Math Topics

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

Applied Mathematics

1. A fractals unit for elementary and middle school students
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   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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2. Village math
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 027979
   This Internet site presents over 25 math lessons and activities which integrate Alaskan culture into many application-oriented problems. Students read about native Alaskan ways and answer questions related to subjects such as trapping, sled design, cabin building, and net fishing.
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3. Moneyopolis: where money sense rules!
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 6 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 029466
   This Internet site offers an educational game developed to help students in grades 6-8 learn basic financial planning concepts. Students must help an animated alien character named Xerbie fix his broken spaceship by answering a series of questions involving money management.
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4. Math in daily life: how do numbers affect everyday decisions?
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   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 014301
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, part of the Annenberg/CPB Project Exhibits Collection, explores how math principles can be helpful when deciding whether to buy or lease a car, following a recipe, or decorating a home. This Web site is organized into six themes that describe mathematical concepts and offer hands-on application activities.
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5. Math in the workplace
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   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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6. BizWorld
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   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 3 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 017705
   This World Wide web (WWW) site describes a program to bring volunteers into the classroom to encourage students, grades 3 to 8, to learn about basic business principles in a simulated business environment. In the multiday business simulation, groups of students start and run their own businesses designing, manufacturing, and selling friendship bracelets.
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7. High school operations research (HSOR): mathematics for decision making in industry and government
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   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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8. RoadKill: collision in the wildlife corridors
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   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 4 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 014540
   This World Wide Web(WWW) site is designed to have students monitor and report the number and type of animals that have been killed by motor vehicles along with information about the environmental conditions which may have contributed to the animal's death. The RoadKill Monitoring Project is applicable to students of all abilities and across many disciplines.
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9. Rice virtual lab in statistics
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   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 014001
   This Internet site, developed and maintained by Rice University, offers statistical content for the high school student and teacher. It includes an online college level statistics textbook and links to other statistics resources on the Web.
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10. Seeing statistics
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    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 10 - Post-Sec. Cost: $40.95 ENC#: 019487
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Duxbury Press, is designed to help students of statistics learn the dynamic, visual nature of statistical concepts using interactive methods. The site uses more than 150 Java applets in conjunction with text in order to create a web book that is a first course in statistics.
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11. 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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12. Exploring data
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 013874
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, part of Math Forum and created by the Urban Systemic Initiative, offers the deep sea diving records from the Ocean Planet Exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History along with a lesson for K to 12 students to explore the data. Students are directed to create spread sheets and graphs, engage in discussion questions, and explore links to related WWW ocean sites.
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13. Practical money skills for life
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): Pre-K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 023965
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, created by the Visa credit card company, is designed to help educators, parents, and students learn to practice good money management for life. Visa partnered with consumer advocates, educators, and financial institutions to launch this program in order to help consumers of all ages, particularly today's youths, become financially savvy.
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14. Who dunnit?
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 6 - 9 Cost: Free ENC#: 019798
    This Internet site features a mystery for students to solve using forensic science, the study of objects that relate to a crime. Students first complete four skill building forensic assignments and then try to solve the Case of the Barefoot Burglar based on the crime scene report.
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15. Mr. Pitonyak's pyramid puzzle
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    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 6 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 025768
    This Internet site asks students to estimate the cost of building an Egyptian pyramid with modern materials and ancient methods. This webquest project is designed for groups of four or five students.
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16. Your timesavers, the best lessons
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    Date: 2000 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 017782
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site features teacher developed, web-based lesson plans primarily for grades 5 to 12 math, science, and technology education. Each lesson plan contains a brief description, appropriate grade level, learning objectives, detailed procedures for teachers including a list of sites to bookmark, and printable activity organizers for students.
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17. The National Math Trail
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    Date: 2000 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 018769
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site offers the opportunity for K to 12 teachers and students to discover and share the math that exists in their own environments. The concept of a Math Trail was first developed by Australian educator Dudley Blane as a way to have students become active learners by finding the math that exists in their communities.
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18. Census in schools
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 016779
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site provides teachers with online lesson plans that reflect national and state curriculum standards and aim to help students understand the importance and benefits of Census 2000. A school newsletter about the census, a listing of key dates for Census 2000, and information for parents and principles are also found.
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19. Population growth and balance
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    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 5 - 10 Cost: Free ENC#: 017846
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, produced Arcytech, gives students the opportunity to use a mathematical model to conduct simulation population dynamics experiments. It contains background information about the basic life requirements for oak trees, squirrels, and red-tailed hawks and emphasizes the ways that the three organisms interact.
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20. Building big
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 018205
    This Internet site, developed in conjunction with a PBS series of the same name, explores the history behind some of the world's greatest feats of engineering and the ingenuity of the engineers, architects, and builders who designed and built them. BUILDING BIG's goal is to increase student awareness of the built environment and the impact of technology on society, while teaching basic physical science concepts.
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