Where can I find things I can use in my classroom to teach math?

The Show-Me Center
What does the Show-Me Project offer middle grade math teachers? Information, professional development, and networking opportunities in the context of standards-based mathematics. Lesson plans are offered for each of five featured curriculum projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Teachers Helping Teachers
The Teachers Helping Teachers project, directed by Dr. Scott Mandel, a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Southern California, supplies signed lesson plans submitted by teachers. Topics include geometry, money, story problems, making a budget and many others.

Ask Dr. Math
Ask Dr. Math is a question-and-answer service for K-12 math students and their teachers. The service provides archives that are searchable by grade level and topic, and includes such features as Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), puzzle archives, links to other math sites, and an online mathematics dictionary.

Flashcards for Kids
Children can practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with numbers up to 9999 at this site sponsored by CANItech. Use this site for reinforcement of math skills.

Aritm
Aritm is a program that trains students in simple mental calculation in order to build basic skills. It teaches its users the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division tables. 3788

Children's Software Revue:
Reviews of Educational Software
"Children's Software Revue (CSR) is dedicated to helping busy parents and teachers leverage the power of technology to help children grow and develop. We attempt to do this in a concrete way, by providing jargon-free, independent reviews of the latest interactive products. As educational psychologists, our expertise is in evaluating the interaction between the child and the electronic experience." This well designed, easy to navigate site displays a good number of awards and testimonials. Searching the archives requires a $3.75/day or $24/year subscription.

Apple Learning Series: Secondary Math & Science
Take a look at this exciting curriculum kit that integrates simulation, animation, and real-world hands-on activities into your math and science curriculum. Students explore interactive projects that investigate the human body, animate the night sky, visit rainforests, simulate real-world motion, model exponential growth, and create chemical compounds for use in reactions.

What resources and activities can I use in my classroom to teach math?

Practical Problem Solving Strategies for Secondary Mathematics
The resources included with this guide cover a wide range of topics related to problem solving, including deductive reasoning skills and critical thinking. They also offer a variety of problems and fun approaches to solving them.

The Broken Calculator
In this short lesson, students will demonstrate the effects of operations on numbers and the relationships among these operations by exploring what series of calculator keys could be pushed to solve a problem if a particular key is not working. How students arrive at the answer in selecting the appropriate application of the algebraic order of operations is the focus.

A Simple Word Problem
This resource gives students practice in converting word problems into mathematical equations. Students can click on the applet to change the problem's meaning.

Webmath: Instant Solutions for Your Math Problems
This site allows you to click on a problem solver, enter your math problem and click for an explanation of how it's done and the answer. It handles most types of math problems.

The Math League:
Building Student Interest and Confidence in Mathematics
This site provides information that will enable teachers, educators, and parents to bring challenging mathematics materials to students using real-world problems.

Improving Deductive Reasoning Skills
These activities help to enhance student problem solving strategies and increase student ability to solve deductive reasoning problems. They bring a sense of fun and accomplishment to math class problem solving.

How can I show off the fun side of math?

Math Puzzles for Secondary Students
Mathematical puzzles and games provide a method to interest students in math who would otherwise avoid it. This guide collects resources on math puzzles and games, crosswords, and miscellaneous math tricks as well as other fascinating topics.

Math Challenges for Highly Gifted Young Children
While all children need challenges, those highly gifted youngsters in our classes often need activities that encourage them to stretch their already well-developed talents. It's often difficult to find materials that are not busy work for these students. In our search for materials for highly able and profoundly gifted children, we've discovered some math challenges and puzzles sure to get those little gray cells going.

Internet Sites for Math Teachers
This resource features links to a plethora of math-oriented sites for teachers, from the history of math to puzzles and games utilizing mathematics skills. Use this resource with its many links to enhance instruction of middle school mathematics.