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MegaMath
from Los Alamos National Laboratories
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 the work of many people : classroom
teachers, mathematicians, students in education and computer
science, elementary school and high school students, school
administrators, computer scientists, and parents. MegaMath is a
project of the Computer Research and Applications Group at Los
Alamos National Laboratory.
Lesson
Ideas from Teachers' Edition
Each lesson plan at this site is designed to quickly aid the
teacher in determining the appropriate grade level, the lesson
objective, resources needed, teacher preparation, procedure,
variations, and options. A busy teacher can quickly pick up some
great lessons.
CHANCE
Database Lesson Plans
This data base contains materials designed help teach a
Chance course or a more standard introductory probability or
statistics course. The Chance course is a case study quantitative
literacy course developed cooperatively by Middlebury, Grinnell,
Spelman, University of California San Diego, University of
Minnesota, and Dartmouth. The aim of Chance is to make students
more informed, and critical, readers of current news that uses
probability and statistics as reported in daily newspapers such
as "The New York Times" and current journals and
magazines such as "Chance", "Science",
"Nature", and the "New England Journal of
Medicine". Some of our documents are available in Adobe
Acrobat's Portable Document Format. To read these documents you
will have to download Free Adobe Reader, which is easily
downloaded from this web site.
The
Regional Alliance for Mathematics and Science Education Reform
Math teachers who want to stay current with trends in math
and science education need to visit this site. There are a lot of
excellent resources and links to other sites.
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.
Secondary
Mathematics Assessment and Resource Database
This Australian site is worth investigating. SMARD provides
an opportunity for secondary math teachers to share quality
assessment and resources. Much of the assessment is alternative
assessment, known as 'authentic assessment' in the US. You are
invited to browse through their collection, select what you want
and take it away.
OASIS
(Online Activities for Standards in School)
Online Activities for Standards in School is a project of the
Colorado Alliance for Science Program. This is a very important
site for math teachers. OASIS is a system for locating
standards-based Internet science and math curriculum materials
and resources that are useful to teachers and students. While
there is a great deal of Internet material already available, it
is not always obvious how the activities or materials fit into a
standards-based classroom. By linking the Colorado State Science
and Math Standards with various activities we hope to simplify
the task of integrating Internet resources into the classroom. (
National standards for science education are also available on
line)
The Math Forum
The Math Forum is another winner for the math teacher.
Definitely bookmark this site because you will want to come back
many times. Key issues in math, math education, math resources by
subject, and a math activity of the month all contribute to make
this an outstanding web site for math 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. Listing by subject and listing by
State provide the math teacher with comprehensive standards for
math. These listings are all hypertext linked, so there is plenty
of comparative resources available.
Promising
Practices in Mathematics and Science Education-1995
Promising Practices in Mathematics and Science Education-1995
is a collection of promising educational programs and practices
from the Eisenhower Regional Consortia. This web site of
promising practices in mathematics and science education provides
an array of innovative ideas which should be of interest to
teachers at the elementary, secondary, and pre-service levels of
education. Fifty models of programs and practices were selected
and can be used to improve teaching and learning in mathematics
and science education.
The
Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway
The Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway provides
links to resources in mathematics and science for educators and
students in grades 9-12. We have bookmarked the root directory so
you can go to all the areas. The mathematics section is alone
very enticing.
ALCOM K-12
Education Outreach Program
The NSF Center for Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical
Materials (ALCOM) has developed a K-12 Internet site where
visitors can access the ALCOM Newsletter, view lesson plans, pose
queries to Ask A Scientist and or make use of search engines.
Explorer Home Page
The Explorer is a collection of educational resources
(instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans ...) for
K-12 mathematics and science education. Many resources are
available in the Adobe Acrobat format that is readable by
Macintosh, Windows and other OSs. The Explorer is being developed
jointly by the Great Lakes Collaborative and the University of
Kansas UNITE group to involve educators and students in creating
and using multimedia resources for active learning and "on
time" delivery.
MathMol
Modules
Concepts of both science and mathematics through molecular
modeling are the emphasis of this site, which includes
information, illustrations, activities, and downloadable files.
