Math Topics

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

Data Analysis and Probability

1. Chaos
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 7 - 10 Cost: Free ENC#: 029465
   This Internet site offers a lesson designed to help students learn about the concepts and applications of chaos. The lesson, correlated to the NCTM Standards, was developed for Project Interactive, which offers a collection of interactive Java-based courseware for explorations in mathematics and science.
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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. 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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4. Tidepool math
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 029361
   This web site provides two different sets of lesson plans that integrate science and math in the context of having students examine the organisms in a tidepool environment. One set of plans is for students in grades K-8, while the other set is intended for high school students.
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5. 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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6. 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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7. RoadKill: collision in the wildlife corridors
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   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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8. 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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9. 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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10. Rice virtual lab in statistics
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    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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11. The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science case collection
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 019214
    This Internet site, maintained by the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, offers a collection of case studies for use in undergraduate science classrooms. Designed to humanize science and to illustrate scientific methodology and values, the cases also develop students' skills in group learning, speaking, and critical thinking.
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12. Seeing statistics
    Featured in ENC Focus  
    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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13. 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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14. Earthquake
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002069
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site is an interactive program designed to introduce students to the ways in which geologists locate earthquake epicenters and determine Richter magnitudes. Users begin the virtual earthquake sequence by selecting a region of initiation such as Southern California, Japan, or Mexico and receiving the seismograms from three remote locations.
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15. Illuminations. Grades 6-8.
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 6 - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 023973
    This Internet site, maintained by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), contains lesson plans, activities, and resources for mathematics teachers of grades 6-8. 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. What are the odds?: the ins and outs of probability
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 021275
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed by fifth year students in their Mathematics Education program, aims to help teachers incorporate real-world probability applications into probability, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus courses. The designers intend that students and teachers make intra-disciplinary, as well as interdisciplinary, connections when using the material.
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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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