- FUNdamentally MATH - Chip Publications
A commercial DOS/Windows program covering kindergarten through grade 12 math topics (Basic skills: Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, negative numbers; Fractions: ordinary and decimal; Middle school geometry; Exponents: powers, roots, number
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- Funding Educational Technology: Online Resources (NJ NIE) - New Jersey Networking Infrastructure in Education
The sites listed may not have information directly relating to obtaining funding, but all of the organizations do provide it. Links to sites in the following categories: government, foundation, business, and other, and a section of grants for school telecommunications
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- Funforms: a New Math Learning System - Joel S. Steinberg
An abacus- or slide-rule-like notation system, essentially binary (though a trinary system also exists). The web site includes a description of how to use it, and suggests that it might be taught to preschoolers as a game, or used to teach math concepts
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- Fun Math for Kids from Big Learning - Dr. Karen A. Cole
Real-world applications for elementary school kids--especially designed for parents and kids to explore together. Also great for classroom warm-up activities.
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- Fun with Fractals and the Platonic Solids - Gayla Chandler
A site rich with photographs and drawings of Sierpinski triangles and Platonic solids, made by hand, to inspire children of all ages to construct their own mathematical structures. See photographs, many set in marine environments, of dodecahedra, hexahedra
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- Fun with maths! - Stuff Media, U.K.
Puzzles for which you need shockwave installed on your computer. (You can download it from this site.) Number Square (add numbers and see them grow, smash them with a fist, make patterns); Think of a number between one and nine, multiply it by 5... will
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- Fun with Probability! The Probable Pen in the Cereal Box - Michael Cornell; College of Education, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A cooperative classroom project for grades K-9. Over a three-week period (24 April - 10 May 1996), project participants jointly calculated the expected value of a simple probability problem via experimentation. This joint effort among interested schools
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- Furbles - Alec McEachran
Furbles are engaging creatures intended to help youngsters engage with probability and statistics--to make concrete the connection between data and the representations of data. It may be used on an interactive whiteboard, and is flexible enough for teachers
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- Future of Math - Jamie Tubbs
This site supports the use of blogs, digital cameras, digital portfolios, discussion forums, spreadsheets, and other digital media to enhance student understanding of mathematics. Find suggestions on how to teach with journals, problem-solving, learning
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- Future School
Developer of educational software, online tutoring, and home schooling courses. Video tutorials. Sample lessons and ordering information available.
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- Gallery of Fractal Images - Paul Bourke
An experiment in a creating a virtual gallery based upon a minimal WWW environment that doesn't require Java, VRML, or server features such as a rendering engine or CGI programs. Upon entering the gallery, move forward by clicking near the upper center
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- Gamco Education Materials: Educational Software for K-12
Programs for Macintosh and Windows, with downloadable demo versions. Math programs include: Skillbuilders (perimeter, area, volume, whole numbers, fractions); Paws and Pyramids (perimeter/area/volume game); Word Problem Square Off Series; Touchdown Math
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- Gamelan - The Official Java Directory - EarthWeb, Inc.
Gamelan's primary mission is to serve as a central registry and directory of Java resources. Much like Yahoo!, Gamelan collects links to resources stored on other sites across the Web. However, unlike Yahoo!, Gamelan's mission is specific - Gamelan collects
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- A Game of Numbers - Joseph Michels
This puzzle game for Windows, Mac, or Linux requires math and logic skills to solve increasingly difficult challenges -- from basic math operations to divisibility, algebra, functions, and more. The built-in editor also lets players create their own levels,
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- gamepuzzles: for the joy of thinking - Kadon Enterprises, Inc.
Board games and the like: Combinatorial puzzles, tessellations, math manipulatives for all grades. Hands-on sets and some online exemplars of polyominoes, polyforms, color tilings. Source for classics like Archimedes' Square (Stomachion), Penrose tiles,
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- Games2Learn
Vendor of educational games, software, and activities for both parents and teachers. The site may be searched by category (Math, Spatial Learning, Science and Tech, etc.), grade level, game type, or personality profile (Planner, Peacekeeper, Producer,
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- Games for Math and Social Skills - Suzanne Alejandre
A collection of links to games for building math and social skills such as cooperation, collaboration, listening, teamwork, and give-and-take.
