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.
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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
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This site contains oodles of
worksheets and crossword puzzles to download and do when you’re not online.
http://www.mathgoodies.com/
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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This has many interactive exercises for all basic
fraction skills.
http://www.visualfractions.com
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This
site has twenty good questions used to test Japanese junior high school math
students.
http://www.japanese-online.com/math/
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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
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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
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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/
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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
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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/
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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
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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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