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Georgia Learning Connections:

GLC:  The Georgia Department of Education's curriculum Web site integrating the Quality Core Curriculum standards, lesson plans, Web resources, assessments, plus thousands more resources for Georgia teachers.  This is the site Ms. Ash referred to in training.

Math Sites:

RHL School: Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and rounding; 1, 2, and 3 digit problems.  A new sheet of problems is generated with every refresh/reload.

Math Fact Cafe: Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and greater than/less than; Additional options include name/date fields, negative numbers, decimal places, and defining the range of numbers/number of digits.

A Plus Math: +,-,/,*, fractions, order of operations, counting money and basic algebra.  Select level of difficulty or specify how many digits/decimal places.  Answers can also be generated.

A Plus Math: Flashcards in java and non-java form. 

Education 4 Kids:  +,-,/,* ; easy, simple, complex options, timer option, can control format, number of digits, and problems. 

Hypatia and Pythagoras:  Games supported by the BBC.  Requires shockwave, but is well worth the download.  Sounds and animation make games very engaging.  Key ideas and tips available during play.  Number games such as rounding, fractions, and unit places; geometry, statistics, and algebra also included.  There are also links to print outs, but there may be some confusion with the British terms and spellings.  Highly recommended.

Math Collections: Large collection of online games.  Some require shockwave.  They are broken into categories ranging from Basic Math to SAT level skills. 

Mulitflyer:  Multiplication in space.  Very nice visual graphics that require flash.  Make your space ship travel to the out reaches of the solar system by answering multiplication questions that get harder the further you get from Earth.

Funbrain: A variety of games and levels dealing with many different scholastic areas.  A few games are highlighted below.  All can be tailored for different levels of math ability.

Math Baseball:  Answer questions correctly to score runs.  Getting answer wrong gets an out.  One or two players.

Tic Tac Toe:  Answer questions to get a square.  Wrong answers get a second chance.  One player.

Change Maker: Practice making correct change from a given transaction

Number Cracker: Finding missing numbers in the sequences.

Fraction Frenzy: Match equivalent fractions

Mystery Picture: Solve simple one-line word problems to reveal a hidden picture.  Example: They ate 5/7 of 49 M&M’s.

Fraction Shapes: Uses shapes to represent fractions.  Students can see how a regular trapezoid relates to a hexagon, and manipulate the shapes on the grid.  Offers a visual representation of fractions different from the typical pies and bars.  Printable pages too.

Fraction Card Game, etc: A few fraction games to be played in real life.  One card game and one memory game.  3rd and 4th

 MathsNet: Features include: Interactive, Articles, QuizBank, Magic Grid, MathsNet Art, Puzzles and Math Links. The website also contains reviews of software and books for mathematicians.

Math Lessons: includes online lessons, games, tests and over 300 teacher made worksheets. Students can also sign up for Puzzle of the Week, a challenge sent to you by email every week.

Probabilistic Learning Activities Network: Students are asked to provide an initial response to a probability experiment, collect data from the experiment and finally use mathematics to determine the probability measure of the experiment. Many of the experiments are counter-intuitive and are designed to foster discussion and interest in the mathematics classroom. The site is written primarily for students of the International Baccalaureate but can be used throughout any high school program.

Waldo's Math Pages is a secondary level math site, which uses Java (tm) applets to demonstrate different mathematical topics. It is aimed at Key Stage 3 (11 to 14), GCSE (14 to 16), but mostly AS/A2 Math and Further Math (16 plus).

Quantum Brain Benders: This website provides a series of highly entertaining math-based puzzles. Each puzzle consists of three rows of numbers. The skill level - easy, difficult or brainiac - determines how many numbers are in each row. The task of the student is to find a string of numbers that add up to the "finish" number provided in the puzzle.

Numberwork: A series of games produced by the BBC, which gives children the chance to test their mathematical abilities with fun games. When the children successfully complete all the games they will be able to discover the secret code, which allows Zack needs, help to complete his journey from Acapulco to Chihuahua.

