Math Topics

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

Number and Operations

1. 50 State Quarters Program lesson plans
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 6 Cost: Free ENC#: 028332
   This web site provides more than 60 lesson plans for grades K-6 in which students use state quarters to explore topics in many different subjects. Lesson plans are provided for K-1, 2-3, and 4-6 grade bands, with lessons in math, science, reading, and more for each grade band.
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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. 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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4. 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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5. A creative encounter of a numerical kind: a WebQuest for middle grades math students
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 6 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 028642
   This Internet site provides an activity designed to help middle grades math students better understand the base ten number system by helping an imaginary civilization develop a base four number system. The activity explores place value, counting, and different number systems as students are asked to create and name a series of original number symbols for their own base four number systems.
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6. Max's math adventures
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 2 Cost: Free ENC#: 028509
   This Internet site, developed for grades K-2, provides a number of activities designed to help young students discover mathematical problems in everyday situations and apply math skills to solve real-world problems. Each activity focuses on a specific math skill such as addition, number patterns, or graphing.
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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. Math fundamentals problem of the week
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 3 - 5 Cost: Free ENC#: 026886
    This Internet site, developed by the Math Forum, features nonroutine problems for students working in the content areas of numbers, operations, and measurement, as well as introductory geometry, data, and probability. The problems are designed to help elementary students learn to problem-solve and communicate mathematically.
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12. Math playground
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 6 Cost: Free ENC#: 028219
    This Internet site contains a number of word problems, math games, and logic puzzles designed to help students in grades K-6 practice their skills in mathematics. The activities focus primarily on addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
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13. 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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14. Count us in
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2004 Grade(s): Pre-K - 1 Cost: Free ENC#: 029017
    This web site provides 15 games for young children to practice counting, sorting, and ordering. Some of the games have a defined goal; others let players explore free-form.
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15. Visual fractions: an online tutorial
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2004 Grade(s): 4 - 9 Cost: Free ENC#: 016885
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site aims to reduce fraction anxiety, called Fractionitis, in adults and students by helping the user picture fractions and the operations that can be performed on them. There are instructions and problems to work through for the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, first using fractions and then working with mixed numbers.
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16. Math cats magic chalkboard
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 1 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 019003
    This web site, created by teacher and parent Wendy Petti, is designed to allow children to explore mathematical concepts through the use of computer applets. It consists mostly of a collection of activities covering topics such as multiplication, estimation, money, shapes, and mathematical vocabulary.
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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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