- 21st
Century Problem Solving
This site offers many word problems for students to
work out. This is a great resource for teachers.
- AAA
Math
Here is a collection of student interactive math activities,
covering just about every math topic imaginable. Grade
levels range from K-8, and also include "world levels".
A great resource for both teachers and students.
- A+Plus Math
New
Good site to review or re-learn basic math facts.
Addition, Subtraction, Division, and Multiplication
facts can be drilled and reviewed by students on their
own time. Also, has an option to print their own flash
cards for use in learning Math facts.
- Activities
Index
Outstanding!
The activities in this site are designed for either
group or individual exploration into concepts from
middle school mathematics. Several fun interactive
activities. Students will find this site fun and will
learn in the process. The activities are Java applets
and as such require a java-capable browser.
- Adding
3 Integers
This interactive game has students add three integers,
both positive and negative. The students are timed,
correct and incorrect scores, and students' percentages
are recorded and displayed. If students answer incorrectly
the correct response is immediately displayed. The
game can be played four different ways to give the
students variety.
- ALEKS
- This site provides a broad range of problems allowing
students to practice basic math skills through intermediate
algebra. Animated applets show the student how to
calculate the answers after they use paper and pencil.
A good variety of practice questions are provided
with each skill. Your computer must be JAVA enabled.
- Algebra.Help
Site provides interactive quizzes over numerous algebra
topics. A student can take a quiz and it is graded
upon completion. If the student is stumped on a problem
they can receive step-by-step solutions.
- Alfy
Elementary student site includes content in various
areas. The website is a web protal for children to
engage in online games, learn concepts and be emerged
in a excellent graphical and highly interactive environment.
- A
Maths Dictionary for Kids By Jenny Eather New
Outstanding!
Awesome interactive math dictionary. This is an animated
dictionary. Students choose the letter of the word
they are looking for. Then click on the word and there
is a explanation, an interactive problem, and possibly
an animated example. Really cool site! and easy to
use.
- AmbleWeb
This is a school web site. It contains
a wonderful interactive section of math and literacy
activities. Very colorful and well put together.
Things like fractions, geometry, computation and much
more.
- Appetizers and Lessons
for Mathematics and Reason
This site provides links to lessons and activities
for math students and teachers.
- BBC
Schools
This site provides excellent online lessons that students
can work through, great interactive games that allow
students to practice various math skills, math songs,
movies, and good teacher resources. There are
activities for ages 4 to 16+. Multiple benchmarks
at the elementary, middle school, and high school
level are covered. Click on the math or numeracy
links in each age catagory. An outstanding resource.
- Bob's
Place of Educational Links
This is a really cool site for finding activities
that students are able to hyperlink to. It also has
sites that the teacher can use to link to other resources.
- Bob's
Page of Applets and Java Interactive New
Site has the following animation: Polyhedra Page,
Stellations a polyhedron generator, A fractal tetrahedron,
and many more.
- Brain
Teasers New
The Brain Teasers are meant to build problem-solving
skills, so they may take a little while to solve.
Each week we will post new Brain Teasers at each of
three grade ranges: 3-4, 5-6, and 7-8. Select one
or all three and see if you can get the right answer.
- Breaking
Away From the Math Book
Outstanding
- Breaking Away from the Math Book: Creative Projects
for Grades K-8. Contains teacher instructions for
engaging, hands-on, mathematics problems that go beyond
the usual problems found in a text book. The
activities contain very detailed instructions and
provide good background information for the teacher.
Excellent illustrations for each project are also
included. The site is very easy to access and
very organized.
- Collection
of 279 Math Applets New
The material presented in the following pages are
for middle school students, high school students,
college students, and all who are interested in mathematics.
You will find interactive programs that you can manipulate
and a lot of animation that helps you to grasp the
meaning of mathematical ideas.
- Count
On- Explorer
This site is an excellent student resource for information,
answering questions, and stretching understanding.
Students can choose a variety of areas that help them
gain information about various topics. Very
student friendly, both in use and comprehension.
- Count
On - Math Magnets
This site is very student friendly. It has online
math magazines with information, games and the like.
Students have a choice of six magazines based on age/ability
level.
- Distance
Formula
An interactive tool to calculate distance between
two points.
- Educational
Java Programs
This Web site contains Java™ applets whose purpose
is to be used as tools to help and enhance the education
of students. Examples of activities include, but are
not limited to: All About Money: Learning About the
History of Money and How to Use American Coins and
Bills, It's About Time: Learning About Clocks and
Reading and Setting the Time, Playing the Oddball
Mathematics Game, Pattern Blocks: Exploring Fractions
with Shapes, Base 10 Blocks: Exploring Whole Decimal
Numbers, Place Value, and even Algebra with Blocks,
Integer Bars (or Cuisenaire Rods): Explore basic math
skills, fractions, and more, Fraction Bars: Explore
equivalent fractions, ordering fractions, adding fractions,
and more, The Pythagorean Theorem: Figure it out all
by yourself, etc.
