Math Topics

Use math topic words to find web sites with lesson plans and activities.

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1. William's home page: a collection of activities to help enrich mathematical learning
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 3 - 10 Cost: Free ENC#: 029244
   This Internet site contains instructions for a variety of hands-on geometry activities that use simple materials and are designed to enrich the mathematical learning of patterns and shapes. Many of the activities are multicultural and based on mathematics obtained from such places as India, Sierra Leone, and Sri Lanka.
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2. Illuminations. Grades preK-2.
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): Pre-K - 2 Cost: Free ENC#: 027662
   This Internet site, maintained by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), contains lesson plans, activities, and resources for mathematics teachers of grades Pre-K to 2. Based on NCTM's PRINCIPLES AND STANDARDS FOR SCHOOL MATHEMATICS (2000), the site contains plans for lessons centered on internet resources, as well as lessons that may be conducted without computers in the classroom.
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3. Creating, describing, and analyzing patterns to recognize relationships and make predictions
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): Pre-K - 2 Cost: Free ENC#: 029637
   This web site provides lesson plans and interactive tools for preK-2 students to explore patterns. It is part of the ILLUMINATIONS series from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, a collection of resources to help teachers implement the NCTM Standards in their classrooms.
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4. Symmetries and their properties
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 029362
   This web site presents a set of interactive tools to help teach high school students about rotations, reflections, translations, and glide symmetries. It is part of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' Illuminations web site, which provides lessons and tools to help teachers implement the NCTM Standards in the classroom.
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5. A fractals unit for elementary and middle school students
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 4 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 002032
   This web site, for students and teachers in grades 4 to 8, provides a unit on fractals. The unit is designed to introduce students to fractals and the underlying mathematics; it focuses on fractals generated by iterating line drawings, such as the Koch snowflake and so-called 'Jurassic Park' fractal.
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6. MathMagic on the web
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002482
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site is a K to 12 problem solving project, intended to address most of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) STANDARDS, that involves teams of students discussing math problems via electronic mail or Internet. MathMagic is best suited to schools that use computers with modems and have direct Internet access.
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7. The golden ratio
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 6 - 10 Cost: Free ENC#: 026906
   This Internet site introduces the meaning and value of the Golden Ratio through a set of seven student activities. Background information about the development of the Golden Ratio from the Fibonacci sequence is featured.
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8. Patterns in mathematics
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 015482
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, an online Teachers' Lab funded by the ANNENBERG/CPB MATH AND SCIENCE PROJECT, offers interactive activities for teachers to use to explore three categories of patterns: logic, number, and word. The goal of the project is to provide high-quality professional development materials and resources for math and science teachers.
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9. Project Interactivate
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 5 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 012956
   This Internet site, maintained by The Shodor Education Foundation, features lessons for middle school mathematics curricula in the form of interactive java-based Applets with pedagogical and content support resources. Lessons are searchable either by content standards based on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' Principles and Standards for School Mathematics and the National Center on Education and the Economy's Performance Standards for Middle School or by textbook title.
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10. Maths challenge.net
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 025925
    This web site has collections of problems from many different levels of mathematics. The Junior and Senior Problems, with solutions and new problems published monthly, are aimed at middle and high school students respectively.
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11. Rural and urban images: voices of girls in science, mathematics, and technology
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 6 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 017202
    This Internet site, developed as part of the the Voices of Girls in Science, Mathematics, and Technology project, highlights hands-on activities and programs designed to help girls in grades 6 to 8 do well and feel confident in science, math, and technology use. The Voices of Girls project was sponsored by the Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL) in Charleston, WV and local county school districts.
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12. SET Enterprises
    Featured in ENC Focus  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 3 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 013513
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site explains, through a Java tutorial, how to play a family or classroom card game that is designed to engage the player's whole brain in a logical, spatial thinking activity. The deck for the basic game consists of cards with one to three symbols of a certain shape (squiggle, oval, or diamond), in one of three colors (red, green or purple).
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13. Pascal's triangle
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 012432
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site offers lessons guiding investigations of Pascal's triangle and its number patterns for elementary, intermediate, and advanced math students. Each level contains appropriate lessons for discovery activities about the triangle and one or more activities investigating numerical aspects of the triangle.
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14. Mathematics lessons that are fun, fun, fun!!!
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 014712
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site is designed to provide teachers with mathematics lessons that they can use online or in the classroom. The fifteen lessons range from those appropriate for primary grades to high school and include topics such as counting, fractions, algebra, geometry, and calculus.
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15. The perfect number journey
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1999 Grade(s): 7 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 015356
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site offers lessons about number patterns and properties of perfect numbers, which are defined as numbers equal to the sum of all their factors, excluding themselves. The smallest example of a perfect number is the number six.
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16. Fibonacci numbers and the golden section
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): 7 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 011674
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the University of Surrey in England, is devoted to looking at the Fibonacci numbers, their properties and occurrences in nature, and related number theory topics. Puzzles with answers involving the Fibonacci numbers and a page with examples of the Fibonacci numbers in art, architecture, and music are included.
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17. Tessellation tutorial: tutorials and templates for making your own tessellations
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1995 Grade(s): 5 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 004517
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site provides tutorials and templates for students to design their own tessellations. The first two main links explain what tessellations are and how they are related to mathematics.
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18. Attribute trains (grades 3-5)
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 3 - 5 Cost: Free ENC#: 101251
    With this virtual manipulative, the initial blocks of a pattern defined by shape, color, or number pattern are given in a train-like arrangement. Blocks vary by shape and color and display the numeral 1, 2, or 3.
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19. Polyominoes (grades 9-12)
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 101208
    This virtual manipulative offers an interactive environment where the learner can make patterns with squares and investigate symmetry, area, and perimeter. The square tiles may be attached, grouped, rotated, assigned different colors, and enlarged.
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20. Polyominoes (grades 6-8)
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 6 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 101192
    This virtual manipulative offers an interactive environment in which the learner can make patterns with squares and investigate symmetry, area, and perimeter. The square tiles may be attached, grouped, rotated, assigned different colors, and enlarged.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)