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Mathematics |
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Challenge your minds with 360, a public blog from the Nazareth College Department of Mathematics! |
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Teacher Resources
 National Math Panel: Critical Foundations for Algebra |
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| The US Department of Education hosts this site which can provide valuable resources to secondary teachers. Essential Concepts, Recommended Practices, and Planning Templates can be found in easily navigatable tabs. Try showing students the videos to help show them the importance of Algebra. |
| National Science Digital Library |
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| From this National Science Foundation, this online library contains an entire collection of mathematics and science resources for teachers. |
| Wolfram MathWorld |
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| One of the Web's most extensive mathematics resource for teachers, World of Mathematics provides higher-level (and yet understandable!) explanations of most major mathematics topics. |
| We All Use Math Everyday |
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| Texas Instruments, in partnership with the CBS television show Numb3rs and NCTM, created a series of mathematics activities for teachers and students based on the television show. "This program was specifically designed to help students (and their parents) realize how relevant math is to everyday activity and understand the importance the subject plays in their future success." |
| Mathematics Virtual Library |
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| Mathematics Virtual Library is a collection of Mathematics-related resources maintained by the Florida State University Department of Mathematics as a free service to the online community. It contains wonderful ideas for all age levels. |
| Plus Magazine |
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| This online journal provides articles from top mathematicians and science writers on topics as diverse as art, medicine, cosmology, and sports. Read the latest mathematics news an and subscribe to receive their email newsletter! |
| Illuminations |
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| From NCTM, Illuminations hosts a library of searchable, leveled mathematics activities, lessons, and web links. |
| Math Resources from NYSED |
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The Mathematics Toolkit contains curriculum guidance materials and resources that support the New York State Learning Standards for Mathematics to assist educators in developing mathematics lessons and activities.
Valuable information is available on the NYS website. This information can be found under the title of Instructional Recommendations for Elementary and Intermediate Mathematics Instruction. |
| Summer Workshops |
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| This site from the U.S. Department of Education provides materials from teacher workshops and presentations from all subjects. |
| InterMath |
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| From the National Science Foundation, InterMath focuses on building teachers' mathematical content knowledge through mathematical investigations that are supported by technology. Topics are broken up into Algebra, Geometry, Number Concept, and Data Analysis topics. Numerous Investigations are supplied for each area. |
| Journal of Online Mathematics and Its Applications |
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| This online database from the Mathematical Association of America offers a multitude of peer-reviewed journal articles, media, and learning modules for educators. Users are able to search information by specific mathematics topics and type of resource. |
| Mathematics Across the Curriculum |
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| From the National Numeracy Network, this Electronic Bookshelf of materials focuses on making mathematics an interdisciplinary subject. Educators are provided with downloadable materials from various subjects that tie into the mathematics curriculum. |
| Balanced Assessment |
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| Balanced Assessment, from the Concord Consortium, provides teachers more than 300 downloadable mathematics assessment tasks for grades K-12. Teachers can search for assessments by grade level or by name. PDF and Word documents are provided for each activity. |
| Practical Uses of Math and Science |
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| PUMAS is a collection of more than 60 examples of how math and science topics taught in K-12 classes can be used in interesting settings, including everyday life. PUMAS is provided by NASA! |
| Federal Resources for Educational Excellence |
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| FREE provides free teaching and learning resources from federal agencies. Resources are broken up into Arts & Music, Health & Phys Ed, History & Social Studies, Language Arts, Math, Science. |
| MathDL |
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| From the Mathematical Association of America, this site provides interactive modules and Flash presentations for understanding equations, curves, derivatives, and various mathematical theories. |
| US Census Bureau |
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| The United States Census Bureau provides information about United States citizens, including ancestry, occupation, income, and language. Visit the site to see statistical data pertaining to your local community or the entire country. Also, check out the population clocks for the United States and the world! |
| H.I.P. Pocket Change |
