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LESSON RESOURCES
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| Calculus Applets | These pages present interactive Java applets for teaching and learning single variable calculus. They use graphs and tables to illustrate concepts in calculus and allow the user to dynamically change the functions involved or the point on the graph that is of interest. These pages can be explored by students learning calculus, or used by teachers while teaching calculus. |
| Interactivate: Advanced Monty Hall | An advanced web page for investigating conditional probability based on the "Monty Hall" problem. A simpler one can be found here: The Let's Make a Deal Applet |
| BOM Learning Activities | Bureau of Meteorology website page with resources for teachers and students. Some good activities on chance are available here. |
| BoM-Rainfall-probability | More BOM chance and data activities based on rainfall. |
| Maths Forum: Math Tools Browse | Maths Forum's complete catalogue of resources in its Math Tools area. |
| Mathematical Lectures Slide Shows | Roxanne Byrne from the University of Colorado has a large set of streaming video and slide shows covering many mathematical topics. |
| Numeracy in the News - Overview of Site | On this site, there are 313 full-text newspaper articles from The Mercury in Hobart, and other News Limited newspapers throughout Australia are available. Most articles have linked questions for students and discussions for teachers. |
| Maths Games & Resources for Children That Really Work. | A website with games and resources for various mathematics topics. |
| Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles | This site is for teachers, parents and students who seek engaging mathematics. Many of the topics are accompanied by Java illustrations. There are more than 700 Java applets. |
| Mathematics Archives WWW Server | The goal of the Mathematics Archives is to provide organized Internet access to a wide variety of mathematical resources. The primary emphasis is on materials which are used in the teaching of mathematics. Currently the Archives is particularly strong in its collection of educational software. |
| Visual Math Learning | Free Online Math Tutorial site with Flash programs designed to provide parents and classroom teachers with the means to better employ visual imagery. It is designed as a supplementary resource to help students in their mastery of mathematics. |
| Interactive MS Excel Workbooks | There are workbooks that allow students to explore functions, applications of quadratic functions, sequences and series, and statistics from Dr Sarah L. Mabrouk. |
| Plus Magazine | Plus is an internet magazine published five times a year which aims to introduce readers to the beauty and the practical applications of mathematics. |
| Mrs Glosser's Maths Goodies | Topics in Pre-Algebra including the order of operations and writing algebraic expressions and equations. |
| Fun Mathematics Lessons | A series of mathematics lessons developed by Cynthia Lanius. |
| Numb3rs Lesson Plans | Check back here every week for math activities coinciding with each new episode of NUMB3RS. |
| British Columbia Ministry of Education Resource Site | BC Ministry of Education - Curriculum - Integrated Resource Packages - Mathematics |
| Primary School Mathematics | Multiple online resources organised by strands and age group. |
| ExploreLearning - Interact. Discover. Know. |
ExploreLearning offers a catalogue of modular, interactive simulations in math and science for teachers and students in grades 6-12. We call these simulations Gizmos. Gizmos are fun, easy to use, and flexible enough to support many different teaching styles and contexts. Our Gizmos are designed as supplemental curriculum materials in addition, Gizmos help teachers bring research-proven instructional strategies to their classrooms. |
| CoolMaths 4 Teachers | A resource site with a useful reference centre. |
| Statbag | This website is built and maintained by a statistics teacher from the US. His aim is to build it into a collection of resources for teaching statistics. Teachers can use the resources or deposit their own for use by others. |
| MathXTC.com | Stephen Corcoran has set up this site at St Stephen's School Carramar, W.A. which contains 50 motivational problem solving sheets with comprehensive solutions. Ideally suited for secondary school students who wish to develop their mathematical problem solving or thinking skills. They enable students to implement a broad range of problem solving strategies within varying contexts. To work mathematically. |
| PROJECT INTERACTIVATE | The materials for project interactivate fall into three main categories: activities, discussions, and lessons. There are additional support materials in the form of an overview of the goals of the project, a dictionary, standards for middle school mathematics, and hyperlinked tables of contents for several middle school math texts. |
| Solving Linear Equations | This site offers a path for learning and teaching how to solve linear equations including the use of "stick diagrams" as a way to provide a concrete context for many of the rules or patterns for solving equations -- a context that may develop equation solving skills and confidence informally before the algebraic statement of the rule and patterns for solving equations. |
