General Resources:
Catalog of Mathematics Resources on the Internet
Courtenay Middle School Teacher Resources for Mathematics planning models, lessons, assessment, encyclopedias and dictionaries, math tools, media links, etc.
Dewey Browse Math Resources for Teachers
Educational Resources in Mathematics Community Learning Network, a site designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom. Includes curricular and instructional sites plus theme pages for careers in math, fractals, math history and tessellations.
Figures and Polygons -- All the basics
Game Theory for Math There's plenty of material here to draw students young and old into the math of everyday life. Background essays describe how game theory works, and interactive games give visitors a chance to explore risk, strategy and probability. But the real clinchers are sections describing how mathematics underlies plots in popular films, literature, and headline news stories.
Get Smart Maths Number Stage 3 These pages contain a collection of links to suitable activities to support and enhance classroom teaching and learning. Thumbnails of each site is shown with categories including number, operations, fractions and decimals, math dictionary, rainforest math, and resources.
Handley Math Page is from the Virginia Department of Education and includes math humor, problem of the week, math facts, puzzles, poems and songs, quotes and lesson plans.
Illuminations Best place on the Net for math lesson plans, resources, interactive math tools, etc.
Intermath Online training center for middle school math teachers. This site offers more than two hundred recommended investigations for teachers to solve and then adapt for use with their students.
Math Center Algebra Page includes practice and resource guides
Math Central resource room, mathematical questions answered, careers of mathematicians, teacher bulletin board with outreach activities, competitions, math camps, etc.; and math problem of the month from the Canadian Mathematical Society available in English, French and Spanish
Math Five Live Animated lessons explaining numerous aspects of numbers, patterns and relations; shape and space; and statistics and probability. Accompanying each lesson are teacher support materials.
Math Forum at Drexel University a library of resources that is searchable by topic, resource type, and education level
Math in Daily Life "Explore how math can help us in our daily lives. In this exhibit, you'll look at the language of numbers through common situations, such as playing games or cooking. Put your decision-making skills to the test by deciding whether buying or leasing a new car is right for you, and predict how much money you can save for your retirement by using an interest calculator."
Math Is Everywhere algebra resources from Gail Lovely for both students and teachers
Math Links is a collection of links from a sixth grade teacher in South Dakota. Topics include graphing, number sense, order of operations, measurement, fractions, decimals, percentages, rates, ratios and proportions; probability, integers, coordinate graphing, and geometry.
Math Links from eMints covers multiplication, fractions, geometry, money, place value, probability, basic facts, tutorials, games, graphing, problem solving, measurement and quizzes
Math Nexus - Mathematics Portal news and ideas for teachers and learners of mathematics
Math World or Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics "is a mathematical resource assembled over more than a decade by Eric Weisstein. With a highly comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia provided, it is intended for students, educators, math enthusiasts, and researchers. Clearly laid out are a variety of subjects, products, services, and updated news on math within the site."
Math-Kitecture - real-life math, architecture and computers! Students learn estimation, measuring skills, proportion, and ratios by hand-drafting a floor plan of their classroom to scale. They then use existing classroom software to create a computer-aided design (CAD) version.
Middle School Math Project "The use of technology tools and electronic resources in the math classroom seem like such a natural fit but finding appropriate applications of technology has always been a challenge in the K-12 classroom. We know that our students need technological skills to succeed in the 21st century and the ability to apply the key concepts outlined in our state math standards. CTAP Region IV is making connections between math and technology through our Middle School Math project."
More Mathematics Than Science includes expression evaluation, The Function Institute, geometry, graph paper, trigonometry rules, curve fitting, EZ Graph, simple data grapher, and miscellaneous mathematics
NRICH Rich-media math resources from Cambridge for students grades 3-12. NRICH publishes free online mathematics enrichment resources that are designed to develop subject knowledge and problem solving skills for students of all ages (8-19). It is based in both the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Education and the Centre of Mathematical Sciences. games, interactive puzzles, and movies that teach various concepts in math. New content is published each month and there is also an archive of past months.
