furthering the use of innovative methods, materials, and programs in grades K-7.

Center for Polymer Studies

The Center for Polymer Studies (CPS) is a scientific visualization research center in the Physics Department at Boston University devoted to interdisciplinary research in aspects of polymeric, random, or fractal systems. CPS utilizes expertise in interdisciplinary physics research to develop experimental and computational materials for K-12 and undergraduate education. Of interest to mathematics teachers are their programs: Patterns In Nature, The Dance of Chance and On Growth and Form. The latter page contains a collection of macintosh and windows for doing simulations.

Challenger Center for Space Science Education

Challenger Center for Space Science Education is a not-for-profit organization committed to promoting science, math and technology education. Partnering with museums, science centers, schools, universities and communities across North America, Challenger Center uses the theme of space exploration to: create positive learning experiences, foster interest in math, science and technology, and motivate young people to explore.

Cisco Education Archive

The educational resource center sponsored by Cisco Systems Incorporated which provides information helping educators and schools connect to the wealth of educational resources available on the World Wide Web, as well as connections to resources worldwide that demonstrate the power of networking in education. The Cisco Educational Archive and Resources Catalog home page (CEARCH) offers "one-stop shopping" to access hypermedia resources of interest to educational organizations.

Classroom Compass

Classroom Compass is a collection of ideas and resources for teachers interested in improving instruction in science and mathematics. To make these subjects more accessible to more students, teachers must engage students in real problems and tie lessons to what students already know, while analyzing and measuring what they are learning. The Classroom Compass examines such issues, offering suggestions and discussing ways of thinking about effective instruction.

Computers & Maths Teaching

This web site (in Canberra, Australia) is used to publish some of the worksheets, spreadsheets and assessment items that Peter Hobson has written over recent years. These worksheets use computers to assist in teaching sections from the Senior Secondary Maths Curriculum - year 11 & 12 students. The majority of these worksheets deal with the function sketching sections in their curriculum, and they are designed to allow the students to learn their basic shapes, translation techniques etc. from the computer rather than the blackboard. The software we use is shareware downloaded from the internet.

Connect

CONNECT is Colorado's NSF-funded statewide systemic initiative in mathematics and science.

Connected Geometry

Connected Geometry is curriculum development project, funded by the National Science Foundation, designed to help teachers and students engage in meaningful mathematical activity by offering students a chance to understand and appreciate the connections and unifying themes within mathematics, and to build on the connections between students' backgrounds and mathematics. Available on this site are Geometer's Sketchpad sketches.

Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway

The Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway is a service of the Cornell Theory Center which is committed to providing a wide range of educational services to the national community. This Gateway provides links to resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9-12. It includes an extensive section for secondary school educators, containing information on curriculum, lesson plans, software for the classroom, and how to set up web servers in the schools.

Cuisenaire Learning Place

The Cuisenaire Learning Place is an interactive meeting place for teachers, parents and children to explore "minds-on" activities designed for K-9 math and science (teaching notes included.) A rich resource, the site features an on-line catalog, information about educational trends, a moderated forum for sharing information about hands-on learning for math and science, a "great links" page, and much more.

Dynamical Systems and Technology Project

This project is a National Science Foundation sponsored project designed to help secondary school and college teachers of mathematics bring contemporary topics in mathematics (chaos, fractals, dynamics) into the classroom, and to show them how to use technology effectively in this process. At this point, there are several interactive papers available. These are designed to help teachers understand the mathematics behind such topics as iterated function systems (the chaos game) and the Mandelbrot and Julia sets.

THE E-DATABASE OF STUDENT RESEARCH: MATH

E-MAIL MATH

Email math involves using the electronic mail service of the internet in order to exchange math story problems with other math classes in Canada or around the world.

Educational Resources at the University of Washington

A Resource Guide to the University of Washington for K-12 Schools, including professional development programs and curriculum resources for K-12 teachers, and tours, presentations and programs for K-12 students. This site contains mathematical resources for both the teacher and the student.

Educational Resources for K-12 Mathematics Teachers

This site at the University of Utah contains a very nice well-organized collection of annotated links to various sites of resources for K-12 mathematics teachers.

Educational Standards and Curriculum Frameworks for Math

Developing Educational Standards is an annotated list of Internet sites with K-12 educational standards and curriculum frameworks documents, maintained by Charles Hill and the Putnam Valley Schools in New York.

