Links

• Educational Resources
  • Assessment and Evaluation
  • Calculators
  • Online Mathematics Activities
  • Textbook Resources
  • Mathematics Competitions and Events
  • PBS links
  • Problem Solving
• Federal Government and Government-related Links
• Journals
• NCTM Links
  • Teaching Ideas
  • Principles
  • Standards
• Professional Development
  

Educational Resources

Assessment and Evaluation

• Suggested Assessment Strategies
  Assessment strategies describing a variety of ideas and methods for gathering evidence of student performance.
• Assessment and Evaluation—Evaluating Student
  This section of the IRP is used to provide classroom examples of criterion-referenced evaluation to illustrate the ways that teachers can incorporate criteria in the teaching of mathematics.
  

Calculators

• Texas Instruments (Products)
  Technology products for the classroom, such as calculators, graphing technology, computer software, connectivity tools, and more.
• Casio (Products-Calculators)
  Product page for basic graphing, fractions, scientific, printing, tax and currency, and overhead calculators available from Casio.
• The Abacus
  An introduction to the history of the abacus as well as articles, analyses, and useful resource links for mathematical operations on the abacus.
  

Online Mathematics Activities

• Hayley's Tables v1.0
  A free educational game for students for children 4–7 years of age.
• Clock Face—Solitaire Telling Time Game
  Clock Face is a Clock Patience card game adapted to a program for helping to learn how to tell time.
• Alan's Math
  This software introduces addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to the user in a flashcard type scenario in an easy interface for kids.
• Alan's Fractions
  A very popular program used worldwide in schools, homes, and other learning environments for teaching students fractions.
• Algebra—One On One
  Algebra—One on One is an educational game for those wanting a fun way to learn and practice algebra. This program covers 21 functions.
• License Plate Math
  License Plate Math is a fun game you can play on the road as well as on the computer. There is a virtually unlimited number of mathematics puzzles. For ages 9 and up.
• Brain Builder—Math Edition
  Brain Builder—Math gives you over 500 million puzzles presented in a fun multimedia format to ensure unlimited hours of mathematics enjoyment.
• Math Function Mania
  Math Function Mania is a fun multimedia game for grades 7-12 that teaches functions, algebra, and problem-solving skills.
• MathQuiz v2.01
  Now students can practice multiplication tables, addition, subtraction, and division with animated cartoons and an ever-changing memory game.
• Mixed Up Math
  Rebuild the correct mathematical equation(s) in this challenging mathematics puzzle. Over 20 formula formats including boxes, crosses, mazes, and ladders.
• The Math Forum
  The Math Forum is a leading center for mathematics and mathematics education on the Internet. The Math Forum's mission is to provide resources, materials, activities, person-to-person interactions, and educational products and services that enrich and support teaching and learning.
• AAA Math
  AAA Math includes hundreds of pages of basic mathematics skills, interactive practices, an explanation of mathematics topics, challenge games, and randomly created mathematics problems for grade levels K-8.
• AlgebraHelp.com
  This website is a must visit for lessons and assistance with algebra.
• Ask Dr. Math
  Ask Dr. Math is a question and answer service for mathematics students and their teachers. A searchable archive is available by level and topic, as well as summaries of frequently asked questions.
• Click on Bricks
  Click on Bricks teaches multiplication skills.
• Discovery School.com
  Fresh ideas to enhance learning for parents, teachers, and students.
• Educator’s Reference Desk—Mathematics
  Resources and lesson plans for teaching algebra, geometry, instructional issues, measurement, and statistics.
• Education4Kids: Helping to Develop Minds of the Future—Math
  A set of resources for students to use as an educational center where they can play drill games to better their skills and to learn.
• Explore Learning—Experience Math Gizmos
  Explore one interactive mathematics activity per day or sign up for a free trial.
• Mega Mathematics Los Almos National Library
  Interactive learning modules about a number of mathematics topics.
  

Textbook Resources

• Glencoe Online-Mathematics
  Glencoe/McGraw-Hill is the nation's leading educational publisher for grades 6-12, offering materials for 22 different subjects including mathematics.
• The IMPlementation Center
  The Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP) is a growing collaboration of mathematicians, teacher-educators, and teachers who work on both curriculum development and professional development for teachers.
• MATH Connections
  MATH Connections is a 3-year secondary mathematics core curriculum that successfully connects mathematics with the real world of people, business and everyday life.
• COMAP: The Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications-Mathematics: Modeling Our World
  Mathematics Modeling Our World (MMOW) is a grade 9–12 core curriculum in which students not only learn mathematics, they also learn to use mathematics in everyday life.
• Integrated Mathematics: A Modeling Approach Using Technology
  SIMMS Integrated Mathematics materials are designed to build on recent middle school reform initiatives.
  

