15 November 1999 Vol. 4, No. 46
THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS
Math League Multimedia | Funbrain Games |
Problem Solving - Wilson
THE MATH LEAGUE - Math League Multimedia
Conrad, Flegler, Motyka
http://www.mathleague.com/
Math contests for grades 4 through 12, contest problem books,
and educational software for mathematics for grades 4-8.
Contest results from math league competitions in the U.S.
and Canada are posted onsite.
A free Help Facility for Grades 4-8 is also available as a
reference for basic math topics:
- Whole numbers and their basic properties
- Decimals, whole numbers, and exponents
- Using data and statistics
- Fractions
- Geometry
- Ratio and proportion
- Percent and probability
- Integers
- Metric units and measurement
- Introduction to algebra
- Positive and negative numbers.
http://www.mathleague.com/help/help.htm
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FUNBRAIN: Educational, Online Games for Kids
http://www.funbrain.com/
Interactive, educational math games for children of all ages.
Games in the Kids Center allow you to test your math at
four or five different levels of difficulty:
- Change Maker
- Fresh Baked Fractions
- Guess the Number and Guess the Number Plus
- Line Jumper
- Math Baseball
- Paint by Idioms
- Power Football
- Shape Surveyor
Primarily non-math games include:
- Fun Match - a memory game that can be used to practice
fractions and decimals
- Spell Check - pick the mispeld word
- Wacky Tales - fill in the part of speech and see what it
looks like in a story
The site also offers a Quiz Lab (for which you must
register), where teachers can make up quizzes to be taken
by students. Quiz scores are emailed to the teacher, along
with the questions that were most frequently missed.
http://www.funbrain.com/quiz/
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PROBLEM SOLVING IN MATHEMATICS - Jim Wilson
http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emt725/EMT725.html
Problems in algebra, geometry, conversion, cryptorithms,
the environment, "mean," trigonometry, and a mixture of all,
many with comments and solutions, from a course given in the
Department of Mathematics Education at the University of
Georgia.
The site also provides links to papers, including
"Mathematical Problem Solving" (Wilson, Fernandez, & Hathaway),
a synthesis of research on problem solving, published as
Chapter 4 inWilson, P.S. (Ed.) (1993), Research Ideas for
the Classroom: High School Mathematics, New York: MacMillan.
http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emt725/PSsyn/PSsyn.html
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