- Chronological Age Calculator - AGS Publishing
Click the "Age Calculator" button, then enter two calendar dates to compute elapsed years, months, and days. Available for download.
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- A Chronology of Mathematicians - MacTutor Math History Archives
A chronology of mathematicians between the dates stated, showing how the lives of
the mathematicians overlap: 700 BC-700 AD; 700-1650; 1625-1775; 1750-1850; 1825-1900; 1875-1957. Where either the birth or death of a mathematician is unknown (mostly for
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- CIESEmath Project - Stevens Institute for Technology Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education
Outlines of ten units of Everyday Math and thirteen chapters of Transition Math, some with links to relevant Java applets and Geometer's Sketchpad sketches. The list of activities links to more interactive math tools, instructions, and handouts. A joint
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- CIESE Online Classroom Projects - Stevens Institute of Technology
Projects that use realtime data available from the Internet, and collaborative projects that use the Internet's potential to reach peers and experts around the world. The site lists currently sponsored projects by level, with an archive of past sponsored
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- Circle Drawing Experiment - Thomas Denney
Draw a figure on the grid by clicking and dragging. Upon release of the mouse button, this JavaScript calculates a "perfect circle" accuracy score by using the sketch's perimeter as the circumference of a perfect circle, and comparing its area to the
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- Circle Graph - What Percent? - NASA Lewis Learning Technologies Project
This circle graph shows how Jimmy spent his time during the last 24 hours. What percent of time did he spend watching television? A detailed answer is provided. From NASA's 9th Grade Math Proficiency Test.
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- Circles in Geometry - Lesson Ideas: Math: Geometry; Teachnet.Com
Whole-class and group activities for teaching circle concepts, pi, circumference, etc.
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- Circular Reasoning - TJ Leone, Leone Learning Systems, Inc.
A free, Java-based software tool for thinking about circles, sectors, segments, and angles. Based on Montessori principles of learning through the manipulation of objects. Activity cards included. For Windows computers only. Includes ideas and stories
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- CK-12
Providers of free, standards-aligned, open content in the STEM subjects. See, in particular, the CK-12 Foundation's flexbooks: customizable, free, curriculum-aligned K-12 math textbooks. In addition to dozens of student editions, some math flexbooks feature
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- ClarisWorks Graphing: Spreadsheet Lessons - Suzanne Alejandre
Step-by-step directions for using ClarisWorks spreadsheets, helpful in exploring the differences between exponential functions and linear functions. Bar graphs, pie charts, pictograms, and other graphs for linear, polynomial, and exponential functions.
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- Class2Class - Melanie Sprouse
Class2Class is a clearinghouse designed to facilitate student and class participation in Internet projects, including collaborative projects, data-collecting experiments, peer tutoring, and keypal exchanges designed to enhance the mathematics in your
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- Classic Problems - Math Forum; Ask Dr. Math FAQ
Classic problems from the Ask Dr. Math FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) files, including: age word problems, birthday probability, boy or girl?, camel and bananas, coin problems, doubling pennies, grazing animals, liars and truthtellers, the missing dollar,
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- Classroom Books and Libraries: Math - Attanasio & Associates, Inc.
The mathematics selection from this vendor of classroom libraries and books, which include Big Al and Shrimpy, It's about Time, My Very First Book of Shapes, The Shapes We Eat, How High Can a Dinosaur Count?, Everyone Uses Math, Pigs on a Blanket, Underwater
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- Classroom Compass - Adams, Powell, Assoc. Editors; Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
A magazine published from 1994 to 2005, with ideas, activities, and resources for teachers interested in improving instruction in science and mathematics, and links to simple classroom activities with ideas about learning and instruction. Each issue presents
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- Classroom Conversation (Learning and Mathematics) - Nicholls, Hazzard; Math Forum
In their 1993 book Education as Adventure, John Nicholls and Susan Hazzard explore students' understandings of the nature and point of school learning and the idea that students are valuable critics of the classroom curriculum and their own learning.
