Math Topics

Lists of web sites categorized by subject areas within mathematics.

Geometry

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. Interactive math tools
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): Pre-K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 025708
   This Internet site contains 22 Java applets which let users explore applications of math from fractions to vector sums. There are applets for students to manipulate a fraction pie or an abacus, to explore volume and factoring, and to draw shapes or show simple fractals.
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3. 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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4. 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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5. Improving Measurement and Geometry in Elementary Schools (IMAGES)
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 5 Cost: Free ENC#: 027663
   This Internet site, maintained by the Pennsylvania State Team of the Mid-Atlantic Eisenhower Consortium for Mathematics and Science Education at Research for Better Schools (RBS), aims to help teachers improve students geometric skills and basic knowledge in measurement and proportionality. The resource presents K to 5 content for both teachers and students and provides strategies for teaching and assessing concepts of geometry and measurement.
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6. 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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7. 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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8. Centre for the popularisation of mathematics
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 7 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 028508
   This Internet site is designed to expose a wide audience to the field of mathematics as a study of patterns, forms, and structures with diverse applications. The site links mathematics to the disciplines of art and biology.
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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. Plus magazine: ... living mathematics
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 017878
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, part of the Millennium Mathematics Project, presents an online magazine about applications of mathematics. Current articles discuss compound interest, continued fractions, and fractals found in modern art.
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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. Shape and space in geometry
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2004 Grade(s): K - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 016445
    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 the geometry of shape and space. The goal of the project is to provide high quality professional development materials and resources for math and science teachers.
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17. 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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18. 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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19. Learning math: geometry
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 028716
    This Internet site offers a college-level online mathematics course designed to teach geometry content to teachers of elementary and middle school. The site presents geometric reasoning as a viable problem solving method and attempts to engage teachers through video lessons, problem solving activities, and online demonstrations.
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20. 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.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)