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse

The purpose of the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC) is to provide K-12 teachers with a central source of information on mathematics and science curriculum materials and to encourage the adoption and use of such materials in order to support national goals to improve teaching and learning in mathematics and science. The United States Department of Education funds ENC through a contract with The Ohio State University.

E P G Y: EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR GIFTED YOUTH

The Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) is a continuing project at Stanford University offering computer-based courses in mathematics and the mathematical sciences for bright young students through the Stanford Continuing Studies Program. They have been actively involved in the education of gifted students since the late 1950s and have been working with computer based education since the mid 1960s.

EQUALS Programs

The EQUALS programs at the Lawrence Hall of Science provide workshops and curriculum development for teachers, parents, counselors, administrators, and other educators. These programs include the six day EQUALS Workshop in mathematics and equity, one and two day SEQUALS Workshops on a variety of educational topics, and the Family Math Program. EQUALS programs work to increase access and equity in mathematics for traditionally under-represented students, including females, students of color, those from low-income families, and those from language minority groups.

Erdos 4 Kids

An electronic journal for the exploration of open problems in mathematics.

Explorer

The Explorer is part of the Unified Network Informatics Technology for Education (UNITE) efforts at the University of Kansas. The Explorer is part of a research and development effort to establish an on time and user friendly means of delivering a full range of information resources to educators and students. This site includes information on software, lab materials, lesson plans, video tapes, etc. for the teaching of mathematics at the k-12 grade levels.

Exploring Fractals

This World Wide Web project commenced in July 1994. It is is based on a curriculum, entitled "Exploring Fractal Dimension," developed by Mary Ann Connors and Anna Rose Haralampus at an NSF funded Institute for High School Mathematics Teachers at Georgetown University July - August, 1991. Its revision entitled "Exploring Fractals: From Cantor Dust to The Fractal Skewed Web" has been edited by Mary Ann Connors 1994, 1995.

Family Math

Family Math is a program developed by EQUALS, at Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley, California. The goal of FAMILY MATH is to encourage underrepresented groups (especially girls and minority students) to enter careers that use mathematics. FAMILY MATH is, of course, family-based.

Florida Atlantic University - Teacher Enhancement Project

Fractal Microscope

The Fractal Microscope is an interactive tool designed by the Education Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) for exploring the Mandelbrot set and other fractal patterns. By combining supercomputing and networks with the simple interface of a Macintosh or X-Windows workstation, students and teachers from all grade levels can engage in discovery-based exploration. The program is designed to run in conjunction with NCSA imaging tools such as DataScope and Collage. With this program students can enjoy the art of mathematics as they master the science of mathematics. This focus can help one address a wide variety of topics in the K-12 curriculum including scientific notation, coordinate systems and graphing, number systems, convergence, divergence, and self-similarity.

Fract-Ed

Fract-Ed is an course on fractals for high school or college students.

Freudenthal Institute

The Freudenthal Institute was founded (under the name IOWO) in 1971 and at present forms part of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Utrecht University. The Fi is also part of the Center for Science and Mathematics Education. The Fi is internationally renowned as an institute for the development of mathematics and computer science education. Research projects, conducted by the Fi for the Netherlands Department of Education, have resulted in the implementation of new curricula for secondary education. New curricula for primary education were influenced and developed by the institute in a more informal manner.

Genesee Area Mathematics/Science/Technology Center

The Genesee Area Mathematics/Science/Technology Center seeks to harness community resources for supporting the dedicated parents, students, and educators. GAMSTC seeks to provide these resources so that all learners will excel in and seek career pathways in mathematics, science, and technology.

Geometry Through Art

This page provides information about the artist Norman Shapiro who has been working with students in public schools in the New York area with their study of geometry and information on obtaining the materials which he has used.

GirlTECH '95

GirlTECH `95 was an innovative four-week teacher training program at The Rice School/La Escuela Rice. During this program, twenty teachers were given intensive training in developing and presenting materials related to gender equity and computer technology. One of the features of this site is a collection of lesson plans.

Glenn T. Seaborg Center for Teaching and Learning Science and Mathematics

Global Schoolhouse

The Global Schoolhouse is a project funded in part by the National Science Foundation and supported by many local and national businesses. The project consists of connecting schools and students nationally and internationally using the Internet and modeling classroom applications of Internet tools and resources. Collaborative research is conducted between the schools and students interact via using a variety of Internet tools including live video conferences using Macintosh and (80386/80486 based) personal computers.