The Prime Pages The best place on the web to learn all about prime numbers! An exhaustive set of resources - from basic to advanced - regarding prime numbers. From the University of Tennessee-Martin.
Radical Math Integrates social and economic justice into math- search for articles, books, curriculum, films, graphs, maps, or tables.
Regents Exam Prep Center for algebra lessons, practice and resources
SCORE Math Resources Schools of California Online Resources for Education for grades 5-8
Teaching Math Thinking Through Origami includes background, teaching strategies, sample models and references
Terry Husted's Home Page offers advice from her own experience to teachers new to the profession on such topics as classroom management, making connections, homework, assessments, and clarity, as well as providing a list of resources for new math teachers that can be found on the Web. Includes math and science Internet lessons for grades 5-9 with notes for teachers and handouts for students that can be downloaded for free.
Tools for Understanding a resource guide for extending mathematical understanding in secondary schools
WebMath covers math for everyone, general math, K-8 math, algebra, plots & geometry, trig & calculus, and "other stuff"
Lesson Plans:
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Fun Mathematics Lessons from Cynthia Lanius who was Rice University and created a site that was selected as one of the top 12 math sites for teachers as chosen by ISTE
Internet Pizza Server Lesson Plans lets students practice math skills by calculating things such as the area of a pizza or the price per slice. Students can order a picture of their pizza over the Internet.
Math Lesson Plans and Resources Scroll past a page of one-line advertisements and you will find and enormous collection of online resources!
Math Lessons That Are Fun! Fun! Fun! "Professor Lanius from Rice University provides this fun filled site with a variety of math activities for students. Each lesson is centered on visual learning, providing eye catching text and graphics to help clarify the problem."
Project Sky Math: Making Mathematical Connections is from NASA and is a collection of lesson plans for six weeks integrating weather information with math
Purple Math is a very large and comprehensive collection of original math lessons to help students with algebra.
Visual Math Learning Lesson plans, online practice exercise and interactive games and puzzles make pre-algebra fun.
Why Slopes Appetizers and lesson plans for math and reason by Alan Selby
Math Blogs:
Interactive Math Sites:
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The Annenberg Teachers' Lab New teaching and learning applications for math and science
Arithmetic and Algebra from Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
Bite Size Maths from the BBC for students 11-14 topics includes numbers (fractions, order of operations, decimals, and percentages), algebra, handling data, measures, and shapes and space
Cool Math 4 Kids colorful website that explains math for kids with puzzles and games
Disaster Math FEMA has created disaster story problems revolving around hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, wild fires, floods and winter storms
The Fractory Interactive tool for creating and exploring fractals.
Gateway - Algebra I (2007 Standards) Interactive sites to help students practice skills and includes number sense, estimation, measurement and computation; patterns, functions and algebraic thinking; statistics and probability; spatial sense and geometric concepts; and multiple review activities.
Greta's Game Station games for grades K-12
Hooda Math created by a math teacher who wanted math games that really contained "math" in them so kids could learn. Site includes games, videos, tutorials and worksheets.
Interactivates This resource investigates 3D shapes in Geometry. There are tutorials on surface area, volume, Euler's Theorem, and platonic solids. There is also an introduction and an interactive activity to test the students on skills taught.
Interactive Algebra Sites with released tests for the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills, the Virginia SOL, the Florida FCAT, and the Tennessee State test as well as interactive practice sites.
Interactive Math Games from geometry to operations to number sense and money
Interactive Math Sites for the SmartBoard Teacher-created list of sites for using with interactive white boards.
Interactive Math Websites annotated listing of sites for grades K-12
Intermath Constructionary This activity is meant to help learners create constructions using Geometer's Sketchpad. Click on a letter of the alphabet to obtain a list of constructions for that letter (P: Parallelogram, Pyramid, Prism) and then click the numbers to 'construct' the shape.
