Math Links

updated June 16, 2002

Pat's Picks for Students | For Teachers, Tutors, and Truly Interested Students

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  • a picture of what the site looks like, 

  • a short description of some of the things you'll find on that site, and, 

  • underlined, the website address. 

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Pat's Picks for Students

 
Pat’s students: you should use these links if you’ve finished your own work and have extra time during computer lab sessions. Remember to copy and paste the addresses of the sites you like into your Word file called Useful Links and to write little commentaries so you’ll be able to remember several months from now which ones you liked best.
This is a wonderful site by Lawrence Spector of the Borough of Manhattan Community College. It has complete online tutorial sessions for arithmetic and trigonometry written in understandable language with many cool features (like running your mouse over a colored rectangle to get the answers).

http://www.themathpage.com/INDEX.HTML

This site contains oodles of worksheets and crossword puzzles to download and do when you’re not online.

http://www.mathgoodies.com/

This site from St. Francis Xavier University in Canada has grade 5-12 word problems with hints and solutions.

http://www.stfx.ca/special/mathproblems/welcome.html

This is the site of the Schools of California Online Resources for Education and contains a wonderful array of k-12 math lessons, some of which are for the traditional classroom and others of which require use of computers a/o the Internet.

http://score.kings.k12.ca.us/bestofscore.htm

This site has fun online games like concentration and bingo, flashcards, worksheets that can either be printed (with or without answers) or done online. First rate.

http://www.aplusmath.com/

This marvelous site by the BBC has interactive presentations and tests for k-12 math topics.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/revisewise/maths/index.shtml

This is a site maintained by InfoUse in conjunction with NASA that has great math activities for both individual students and groups that use math to solve practical aeronautics problems like finding the shortest route, reading weather bulletins and the like. Fun stuff.

http://www.planemath.com/planemathmain.html

This has many interactive exercises for all basic fraction skills.

http://www.visualfractions.com

This site has twenty good questions used to test Japanese junior high school math students.

http://www.japanese-online.com/math/

This is a great site “for kids 13-100” with games, explanations of functions and other high school level topics. It has a graphing calculator – you enter an expression like x^2 +2, hit the “Eval” button and the graph draws itself. I’ve seen many online graphing calculators, but this is the first I was able to intuit how to use on the first try.

http://www.coolmath.com/home.htm

This site has many good lesson and worksheets for algebra and geometry. It has useful lists of math rules in concise form.

http://www.gomath.com/

This is a terrific website maintained by a man named Clay Ford just for fun. The site is entitled “Curious and Useful Math” and contains several games, tricks, weird patterns that happen with numbers (like what happens when you square 111,111,111). The writing style is clear and the tricks work.

http://personal.cfw.com/~clayford/

This is a site by a Canadian company ACT360 Media Ltd. in connection with Microsoft. You need to register (for free) to use the math section, but the problems are great for high school level math, so I think it’s worth it.

http://www.actden.com/

This is a US government site to help parents teach their children math at home. It’s filled with easy activities, and new mothers and fathers or parents whose kids are having trouble with math should find it very useful.

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Math/

This is a site created by Getsmarter.org, a project of the Council on Competitiveness, which is funded by many corporate contributors and nonprofit partners (from NASDAQ to NASA). You need to register (free) to use it, and it contains math and science questions so you can compare your results against those of students worldwide.

http://www.getsmarter.org/index.cfm

This site was created by a physics teacher; you choose “More Science than Math” or More Mathematics than Science” as you enter. The More Math section has beautifully executed reading lessons/presentations on functions, graphing and many other algebra topics.

http://id.mind.net/~zona/

This is another site sponsored by Microsoft. It has many easy and challenging problems on order or operations, algebra, etc. with good explanations of how to work each problem.

http://www.gcse.com/Maths/pre.htm

This site has a cool interactive section in which you download complex 3-dimensional figures and then use your mouse to view them from different angles as well as directions for building an icosahedron.

http://www.ScienceU.com/geometry/

This is a neat demonstration of what large numbers of pennies look like. It would be nice to visit this when you are reviewing ideas like place value and orders of magnitude.

http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/default.asp

This is a review site for high school and college students, which has algebra and trigonometry sections as well as traditional college topics like calculus. The level of language is rigorous, so most students would probably want to use other, simpler sites first but then go to this one to get adjusted to formal math writing.

http://www.sosmath.com/index.html

 


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For Teachers, Tutors, and Truly Interested Students

 
This is one of the oldest and best math sites, originally developed (I believe) at Swarthmore University and now hosted by Drexel University. Besides having tons of links to math sites arranged by topic and level, it is also the host of Ask Dr. Math, which has an extensive archive of previously posed questions and a way to ask new ones of live mathematicians.

http://www.mathforum.com/

This is an award winning commercial site with a frequently changing list of top sites in math education. There are also online tutorials for tutors, but I’ve never explored them and don’t know if they are available only to members.

http://educationplanet.com/topsites/math.html

I like the way this site divides its list into the top twenty sites by topic. You can also access Kathy Schrock’s Guide from this page. (The Schrock Guide is a now part of the Discovery Channel and has a wicked URL.)

http://www.top20math.com/

This is a recently updated math links page done by David Haury and Linda Melbourne for ERIC, the Clearinghouse for Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education.

http://www.ericse.org/digests/dse96-10.html

This is a site by Jim Martindale hosted by University of California at Irvine. I list it here because the math calculator section lists oodles of site for online math calculators, but the site itself is an amazing college reference desk with fascinating features like a world map you can click on to zoom in on images of your country.

http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/Ref.html

The Massachusetts Department of Education site is the place to go for copies of last year’s MCAS exam (with answers). The page cited here allows you to download the entire math curriculum frameworks, and there are several examples of the kinds of problems adult learners need to be able to solve at each skill level.

http://www.doe.mass.edu/acls/curriculum_frameworks.htm

This is the site for the Adult Numeracy Network, an affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The organization runs conference and online discussion groups.

http://www.std.com/anpn/

This is a special collection of science and numeracy resources run by the National Institute for Literacy LINCS.

http://literacynet.org/sciencelincs/

This site was created by the University of Nebraska at Omaha and contains great economics lessons. The explanations of basic economics concepts are very mainstream, but don’t expect social justice math lessons here.

http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/ecedweek/lessons.htm

 


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