GNN Math Center

An annotated collection of links to various K-12 mathematics sites.

Helping Your Child Learn Math

This article by Patsy F. Kanter contains activities for children aged 5 through 13.

Honest Open Logical Debate (HOLD) on math reform

Houghton Mifflin Mathematics Center

The Houghton Mifflin Math Center contains math resources for teachers, students and parents. Included, for example, is a bibliography for experiences of math through literature for students in grades K-2, brain teasers for grades 3 and above, a parent handbook for helping your child understand mathematics and many math links.

The Hub

The Hub is an Internetworked resource for mathematics and science education funded by the Eisenhower Regional Consortia and operated by TERC on behalf of the Regional Alliance for Mathematics and Science Education Reform. The Hub provides services that can help you to publish reports, curricula, projects in progress, requests for proposals. The Hub is also an important educational resource. The Hub publish newsletters, curriculum materials, and software in support of the greater educational community as well as provide references to valuable information from across the internet.

Image Processing for Teaching Program

Images provide an exciting introduction to science, mathematics and technology. All learners can process and manipulate images from the real world to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills. Educators are using image processing to integrate technology in the classroom in a meaningful way. Learning with image processing gives students new opportunities to explore, discover and create.

Institute for Technology in Mathematics

The Institute for Technology in Mathematics has been a pilot program under the New Jersey Department of Higher Education with two major objectives: to initiate curriculum transformation at the secondary level in mathematics by using technology and to prepare a cadre of teachers who would serve as leaders and resource people in their school district in providing encouragement and technical assistance to their colleagues. Check out their Lesson Plans for the Geometer's Sketchpad.

Integrated Math Tools Project

The Integrated Math Tools Project is a joint effort of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and the Technical Educational Research Center, Cambridge, MA, on a project to revamp the teaching of mathematics in grades K-6. This project involves the development of curriculum to support mathematics as captured by the NCTM standards of 1989. The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's part in the project is to develop a series of software "tools" for use by teachers and students in the new curriculum.

The Internet Library

The mission of our Internet Public Library is to: provide services and information which enhance the value of the Internet to its ever-expanding and varied community of users, work to broaden, diversify, and educate that community, communicate its creators' vision of the unique roles of library culture and traditions on the Internet. Their mathematics section contains a collection of links to both general and k-12 mathematics resources.

Internet Resources in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education

This page organized by the Office for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign contains a well-organized collection of links to resources on the Internet.

Introduction to Math and Spreadsheets

Java Geometry Explorer

This is the first of a promised K-12 Educational Series programmed by Cliff Pickover to simulate students and teachers of art and math. This JAVA applet draws the locus of points obtained by moving a chord around a circle. Other similar pictures are also drawn depending upon the input of the reader. You will need a browser which can run JAVA applets to view this page.

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

The Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, is devoted to the interests of teachers of mathematics and mathematics education at all levels--preschool through adult. The JRME is a forum for disciplined inquiry into the teaching and learning of mathematics. It encourages the submission of a variety of high-quality manuscripts: reports of research, including experiments, case studies, surveys, philosophical studies; articles about research, including literature reviews and theoretical analyses; brief reports of research; critiques of articles and books; and brief commentaries on issues pertaining to research.

Kids Web - Mathematics Page

The Mathematics Page of the Kids Web is a collection of sites which are very simple to navigate and contain information about mathematics of interest to K-12 students.

LabNet

LabNet is an electronic community for science and math teachers. LabNet provides an electronic meeting place in which teachers can support each other in experimenting with new teaching strategies, reflect on their teaching experiences, problem-solve, share resources, build collegial connections with their peers, and take part in professional development. LabNet is dedicated to actively supporting and encouraging inquiry-oriented, project-based learning.

Lawrence Hall of Science - Mathematics Education Group

The Mathematics Education Group, at the Lawrence Hall of Science, provides hands-on mathematics and technology experiences for people of all ages in order to create exciting learning environments where people can succeed in problem solving, work cooperatively, and enjoy the beauty of mathematics.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy, has achieved 40 years of excellence in creating and applying science and technology to meet vital national needs. Included on this server is information of LLNL's participation in science and math education and, in particular, information on the Math Learning Center at Livermore High School.