Mathematics Competitions and Events

• The Mathematical Association of America: American Mathematics Competition
  The American Mathematics Competition (AMC) is dedicated to the goal of strengthening the mathematical capabilities of our nation’s youth.
• The World Federation of National Mathematics Competition
  An organization of national mathematics competitions affiliated as a Special Interest Group of the International Commission for Mathematical Instruction (ICMI).
• Canadian Mathematics Competition
  A series of mathematics contests spanning grade 7 through to the OAC year of high school available in several countries.
• The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO)
  The World Championship Mathematics Competition for high school students is held yearly in one of eighty different countries located in five different continents.
  

PBS links

• PBS TeacherSource (Math)
  The PBS TeacherSource materials are developed by trained and practicing educators. The editorial staff is composed of educators with a variety of teaching backgrounds.
  

Problem Solving

• Nap.edu (Everybody Counts)
  The National Research Council reports to the nation on the future of a mathematics education.
  

Federal Government and Government-related Links

• Everybody Counts: A Report to the Nation on the Future of Mathematics Education (1989)
  The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy’s purposes of further knowledge and advising the federal government. The Council’s landmark book Everybody Counts provided the background for many of the reforms in mathematics education today.
• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
  Under the office of Educational Research and Improvement, the Department of Education is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education.
• Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
  The Third International Mathematics and Science Study was undertaken to provide a measure of change in the performance of science and mathematics students.
• U.S. Government Statistics
  A gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies, this website is a valuable resource for any teacher, especially those teaching mathematics.
• U.S. Department of Education
  A website designed to help pursue initiatives such as No Child Left Behind, and advance the mission of the Department…to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence for all Americans.
  

Journals

• Mathematics Education Journals
  A listing of relevant mathematics journals including the publishers’ addresses and various web links.
  

NCTM Links

• NCTM National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  The mission of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is to provide the vision and leadership necessary to ensure a mathematics education of the highest quality for all students.
  

Teaching Ideas

• NCTM National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (Elementary)
  Resources for teaching mathematics at the elementary level.
• NCTM National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (Middle School)
  Resources for teaching mathematics at the middle school level.
• NCTM National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (High School)
  Resources for teaching mathematics at the high school level.
  

Principles

• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (The Equity Principle)
  The Equity Principal is a vision of equity in expectations and support in mathematics for all students.
• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (The Curriculum Principle)
  The Curriculum Principal emphasizes coherent, focused, and well-articulated mathematics across the grades.
• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (The Teaching Principle)
  The Teaching Principal requires understanding, challenges, and support for effective mathematics teaching.
• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (The Learning Principle)
  The Learning Principle emphasizes that students must learn mathematics with understanding, while building knowledge from experience and prior knowledge.
• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (The Assessment Principle)
  The Assessment Principle supports the learning of mathematics and supplying of useful information to teachers and students.
• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (The Technology Principle)
  The Technology Principle stresses how technology is essential in teaching and learning mathematics, as it enhances students’ learning.
  

Standards

• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (Number and Operations)
  The Number and Operations Standard describes an understanding of number systems and their structures.
• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (Algebra)
  The Algebra Standard emphasizes relationships among quantities, ways of representing mathematical relationships, and the analysis of change.
• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (Geometry)
  The Geometry Standard studies geometric shapes and structures, and analyzes their characteristics and relationships.
• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (Measurement)
  The Measurement Standard involves understanding measurable attributes and applying appropriate techniques for practical uses of mathematics in everyday life.
• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (Data Analysis and Probability)
  The Data Analysis and Probability Standard recommends that students learn how to collect and organize data, then use that data to answer questions that they have formulated.
• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (Problem Solving)
  The Problem Solving Standard teaches students about new ways of thinking, habits of persistence and curiosity, and acquiring confidence in unfamiliar situations.
• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (Reasoning and Proof)
  The Reasoning and Proof Standard offers ways of developing and expressing insights about a wide range of phenomena.
• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (Communication)
  The Communication Standard makes it clear that communication is essential to share ideas and to clarify understanding in mathematics and mathematics education.
• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (Connections)
  The Connections Standard can help students build a disposition to using connections in solving mathematical problems, rather than seeing mathematics as a set of disconnected, isolated concepts and skills.
• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (Representation)
  The Representation Standard refers both to the process and the product; the act of capturing a mathematical concept or relationship in some form.
• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (Standards for Grades Pre-K–2)
  These standards and specific expectations for mathematics learning can help parents and educators give children a solid affective and cognitive foundation in mathematics.
• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (Standards for Grades 3–5)
  The Standards form the basis for a significant and interconnected mathematics curriculum. Throughout these Standards are three central mathematical themes: multiplicative reasoning, equivalence, and computational fluency.
• Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (Standards for Grades 6–8)
  The Standards state that middle-grade students should regularly engage in thoughtful activity tied to their emerging capabilities of finding and imposing structure, conjecturing and verifying, thinking hypothetically, comprehending cause and effect, and abstracting and generalizing.
  

Professional Development

• NCTM National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (Conferences/Events)
  A list of upcoming NCTM Conferences and events as well as other useful links.

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