| The Geometry Module | The Geometry Module effectively assists teachers in developing a deeper understanding of the underlying concepts that support the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) in Geometry and helps teachers develop the pedagogical tools necessary to provide their students the opportunity to meet Texas’ challenging state content and student performance standards. |
| mathFROG - Fun Resources & Online Games | Games, resources and lessons with background information on outcomes and content. |
| AlgebraLAB: Making Math and Science Connections | Welcome to AlgebraLAB, an online learning environment that focuses on topics and skills from high school mathematics that students must be able to draw upon in their introductory science courses. Since math is the language of science, science courses are often where students first realize “Oh, so this is why we learned that in algebra …” |
| JCCC webMathematica Index | A series of interactive web pages suitable for upper school students that allow users to compute and visualise the results of mathematical operations. |
| Mathematical Moments | The Mathematical Moments program promotes appreciation and understanding of the role mathematics plays in science, nature, technology, and human culture. Download this series of pdf files to use as teaching resources and to promote awareness of mathematics to students, colleagues, and attendees at meetings and special events. |
| DM Math | Contains information and a lot of resources. |
| Maths - subtangent.com | A site that includes resources for teachers such as worksheets, graph paper and presentations. |
| Pat Ballew's Mathematical terminology site | A site with the definitions and often origins of a huge amount of mathematical terminology. |
| The Math Lab website | The cool way to learn math, themathlab.com. This site offers a range of resources for teacher and students. |
| Nick's Mathematical Puzzles | A collection of puzzles, with hints, fully worked solutions, and links to related mathematical topics. Many of the puzzles are elementary in their statement, yet challenging. New puzzles are added on a regular basis. |
| Time & Date | Resources and calculators for everything you need to know or calculate about the time and date. |
| Adding Integers | A teacher developed shockwave site designed to help students understand adding integers. |
| Making Mathematics | Mentored Research Projects for Young Mathematicians. We encourage you to look through our mathematics projects, teacher handbook, and mentor handbook for information on pursuing mathematics research projects with middle - and high school students. |
| ASX Sharemarket Games | School students around the nation take a free lesson in share investment as they trade on-line with a hypothetical $50,000 to invest in the sharemarket over a ten week period. |
| ASX Sharemarket Teacher resources | Use this site to help you teach students the basics of share investment in a fun, educational and innovative way. Teacher resources include ready to print lessons, Sharemarket Games and professional development though our range of publications, courses and expos. |
| Whereis OnLine | Australian Map and Direction Search. This site will find a street directory type map of any address in Australia plus directions and maps to enable travel from one point to another. |
| SeniorSchoolCensus-online | Senior School Census-online is a project by students for students. It offers a revolutionary learning experience for all students. |
| Macquarie Business Mathematics Competition | The Macquarie Business Mathematics Competition is an innovative, online mathematics competition for senior secondary school students. Competition questions are scenario-based and have a strong business focus. The purpose of the competition is to introduce students to the exciting ways they can utilise their skills in mathematics and to increase their awareness of the application of mathematics in business and finance. |
| Australian Bureau of Statistics | Link to the ABS Education web site to find education resources for teachers and students. |
| Experiment and Explore Mathematics | This site contains several java applets that help you explore mathematical concepts interactively . What is new about this site? The applets are extremely easy to use to investigate very important topics in mathematics: you just focus on the topic under investigation. |
| Polyhedra Puzzles & Nets | In this site you can print copies of polyhedron puzzles (for non-commercial purposes only) and can read several mathematical articles on the subject. |
| Stella: Polyhedra and their nets | Create Polyhedra! Platonic, Archimedean, Catalan, Kepler-Poinsot, uniform, and dual polyhedra, their stellations, and polyhedron nets. |
| Math Design | A website created by June Lester that looks at designing interactive mathematics in graphical format. A great site for those interested in using computers more for maths education. |
| Graphing Rectilinear Motion | This page has a java applet which graphs and produces a table for rectilinear motion that you initiate. It will also test your ability to move to fit a graph or table. |
| MATHguide |
MATHguide is a mathematics related, one-stop website for interactive
lessons, intriguing puzzles, creative projects, educational issues,
mathematics-related materials and a help centre.
