Secondary Education Resources-Math: General Resources

 

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General links for Math Education
6TH Math--This site is an interactive math website for 6th grade math skills.
7TH Math--This is an interactive math website for 7th grade math skills.
8TH Math--This is an interactive math website for 8th grade math skills.
Aims Education Foundation--searchable data base for ideas and activities
Ask Dr. Math--ask a question, or browse the site for help in mathmatics for all ages
Cool Math--This site is a great site for teachers and math in the classroom.
Dr. Patricia Deubel's Computing Technology for Math Excellence
Earth Awareness Enrichment Program--a traveling interactive K-12 enrichment program featuring the Earth Balloon, a 22' model of the earth that students enter to learn about the changing earth.  Students learn about rain forests, the ring of fire, the solar system, plate tectonics, scale, seasons, timezones and more.
ENC classroom links
Figure This--This site demonstrates challenging middle school mathematics and emphasizes the importance of high-quality math education.
Fractions--This site gives a fraction to decimal table.
Favorite Mathematical Constants
Fibonacci Numbers--Excellent Links
Geometry from the Land of the Incas--A Peruvian site with geometry problems involving circles and triangles, with proofs, animation and sound: Poncelet, Napoleon, Eyeball, Steiner, Carnot, Sangaku, Morley, Langley and the Butterfly Theorem. Also, Incan Geometry (Cuzco, Machu Picchu, Incan Quipu, Nazca Lines, Lord of Sipan), Inca City on Mars?; and quotes from Descartes, Galileo, Newton, Pappus, Plato, Poincaré, Voltaire, and more.
GraspMath--Increase your Math skills with the GraspMath Learning System.  Award Winning instructors use step-by-step explanations.  Useful for students, parents, or teachers.  Courses: Elementary Math, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Calculus and TI Calculators.
Hellam--This site gives information about tessellations.
Helpful Math Links
Homework Spot--This site gives you information and other links to general math websites mostly dealing with high school math.
Internet Mathmatics Library--You can search this large website by keyword, math topic, resource topic, or education level
Just In Time Technology--This site gives a math forum.

Math is Fun--many K-12 math concepts explained in easy language, plus puzzles, games and worksheets

Math Goodies--Tthis is a free math help site featuring interactive lessons, homework help, worksheets and forums! They have over 400 pages of activities for students, teachers and parents.
Math Online Resource--It contains Tutorials, Texts, Educational Software, Forums and Links designed to help Math Students, Tutors and Instructors.
Math Products--This site has innovative math products for grades K-12.
Major Math Websites
Math Cartoons
Math Central--a great website for all math teachers
Math Class--a website dealing with the Dutch graphic artist Maurits Corneille Escher and his work with tessellations
Math Topic--This site gives links with lessons and ideas for many different subjects of mathematics for a variety of ages.
Math-on-Web--interactive mathematics page
Math Forum--giving tons of information about mathematics and providing links to other great websites about math
Math Websites--helps children in math from preschool through age fourteen
Matti--organizes and gives information about Numbers and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Data Analysis, and Probability.
Middle School Mathematics resources
National-Louis University (NLU)'s Math Links--maintained by Jane Moore
Ninth thru Twelfth Grade--This page contains activities and resources that are appropriate for teachers at the 9-12 grade level for use as they reflect on, plan for, and implement Standards-based mathematics education in their classrooms.
NRICH--an online math club
PASS Math Online Magazine--for potential A-level students and above
Problem of the Week--posts new math problems of all kinds all week, every week
Professor Freedman's Math Help--a mixture of sound, humor, color, animation and graphics with lots of help for the "math anxious" student
Schrock Guide--This website is all about math in the classroom.
Sixth thru Eighth Grade--This page contains activities and resources that are appropriate for teachers at the 6-8 grade level for use as they reflect on, plan for, and implement Standards-based mathematics education in their classrooms.
Symmetry: Ideas, Games, Theorems, and LINKS!
The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse--for mathematics and science education
The Mathematics Archive--classified into five main categories, and searchable
Vlibrary--is a national library of virtual manipulatives for interactive mathematics.
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Geometry Resources
Geometry from the Land of the Incas--A Peruvian site with geometry problems involving circles and triangles, with proofs, animation and sound: Poncelet, Napoleon, Eyeball, Steiner, Carnot, Sangaku, Morley, Langley and the Butterfly Theorem. Also, Incan Geometry (Cuzco, Machu Picchu, Incan Quipu, Nazca Lines, Lord of Sipan), Inca City on Mars?; and quotes from Descartes, Galileo, Newton, Pappus, Plato, Poincaré, Voltaire, and more.
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Resources, Lesson Plans, and Activities
AAAMath--huge, well-maintained math resource, with lesson plans with games, exercises and explanations of the topic, as well as interactive math pages
Aims Education Foundation--searchable data base for ideas and activities
Center for Mathematics Resources--A wide variety of sites that provide help in math for all ages
Educational mathematics resources
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics--a FANTASTIC on-line mathematics encyclopedia
FunBrain.com--providing teachers, parents, and kids with the tools they need to succeed
Hundreds of Math Sites and Activities!
MathPower--The site is a mixture of sound, humor,and animation with lots of help for the "math anxious" student.  It includes tutorial lessons authored by students for students, study skills tips and learning style information. It addresses the emotional needs besides the skills needs of math students of all ages.
Mathematics Animation Gallery
Math, Cool--free number puzzles to download and complete as well as a competition to enter every month. Challenging and fun.
Math TV - Problem Solving Videos
Resources for science and math educators--offering technology tips, lessons, links to websites and other resources
SCORE Mathematics Resource Center--from the Kings County Office of Education (includes broad range of K-12 curriculum resources)
Swarthmore's Math forum: Math resources by subject
Swarthmore's MathMagic
Swarthmore's Secondary Level Math Resources
Virginia Department of Education K-12 Math Resources
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Women and Girls and Math
MathPower--The site is a mixture of sound, humor,and animation with lots of help for the "math anxious" student.  It includes tutorial lessons authored by students for students, study skills tips and learning style information. It addresses the emotional needs besides the skills needs of math students of all ages.
National-Louis University (NLU)'s Math Links--maintained by Jane Moore
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