Math Help: This website provides free help and advice with problems in Mathematics and Statistics at GCSE, A-level, BTEC, GNVQ and foundation degree level. You send in your question and Math Help will send an email back with hints and general advice and a couple of days later your answer will appear in the Math Knowledge Bank. Categories include Number and Financial Calculations, Trigonometry, Geometry & Mensuration, Algebra, Functions and Graphs, Calculus, Statistics & Probability and Applied Math & Mechanics. There is also a Math Chat Room where you can talk with fellow students or the Math Help tutors.

Interactive Mathematics: a database of games and puzzles that require deductive skills.

MathMagic: Mathematical challenges are posted on the website and each registered team is paired up with another team and engage in a problem-solving dialogue. When an agreement has been reached, the solution is posted on the website.

Puzzles and Fibonacci Numbers: One of the features of the website is a series of puzzles involving Fibonacci Numbers. Subjects include brick wall patterns, beelines, seating plans and jigsaws. There are also sections on Fibonacci Numbers and Nature, The Golden Section in Art, Fantastic Flat Phi Facts, Architecture and Music, Fibonacci Forgeries and who was Fibonacci?

Houghton Mifflin: Brain Teasers: New puzzles are posted every Wednesday. Solutions are given the following week. All students who submit the correct answer are entered into a weekly draw for T-shirt prizes. The website provides an archive of previous Brain Teasers.

MathSphere: The MathSphere website has an impressive collection of resources for mathematicians. This includes mathematics worksheets and test papers. There is also wide coverage of the national curriculum, the innumeracy hour and homework. Topics include addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, square numbers, cubic numbers, data handling and geometry.

Mathematics Enrichment: the website provides access to a collection of puzzles, games, mathematical problems, articles and activities.

Convert It: A very useful website that enables visitors to convert from one unit of measurement to another. Options include Area, Capacity, Distance, Energy & Power, Temperature, Velocity/Speed, Volume and Weight/Mass.

Math League: The Math League website is dedicated to bringing challenging mathematics materials to students. The website specializes in competitions

Math Teaching Ideas:  created for the teachers and parents of primary-age children. The section on Math includes lessons entitled Estimation, Puzzle Display, Beat the Teacher, Math Dictionary, Detective Trail, High Noon, Math Table Challenge, Division Problems, Times Tables Investigations, Rounding Numbers, Guess My Number, Number Patterns, Coordinates, Weighing Objects and Countdown.

GCSE Math: This site has been developed specifically for students and for those wanting help with GCSE level exams. The site includes a Math section with every topic necessary for GCSE level exams, coursework advice and practice papers with answers.

Mathematics Problem Solving Task Centre: The tasks are listed under Lower/Middle Primary, Upper Primary/Lower Secondary and Upper Secondary. Teachers and students submit the problems and their email address enables participants to discuss their solutions, answers, queries, etc. Other features of the site include: Problem of the Month, Past Problems of the Month, Problem Solving Strategies and Links to Other Problem Solving Sites.

GCSE Answers:  a work in progress in three clearly defined sections - the Tutorials, the "Easy Starts" and the Heavy Duty Stuff -, which broadly address the three GCSE Mathematics Tiers of Entry.  There is also Your Questions, Our Answers that mops up miscellaneous student enquiries, an index for fast reference, and an archive.

Discovery School WebMath: over 300 comprehensive lesson plans supported by Discovery Channel School video and an array of teacher tools. As well as Math students can find tools and information in the areas of English, Social Studies and Science

Footee: The website, aimed at 7-11 year olds, contains football related educational games and movies (tutorials).

CopyCat is a captivating new 3D game. The game revolves around replicating a picture created by several patterned faces of a solid object (like a cube). 

Bamdad's Math Comics: Barndad Samii's website is a collection of some math related comics and cartoons he has collected or were sent to him through the years. These resources can be used by teachers and

Time to Teach is a site designed for teachers, parents and home-scholars. It contains over 100 free, interactive and fun complete primary math lessons.

