- Ask Dr. Math - Math Forum
The Math Forum's question and answer service for K-12 math students and their teachers. A searchable archive is available by level and topic, together with a FAQ.
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- Ask Dr. Universe - Washington State University
A site that allows young users to ask or find interesting questions and puzzles to solve. It features a question of the day and an archive of questions and answers by faculty at Washington State University; featured questions; and links to related sites.
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- Asknumbers.com
Online conversions between different measures of length, weight, temperature, pressure, energy, frequency and more.
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- Assessing True Academic Success: The Next Frontier of Reform - Dan Kennedy, Baylor School
Article from Mathematics Teacher 92, 462-66, September 1999. "Suppose that your doctor's idea of a successful medical practice is to teach his patients how to pass every diagnostic test that he gives to them. How will you ever know if you are healthy?
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- Assessment - Classroom Compass
The spring 1996 issue of Classroom Compass examines assessment as an integral part of the learning cycle. One activity, Thinking Aloud About Mathematics, provides an innovative idea for assessing student learning in a high school mathematics classroom.
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- Assessment in Mathematics Teaching - Mathematics Education at The Math Forum
The Math Forum's suggested sites on assessment in mathematics education including the NCTM Standards; sessions on assessment at meetings; and selected books and articles on assessment.
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- Assessment Resource Center (ARC) - University of Missouri
The ARC "promotes the practice, enhances the understanding, and advances the use of assessment in education, business, and the professions." ARC develops and applies measurement instruments and research and evaluation services, offering project management
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- Assessment Resources: Math - Cynthia Good
A list of links to guides, standards, curricular frameworks, activities, tests, and other resources for assessment in mathematics.
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- Assessment Suggestions - Math Forum, Teacher2Teacher FAQ
Answers to a frequently asked question: How can I assess my students at the beginning of the year? Mid-year? Throughout the year?
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- Association for Advancement of Computers in Education (AACE)
A searchable site, with divisions/societies/chapters; major journals; The AACE listserv, EDUCTECH; Educational Technology Review (the Association member periodical); special publications; and conferences with workshops, and proceedings devoted to advancing
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- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
A site designed to provide relevant and current educational resources to members, with an emphasis on ASCD materials and sources of international and federal government information, in particular state and local government sources. Also a forum for worldwide
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- The Association of State Supervisors of Mathematics
A network for those who provide supervising and/or consulting services in the area of mathematics as a staff member of the education agency of their US states, territories, or protectorates; Canadian provinces; or other regions. Request membership information;
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- Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM)
A U.K.-based association that aims to support the teaching and learning of mathematics by encouraging increased understanding and enjoyment of mathematics. It addresses all those concerned with mathematics education in primary schools, secondary schools,
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- Astronomy Calculator - R.T. Back
The Astronomy Calculator provides general information about the phases of the moon and planets, and annual meteor showers. You supply the date, time of observation, and the number of hours east and west from directly overhead.
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A Supplemental Introduction to Algebra - Rick Garlikov
Some things algebra books don't tend to tell students, but which Garlikov thinks are important for them to know so that they can understand what algebra is about and see, in a sense, how it works. Also The Way Algebra Works.
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- At Home with Math/Diez Actividades Cotidianas para Padres y Ninos - TERC, Inc, and Ceridian Corporation
Ten activities designed to engage children in arithmetic, estimation, measurement, problem-solving, and other important math skills in the context of ordinary life at home. These activities are designed for children ages 5-11 and their parents, and are
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- Austin Math - Tutor - Tim Pham
AustinMath.com is a private tutor service that specializes in Math and Science.
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- Authentic Assessment in Mathematics - Daley, Diamond, Handy, McKenzie; The Geometry Forum
A group project carried out at a Geometry Forum Summer '94 Workshop at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. The goal of this project was to collect and organize available INTERNET resources on Authentic Mathematical Assessment applicable to Secondary Schools.
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- Authentic Assessment Toolbox - Jon Mueller
A how-to text on creating authentic tasks, rubrics and standards for measuring and improving student learning, including an introduction to the topic with comparison to traditional test-based assessment, why and how best to use it, standards, tasks, rubrics
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- Automaths: Online Maths Activities for Kids - Education by Design, UK
A Java applet with three different levels to practice for automatic response skills, suitable for children of all ages. Use the levels to customise: Junior challenges addition and subtraction skills; middle provides problems using addition, subtraction
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- Auto Rueda: Multiplication Tables - Jose Manuel del Toro Pérez; del Toro Ediciones
An effective method that fosters self-learning of the multiplication tables.
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- Avances de Investigación en Educación Matemática
The official publication of the Spanish Society for Research in Mathematics Education (SEIEM, Sociedad Española de Investigación Matemática) welcomes contributions in either Spanish or Portuguese. Freely download PDFs of past articles,
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- Averaging Diving Scores - NASA Lewis Learning Technologies Project
Kim received the following scores in the state diving championships: 5.2, 5.6, 4.5, 5.0, and 5.2 What was her average (mean) score? A detailed answer is provided. From NASA's 9th Grade Math Proficiency Test.
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- The Awari Oracle - John Romein
Play the ancient African "count and capture" strategy board game, related to mancala, and also known as wari, awale, oware, or ayo. Dutch computer scientists from Amsterdam's Vrije Universiteit developed a program that computes the best move and eventual
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- Awesome Library - R. Jerry Adams
Browse or search this carefully reviewed collection of math lesson plans, standards, and other classroom resources, organized by topic and grade level. With support from the Evaluation and Development Institute, the Awesome Library screens third-party
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- AwesomeTutors.com
Las Vegas-based one-on-one tutoring service, with email, webcam and phone tutoring available for most tutoring subjects. Prepayment required.