- E-Lab
Outstanding -
This is an interactive website from Harcourt School
Publishing that features grade level activities. Select
a grade level (3-8), then a menu of from 20-28 activities
appear for the student to actively participate in.
Activities range from simple addition/subtraction
to graphing, reflectivity and rotation, geometry,
and so much more. A very entertaining and thought-process-provoking
site!
- EDUCYPEDIA:
The Educational Encyclopedia New
Math animations and java applets are in an encyclopedia
format for you to choose. There are hundreds.
- Explore
Math
This site features lessons and multimedia activities
for teachers to use to help present different concepts
along with activities for students to use.
- Famous
Problems in the History of Mathematics
- This site includes a few of the problems that have
been investigated by mathematicians throughout history.
It is an excellent resource that provides biographical
information about some of the mathematicians as well
as an opportunity for students to work through some
of the problems themselves.
- Figurethis
New
Mathematics challenges for teachers, students, and
families. All grades
- GCSE
MATHS New
This site uses discriptions and examples children
will understand. Teaches different math concepts such
as fractions, algebra, etc.
- Geometry
Animations New
This site has animations on the following topics:
Triangles and circles, polyhydra, curves, and some
still pictures.
- Geometry
from the land of the Incas - Triangle Centers
New
The Triangle Center has a variety of activities that
demonstrates problems about line segments, angles,
and triangles and lift up your geometry skills. Designed
for high-school students, college geometry, SAT preparation
and teachers with an interest in geometry problem-solving.
- Geometry
Meets Poetry
This is an interesting cross-curricular activity using
geometry and english skills. What do poetry
and math have in common? The student will merge
geometry with poetry, and create an animated gif that
reflects the changes a selected geometric concept
goes through! Your poems will be part of a poetry
collection that will surely be used by other teachers
to revolutionize the teaching of geometry. Success
in working on this project is certain to influence
future generations for years to come. Includes
as comprehensive glossary of both geometry and english
vocabulary.
- Interactive
Mathematics Activities New
Outstanding
-Everything from A to Z and more. Amazing how much
you can find here. This site is loaded with awesome
things for students and teachers to do. This site
is good for all grade levels. General Interactive
math activities. There are over 600 different activities
including topics of arithmetic, algebra, geometry,
probability, fractals, calculus, logic, illusions,
combinatorics, and puzzles and games.
- Interactive
Mathematics: Algebra
This site offers many algebra applets for K-12. Teacher
resources are also included in the form of lesson
plans and assessment.
-
Interactive Mathematics
This site is a resource site for teachers and provides
interactive sites for students. All grade levels
are represented in the areas of Number and Operations,
Geometry, Algebra, Measurement, Data Analysis and
Probability.
- Interactive
Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
A hodgepodge of links to good math problems and puzzles.
153 different math sites are listed. Some need
Java script.
- Intermath/Dictionary
The Interactive Mathematics Dictionary is a dictionary
for middle school students, teachers, parents, and
anyone else interested in learning more about mathematical
topics in the middle school curriculum.
- Linear
Algebra Toolkit
This site is designed to help a student understand
basic linear algebra procedures such as solving linear
systems of equations or transform a matrix to row
echelon form.
- Math Applets-Geometry
to Calculus
This site provides 279 applets for student use. The
topics include geometry, trigonometry, calculus, vectors,
complex numbers, conics and a miscellaneous collection
of short activities. The difficulty ranges from middle
school to upper high school level.
- Math Drills
Various math drills for students include word problems
involving distance, speed, time, percentages. Other
drills focus on basic computation with whole numbers
and fractions, prime factors, LCM, and GCF. Advanced
topics include factoring and roots of polynomials.
- Math
Files
Teachers can print off crossword puzzles, charts,
checks, and other activities to use with their students
for number sense, algebra, shapes, measurement, and
data handling. Also, by clicking on "games" teachers
can find interactive games for students to play.
- Math
for Moron's Like Us
Lot's of resources and opportunities for interactive
problem solving can be found at this site. Explanations
of concepts, quizzes and message boards are available
as well as links to other math sites
- Math
Potpourri
This site is set up like Jeopardy, the student is
allowed to pick any question and get points for correct
answers and docked points for incorrect answers. This
site covers many different benchmarks throughout the
middle school level. The student must choose Math
Potpourri for K-12 students.
- Mathpower
New
Tutorials for Fractions, Decimals, Order of operations,
Percents, that are presented by other Math students.Clear
and easy to follow.
- Mathpower
Algebra New
Tutorials for Algebra topics presented by other Math
students close to their own age. With language they
may understand easier. Clear and easy to follow.
- Math
Goodies Puzzzle Library
For each volume of the interactive math lesson there
is a corresponding puzzle.
- Math
Sites - Davis School District New
Education Technology Support has links to many mathematics
learning activities.
- Math
Studios-Interactive Math Activities New
This site has a variety of animations and interactive
activities that range from tangrams and algebra explorer,
to angle activities and different sorting activities.
- Math TV: Interactive
Problems Solving for Grades 4-6
This animated and interactive site is intended for
students in grades 4-6. Problems are provided for
students to solve each month. Topics range from basic
math through algebra. Students can access previous
"episodes".