The
AIMS Puzzle Corner
Though this is not a lesson plan site, it is included here
because as teachers, we all want our students to be involved in
learning and to enjoy that learning. Puzzles are highly
motivational tools that capture the imaginations of students. To
infiltrate the classroom with a vibrant brand of problem solving,
AIMS offers a tantalizing educational bait-and-hook in the form
of a new puzzle each month.
K-12
Statistics Education
Here is a list of resources in statistics including lessons
and useful data sets. The links are organized to follow the NCTM
Statistics Standards for grades 9-12 These goals can be found on
page 167 of the NCTM Standards.
Math
Problem Solving
This site invites students to use creative strategies to
solve story questions. Students choose one of the problems to
solve and work on it for awhile. When they feel that they have
solved the problem, they send in the proof.
Appetizers
and Lessons for Math and Reason
This site is actually two online classrooms for math and
logic. This web site offers appetizers and lessons in both
subjects. If one is not to your liking, try another. Each one is
different --- from each other and perhaps from other lessons in
math and logic which you may have seen. The mathematics
appetizers further offer arithmetic review problems, three skills
for algebra -- a must for the mathematically shy or curious,
painless theorem proving, complex numbers, why slopes (a little
calculus), and more. Opinions on learning and teaching are
offered as well.
Internet
Center for Mathematics Problems
In the author's words: "On this page, we try to identify
and list all sources of mathematics problems on the Internet and
relastd information."
Untangling
the Mathematics of Knot
I almost overlooked this interesting site. Knots have been
studied extensively by mathematicians for the last hundred years.
Recently the study of knots has proved to be of great interest to
theoretical physicists and molecular biologists. One of the most
peculiar things which emerges as you study knots is how a
category of objects as simple as a knot could be so rich in
profound mathematical connections.
Number
Theory Web
This is a mirrored site from Australia. Number Theory Web is
an attempt to use the resources of the World Wide Web to collect
and disseminate information of interest to number theorists
everywhere and to facilitate communication between number
theorists.
Eric's
Treasure Trove of Mathematics
If you teach math, then you will want to bookmark this site.
There are no lesson plans here, but a real treasure of
mathematical resources for planning lessons.
Big
Sky Telegraph Math Lesson Plans
This math gopher site has lesson plans for elementary,
intermediate, and high school teachers. "Using M&M
Cookies To Work Math Problems" is an example of the lessons
found at this site. It is always more visually interesting to
visit a world wide web site, but don't overlook the great things
that are found at gopher sites.
Math
Collection at Rice University
Many math lessons are found at gopher sites and this is an
example of good math gopher site. The growth of the World Wide
Web has dramatically influenced universities maintaining their
gopher sites. This is a very, very large collection of interest
to math teachers. Rice University no longer maintains this gopher
collection and recommends searching for WWW sites. We feel that
some of the resources found here will never make it to an
appropriate WWW page and, therefore have chosen to include this
site for math teachers who want to dig a little deeper into their
subject matter.
AskERIC
Math Lesson Plans
This is the "motherlode" of the ERIC collection for
mathematics. A math teacher could spend hours here and gather
enough lesson plan ideas for the entire year! Manipulatives,
pre-algebra, calculator, place value---think of any math
"buzz word" and there is bound to be a lesson plan at
this huge site.
AskERIC
New Lessons/Math
This is an additional ERIC math lesson plan collection. 16
lesson plans are evenly divided across the grade levels.
AskERIC
Math Lesson Plans
This is the "motherlode" of the ERIC collection for
mathematics. A math teacher could spend hours here and gather
enough lesson plan ideas for the entire year! Manipulatives,
pre-algebra, calculator, place value---think of any math
"buzz word" and there is bound to be a lesson plan at
this huge site.
AskERIC
New Lessons/Math
This is an additional ERIC math lesson plan collection. 16
lesson plans are evenly divided across the grade levels.
STEMnet
Primary Math Lessons
There are three math lessons at this site for primary
teachers. "A Day Full of Popcorn" is a fun lesson to
consider: for one day all activities will center around popcorn
as a teaching "tool."
National
Student Research Center
This gopher site is dedicated to promoting student research
and the use of the scientific method in all subject areas across
the curriculum.
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Dennis W. Mills, Ph.D.