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- Backpack Project - Germantown Academy
Spurred by an orthopedic surgeon's report recommending how much weight a person should carry, teams of fifth and twelfth graders examined student backpack weights in relation to body weights in all three divisions of their school, weighing over 800 students
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- Balanced Assessment in Mathematics - The Concord Consortium
From 1993 to 2003, the Balanced Assessment in Mathematics Program existed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The project group developed a large collection of innovative mathematics assessment tasks for grades K to 12, and trained teachers to
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- Baseball TIVY
Commercial site for an educational math strategy board game for students in roughly grades 3-8. Competitive involvement with two or more players individually or on teams; local, regional and national tournaments. "A proven winner for increasing test scores."
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- Base Ten Block Activities - Margo Lynn Mankus
Manipulate a Base 10 Block Applet developed by Jacobo Bulaevsky to explore whole decimal numbers with blocks. There are printable examples of pattern blocks, graph paper, rods, and color tiles, and activities designed to make connections between the use
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- Basically Math - Joan Sveen
The Basically Math Study Guide is designed to help students learn the basic facts. There is a Manual that coordinates with the Study Guide. The Basically Math Manual contains tests and graphs for student use. Basically Math is being used in schools
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- The Basic Math Quick Reference Handbook - Pete Mitas
This handbook, written by an experienced math teacher, lets you quickly look up definitions, facts, and problem solving steps. It includes over 700 detailed examples and tips to help someone improve
their mathematical problem solving skills. The web
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- Basic Math - SPEED Software, Inc.
Download PC shareware demos of arithmetic drill programs. With Math Flash Cards, customize your own deck of flash cards to practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing. With Fraction Flash Card, design your own deck of flash cards to practice
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- Basic Math - tutorspree
Brief math explanations from the tutor matching referral service: numbers; equalities and inequalities; operations on numbers; properties of numbers; factors, multiples and divisibility; fractions; units of measurement.
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- Basic Skills Resources - National Institute for Literacy
The Basic Skills Resource Collection focuses on reading, writing, mathematics and numeracy resources that can improve instruction in basic skills. Each resource listing features an abstract and a review by an expert in the field. Resources in this Collection
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- Basics of Business Math Online Training - Webucator, Inc.
Commercial online courses covering the following topics as they are used in business: calculator use, decimals, equations, fractions, percents, and reports (statistics and graphs).
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- BasketMath Interactive - Robert Cummings, Science Academy Software
Science Academy Software's BasketMath online interactive application drill and practice site offers auto-scoring questions in arithmetic, rounding and writing numbers, order of operations, factoring, adding or multiplying signed numbers, calculating perimeter
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- Beacon Learning Center - Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center is an online educational resource and professional development center funded through a grant from the U. S. Department of Education, 2000-2005. The resources posted in the Beacon database are products of professional development
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- BEAM: Be A Mathematician
A mathematics curriculum development project for nursery, primary, special and lower secondary teachers. It publishes resource materials for teachers' use in the classroom, offers training courses for teachers, and provides consultancy in the area of
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- The Beauty of Chaos - Uwe Krüger
A database of over 500 pictures of the Mandelbrot set. Also links to a CD-ROM and other fractal image sites.
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- Bedtime Math - Appropriate Challenge for Every Student Foundation
"A nightly math problem to get kids fired up about math in their everyday lives." Each story puzzle has three variations: one for "big kids," one for "little kids," and one for "wee kids." Posts, which date back to February, 2012, have included "X-Ray
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- Bee Alert - University of Montana
Bees and portable computers can now be used to assess environmental hazards through the development of electronic hives, toxicological models, extensive databases, and pattern-recognizing software that help assess risks posed by metals, radiation, carcinogenic
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- Beestar - Beestar Educations, Inc.
Beestar offers curriculum-based online programs for school kids. They include Math, English Language Arts (ELA), Science, and GT (Gifted & Talented) Math exercises. After the initial sign-up, every semester you can register your child to a weekly math
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- Beestar.org - Beestar Educations, Inc.
Providers of curriculum-based online programs for students, such as Beestar Progressive Exercise (BPE), a "systematic knowledge application and skill-practice program." See, in particular, the weekly math program; and dozens of freely downloadable sample
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- The Benefits of Mixed-Age Grouping (ERIC Digest) - Lilian G. Katz
"Goodlad and Anderson, who introduced the modern notion of the non-graded elementary school in 1959, raised our awareness of the fact that age is a crude indicator of what learning experiences children are ready for... The terms 'ungraded' and 'nongraded'
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- The Benezet Centre - Richard Hake & Sanjoy Mahajan
In 1929, Louis Benezet tried an experiment, "abandoning all formal instruction in arithmetic below the seventh grade and concentrating on teaching the children to read, to reason, and to recite." The experiment was successful; this site includes Benezet's
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- Bernhard Kutzler's Collection: Technology in Mathematics Education - Bernhard Kutzler
Read or download the author's articles: "Algebraic Calculators as Pedagogical Tools for Teaching Mathematics"; "Indispensable Manual Calculation Skills in a CAS Environment"; "Two-Tier Exams as a Way to Let Technology in"; and "Interconnectivity - Derive
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- Best Evidence Encyclopedia - Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education
What mathematics programs have been proven to help students to succeed? The Best Evidence Encyclopedia (BEE) provides summaries of scientific reviews produced by many authors and organizations, as well as links to the full texts of each review. See ratings
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- Best of the Web - Math
A directory listing of math sites on the web.
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- BetaMaths Software - Anthony Healey
Free Windows Vista or XP times table software, also available in French. The author writes: Software to learn the times tables. You can set addition, subtraction, number bonds, multiplication and division exercises at home, with no worksheets to print
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