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- Classroom Projects - TEAMS Distance Learning, Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE)
A site for teachers looking for a content area project or contest for the classroom. Join a TEAMS project or browse a list of projects and contests sponsored by other organizations. Extensive list of upcoming, current, ongoing, and completed projects
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- ClassZone - McDougal Littell, Publishers
In ClassZone, McDougal Littell has gathered together all of its activities, interactive online resources, research links, chapter quizzes, and other materials that support its popular middle and high school mathematics textbooks, such as Integrated Math
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- Climate Classroom - One Million Acts of Green
This curriculum encourages students to analyze the science of global warming and its relevance to current events and their daily lives, through classroom activities, lesson plans, and family and community activities. The One Million Acts of Green Program
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- CLN: Community Learning Network
Designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. Includes over 225 menu pages with more than 4,200 annotated links to educational WWW sites, as well as over 100 WWW resources of their own.
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- Clocks and Curvature (Geometry and the Imagination) - Conway, Doyle, Gilman, Thurston; The Geometry Center
The total curvature of any surface topologically equivalent to the sphere is 4 pi. This can be seen very simply from the definition of the curvature of a region in terms of the angle of rotation when the surface is rolled around on the plane; the only
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- CLSO-Math - Shad Moarif
Learn math through visual scaffolding, whereby "... a math concept is first understood with the help of visualization, then gradually assimilated as an abstract idea in stages of decreasing visualisation and increasing numeracy." More than 10,000 worksheets
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- Coastal Computer Company
An educational software company. Math titles, AlgebraMAKER and MathMAKER, drill students in basic skills, explaining the solution to each problem. Samples of these programs are available for download.
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- cognitive acceleration - Cognitive Acceleration Associates
Cognitive acceleration (CA) emphasizes "'big ideas' or organizing conceptual strands in mathematics, rather than procedures and algorithms." Published collections of math lessons include Thinking Maths, Primary Cognitive Acceleration through Maths Education,
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- Cognitive Apprenticeship (Learning and Mathematics) - Collins, et al.; Math Forum
In a chapter entitled "Cognitive apprenticeship: Teaching the crafts of reading, writing, and mathematics," in the 1989 book Knowing, learning, and instruction: Essays in honor of Robert Glaser, Allan Collins, of BBN Laboratories, and John Seely Brown
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- Coin Flip for Ben Franklin's 300th Birthday - The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute Online invites students around the world to help commemorate Ben Franklin's 300th birthday on January 17, 2006, by participating in a common scientific enterprise. Links on the page include: Practice Worksheet (in PDF format), Results
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- Coin Flipping - Ken White
A page that allows you to gather data on virtual coin-flipping experiments. Includes access to data on past coin flipping and an article about coin flipping.
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- Coin Problems - Math Forum, a Classic Problem from the Ask Dr. Math FAQ
Tony has 11 more nickels than quarters. How many coins does he have if the total value of his coins is $2.65?
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- Collaborative Learning Discussion Archive - Math Forum
A special project hosted by the Math Forum, this discussion concerned collaborative learning, its definition, its effects on teachers and students, administration and assessment issues, and materials and resources. The discussion began as e-mail conversations,
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- Collaborative Learning - Mathematics Education at The Math Forum
A collection of links to collaborative and cooperative learning resources on the Web, including articles, discussions, and teaching techniques that emphasize collaboration.
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- A Collection of Assessment Strategies - Alaska Department of Education & Early Development
Each section of this page describes and analyzes a particular type of assessment strategy, then lists sources of further information. Following those discussions, samples show how each type of strategy might be used at various grade levels. The given
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- Colm Mulcahy
Blog by a recipient of the Mathematical Association of America's Allendoerfer Award for excellence in expository writing. Posts, which date back to October, 2012, have included "Weak Math? Try Math Week!" and "Oranges and Apples Comparisons: The Roots
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- Colorado Model Content Standards for Mathematics
A detailed description of the model content standards for mathematics that were adopted in Colorado in 1995. Standards are provided with an explanation, a rationale, and specific information about the expectations of students in grades K-4, 5-8, and 9-12.