Interactive Online Geometry: Learn about all aspects of geometry at levels KS3 and KS4 (High School) level by doing interactive online activities.

Numeracy Software: This website is for primary school teachers who would like to make better use of ICT in their mathematics teaching. There are sections containing Numeracy News and Numeracy Links but the most valuable feature is probably the Free Downloads. Here you will find free resources to download, including pre-written spreadsheets, logo procedure files, My World screens, data files, PowerPoint Presentations etc. These cover all areas of mathematics and are suitable for a wide range of pupils.

Longman Maths: This website provides free, timesaving resources for Math teachers. These include interactivities using Excel, plus ideas for creating your own, along with fully differentiated Math challenges. Ready-made activities for using the Internet to teach Math are also included, and all are updated regularly. You can also use this website to access Longman's range of companion websites and its comprehensive online catalogue.

Megamaths: concentrates on multiplication tables and shapes for young students. Shape properties, mirror lines and transformations become hands-on activities.

GCSE Higher Math: This website provides free ICT resources for GCSE Higher Math. Written to accompany the Longman book, GCSE Higher Math, these activities can also be used even if you aren't using the book with your class. Activities include ready-made Excel activities, Factfinder activities and accompanying downloadable worksheets and teachers' notes. Offers registration facility to notify you when new materials and special offers of interest are added to the website.

Azimuths: Produced by Echelon Systems, this website provides free Math Tutorials. The notes can be used as a gentle introduction to topics the student is not familiar with, or as mathematics revision notes. Students can try out some real exam-style questions, then look at the model answers to see how they did. The practice math problems include tips on solving them. To help students relax when revision gets too much the website also features a collection of magic, jokes, games and puzzles.

KidsMAPE: MAPE (Micros and Primary Education) is an organization that has played a pioneering role in using ICT in Britain. The KidsMAPE section of the website includes a Random Number Generator (can be used in any activity requiring random numbers), Greenfield Road (a 19th century database with differentiated activities), a Math Treasure Trail (pupils use the Internet to hunt for mathematical answers), Bounce (a mathematical investigation) and Number Grids (interactive teaching of numeracy).

Smile Mathematics: The interactive section of the Smile Mathematics website is an on-going development area. You will require the Flash 5 browser plug-in to access some of these activities and a java enabled browser. Activities include: Mental Mathematics, Playing Cards, Investigations, Fraction Flags, Symmetry Match, Pythagoras, Magic Squares, Wiggly Tessellations, Rotational Symmetry and Similar Triangles.

Open Directory: This comprehensive directory contains over 10,025 websites on Mathematics: This includes Algebra (349), Analysis (133), Calculus (71), Chaos and Fractals (328), Combinatorics (378), Differential Equations (137), Geometry (448), Logic and Foundations (763), Number Theory (778), Numerical Analysis (261), Operations Research (213), Probability (114), Topology (188) and Trigonometry (8).

MathsNet Modules: An online ASA2 mathematics course at MathsNet. This course covers most modules in the current A Level scheme (P1 to P6, S1 to S3 and M1). M2 and M3 are still in development. The course includes over 600 pages of interactive explanations of concepts using a wide range of resources either collected from web sites round the world or homegrown. Included are: interactive displays of graphs, interactive algebra, a glossary of key terms, exam advice, a discussion forum and a unit devoted to background knowledge. There are also over 200 interactive a level examination questions based on recent papers from the various exam boards. Each exam question has a randomized element within it so that in effect each is a limitless supply of similar questions on a specific theme. There are also collections of questions organized into papers complete with online stopwatch.

Summer School Math is a web site for elementary children to practice math facts during summer recess. A wonderful on-line tool allowing your child to spend a few minutes each morning during the months of Summer reviewing math facts or preparing for the new year.

Euclid Challenge: This website by Milton A. Mintz looks at the Euclid Challenge. It was necessary to go beyond "Traditional Euclidian methods", since it was proved by Pierrre Wantzel in the 19th century that when following these methods, it was impossible to "trisect any angle" or "square a circle".

