- E-Mail Math - Elizabeth Murphy
Using the Internet for a global exchange of student-written math story problems. Grade 4 students participated in an enrichment project entitled Cross Cultural Story Problems in Math from December '94 to May '95. Students received story problems from
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- emGames - Wright Group/McGraw-Hill
Twelve Shockwave games aligned to the Everyday Math curriculum for the early grades. Game topics include the basic operations (including angle addition), place value, money, estimation, factoring, and choosing the larger of two numbers. Many games involve
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- Employment and Careers (AMS) - American Mathematical Society
The AMS Employment Services section includes an overview, EIMS (Employment Information in the Mathematical Sciences) Employment Listings, a Mathematical Sciences Employment Center, Job Seeker's List, Graduate Student Services, AMS Standard Cover Sheet,
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- Empowering Teachers as Leaders [PDF file] - Paul M. Terry, University of Memphis
This article presents the need for what some view as a rather radical change in educational leadership. An argument for this change is proffered by reviewing the current leadership methodology and, for comparison, empowerment is explored as it relates
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- Encarta Online - Microsoft Corporation
Browse or search for math lessons and activities for K-12 students and teachers, from problem solving to probability and more.
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- Enchanted Learning - Jeananda Col, Mitchell Spector
Enchanted Learning produces children's educational material designed to maximize creativity, learning, and enjoyment. The site is user-supported with site members receiving the benefit of a version free of banner ads. In the math area of the site are
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- Encouraging Mathematical Thinking, Discourse around a Rich Problem - Math Forum: Bridging Research and Practice Group (BRAP)
This videopaper by the Math Forum's Bridging Research and Practice Group (BRAP) of teacher practitioners and Math Forum Staff opens a conversation around the use of discourse as a basis for encouraging students' mathematical thinking and supporting teachers'
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- Encyclopedia of Informal Education - Infed.org
Explores key ideas, practices and thinkers in informal education, lifelong learning and social action. Includes opinion pieces, event listings, support, and other resources. Infed.org is an independent and not-for-profit site created by a small group
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- Engines for Education - Roger Schank, Institute for the Learning Sciences (ILS)
A "hyper-book" written by Roger Schank, Director of ILS, and Chip Cleary, a graduate student, about what's wrong with the education system, how to reform it, and the role of educational technology in that reform. CD-ROM version and hardcover and softcover
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- The English Name of a Number - Landon Curt Noll
This program will help people obtain the names of very large numbers. You may enter a number or the power of ten you want. It will give you the name, or the digits, of your number in American or English style.
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- English-Spanish Numbers - EnchantedLearning.com
Read words and pronunciation guides for the numbers zero (cero) through twelve (doce). Link to a number matching quiz printout or a number writing printout.
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- Enlaces en español para la matemática / Spanish language math resources - Math Forum
Mathematics and math education resources available online in Spanish, collected by the Math Forum. Categories: Juegos de ingenio/Problems and Puzzles (Brainteasers, games, and competitions); Lecciones y actividades/Lessons and activities (Lesson plans
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- The eNLVM Project: Promoting Student Achievement in Mathematics through Educator Collaboration [PDF] - Pam Buffington, Burt Granofsky, eNLVM Project
This article explores the use of the eNLVM from the perspectives of Curriculum Developer, Math Content Expert, Special Education Professional, and Classroom Teacher. The article paints a picture of how multiple educators can collaborate to use the eNLVM
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- Ensuring Equity and Excellence in Mathematics (NCREL) - Claudette Rasmussen; Pathways to School Improvement
Critical issues in mathematics. Educators and community members are beginning to recognize that most students, including a disproportionate number of women, minorities, and the poor, leave school without the mathematical skills they need to thrive in
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- Epistemology and Learning Group - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Constructionism asserts that knowledge is not simply transmitted from teacher to student, but is actively constructed by the mind of the learner, and that learners are particularly likely to create new ideas when they are actively engaged in making external
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- Equality and Education - The Century Foundation
Links to information examining causes and effects of economic inequality and exploring policy options for redressing such problems as home inequity, summer schooling, integration, educational choice, and others. Topics: Classroom Inequality, School Choice,
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- Equals and Family Math - Franco, Kreinberg; Lawrence Hall of Science, Univ. of California at Berkeley
EQUALS programs provide workshops and curriculum materials in mathematics for teachers, parents, and community members, working to increase access and equity in mathematics for students in traditionally underrepresented groups. There are over forty EQUALS
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- Equipped for the Future: Fundamentals - Equipped for the Future, National Institute for Literacy
Begun in 1994, the National Institute for Literacy’s Equipped for the Future (EFF) initiative started the development of a framework for adult learning content standards. These content standards were constructed to strengthen the ability of adult education
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- Equity & Access: General - Key Issues in Mathematics at The Math Forum
Issues, networks, general Web resources on equity in mathematics. Also entries of specific interest to minorities, women, people with disabilities, and non-English speaking visitors.