Learning through Collaborative Visualization

Materials World Modules

The Materials World Modules (MWM) is a National Science Foundation funded project to produce a series of interdisciplinary educational modules centered on aspects of materials science. The modules themselves are a collaboration among materials science researchers, educational researchers, and high school science and mathematics teachers. The modules are intended for use in high school science and math classrooms. Some of the modules are also suitable for use in junior high settings.

Math and Physics Problems

This site is a commercial service to provide problems and/or detailed solutions to problems in high school level mathematics (algebra and trigonometry).

Math & Science Pavilion

The Mathematics & Science Pavilion of Virginia Public Education Network provides an opportunity for you to explore the wealth of mathematics and science resources (projects, lesson plans, images, calculator activities). It is part of the Electronic Academical Village, a storehouse for information on academic subjects studied in schools. Please feel at home and enjoy this treasure house compiled together by the math, science, and technology educators of Virginia!

Math Central

Math Central is site for K-12 mathematics students and teachers. It is a facility at the University of Regina Department of Mathematics and Statistics and is maintained by mathematics and education students and faculty. Math Central is designed to aid in the implementation and maintenance of the new mathematics curriculum in Saskatchewan.

Math Forum

Formerly called the Geometry Forum, the Math Forum has as its goal to build a community that can be a center for all who have an interest in mathematics education. They work towards this goal in several ways: hosting of newsgroups, organizing a collection of links to various mathematics resources, and involvement with the development and evaluation of Internet math materials.

The Math Tutor

This is Calgary's Math Tutor. We are still under construction, but the long term plan is to develop a site that contains thousands of worked out examples taken from student queries. Each will be catagorized according to grade level and topic. Since Calgary's Math Tutor is just going online many of the links you see are non-functional, or lead to small numbers of examples. You can change this! Online queries are free! Response times can not be fully guaranteed, but we expect 24 hrs will be the usual turn around time.

Math Vantage

Math Vantage is a series of videotapes and print materials that brings middle level mathematics to life. The videotapes produced for the Nebraska Math and Science Initiative project by the Nebraska Educational Television Network are high-energy, fast-paced presentations illustrating key math concepts and applications. The target audience is grades 6-9, but much of the material is applicable for other grades as well.

Mathematical Education on Merseyside

Mathematical Education on Merseyside is a Registered Charity dedicated to the enjoyment of mathematics. The aim is to being together in common projects everyone concerned with the lively development of mathematics in secondary schools of every type in and around Merseyside.

Mathematical Experience Through Image Processing

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has identified a number of features that the grade 5-8 curriculum should include in order to help motivate students to stay interested in math. The goal of the METIP project is to use digital image processing to help meet these objectives. In particular they have developed applications that run on 386/486/Pentium based PC's under Microsoft Windows that allow students to manipulate digitized images of their choice. Teachers aid in learning by discussing the concepts students have explored on the computer. The METIP Project currently has a number of programs that allow students to explore mathematics with image processing.

Mathematical Mayhem

Mathematical Mayhem is a non-profit mathematical journal written by and for high school and undergraduate university students.

Mathematically Correct

This web site is devoted to the concerns raised by parents and scientists about the invasion of our schools by the New-New Math and the need to restore basic skills to math education.

Mathematics and Modern Art

A collection of worksheets which give examples how works of art can be used in elementary and secondary schools.

Mathematics and Science Teaching (MAST) Center

The MAST Center at the University of Northern Colorado is committed to equitable and systemic reform in the teaching and learning of science, mathematics, and technology in elementary, middle, and secondary schools, colleges, and univerisity. MAST Center's Activites include the CONNECT project, MAST Hotline, RMTEC, and the Colorado's U S WEST Teacher Network. The MAST Center has over 20 activities that are focused on pre-service and inservice instruction for mathematics and science teachers.

The Mathematics Learning Forums

Become a part of a growing, nationwide community of educators interested in mathematics reform and the standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). The Mathematics Learning Forums provide a unique experience for elementary and middle school teachers to reflect on and refine their mathematics teaching practices through on-line seminars.

Mathematics Problem Solving Task Centres

This site has been designed to assist teachers and students who use Task Centres. The aims for the A.C.T.(Mathematics Task) Centre are to give students a successful mathematical experience, to develop problem-solving strategies within the students and to encourage teachers to use concrete materials to teach mathematics with students above Year 3.

Mathématique du secondaire

This page contains suggestions by Xavier Hubaut, Professor at the Free University of Brussels, for additional topics to be used in secondary mathematics which are aesthetic, applicable or amusing. Topics include projective geometry, conic sections, polyhedra, complex numbers, Escher, and applications.