- Mega
Mathematics
This is a good site for problem solving. It has several
interesting, thought provoking senerios for students
to tackle. Teacher resourses are included as well
as solutions.
- National
Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics
Outstanding
- This site offers user friendly virtual manipulatives
for student interactive use with a vast variety of
options. It is categorized by grade level and indexed
by the following strands: Number & Operations,
Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and Data Analysis
and Probability It offers a multitude of various manipulatives
for each strand. The site also offers instructions
for use of manipulatives and has a link to the standard
covered by each manipulative activity.
- Polyhedron
Generator and Modifier New
Outstanding:
Animation of a polyhedron generator and modifier.
For an idea of the amazing world of polyhedra surf
the links at The Pavilion of Polyhedreality.
- Point-Slope
Form
Interactive site to experiment with a line in point-slope
form. See the relationship to slope-intercept form.
- Principles
and Standards for School Mathematics New
Outstanding
- Find fun activities that line up with your standards
and benchmarks with just a click of your mouse.
- Problems
with a Point
This site provides a wide selection of problems across
the curriculum. The site is interactive, providing
hints and solutions to the problems.
- Project
Interactive
The goals of Project Interactive are the creation,
collection, evaluation, and dissemination of interactive
java-based courseware for exploration in science and
mathematics. At this interactive site students can
work with tesselations (where the user generates a
polygon that will repeat without overlapping across
a plane. Starting from a rectangle, triangle or hexagon,
the user bends the lines of the polygon, creating
a new polygon. The user can choose several different
colors to enhance the pattern, and can observe the
different effects that colors have on tessellations),
histograms (an activity that allows the user to view
and make their own histograms), fraction sorter (an
excellent way to learn about what fractions are and
practice with them in order to help you understand
the correlation between their representation as numerals
and their value on the number line), function flyer
(an activity that allows the user to explore the effect
of changing constants in most types of functions including:
linear, quadratic, exponential, trigonometric. The
applet allows the manipulation of a function of the
form y = f(x). Using slider bars one can manipulate
the function to change the constant values and view
the effects of those changes.). There are students
resources, teacher resources, activities, lessons,
etc.
- RAINFOREST
Maths by Jenny Eather New
Outstanding
- This site has several different internet activities.
This is a cool site to use to do a unit on the rainforest,
this is your math. She has lesson ideas K-6. However,
I believe the upper grades could also use this site
as a fun review.
- Science,
Math and Technology Practice Tests
The site provides multiple choice standarized test
questions that are ideal for test preparation. Topics
included are Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2, Chemistry,
Earth Science, General Science and Math for grades
3, 5 and 8. Explanations are given for incorrect answers.
- Senior
Mathematics - A Collection of Useful Internet Resources
New
Searching through the Internet for resources
for your classroom can be very time consuming and
frustrating. This page was designed to help high school
teachers utilize the Internet for their mathematics
classrooms.
- Sketchpad
The scope of this site spans from middle to college
level. It provides a visualization of environment
features that will enhance support for algebra, calculus,
and math notation. Students can construct objects
and explore its math properties by visualizing
and anaylzing a problem before they attempt to find
a proof. You will need to purchase "Sketchpad".
- Slope
Formula
Interactive tool to caluculate and adjust slope using
two points.
- Subtracting
Integers Game
This is an interactive site which explains how to
subtract positive and negative integers, lets the
student practice, gives immediate feedback, and explains
errors. This site gives students choices between subtraction
games.
- Solving
Word Problems
Reliable problem solving in all subjects that use
mathematics for problem solving. Algebra, Physics,
Chemistry- from middle school through 12 grade.
- The Math
Forum Math Fundamentals POW
This site can be interactive with students completing
the problem of the week and submitting answers on
line or problems can be downloaded and used as a whole
class project. If students do these problems on-line
and wish to submit the answers, they will need an
e-mail address (teacher's or parents's is acceptable).
- The
Shodor Education Foundation, Inc Interactive Activities
This site offers many interactive instructional lessons
linked to NCTM standards. Some of these are included
under specific bench marks.
- Tutorial
Index
This is a site of links to interactive tutorials relating
to just about any banchmark.
- Waldo's Interactive
Maths Pages
The website, from the United Kingdom, provides high
school students several interactive exercises in topics
ranging from basic math through college level math.
Categories are listed on the left side of the home
page by age rather than grade level. Computers must
have a java enabled browser.
- Virtual
Manipulative Geoboard Isometric
Virtual Manipulative Geoboard Isometric.
- Web Math
Teacher resource; student interactive for all subjects
and levels.
- Welcome
to the World of Aunty Math New
This is a K-5 math site that challenges students to
solve a daily mathematics problem. The site has a
link which allows students to try to solve previous
challenges.
- Word
Problems For Kids
General site for multiple math topics. Problem solving
in grade levels 5-12.
- Zona
Land
Using Java programming, Ray Tracing, and VRML (a virtual
reality language), this web site has tools and lessons
so the students can better visualize major concepts
in Algebra, Geometry, and Physics.
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