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- Colorful Mathematics - Claude Laflamme
An educational software series presenting advanced mathematical concepts to K-12 students in a game-oriented approach. The five games offered use simple coloring and/or drawing techniques to illustrate mathematical concepts from graph theory. Downloadable
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- Columbus State University Math Contest - David Rock and Doug Brumbaugh, College of Education, Columbus State University
Problem of the Week, Algebra in Action, Middle School Madness and Elementary Brain Teaser -- all available in "challenge" mode. Past problems are archived, with solutions available upon request.
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- Common Core Math - New Jersey Center for Teaching & Learning
Freely downloadable teacher-designed units consisting of one to two hundred Interactive White Board (IWB) presentation slides: each of grades K-8, Pre-Algebra (available in Spanish), Algebra I (available in Spanish) and II, Geometry, Pre-Calculus, AP
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- Common Core Online - Darren Burris
Articles on Common Core State Standards (CCSS) mathematics, dating back to December, 2011, as "scooped," or digitally curated, by a Boston, MA, teacher.
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- Common Core State Standards Initiative - Common Core State Standards Initiative
The Common Core State Standards aim to provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them. The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world,
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- Common-Sense Questions (Learning and Mathematics) - G. Polya; Math Forum
In his 1957 book, How to solve it, Polya describes a four-stage approach to mathematical problem-solving. He bases his approach on common-sense questions that would naturally occur to an experienced problem-solver. Polya claims teachers should pose these
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- Communication and Collaboration - The Partnership for 21st Century Skills
This page details the communication and collaboration skills framework from P21, and links to additional resources: Web Index for Communication Resources (an online index of many communication related topics and resources), Engauge overview of communication
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- Compare It! - Anne Moncure Elementary, Stafford, VA
Interactive quizzes designed to teach elementary school children about boolean operators greater than, less than, equal, and others using numbers, words, and objects.
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- Compound Interest to e and i - Don Cohen (The Mathman)
Graphing and exploring simple interest and compound interest. Examples of interest earned on one dollar at 6 percent compounded daily, monthly, quarterly, annually. Patterns, infinite sequence. Sample problems with some answers from Chapter 11 of Don
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- A comprehension tool for mathematics?: the Math Forum @ Drexel's Online Mentoring Guide - Renninger, Ray, Luft, and Newton
Two studies of the Math Forum's Online Mentoring Guide (OMG) address whether and how online comprehension tools might support mathematics learning. In Study 1, the culture of the preservice teachers' (PTs') mathematics classroom and their work with the
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- Computer Algebra Information Network (CAIN)
A server providing information about Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, set up by the European SAC (Symbolic and Algebraic Computation) Network. The site maintains bibliographies, supports electronic newsletters, and announces current conferences, software
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- Computer Art and Tessellations - Hans Kuiper
A site about tessellations (tiles, tessels or regular patterns), infinity pictures, optical art, Islamic art, optical illusions, auto stereograms, company logos, quilt patterns and palindromes. Figures, patterns, textures and wallpaper drawings inspired
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- The Computer Delusion - Todd Oppenheimer, The Atlantic Monthly magazine
A July 1997 article critical of the effects of the classroom use of computers.
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- Computer Science Unplugged - Tim Bell, Ian H. Witten, and Mike Fellows, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
A free collection of activities designed to teach the fundamentals of computer science without requiring a computer. Because they're independent of any particular hardware or software, Unplugged activities can be used anywhere, and the ideas they contain
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- Computer Software for Math Education - Math Forum
The Math Forum's page of suggested archives for downloading mathematics software.
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- Computer Solution Central
Shareware games for Windows machines and PDAs. Includes a free solitaire game, educational games focusing on addition and multiplication, and a date calculator.
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- Computing Technology for Math Excellence - Patricia Deubel
Computing Technology for Math Excellence (CT4ME) is devoted to resources for teaching and learning mathematics (K-12 and calculus) and the standards movement in education. Math resources include links to sites for basic skills mastery, problem solving
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- Compvter Romanvs (Natural Math) - Edward R. Hobbs
A Roman numeral calculator. "Caesar has proclaimed Compvter Romanvs to be the official calcvlator of the Roman Empire. Yov now have at yovr disposal the latest in high technology to assist in all manner of nvmerical problems. Yes, whether yov're bvilding
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