MathLand

Mathland is an innovative K-6 mathematics program from Creative Publications.

Mathmagic

Mathmagic is a K-12 telecommunications project developed in El Paso, Texas. It provides strong motivation for students to use computer technology while increasing problem-solving strategies and communications skills. MathMagic posts challenges in each of four categories (k-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12) to trigger each registered team to pair up with another team and engage in a problem-solving dialog. When an agreement has been reached, one solution is posted for every pair.

Mathman

Publisher of books and videotapes; Don's Materials.

MathMol - Mathematics and Molecules K-12

MathMol is being developed at the NYU/ACF Scientific Visualization Center with assistance from the NYU Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation, District 2 in Manhattan and the YMCA Beacon Technology Center. The purpose of MathMol is to provide the K-12 educational community with information and materials dealing with the rapidly growing fields of molecular modeling and 3-D visualization. As the program gains momentum, databases and activities will be posted for educational use. Many activities will permit students to work interactively with molecular and mathematical images. Pages will be updated as information and activities are developed.

MegaMath - Los Alamos National Laboratory

The MegaMath project is intended to bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to elementary school classrooms so that young people and their teachers can think about them together. MegaMath is a project of the Computer Research and Applications Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Michigan Gateways

Michigan Gateways: The Television Program for Teachers of Mathematics and Science is a television series aimed at helping K-12 educators open gateways to mathematics and science for their students. The award winning Michigan Gateways series also appeals to everyone who is concerned about how math and science education evolve as our children prepare for success in the 21st century. Michigan Gateways is broadcast by satellite and offered on Michigan's public broadcasting stations on varying schedules.

MMAP - Middleschool Mathematics through Applications Project

The Middleschool Mathematics through Applications Project (MMAP) began in early 1992 with a 3 year grant from the National Science Foundation. Our goals are to research and develop a set of mathematics materials for middle school students and teachers to use in learning and teaching mathematics.

NASA Langley Research Center's HPCC K-12 Program

The HPCC (High Performance Computing and Communications) K-12 education program developed at NASA Langley is a pilot program which focuses on enhancing the science and mathematics curriculum by transferring NASA's computational technology to the primary and secondary education area. This includes Internet access for K-12 students and teachers. The objectives of the program are: Investigate the integration of computational science in the K-12 education area. Use NASA Langley researchers to train teachers in the use of workstations, software, and networking. Investigate and develop low cost networking models with full internet access. Make available to other schools/agencies the successes and failures of the program.

National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)

The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), founded in 1944 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, is the largest organization in the world committed to the improvement of science education at all levels -- preschool through college. NSTA's current membership of nearly 50,000 includes science teachers, science supervisors, administrators, scientists, business and industry representatives, and others involved in science education. Of particular interest to math teachers are Quantum which is a lively, handsomely illustrated bimonthly magazine of math and science and their collection of Science, Math, and Teaching resources on the net.

NCTM - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Founded in 1920 as a not-for-profit professional and educational association, NCTM is the largest organization dedicated to the improvement of mathematics education and to meeting the needs of teachers of mathematics.

NCTM - Standards

The Nebraska Mathematics and Science Coalition

Networking Infrastructure for Education - National Center for Supercomputing Applications

The National Science Foundation, through the Networking Infrastructure for Education (NIE) program, seeks to explore the impact of networks on school communities. We describe here one such effort, a supplement to an on-going effort NSF-funded activity of the Education Group of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications based on educational affiliations as a mechanism to introduce and support computational science in the K-12 curriculum.

The New Jersey Mathematics Coalition Home Page

The New Jersey Mathematics Coalition was created to facilitate and encourage improvement in the teaching and learning of mathematics as recommended in national reports including the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics and Professional Standards for Teaching Mathematics of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, collectively referred to as the Standards, and Everybody Counts and Counting on You of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board and the Board on Mathematical Sciences,

Northwest Math Interaction

The Northwest Math Interaction (NWMI) is an effort of the Continuing Outreach Program of the IAS /Park City Mathematics Institute. The PCMI sponsors a summer institute in Park City, Utah for teachers, university mathematicians and undergraduates. The NWMI is made up of Puget Sound secondary teachers who have completed the two-year geometry program at Park City and who are introducing new ways of teaching geometry in the classroom.

