Peggy
Thornhill
EDT548
Fall 2002
Dr. Christie
Internet
Project
Math and/or
Science Web Sites:
1.
Title: The Math Forum Home Page
URL: http://www.mathforum.org/
Audience: Students, Teachers, Parents
Description: The Math Forum is a web site that allows
students, teachers and parents to get help with math questions. Teachers can discuss issues in math
education with other teachers and parents can get advice in helping their
children in math. Ask Dr. Math is
an excellent resource.
2.
Title: A+ Math
URL: http://www.aplusmath.com/
Audience: Students, Teachers, Parents
Description: This site allows practice for students in
basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, order of operations, money,
decimals and fractions. There is a
homework helper where the student can enter a problem from their homework and
have it checked. Teachers can have
the students work on-line or print worksheets.
3.
Title: Discovery School.com
URL: www.school.discovery.com/
Audience: Students, Teachers, Parents
Description: Parents can get education advice and
study tools. Students can get
study tools, learning games and adventures. Teachers can access curriculum resources. Higher level math help available.
4.
Title: Mrs. Glosser’s Math
Goodies
URL: http://www.mathgoodies.com
Audience Students, Teachers,
Parents :
Description: Homework help for kids. Pre-made worksheets for teachers and
customized worksheets available.
Thematic math crosswords and word search puzzles that are printable.
5.
Title: MacTutor History of Mathematics
URL: www.-gap.dos.st-and.ac-uk/”history
Audience: Students, Teachers
Description:This
is a great site to access biographies and integrate writing into the math
classroom. Mathematicians are
listed by name, chronological order and by gender.
6.
Title: Coolmath.com
URL: www.coolmath.com
Audience: Students, Teachers, Parents
Description: Advice to parents about helping their
children with homework. Ideas for
teachers on how to make math class fun.
Great learning games for kids.
Concepts from fractions to fractals.
7.
Title: The Math in the Movies Page
URL: http://world.std.com/~reinhold/mathmovies.html
Audience: Teachers, Parents
Description: This site reviews movies that have a math
focus. There are ratings to show
how much math is included in the movie.
8.
Title: Sites for Teachers
URL: www.sitesforteachers.com/
Audience: Teachers
Description: Hundreds of web sites that would be good
resources for math teachers. Each
site includes a brief description.
9.
Title: Education Place
URL: www.eduplace.com/math/brain/
Audience: Students, Teachers
Description: Ideas for classroom activities including
a location to take a special survey and have your class compare their findings
to other student’s graphs.
Dozens of graphic organizers templates (story map, tree chart, 5-W’s
chart, etc.) and brain teasers sorted by grade level.
10.
Title: Welcome to the Math League
URL: www.mathleague.com/
Audience: Teachers
Description: This site promotes itself as
“building student interest and confidence in mathematics through solving
worthwhile problems.” This
site sponsors math contests (samples available on-line) and offers help in the
form of a reference guide for grades 4 through 8.
11.
Title: Think Quest
URL: www.thinkquest.org/library/
Audience: Students, Teachers
Description: A collection of math applications keyed
to real-world situations submitted by students to “make math interesting
and stimulating.”
12.
Title: SuperKids
URL: www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/math
Audience: Teachers
Description: A math worksheet creator involving basic
math operations.
13.
Title: Math Archives -- Topics in Math
URL: www.archives.math.utk.edu/topics/
Audience: Teachers
Description: You can click on any math topic and get a
large list of web sites that relate to that topic.
14.
Title: Mathematical Quotation Server
URL: www.math.furman.edu/~mwoodward/mquot.html
Audience: Teachers
Description: I use quotations in my class every
day. This site contains hundreds
of quotes about math and mathematicians.
15.
Title: FunBrain.com
URL: www.fumbrain.com
Audience: Students,
Teachers, Parents
Description: Interactive challenges for parents and
their childre. Paperless quizzes
that are graded and the results e-mailed to the teacher. It lists the math standards for all
grades.
16.
Title: AAA Math
URL: www.aamath.com/
Audience: Students, Teachers, Parents
Description: Students can do drill and practice or
play math learning games.
Teacher’s resources are cited and there is a place for
home-schoolers to get assisstance.
17.
Title: Education 4 Kids
URL: www.edu4kids.com/math/
Audience: Students
Description: This is ok if all you are looking for is
drill and practice for the student.
18.
Title: ExploreMath.com
URL: www.exploremath.com/
Audience: Teachers
Description: Lesson plans for secondary
education. The plans are formatted
for a lab version, a lecture version and worksheet format.
19.
Title: Math Central
URL: www.mathcentral.uregina.ca/
Audience: Teachers
Description: A resource room to share teaching ideas
and lesson plans. Includes a math
glossary. A discussion forum for
teachers. This site includes ideas
for math-based science fair projects.
20.
Title: This is Mega Mathematics!
URL: www.c3lanl.gov/mega-math
Audience: Teachers
Description: This site provides math concepts using
games. It has great ideas for
presenting difficult concepts. It
also presents a rationale for learning the math, but offers suggestions on how
to evaluate students. From Los
Alamos National Laboratory.
21.
Title: Cornell Theory Center -- Math and Science Gateway
URL: www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway/
Audience: Teachers
Description: Links to dozens of specific topics in
math and science. Most of the
sites listed in this assignment can be found at this site. This is “everything you ever
wanted to know about math and science” site.
22.
Title: Mathstories.com
URL: www.mathstories.com/
Audience: Teachers, Parents
Description: This is a membership web site but the
price is reasonable from $16.95 to $24.95 per year. It even offers a way for parents to give gift memberships to
their child’s teacher. Over
7500 math word problems available, interactive and non-interactive.
23.
Title: Math in Daily Life
URL: www.learner.org/exhibits/dailymath/
Audience: Teachers
Description: Easy to undeerstand explainations of math
in daily life. Probability
(gambling) percentages and
interest (investmentts, credit cards) exponential growth (population) geometry (home decorating) and ratios
(cooking).
24.
Title: Math on the Web
URL: www.ams.org/mathweb
Audience: Teachers
Description: Seeminly all-encompassing site of
resources for math teachers.
Books, softwre, institutes, museums, web pages and organizations.
25.
Title: Quick Math
URL: http://www.quickmath.com/
Audience: Students,Teachers, Parents
Description: This site is dedicated to giving quick
help for math questions.