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- Equity and Access in Mathematics Education - EXTEND - Perspectives in Mathematics Education
A summary of an EXTEND roundtable held to discuss key issues and questions concerning equity and access in mathematics education in the context of rapidly changing state and local policy. Links to: key themes of outcomes count, principals count, and teachers
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- Equity Center: Selected Publications (NWREL) - Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
Publications developed by the NWREL Equity Center (Improving Education for Immigrant Students; Preventing and Countering School-Based Harassment: A Resource Guide for K-12 Educators; The Fourth R: Responsibility - Ensuring Educational Excellence Through
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- Equity Education On Line - The Equity Assistance Center
One of 10 Federal Desegregation Assistance Centers (See DEACs) - provides services in race, national origin, and sex equity, and welcomes the opportunity to provide technical assistance, on-site training, and planning assistance to school districts in
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- Equivalent Measurements - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question
A table of equivalent measurements for units such as teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, pints, quarts, gallons, ounces, and pounds.
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- Eric Digest 104: Block Scheduling - Karen Irmsher
A 1996 article, with a bibliography: What's wrong with the traditional day? What is Block Scheduling? What are its advantages and challenges? What advice do experts have for making the change?
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- ERIC Digests - Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Digests are short reports on topics of prime current interest in education, targeted specifically for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and other practitioners, but generally useful to the broad educational community. Each offers an overview of
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- Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography - Eric Weisstein. Wolfram Research
The World of Biography briefly outlines the discoveries and advances of over 250 mathematicians, and includes links to publications with more historical details about the individuals. Each notecard-like bio puts a face to the entries in MathWorld, Weisstein's
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- Essays on Constructivism and Education - Tom O'Haver; Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation
An extensive collection of articles on constructivist teaching strategies, change in education, technology in the classroom, hypertext and cognitive flexibility, constructivist pedagogy readings, and more.
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- Esumz - Patrick Calahan and Laura Wexford
Tutorials, assessment, progress reports, and live help for elementary mathematics. Free demo available.
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- Ethnography at the Math Forum [PDF file] - Wesley Shumar
A discussion of the author's research on teacher communities, networking, and professional development online through the Math Forum, and techniques used to study them.
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- Ethnomathematics - Nancy Casey
Ethnomathematics is the study of mathematics which takes into consideration the culture in which mathematics arises. Mathematics is often associated with the study of "universals"; however, it is important to recognize that often something we think of
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- The Euro - European Central Bank
On January 1, 2002, euro banknotes and coins were put into circulation. This site has sections for: euro banknotes and coins, getting ready for the euro, information for organizations, a children's zone, background to the euro, and news and events.
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- Evaluation Rubrics for Websites - Loogootee Elementary West, Loogootee, Indiana
Separate rubrics for primary, intermediate, and secondary grades, for children to use in evaluating sites, with a list of links to Web-evaluating resources primarily for adults, steps to follow when creating Web pages, tips for announcing pages, and activities
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- Every Day Counts with PFK Consultants - Pasty F. Kanter
An elementary math education company offering staff development workshops based on author Patsy F. Kanter's "Every Day Counts" family of products (published by Great Source Education Group). The workshops focus on making math a daily activity, encouraging
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- Everyday Mathematics: A Parent's Handbook K-5 - Oswego School District
Classroom routines, standards by grade level, examples, glossary, and other resources. Learn about number families, number stories, games such as factor captor, and algorithms such as addition by partial-sums, subtraction by counting-up, left-to-right,
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- Everyday Mathematics Glossary - Ann Arbor Public Schools
Terms used in the Everyday Mathematics program and essential to the program. To find the proper definition of a term, choose the letter it begins with.
