Lesson Plans 
- Best Webquests -- People have been creating "WebQuests" since 1995. These are some of the best.
- Breaking Away from the Math Book -- a collection of creative mathematics lessons for grades K-8 in topics such as area and perimeter, spirals, and congruent triangles.
- Columbia Education Center's Mini Lessons -- written by a consortium of teachers from 14 states dedicated to improving the quality of education in the rural, western United States, particularly the quality of math and science education.
- Educator's Reference Desk
- Fractals Lesson by Cynthia Lanius -- Students learn how to make a fractal by constructing a Jurassic Park fractal, the Sierpinski Triangle, and the Koch Snowflake. Links to other fractals on the Web and where to learn more about them are included.
- Illuminations.NCTM -- Standards related content that has been written and/or reviewed by experts in mathematics education.
- Kodak Mathematics Lesson Plans -- lesson plans on mathematics, all of which use photography in some respect.
- KQED/Center for Education and Life Long Learning Math Lessons -- a series of lessons for K-12 students and teachers based on math and including online and video resources.
- The Learning Exchange for Teachers and Students LETSNET -- the College of Education at Michigan State University offers a collection of interdisciplinary lesson plans.
- Math and Science Song Information -- provides teachers with more than 2,500 science and math songs.
- Math Central -- lesson plans and math resources from Canada's SchoolNet.
- Math in Daily Life -- from the Annenberg/CPB Corporation, offers interactive activities that apply mathematics to everyday situations.
- Math Lessons -- Under the auspices of GirlTECH, Susan Boone has written a series of math lessons that require research on the Internet such as reviewing census data or searching for local housing prices. Students derive equations, create graphs, and make predictions about future trends. Sample Topics: A Functional Housing Market, The Internet Pizza Server, Pop Clock, INDY 500, Houston Area Real-Time Traffic Report.
- Mathematical Moments -- downloadable PDFs and audio presentations that promote appreciation and understanding of the role math plays in science, nature, technology and human culture.
- Mathematics Lessons that are fun! fun! fun! -- Lessons written by Cynthia Lanius include Let's Graph, Let's Do Math, Fun and Sun Rent-a-Car, Who Wants Pizza?, Visualizing an Infinite Series, Million $ Mission, Calendar Fun, Rectangle Pattern Challenges, All About Ratios, A Fractals Unit, Mathematics of Cartography, Pattern Blocks/Fractions, Geometry Online, Power Cards, I Love Calculus, Polyominoes, Slope as Rate of Change.
- Mathematics Projects -- provides high school students and teachers with the materials and mentorship necessary for engaging in a mathematical research experience.
- Math Forum Teacher Exchange -- This is a combination of lessons contributed by the mathematics community and lessons already existing on the internet.
- Microsoft Lesson Connection -- set of search tools that connects educators nationwide with online lesson plans that match their local and state curriculum standards.
- Mungry Math -- This activity takes a mathematical approach to poetry using Shel Silverstein's poem "Hungry Mungry".
- NASA Glenn Learning Technologies Project -- includes lesson plans that use basic aeronautical principles to teach math and science.
- NASA: Page for Educators
- New York Times Learning Network -- ready-made lesson plans based on a current New York Times article.
- Ohio Math Works -- uses interactive multimedia to show middle school students how industry professionals use mathematics in their careers.
- PBS Teacher Source -- hundreds of lesson plans and activities.
- Project LINKS -- design and problem solving activities that help to integrate math, science, and technology.
- Project Skymath -- an effective and innovative way to present elements of the middle school mathematics curriculum through 15 weather-related activities.
- Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement -- a collection of over 800 science and math lesson plans.
- SCORE (Schools of California Online Resource for Educators) -- mathematics lesson plans that require the internet.
- Snowflakes and Stars -- provides graphic images of snowflakes with paper folding instructions to help students understand patterns and symmetry.
- TeachNet Lesson Ideas in Math
- Teachers.Net Lesson Plan Exchange -- resource designed to help teachers discover creative and dynamic ways to teach tired subjects.
- Tools for Understanding -- suggestions for integrating common technologies into instruction.
- WebQuest -- A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web.
- Worksheet Generator
- Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute -- Curriculum units developed from 1978 through 2006.
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Last update: 22 February 2008