NSF Sponsored Summer Workshop for Secondary School Teachers

Ontario Science Centre

The Educational Programs section at the Ontario Science Centre, "your partner in math, science and technology education", is offers quality programs and workshops which have been presented to millions of students and teachers since their opening in 1969.

Origami

Origami is the art of paper folding. The word is Japanese, literally meaning "to fold" (oru) "paper" (kami). This site contains a lot of information on Origami and has a page of links to many other such sites.

OSU Math Ed Center k-12 Resources

PALMS - Partnerships Advancing Learning in Math and Science

PALMS will be the vanguard of education reform in Massachusetts.

PBS MATHLINE

PBS MATHLINE is the first discipline-based educational service the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) offers on its new telecommunications highway. Combining computing and telecommunications technologies, public television is creating an information highway on which there will be much more than the traditional broadcast programs usually associated with television. With electronic communication via PBS Online, public television's new computer network, PBS will be offering interactive data services in addition to interactive video and voice services for education. As an umbrella service for students, teachers, parents, policymakers, and the public, PBS MATHLINE will support the nation in pursuit of its national education goal to be first in the world in mathematics achievement. PBS MATHLINE services are based on the mathematics standards set by the the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and endorsed by the National Education Goals Panel.

Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences

The Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences (PGSS) first opened at Carnegie Mellon University in the summer of 1982. This rigorous five-week summer program was established to provide talented Pennsylvania high school students with enrichment experiences in the sciences and mathematics and to encourage them to pursue careers in science and technology.

Pomona College Mathematical Talent Search

The Pomona College Mathematical Talent Search sends out five sets of problems to high school students each school year. The top entrants and their teachers are recognized by Pomona College.

Presidential Awardees for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching

This page contains information about the NSF sponsored Presidential Awardees for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching. Check out the Final Milestones page which lists projects and contains links to lessons plans.

Prisma Visual Technologies

This site provides information on Totally Cool Math which is a comprehensive, 38-lesson program that teaches children in grades 3-9 the mental math skills they need to master basic mathematics.

Project Discovery

Project Discovery is a statewide systemic initiative, funded by the National Science Foundation and the State of Ohio in order to coordinate various federal and state monies for the improvement of science and mathematics education, to stimulate major, long-term statewide strategic initiatives, and to develop a shared vision for the reform of science and mathematics education that involves business and industry, schools and universities, foundations and government.

Project MATHEMATICS!

Project MATHEMATICS! produces videotape-and-workbook modules that explore basic topics in high school mathematics in ways that cannot be done at the chalkboard or in a textbook. The goal of the project is to attract young people to mathematics through high-quality instructional modules that show mathematics to be understandable, exciting, and eminently worthwhile.

Project Skymath

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) has received funding from the National Science Foundation to prepare a middle school mathematics module incorporating real-time weather data. The goal of the pilot project is to demonstrate that acquiring and using current environmental and real-time weather data in middle school classrooms, in ways that embrace the dynamic and the uncertain natures of these data, will promote the teaching and learning of significant mathematics, consistent with the standards set by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

ProMath

The purpose of ProMath is to give Lexington area high school students an opportunity to work on interesting, challenging mathematical problems and to develop their problem solving skills and taste for individual work in Mathematics. The organizers of ProMath believe that working on non-standard problems is the best (maybe the only) way to understand the true nature of Mathematics and would like to share this belief with high school students and with the community at large. They hope to be able to identify and encourage young mathematical talent.

PUMP - Pittsburgh Urban Mathematics Project

The PUMP (Pittsburgh Urban Mathematics Project) Algebra Project is a collaboration between members of the Anderson Research Group and a group of teachers in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. It is an attempt to make high school Algebra accessible to all students through the use of situational curriculum materials and an intelligent computer based tutoring system.

Quandaries and Queries

Have any nagging math problems you can't solve, or just curious about something? Ask us! We'll try to solve your problem and return an answer to you. Questions and answers are also stored in a data base that you can examine either through a table of contents (arranged by level and topic), or through a search.

Quantum

Quantum is a lively, handsomely illustrated bimonthly magazine of math and science (primarily physics). In addition to its feature articles, Quantum's departments include At the Blackboard (the beauty and usefulness of equations), In the Lab (hands-on science), Toy Store (mathematical amusements), Kaleidoscope (a collection of snippets designed to consolidate your grasp of a given topic), How Do You Figure? (challenging problems in physics and math), Brainteasers (fun problems requiring a minimum of math background), Looking Back (biographical and historical pieces), and Gallery Q (an exploration of links between art and science).

