Math Web Sites For Teachers


National Standards

Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics
Written by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), this document presents 54 standards for school mathematics divided among four categories: grades K-4, 5-8, 9-12, and evaluation.

Illuminations: Principles & Standards for School Mathematics
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics designed this site to "illuminate" the new NCTM principles and Standards for School Mathematics and improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students. Grade-level focuses includes pre-k-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, and Across the Grades

Principles and Standards for School Mathematics

State Standards

Washington (State) Essential Academic Learning Requirements
Links from this page take you to the specific EALR's for each subject discipline.

Information Power 2 and the Washington (State) EALR's
Information Power 2 (IP2) are national library standards. The Washington Library Media Association (WLMA) has correlated Washington state's EALR's with IP2. Each subject discipline is separate. You must scroll down the page to find the desired document. They are written in Adobe Acrobat.

Professional Associations

American Mathematical Society
e-MATH, the Web site of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), provides the latest news of interest to mathematicians, including information on legislative funding, conferences, publications, and employment and career opportunities in mathematics.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Access is provided to the NCTM News Bulletin, journals, and the NCTM catalog. Hot Topics highlights areas of interest. Conference announcements and jobs are posted.

General Interest

Blue Web/n - Math
This is a site developed specifically for K-12 education, which is organized by subject area and which evaluates and ranks the pages it links to. The link above goes directly to the math section.

Brain Boosters
The page, on the Discovery School site, contains many higher order reasoning puzzles. Share some with your students.

Cool Math
Contains pages for secondary students, elementary students, teachers and parents.

Children's Literature books for Math
Provides a list of children's trade books that support the study of mathematics. Books are grouped by subject, including number sense, counting books, measurement, multiplication and division, geometry, applied math, and puzzles and game books.

Education Index: Math sites

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
One of the most comprehensive databases of math and science resources is located at the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC). Searching this site's online catalog will return a wealth of information, including content descriptions, appropriate grade levels, pricing, and sources for selected materials. The complete National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics is available here, accompanied by extensive background information. Another useful feature is the Digital Dozen, a monthly list of Web sites highlighting the best in math and science on the Net.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Frequently Asked Questions in Mathematics
The FAQ site for the newsgroup provides authoritative mathematical information. It is a compilation of frequently asked questions about mathematics and their answers.

A Homepage for New Math Teachers
Practical advice and relevant information make this a must-read Web page for new math teachers. Topics covered include classroom management, how to make clear lessons, multicultural mathematics, and math myths. Links are provided ...

Integrating Math with other subjects,
an article by Gisele Glosser, with ideas on how to integrate math into other subject areas.

K-12 Teaching Materials
The Math Archives located at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, has a collection of annotated links to K-12 teaching materials, organized into categories that include lesson plans, software, and mathematics topics. Links are provided to other related K-12 math sites on the Internet.

Kathy Schrock's guide for Educators: Mathematics Page
One of the very best sites for educational links, this is a direct link to sites on mathematics

Math.com
Follow one of four pathways into the world of math online: students, teachers, parents, and everyone. Students can access homework help; references such as dictionaries, converters, and online equation solvers; math lessons, and interactive exercises in pre-algebra, algebra, and geometry, test-taking tips, and advice, and puzzles and mathematical tricks. Teachers can find lesson plans and classroom resources, generate algebra worksheets, and access other practice worksheets to print out ....

Math Enrichment

The Math Forum Home Page
The math Forum is a center for math education on the Internet funded by the National Science Foundation and sponsored by Swarthmore College. By clicking on Math Resources by Subject, K-12 teachers will be able to locate extensive resources for arithmetic, algebra, geometry, precalculus, calculus, probability and statistics, and discrete math.

Key Issues in Math
Math Resources by Subject
World Wide Resources for Mathematics Education

Student Center
Middle School Teachers Place
High School Teachers Place

Mathematics Encyclopedia
The Mathematics Encyclopedia, PRIME, is a comprehensive resource for students and educators.

Mathletics
Provides examples based on several sports showing how math is used in the "real world."

Mega-Mathematics
A project of Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, where the Atomic Bomb was developed. The MegaMath project is intended to bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to classrooms.

Platonic Realms
Platonic Realms is a collaborative effort of math graduate students and educators to provide comprehensive math resources online

SCORE Mathematics
California Department of Education Mathematics site.

Lesson Plans

Appetizers & Lessons for Math and Reasoning
Provides arithmetic and algebra review problems and other suggested sites.

The Explorer Page for Mathematics
The Math Section of the Explorer Page is divided into general mathematics, problem solving and reasoning, whole numbers and numeration, fractions, decimals, ratio and proportion, percent, measurement, geometry, statistics and probability, and algebraic ideas. Information is further divided into grade-level appropriateness.

Mathematics Lesson Plans
Students and teachers will enjoy using some of these exciting, original math lessons that incorporate problem solving, student interaction, and online resources.

Maths Ideas
Provides a list of math activities to use in elementary classrooms. Some activities are designed to improve mental arithmetic skills, practice recognizing number patterns, and teach decimals. Worksheets can be printed out and used in the classroom.

New York Times Mathematics Lesson Plans
Lesson plans are appropriate for grades 6 - 12, and include lessons that require students to collect data to perform simple manipulations and create graphs or discuss the role of mathematics in everyday life.

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