Mathematical Puzzles: The puzzles presented here are selected for the deceptive simplicity of their statement, or the elegance of their solution. They range over geometry, probability, number theory, algebra, calculus, and logic. All require certain ingenuity, but only pre-college math. Some puzzles are original. Explaining how an answer is arrived at is more important than the answer itself. To this end, hints, answers, and fully worked solutions are provided, as well as links to relevant mathematical topics. The puzzles are intended to be fun, with an educational element.

Think Quest: The Think Quest library contains unique educational web sites that have been created through Think Quest competitions and programs. The library currently contains more than 5,000 web sites to search and surf. The Mathematics section include sections on: Geometry, Chaos Theory, Fractals, Calculus, Algebra, Trigonometry, Arithmetic, Puzzles, Cryptography, Statistics, History, Probability, Real Life Uses, Olympiads and Pre-Calculus.

Mathszone is a website of links to interactive resources for teaching the primary math curriculum. Links are available in two formats, firstly arranged by key objective from the numeracy hour, and secondly by topic. Well-known programs from sites such as Primary Resources and Ambleside are joined with many of Mark Weddell's own creations to form a bank of hundreds of online games and activities.

Optimnem is dedicated to the promotion and application of the ‘Fluid Thinking’ concept-skills, in learning, in education, in personal and business development. Fluid Thinking involves our most primary and natural skills - from sensitive observation and imagination, to pattern recognition and connection building. The website includes a games section where you can play Connect 4, Hex 7, Triplets and Tactix.

MathsNet Discussion Forum: This forum offers discussions on teaching, suggestions, ideas, and trials of online teaching materials. Subjects covered include Technical Support, Problems, General Mathematics, Graphic Calculators, Puzzles, Challenges and Brainteasers, Software, Cabri Geometry, Omnigraph, Math Type, LiveMath, MathsAlive, Geometer's Sketchpad, FX Draw, Excel, Crocodile Mathematics and WebEq.

Math Web Guide: Created by Education Unlimited, this web guide contains recommended links to hundreds of websites for teachers, parents and students. The websites are organized under the following categories: Mathematics, Problem Solving, Numbers & Money, Measurement & Time, Space & shape, Data management, Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus, Games & Puzzles and GCSE revision.

Online Conversions: This website enables you to convert just about anything to anything else. This includes the following categories: Length/Distance, Temperature, Speed, Volume (Liquid and Dry), Weight, Metric, Computer, Date/Time, Cooking, Angles, Area Square, Power Watts, Energy Joules, Density, Force, Pressure, Astronomical, Numbers, Finance, Clothing, Light, Flow Rate and Acceleration.

Handbook of Mathematical Functions: This online book includes the following chapters: Mathematical Constants, Physical Constants and Conversion Factors, Elementary Analytical Methods, Elementary Transcendental Functions
Logarithmic, Exponential, Circular and Hyperbolic Functions, Exponential Integral and Related Functions, Gamma Function and Related Functions, Error Function and Fresnel Integrals, Legendre Functions, Bessel Functions of Integer Order, Bessel Functions of Fractional Order, Integrals of Bessel Functions, Struve Functions and Related Functions, Confluent Hypergeometric Functions, Coulomb Wave Functions, Hypergeometric Functions, Jacobian Elliptic Functions and Theta Functions, Elliptic Integrals, Weierstrass Elliptic and Related Functions, Parabolic Cylinder Functions, Mathieu Functions, Spheroidal Wave Functions, Orthogonal Polynomials, Bernoulli and Euler Polynomials, Riemann Zeta Function, Combinatorial Analysis, Numerical Interpolation, Differentiation and Integration, Probability Functions, Miscellaneous Functions, Scales of Notation and Laplace Transforms.

Math Skills Trainer: This website has over a 1000 games to test and improve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills. These timed online tests are selected at random, and the ability level can be set to suit the individual. Registration is required to use the site, but sample activities are available.