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- Everything Is Mathematical - RBA Contenidos Editoriales y Audiovisuales S.A.
Based on the series of books, published weekly in association with The Times and presented by Marcus du Sautoy, which aims to demonstrate clearly how mathematics shapes the world around us. Blog posts, which date back to September, 2012, have included
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- Examining How Mathematics is Used in the Workplace - Annie and John Selden; Mathematical Association of America
Abstracts of studies on how much mathematics is used in various occupations: Mathematics in Automobile Production; Proportional Reasoning by Nurses; Modeling the Mathematics of Banking; Mathematical Models as Seen by Biologists; How do Scientists Interpret
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- Excel Everywhere.com - Framtidsforum I&M AB
Automatically converts a spreadsheet into a good-looking and calculating web page. It can be used to present mathematics on the web, and for creating self-correcting tests. Teachers can get free licenses for student projects, so that these can be presented
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- ExcelGrade eLearning
Online tutoring in math, science, and English, using a proprietary headset and whiteboard. Details, including testimonials and pricing, on the web.
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- Excel Math - AnsMar Publishers, Inc.
Excel Math is a mathematics curriculum for Kindergarten through Sixth grade students. Students are repeatedly given practice in the use of the concepts, following their introduction, so that they retain them and develop a solid foundation on which to
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- Excel Math - Brad Baker, Janice Raymond, et al.
A curriculum that presents math in a spiraling fashion for kindergarten through sixth grade students. Features include self-correction through Excel Math's CheckAnswer system, which allows students to check their own work. Download a sample packet or
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- Exclusive Educational Products - Exclusive Educational Products
Order math resources and manipulatives for the curriculum of Ontario, Canada, as listed by grade or by the strands of number sense, measurement, patterning and algebra, geometry, data management, and assessment. Virtual workshops include samples from
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- Exemplars
Exemplars is meant to assist teachers, schools and districts implement authentic assessment and problem solving in their classrooms and to meet the challenging new standards developed in mathematics, science and humanities at the national, state and local
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- Exercises in Imagination (Geometry and the Imagination) - Conway, Doyle, Gilman, Thurston; The Geometry Center
How do you imagine geometric figures in your head? Most people talk about their three-dimensional imagination as 'visualization', but that isn't exactly right. A visual image is a kind of picture, and it is really two-dimensional. The image you form in
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- The Exhibitionists - National Museums Liverpool
The site uses simple examples to give a basic outline of life behind the scenes at the museums, and all the math problems that curators solve as they plan and present exhibitions. The prices and measurements in the puzzles are made up to give viewers
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- Expectations of Mathematics Education - EXTEND - Perspectives on Mathematics Education
Links to articles about society's conflicting expectations for the goals (ends) and pedagogy (means) of school mathematics. Concerns about the relation of skills to understanding, about connections with other disciplines, and about preparation for employment.
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- ExplorA-Pond - UtahLINK
The pond ecology Web site: an online telecommunications project that encourages worldwide, online collaborative mathematics as K-12 students study pond ecology and create a database of pond descriptions. Teachers can register classes and put local ponds
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- Explorations in Math
A non-profit organization with a mission to build a sustainable math culture in elementary school communities. Based in Seattle, Washington, Explorations in Math (EIM) pursues goals such as "creating confidence and excitement for math in young children"
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- The Exploratorium
Home page of San Francisco's museum of science, art and human perception. Online exhibits, cool sites, archives, sport and science, and the digital library (the Exploratorium A-to-Z).
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- Exploratorium's Science of Baseball - The Exploratorium
Interactive (Shockwave) exhibits from San Francisco's science museum include Fastball Reaction Time (can you hit a 90-mph fastball?) and Scientific Slugger (see what makes a home run: vary the angle of the ball, bat speed, and pitch speed, then watch
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