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| From the U.S. Mint and Treasury, this site allows teachers and students to explore the history of coins. H.I.P. provides coin lesson plans, and students can learn about starting their own coin collections as well as design future coins. |
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Fresh Baked Fractions |
| Part of the FunBrain.com website, Fresh Baked Fractions lets middle schoolers test their fraction skills to see if they can become a Master Pie Bakers! |
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MathMovesU |
| A very interactive website that allows students to "explore stuff they're into, have fun, and pick up some cool math skills along the way!" Students move characters through different settings, learn fun facts about the world around them, and play math games. Enter Math Moves University to get help with specific math topics! |
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Create a Graph |
| From the Department of Education, this site helps students to create their own bar, line, area, pie, and xy graphs. The program walks students through choosing the correct graph, designing their graph, and adding data and labels. Students can preview their graph and then either print or download their product! |
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NCES Kids Zone |
| From the Department of Education, The NCES Kids' Zone provides a wide variety of educational games and quizzes. Students can see how they compare to other students from around the world in various subjects, search for information about schools and libraries, build graphs, explore the statistics of dice rolls, and play other games. |
| Comprehending Math: Adapting Reading Strategies to Teach Mathematics, K-6 |
by Arthur Hyde
This book demonstrates for the teacher how to adapt effective reading comprehension strategies to help students understand important mathematical concepts. Hyde emphasizes problem-solving to demonstrate how to incorporate K-W-L's, visualizing, asking questions, inferring, predicting, making connections, determining importance and synthesizing into their math instruction. |
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| Now I Get It |
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by Susan O'Connell
This book provides ideas around the role of the teacher when teacher math, how to engage students in mathematical thinking, how to know when students are connecting to math concepts, how to teach computational skills and mathematical thinking skills, and how to include math talks and vocabulary into lessons, |
| Math Curse |
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by Jon Scieszka
On Monday in math class, Mrs. Fibonacci says, "You know, you can think of almost everything as a math problem." After that, everything turns into a math problem. The number of kids on the bus, fractions for lunch, word problems for English class. It's a math nightmare, until our narrator figures out how to break the Math Curse. Then everything is just fine . |
| The Sir Cumference Series |
by Cindy Neuschwander and Wayne Geehan
Join Sir Cumference in his 5 mathematical adventures:
- The First Round Table. Help Sir Cumference, his wife, Lady Di of Ameter, and their son Radius as they use different strategies to solve what shaped table to use.
- The Isle of Immeter. An introduction to the concepts of perimeter and area.
- The Dragon of Pie. Sir Cumference and his son Radius learn the magic of the number Pi.
- The Great Night of Angleland. Sir Cumference's son Radius is given a quest to save the king, given a circular medallion (a protractor) as a tool to examine angles along the way.
- The Sword in the Cone. Radius and his friend Vertex set out in search of the sword Edgecalibur.
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| Grapes of Math |
by Greg Tang
How is it possible to count a complicated pattern of strawberry seeds or grapes on a vine or camel humps--in a blink of an eye? If children can open their minds to new ways of perceiving math, anything is possible! Greg Tang shows readers creative ways to use patterns and combinations of numbers to solve math puzzles quickly and effectively. |
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| Math Appeal |
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by Greg Tang
Bright, whimsical illustrations and clever rhymes introduce challenging exercises. The verses present the problems - how squares on a kite can be added quickly or peas in a pod grouped - with hints for their solutions. |
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| Each Orange Had 8 Slices |
by Paul Giganti, Jr.
If each orange has 8 slices and each slice has 2 seeds, how many seeds are there in all? You'll have fun wether you multiply, add or count your way through the math puzzles hiding in the world all around you. |
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Helping Your Child Learn Math (US Dept of Ed) |
| The U.S. Department of Education booklet, Helping Your Child Learn Mathematics includes a range of activities for families with children from preschool age through grade 5. These activities use materials found inside your home and also make learning experiences out of everyday routines, such as grocery shopping and doing laundry. The activities are designed for you to have fun with your child while developing and reinforcing mathematical skills. |
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Figure This: Math Challenges for Families |
| This website from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics offers fun and engaging mathematics activities for families of middle schoolers to complete together at home. Each Figure This challenge includes a description of the important math involved, a note on where the math is used in the real world, a hint to get started, complete solutions, questions to think about, fun facts related to the math, and resources for further exploration. | |
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