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| The Diamond 16 Puzzle | Online puzzle illustrating principles of symmetry and permutation groups. Solve the puzzle and make a variety of symmetric designs along the way. A link to related theory is provided. |
| Patterns, Functions and Algebra | "Patterns, Functions, and Algebra" explores the "big ideas" in algebraic thinking. The course consists of 10 two-and-a-half hour sessions that each include video programming and interactive Web activities. |
| Illuminations from NCTM | Internet Resources to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students. |
| HeyMath! | HeyMath! provides responsible and timely help in Maths to pupils aged 9-19 through an 'Ask a Teacher' helpline, and also supports teachers with web-based lesson resources in Maths. |
| NRICH | A resource site for teachers and students of mathematics. |
| NSW HSC Online: Mathematics Node | A set of tutorials, assessment leads and web resources organised according to the structure of the NSW Mathematics Stage 6 Syllabus for the Higher School Certificate. Useful support sections indicating activity and news in the world of mathematics education, especially in NSW. |
| Plane Math |
PlaneMath, a place to learn cool things about maths and aeronautics! |
| Virtual Reality Polyhedra | This site by Polyhedra sculptor George Hart has, among other things, virtual reality polyhedra that can be examined in 3D. This requires a VRML viewer that most up to date browsers will have. |
| Explore Math Site | This site has a series of multimedia maths activities that operate using shockwave (a web plug in). Great when you work out how to use them, they demonstrate a variety of concepts e.g Complex numbers in polar form. |
| Manipula Math with Java | This site has a large number of Java applets to demonstrate various maths principles and relationships. Although not easy to use these are excellent for hands on with bright students. |
| CIESE Online Projects | The Centre for Improved Engineering and Science Education provides a series of online projects, many with a mathematical slant. These are high quality tasks often using real time data. |
| Eucid's Elements Online | WOW! You can access the complete Euclid's Elements online plus other related resources at this site. |
| Probabilistic Learning Activities Network | On-line probability activities in the form of applets and spreadsheets. Aimed at high school students. Cross-curricular links section. Students and teachers can contribute. |
| Maps and Compasses | This website provides curriculum support materials for teachers in the area of trigonometry and geometry. It was constructed by Helen Weil as part of the 1999 Raybould Fellowship. |
| Exploring Data Web site | This website provides curriculum support materials for teachers of introductory statistics. It was constructed by Rex Boggs as part of the 1997 Raybould Fellowship. |
| Mark Wahls Web site | Mark Wahl has materials and information on teaching mathematics using multiple intelligences and other innovative techniques. |
| Mathematics Resources | The site identifies online resources that would be
useful in the teaching of high school Mathematics. It also includes activities that have been developed to support Queensland Senior Mathematics courses. |
| HOT Math | HOT Math! is a website with lesson ideas for hands-on tasks in the mathematics classroom (for students around 14yrs of age). |
| Project Interactivate | The goals of Project Interactivate are the creation, collection, evaluation, and dissemination of authentic courseware for middle school mathematics explorations. "Interactivated" lessons, discussions, and activities enable the teacher to extend hands-on activities and to teach new content areas with professional competence and confidence, incorporating technology in appropriate ways. |
| New Scientist | New Scientists web links to interesting mathematics sites. |
| Teaching Ideas | A web site of games, worksheets and other resources for primary maths teachers. |
| The Math Forum | A forum for the dissemination of maths resources and teaching information including Dr Math. |
| Virtual Teacher | A useful place for teachers to get information and help - also has some primary maths resources. |
| The M@ath Projects Journal | The Math Projects Journal can be subscribed to or spend time looking at a collection of other resources. |
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| Sites For Teachers | A series of web sites for teachers. |