ICT and Mathematics: This free Inset pack has been specially devised for use by teachers who may or may not be mathematics or ICT subject specialists. The lesson plans and ideas are designed to give some starter lessons showing how ICT can be integrated into the teaching and learning of mathematics and some ideas for further developments. There are five modules in the Inset pack. The first is an introductory presentation looking at the rationale for using ICT in the teaching and learning of mathematics. The other four modules cover: number, handling data; shape, space & measures and problem solving. Each module includes activities, which are referenced to the National Numeracy Strategy Framework for Teaching Mathematics, though they can be adapted to use with other curriculum subjects.

10 Ticks: This math website has been created to provide a source of enrichment activities to support classroom activities. There are mathematical games and puzzles as well as online tutorials to help with homework. There are hundreds of applets linked to English National Curriculum levels in the Interactive math area as well as oddball mathematical activities!

Math Puzzles: This is a great collection of mathematics and logic related puzzles classified in six categories. Gives you hours of pleasure and satisfaction in solving these puzzles and by doing or attempting these puzzles, one will really enhance his arithmetic and logical powers. It is like having an exercise to your brain both in mature adults and the children alike to have brain fitness, which will enhance and gives you a fresh start in day-to-day activities.

Google Calculator: To use Google's built-in calculator function, simply enter the expression you'd like evaluated in the search box and hit the Enter key or click the Google Search button. The calculator can evaluate mathematical expressions involving basic arithmetic, more complicated mathematics, units of measure and conversions and physical constants. You can also experiment with other numbering systems, including hexadecimal and binary.

Geometry: mix of sound, science, and Incan history intended to interest students in Euclidean geometry. Recent additions include Simson Line (proof of Simson line), The Raft of the Medusa (problem solving with fractals and animation), Archimedes and the Rhombicuboctahedron (Archimedes the Geometer), Sierpinski Triangle and Machu Picchu (fractal illustration), Johnson's Theorem (three equal circles pass through a common point), Varignon and Wittenbauer Paralellograms (quadrilateral: midpoints and trisection points of the edges) and Van Aubel's Theorem (quadrilateral with squares).

Numberline Lane: Fiona Cartmell is a leading math teacher and an Advanced Skills Teacher specializing in KS1 math education. She has just published new math storybooks called Numberline Lane. Each book focuses on a different math objective for Early Years and KS1. The website has activities for parents to do at home to back up the books, and worksheets for use in the classroom.

Teach Kids Math introduces math topics in a variety of creative and challenging ways so as to achieve mastery of the fundamentals. This American website has a large assortment of interactive lessons that demonstrate basic mathematical concepts. The material ranges from basic counting for preschoolers to more advanced topics for secondary school students. Online worksheets help children practice multiplication, division, rounding, fractions and number sequences. It is claimed that the website "has been designed by children and adults".

Math Tutor: This website has been created for junior school pupils. There are online interactive activities on angles, rotation, translation, patterns, reflection, perimeter, area and volume. Titles include: Right Angles in Shapes, Measuring Angles, Types of Angles, Identifying Angles in Shapes, Rotating Shapes, Creating Patterns, Reflecting Shapes, Weird Shapes, Areas of Triangles and Volume of Cubes.

Mathematics Activity Guides: This section of the Energy Conservation Enhancement Project was originally created for the vocational technical schools in Louisiana. Much of the material contained within is generic in content and may be applied and used by many people throughout the world. Topics include The Pluses and the Minuses, What is Algebra? Algebra: Integers and Operations, Fractions: The 4 Basic Mathematical Functions, Ratios & Proportions, Perimeter, Volume and Thinking Graphically.

Math File Game Show: A collection of math games produced by the BBC. All the games need site needs the Shockwave 7 plug-in. They are organized into four different areas: Number (Grid Game, Saloon Snap, Builder Ted, Rounding Off), Data Handling (Fish Tank, Train Race, Data Picking), Shapes and Measures (Bathroom Tiles, Animal Weigh-In) and Algebra (Planet Hop), Late Delivery and Equation Match).

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