SAMI - Science and Math Initiatives

A project of the Boulder Valley School District, Boulder, Colorado, funded by the Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project and the US West Foundation, and supported by the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Saxon Publishers, Inc.

Saxon Publishers publish educational textbooks and other teaching materials for the primary and secondary education markets (Grades K-12) as well as for the home study market. Their goal is to develop a web site that can be used as a means of communication between themselves and members of the Internet community as well as a forum for the exchange of ideas, techniques, and methods for improving education in America. Of special interest to mathematics teachers is their math help line and the math challenge.

The Schoolhouse Project

Collection of links.

SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS NETWORK of Central Ohio

The Science & Mathematics Network of Central Ohio is a community-wide coalition of: school districts, businesses, government agencies and organizations. This coalition is dedicated to improving elementary school science and mathematics. The Network maintains two primary program areas to address this challenge: 1) reform-based partnering and 2) professional development.

Secondary Mathematics Assessment Database

This Web site in Queensland, Australia provides an opportunity for secondary maths teachers to share quality assessment items. The emphasis is on non-traditional assessment, though you will find innovative traditional exam questions here also.

Shell Centre for Mathematical Education

The Shell Centre for Mathematical Education is a center for research and development within the School of Education at the University of Nottingham. Its small staff guide a wide range of projects, many in collaboration with other institutions in England and around the world.

The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.

The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit education and research corporation dedicated to reform and improvement of mathematics and science education by appropriate incorporation of computational and communication technologies. Beginning in 1989 as the Shodor Education Trust, and since its incorporation as a public 501(c)(3) foundation, the focus has been to identify specific needs in the education reform movement that can be addressed by modeling and simulation technologies.

SimCalc: Simulations for Calculus Learning

The SimCalc Project aims to democratize access to the Mathematics of Change for mainstream students by combining advanced simulation technology with innovative curricular solutions that begin in the early grades and includes powerful ideas extending beyond classical calculus.

Six through Eight Mathematics (STEM) Project

The Six Through Eight Mathematics (STEM) project is a mathematics curriculum project for grades 6-8 located at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana. STEM is developing a national level curriculum to be used by all students. It will include a complete set of student, teacher, and assessment materials. The materials are being developed over a 60-month period and are scheduled for commercial publication for the school year 1997-98.

6th Grade Tessellations

This unit was developed in conjunction with the Tesselmania! software program and the tessellations of M.C. Escher in order for students to realize the importance of mathematics in the art world.

Skymath National Weather Report Module

This is an overview of a unit in which students produce a national weather report and a report on their understanding of the phenomena under study. It is a highly condensed description. This unit focuses on the display and making sense of numerical and graphical data, discerning patterns, making conjectures based on the analysis of data, and the analysis of data sets with more than one variable. It introduces some fundamental concepts of statistics and a variety of statistical formats for displaying data. It builds extensively on measurement skills and the use of scales and symbol systems and provides opportunities for computation and use of calculators. Throughout the unit, students are engaged in mathematical reasoning, problem-solving, and communicating about mathematics.

SMART -- Science and Mathematics Advancement and Resources for Teachers

SMART -- Science and Mathematics Advancement and Resources for Teachers is an initiative of the Los Angeles Educational Partnership. The 1994-95 SMART Catalog places hundreds of enriching professional development opportunities and resources at your fingertips. Its goal is to empower you to raise your students' level of mathematics and science achievement by enhancing your own knowledge and skills.

Southwest Virginia Governor's School for Science, Math & Technology

Spacelink

Curriculum Materials from Spacelink, which is an electronic information system maintained by NASA and designed to provide current educational information to teachers and students throughout the United States.

Steve's Dump

System Dynamics in Education Project

The goal of the System Dynamics in Education Project is to develop classroom projects, complete with modeling software examples when applicable, that might assist a teacher and the students in making the educational challenge easier and more meaningful.

Teacher Talk

Teacher Talk is an electronic mailing list for the use of K-12 Saskatchewan mathematics teachers. It is intended for open discussion in the teaching of mathematics, with topics as wide ranging as the participants wish.

A Teacher's Guide to Building the Icosahedron as a Class Project

This illustrated guide by Frederick Wicklin gives step-by-step instructions on how to construct a twenty-sided geometric figure, the icosahedron, using commonly available art supplies. This project is designed for middle-school and high-school students, and is based on the design used for the "World's Largest Icosahedron" constructed at the Geometry Center by 6-8th grade students during the summer of 1994.