IXL Math Free online interactive math problems for grades K-6th. Sixth grade includes algebra, geometry, ratios, decimals, fractions, integers, coordinate graphing, statistics, etc.
Johnnie's Math Page Links are organized by topic including number, geometry, fractions, multiplication, measurement, statistics, probability, and fun. Each topic contains an assortment of activities that are labeled by level, from primary to intermediate. Math lessons and worksheets are included for parents and teachers to enhance the curriculum or for students to practice at home.
Manga High contains curriculum compliant math games to teach and learn numbers, algebra, data and geometry
Math Cats wide variety of games and activities for students of all ages
Math Magician is a site created by a school district to teach the four basic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Students answer a set number of questions for an operation or combination of operations within a given time limit.
Math Playground is "an action-packed site for elementary and middle school students. Practice your math skills, play a logic game and have some fun!" The site includes math videos, logic puzzles, word problems, computation practice, manipulatives, worksheets, and programming.
Maths Internet Guide "over 400 free quality websites carefully chosen for their interactivity and grouped into five search categories. Plus an extensive collection of 180 Maths Education Journals and Magazines and 65 Maths Humour websites!"
Numeracy Hour from Ambleweb and includes games designed by and for students, tools for teaching, and more classroom resources and interactivities including interactive number base converter, fraction machine, shape database, Yahtzee, prime number checker, your weight on other planets, temperature conversion, and guess the number game
Sheppard Software Online Math Games includes games for basic operations, mixed operations, fractions, place value, dollars and sense, early math, pre-algebra, and number ball games
Sums Online variety of interactive math games from multiplication to fraction to coordinate graphing to order of operations
Tools (including videos, worksheets, PowerPoints, etc.):
Excelets interactive Excel spreadsheets for demonstrating fractions, box-and-whisker plots, flipping pennies, area and perimeter, Pythagorean theory, P-V-T surface plot, number line, how do you square a binomial, and exploring the family of quadratic functions
Figure This! from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics comes 80 different challenges for middle school students
Instacalc online calculator that also makes charts
Math2.org provides all the facts you might ever need to look up, from the formula for the circumference of a circle to the number of zeros in a nonillion
MathGrad podcast where "everyday math is discussed for everyday people"
Math Gizmos or Explore Math is "a multimedia intensive site full of activities for all levels of mathematics. Also, lesson plans are provided for educators to introduce multimedia activities into their mathematics classroom, lab, or other learning curricula. "
Math Master create math worksheets for free. You can make an unlimited number of printed worksheets for the following topics: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, mixed problems, fractions, counting, rounding, time, greater than/less than, place value, and fraction mixed problems.
Math Realm math worksheets in PDF format for general math, fractions, geometry, pre-algebra, algebra and trigonometry. Solutions are provided for all worksheets.
Math Slice math worksheets from basic math through advanced math including algebra II, statistics, and polynomials; plus the site includes online math games for basic math, statistics, and measurement
Math Vids features hundreds of math instruction videos: teachers create math lessons using Smartboard technology and post them to the Math Vids site. Students can access & watch videos and can rate them. Aimed at middle through college students. Must register, but is free.
Mathematics PowerPoints for kids and teachers
Mathway type in any math problem and the steps are shown
Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies "Our math worksheets are designed for grades 4 through 9. The problems on these worksheets are designed to be challenging, not repetitive. You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print them."
Numsum easy, shareable web spreadsheets
Skyscraper Diagrams "The SkyscraperPage Diagrams began in 1997 with a mission to create the world's most comprehensive collection of skyscraper diagrams. With over 24,000 structures drawn by over 640 illustrators our collection of diagrams is the largest and most comprehensive skyscraper diagram database in existence."
Wolfram Alpha Enter your question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer-- including distance calculation and geographical comparisons, biological taxonomy, currency conversion and stock analysis, calorie and nutrition calculation and lots more
Created by Linda DeVore
Last Updated Wednesday, December 02, 2009
