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.