Technology And Mathematics Education (TAME) Forum

The principal aim of the TAME Forum is to develop and support a network of mathematics educators at primary and secondary schools in their attempts to incorporate technology assisted approaches to mathematics teaching and learning. This support will extend to providing the following services: moderate an electronic forum (newsgroup) for mathematics educators to share ideas, problems and sample materials relevant to the TAME theme; maintain/support a collection of low cost software suitable for schools; information about projects currently in progress relevant to the TAME theme; provide links to other WEB resources of value to mathematics educators in schools.

TECHNOLOGY TOOLS FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS LEARNING

Technology Tools is an interdisciplinary program between the Department of Physics and the School of Education at UNC Greensboro. TECHTOOLS is developing:

A Professional Development Program for Inservice Teachers

Technology Tools will establish 10 university training sites across the state of North Carolina, each of which will offer professional development programs for middle and high school science and mathematics teachers. Teachers from more than 50 school systems will participate in each two-year training cycle. During the summer workshops, teachers will learn to integrate three types of technology tools into their classroom teaching. Integrated science and technology instructional modules are being developed by discipline content teams composed of university scientists and educators, and public and private school teachers.

An Electronic Information System

Named in honor of the world's female scientists, CURIE is an Internet information and brokerage system for science and mathematics classroom use. It is both a repository of peer-reviewed on-line publications in science and mathematics and a transparent gateway to the Internet.

Tennessee Eisenhower Projects

Twenty-six projects have been funded in Tennessee through the P. L. 100-297, TITLE II, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER ACT. These projects are designed to help schools improve the quality of science and mathematics teaching. Participants in these projects usually receive some financial support and in some cases graduate credit.

Tessellations Project

In this lesson, each student selected a basic pattern. They first tessellated the pattern to fill a complete 8.5" X 11" page. Then they were asked to see if they could create a design of an animal or object. The results of this year's Escher-like drawing are displayed on this Web page.

Trigonometry Forum

U.S. Department of Education

This WWW server is provided under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) Institutional Communications Network (INet) project, managed and operated by the Education Information Resources Division of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI/EIRD). Contains a list of educational resources available on the Internet.

University of California, Irvine, K-16 SCIENCE EDUCATION - Mathematics Page

This page contains a number of links to sites which provide information of use to the K-16 mathematics teachers. This is part of a project which opproximately 100 K-12 teachers, representing more than 90 schools in Orange County, California, will be contributing for the benefit of all teachers. These teachers will be evaluating the science resources on the network according to their applicability in the classroom as they are sorted via criteria listed in the California Science Framework.

University of Hawaii, Math Dept., Curriculum Research and Development Group

The Curriculum Research & Development Group is the organized research unit in the University of Hawaii that gives attention to the functions of elementary and secondary education in Hawaii and elsewhere in the University's service area. The CRDG has a permanent staff of educators and contest scholars, plus a number of associated, part-time scholars from this and other universities. Its function is to examine the total scholarship of the universe of knowledge and to adapt selected parts of it for use in elementary and secondary schools. This page is from the Mathematics Department of the CRDG and contains information about the Hawaii Algebra Learning Project and Geometry Learning Project.

University of Toronto Mathematics Network

Sponsored by the Mathematical Sciences Departments at the University of Toronto: Department of Computer Science, Department of Mathematics, Department of Statistics, and others, the Network is designed to encourage active, hands-on participation in mathematics, provide a forum for communication and mathematical discussion, and provide exposure to active mathematics in many diverse fields.

Virginia Public Schools - Mathematics Standards of Learning

Virtual Science and Mathematics Fair '95

Washington State University's College of Education is hosting a Science and Mathematics Fair in the fall of 1995 on the World Wide Web. Participation is open to school children (grades K-12) and students of any age studying for initial teacher certification.

WaterStreet

Everyday here at WaterStreet we turn America's children into quick-figuring, logic-loving, problem solving math marvels. We promote the use of Cuisenaire rods and other math manipulatives, for better calculation and problem solving skills, and learning that lasts.

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Educational Technology

This is a long list of links to various sites related to Eduactional Technology which is maintained by TECFA ("Technologies de Formation et Apprentissage"), a teaching and research unit within the School of Psychology and Education (Faculte de psychologie et des sciences de l'education), University of Geneva.