Lenny VerMaas ESU #6 Professional Development Consultant My Pages Home STARS and AYP Content Area Forms Picture Book Corner Places To Visit Math Cadre Activities Instructional Strategies About Me Discussion Group Related Links ESU 6 Places to visit My Favorites National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics. Select an area and choose a virtual manipulative. At the top of the page are instructions, objectives, lesson plan hints and more. Math Dictionary A dictionary with pictures and examples The Illuminations website has ready to use interactive math activities and classroom ready activities for grades K-12. Texas Instruments Internet site for calculator and technology resources. NCTM National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Figure This Mathematics Challenges for Families provides interesting math challenges that middle-school students can do at home with their families. http://mathwire.com/ This site has a wide variety of activities utilizing many different instructional strategies http://www.thefutureschannel.com/index.php This site has many short videos that show problem solving and applications of math. Sign up for email notices. New Sites to Try http://www.thefutureschannel.com/index.php is a web site that has 2 to 3 minute videos that show real world applications of mathematics.  Sign up for a weekly emailed connection link. http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ has facts related to different areas of math at various levels.  Fun facts can be searched by level and concept GeoGebra is an open source program that can be used for algebra or geometry. Go to www.geogebra.org to down load the program. Math Trax is an open source graphing program from NASA. http://www.funbrain.com/ has many math learning activities http://www.factmonster.com/ has flashcards and other math games http://richardphillips.org.uk/number/Num1.htm fact of numbers 1-31 http://www.webwiz-lv.com/sanderson/index.html 29 algebra worksheets http://www.free.ed.gov King Math has lots of math activities and links NCES Classroom exposes student to statistics concepts in their study of mathematics. http://www.mathcats.com/  Math cats pages has lots of applets for elementary math. http://songsforteaching.com/ Songs and CDs can be purchased here math and science songs are also at this site   Math in the Middle grant from UNL Click on the M^2 icon Pennies how would 1 million, 1 billion etc pennies look. math and music songs to help learning math concepts. Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy performance-based website Math Science Partnership recommened web sites from our second meeting Number game Try this and see if you can determine why it works. Game Theory a site with interactive applets for games and strategies Curious Math has a list of mathematics topics for fun tricks and trivia. Moebius Strip Printable candy wrappers http://www.whatworks.ed.gov/ Scientific based research website http://www.centeroninstruction.org/index.cfm math research website Categories include:Organizations, Mathematics, Miscellaneous, Trigonometry, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, NASA Organizations NCTM National Council of Teachers of Mathematics NATM, Nebraska Association of Teachers of Mathematics http://www.natmonline.org NSTA, National Science Teachers Association NATS, Nebraska Association of Teachers of Science NDE, Nebraska Department of Education UNL University of Nebraska Department of Mathematics, JUMP test, AMC test, Gateway Exams, and Math Placement Exams. ENC Eisenhower National Clearninghouse for Mathematics and Science Education CPAM Council of Presidential Awardees in Mathematics  Listserv address: cpamlist@contact.ncrel.org Mathematics MarcoPolo is a high quality, standards-based Internet site with student activities, lesson plans, interactive math tools, math investigations and other resources. Chuck Friesen has a web page with lots of mathematics and technology links. Java applets Choose from many interactive programs "java applets" that you can manipulate and use animation to enhance the meaning of mathematical ideas. Middle level, vectors, trig, and calculus. Figure This Mathematics Challenges for Families provides interesting math challenges that middle-school students can do at home with their families. The Math Forum provides resources, materials, activities for teachers students and parents. This includes a problem of the week, provides help with math problems, links to related math sites and much more. Project Interactivate is java-based courseware for middle school mathematics explorations. Resources designed specifically for students or teachers, including the java-based activities, sample lesson plans, background materials, and a dictionary. Math Online Gallery is a wide collection of activities and assessments from linear functions through derivatives.  TrackStar helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) for use in lessons. The resource list remains visible allowing the user to easily stay on track. Type in a key word and find many related sites. Miscellaneous Practical Money Skills for Life has lesson plans and activities for saving, investing, credit cards and much more. Some Financial calculators are also available.  Choose to Save has several financial planning calculators. Trigonometry Trig applets Choose from many different Java programs that demonstrate trigonometric concepts. Pre-Calculus Vector applets Choose from many different Java programs that demonstrate vector concepts. Vector concepts and opperations are demonstrated. Geometry sketchpad needed to view animations. Calculus Calculus applets Choose from many different Java programs that demonstrate calculus concepts. Surfing waves as tangent. Mathematicians Mathematicians from Africa NASA Sites http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/Buzz_Lightyear/web/ Mars Exploration Program NASA Education Homepage NASA Spacelink ESU 6 forms page Books for Math and Science K-6 Math Science Books web sites and activities from ENC   Educational Service Unit #6, Milford, Nebraska