Math Topics

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

Algebra

1. Jim Loy's mathematics page
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 6 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 027665
   This Internet site provides many lesson resource materials for teachers and students pertaining to areas such as arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and precalculus. Topics featured include sequences and series, Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, complex numbers, fractals, chaos, and number theory.
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2. Math, calculations and computations
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 4 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 029767
   This web site provides movies, activities, cartoons, and more to teach students about math. Each movie on a specific topic comes with a ten-question quiz to test users' understanding.
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3. 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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4. Nick's mathematical puzzles
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 11 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 027660
   This Internet site, updated weekly, presents 68 math puzzles designed to be educational and fun for students. Pre-college math skills are necessary for solving the puzzles, which address topics such as algebra, calculus and geometry.
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5. ExploreLearning: experience math and science with gizmos
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 6 - Post-Sec. Cost: $149.00 ENC#: 029377
   This Internet site, developed for grades 6-12, offers a variety of interactive math and science simulations that are designed to promote experimentation and be easy-to-use. The simulations are virtual manipulatives that, the authors believe, use research-proven instructional strategies that promote conceptual understanding and higher-order thinking skills.
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6. Math in the workplace
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 028641
   This Internet site is designed to excite and motivate students to learn math by demonstrating the relevance of mathematics in the world today. The site contains numerous real-world problems intended to show students how math is used in a wide variety of careers.
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7. Maths online: a gallery of multimedia learning material for school and distant learning
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 026478
   This Internet site features a Gallery with interactive learning units designed to facilitate understanding of abstract mathematical ideas. With the units, the student can explore concepts ranging from the definition of a set to topics in the study of vectors, trigonometry, and calculus.
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8. Regents Exam Prep Center. Mathematics A.
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 020761
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, designed to help students earn a passing grade on the New York State Mathematics A Regents Examination, features lessons, practice problems, and teacher resources. The New York test requires students to demonstrate their ability to apply facts and definitions, solve problems, and show their understanding of mathematical procedures and problem-solving strategies.
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9. New Zealand maths
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 10 Cost: Free ENC#: 027103
   This Internet site features weeklong units of work with reproducible lesson materials based on the New Zealand Mathematics Curriculum Strands. The Curriculum is designed for six levels that roughly encompass grades K to 10 in the US.
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10. High school operations research (HSOR): mathematics for decision making in industry and government
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 011878
    This web site features eight real-world mathematics applications in teacher-friendly modules ready for use in grades 9 to 12. The site, developed and maintained as a joint project of the Industrial and Manufacturing Department at Wayne State University and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, aims to motivate students to learn mathematics by demonstrating ways in which the mathematics they are studying is actually used in industry and government.
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11. Suzanne's mathematics lessons 2001
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 5 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 011220
    This Internet site, developed by middle school teacher Suzanne Alejandre, is a source of Web units, illustrated lesson plans, and interactive classroom activities for grades 5 to 8. Topics for the Web units range from the geometric constructions of circles with a discussion of symmetry to crystallography and fractals.
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12. Balanced assessment in mathematics
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 026769
    This Internet site for mathematics educators contains over 300 free assessment tasks with scoring rubrics for use in grades K to 12 classrooms. The assessments are designed to help students become more proficient at demonstrating their mathematical knowledge using critical thinking skills and mathematical actions.
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13. The Gateway to Educational Materials
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): Pre-K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 016952
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) project, features a searchable database of Internet lesson plans, activities, and projects for a variety of subjects, including educational technology, mathematics, and science. The GEM project is a consortium effort funded by the US Department of Education to provide K to 12 educators with access to the substantial, but uncataloged, collections of educational materials found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.
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14. Demos with positive impact: a project to connect mathematics instructors with effective teaching tools
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 025493
    This Internet site offers applets and calculator-based demonstrations on precalculus to post-calculus topics for use in the mathematics classroom. The site, partially funded by the National Science Foundation, is the project of professors at Temple University and Georgia Southern University.
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15. Illuminations. Grades 9-12
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 024607
    This Internet site, maintained by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), contains lesson plans, activities, and resources for mathematics teachers of grades 9-12. Based on NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, the site contains plans for lessons centered around internet resources, as well as lesson plans reprinted from previous NCTM publications.
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16. Mrs. Carlton's Algebra 1
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 7 - 9 Cost: Free ENC#: 025926
    This web site, developed by a middle school teacher in California, provides a variety of Algebra I resources for students. Tutorials on a wide variety of algebra topics are available; many are interactive and supply problems with step-by-step solutions.
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17. Problems with a point
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 019827
    This World Wide Web(WWW) site, maintained by the Education Development Center, Inc., is designed to complement and support existing curricula by providing a resource for teachers who use, or are only beginning to use, a problem-centered approach. This resource is also intended as support for parents and tutors who utilize problem-based learning in out-of-school settings.
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18. StudyWorks! online
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 018928
    This Internet site explores the math and science behind everyday activities. Sections titled Explorations, Just For Fun, and News and Links offer lessons and interactive activities for students and teachers.
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19. The sciences explorer
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 011149
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, created for grades 9 to 12 by three high school students as part of ThinkQuest's First Annual Web Site Creation Contest, offers a variety of Internet resources for biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics. The biology page contains an virtual cell where visitors may view three dimensional representations of the organelles, an essay on cloning, and information of the different fields within biology.
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20. Problems of the week (PoWs)
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 3 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 018589
    This Internet site, part of MATH FORUM, is designed as a collaborative project offering creative, nonroutine challenges for students in grades 3 to 12. Weekly problems, solutions, and archived problems are available free of charge.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)