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- GAMES Group - The University of Alberta
GAMES is a research group for Game-playing, Analytical methods, Minimax search and Empirical Studies. It produces real-time programs for strategic game such as Amazons, Awari, Checkers, Chess, Domineering, Go, Hex, Lines of Action, Othello, Poker, RoShamBo,
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- Games on Graphs (MegaMath) - Nancy Casey; Los Alamos National Laboratory
Students use algebraic methods to explore, model, and describe patterns and functions involving numbers, shapes, data, and graphs in problem-solving situations and communicate the reasoning used in solving these problems. Graphs, stories and games provide
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- Gardner's Multiple Intelligences - Po-Ching Wang; the Key School
Howard Gardner, a Harvard psychologist, won a MacArthur Foundation genius grant in 1981. In his 1983 book Frames of Mind Gardner attacks the notion of generalized intelligence, identifying instead seven intelligences or areas of intellectual competence.
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- Gary Haynes - Gary Haynes
Course syllabi, lesson plans, homework, and objectives. Visit "Tangrams and Other Games" for an interactive tangram story and a Flash presentation on how to develop an understanding of functions through the use of the motion sensor.
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- Gasoline Sales - Reading a Chart - NASA Lewis Learning Technologies Project
This chart shows the actual and predicted gasoline sales for one year. During which month was there the greatest difference between the predicted and actual gasoline sales? A detailed answer is provided. From NASA's 9th Grade Math Proficiency Test.
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- Gas, Water, Electricity (Geometry and the Imagination) - Conway, Doyle, Gilman, Thurston; The Geometry Center
A diagram shows three houses, each connected to three utilities. Show that it is impossible to rearrange the connections so that they don't intersect each other. Could you do it if the earth were a not a sphere but some other surface?
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- Gecko Stone - John August
Tessellated, interlocking concrete pavers and molds. Like Escher's reptile, the tessellating shapes are modified hexagons.
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- GEM: Gateway to Educational Materials - National Library of Education (NLE)
A database for education links, intended to be more useful for teachers than a search engine. It records the resources of its consortium members (information on joining the consortium is available onsite). Users are able to: browse through lists organized
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- Gender, Diversities, and Technology Institute - Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC)
The Gender, Diversities & Technology Institute focuses on developing gender-healthy education and schools; technology and gender; the elimination of all forms of gendered violence; improving economic self-sufficiency for both women and men; and developing
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- Gender Equity in Education - Martha C. Phelps-Borrowman
Listing of gender equity sites; directory of science lesson plans.
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- Gender Issues: Articles and Research - Carolyn K., Hoagies' Gifted Education Page
Articles and reports on gender and equity in schools, in particular in the context of the education of gifted children.
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- General Tables of Units of Measurement - Office of Information Services, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Tables of metric units of measurement; tables of U.S. units of measurement; notes on British units of measurement; tables of units of length (international and survey), area (international and survey), capacity (dry and liquid volume measure), mass not
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- Gene's Corner: A Play on Numbers - Eugene Maier, Math Learning Center (MLC)
A series of mathematical vignettes that use visual models to illuminate elementary math topics. The scenes include: The Counting Numbers; Adding Counting Numbers; Subtracting Counting Numbers; Multiplying Counting Numbers; Dividing Counting Numbers; The
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- GeniusCorner - Dheeraj Khatter
Adaptive online learning platform for practicing math at your own pace. Freely access multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank math quizzes, organized by grades from pre-K through eighth; GeniusCorner keeps time, scores responses, and offers explanations.
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- GenkiMaths.com - Richard Graham
Popular classroom games used in Japan for teaching language skills, but "remixed" to be of use to math teachers.
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- Geoboards in the Classroom - Tom Scavo
A Web unit for teachers from Tom Scavo that offers suggestions for using geoboards to explore the length and area of two-dimensional geometric figures. The Introduction includes pages that describe materials needed, offer discussion and activities for
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- Geo-Calc - BaldGeeks
Macintosh shareware for calculating the area, perimeter, sides, angles, and other measures of two- and three-dimensional shapes such as ellipses, rectangles, triangles, trapeziums, parallelograms, polygons, prisms, cylinders, cones, pyramids, and spheres.
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- GEO Gateway - NASA, John C. Stennis Space Center
A portal to information about Geographical Information Systems, Global Positioning Systems, and remote sensing. Sections for teachers, students, and professionals, as well as a bare-bones facts section for everyone. A National Workforce Development Education
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- Geometer's Sketchpad: Introductory Lab - Mike Riedy
A beginning tutorial, with worksheets, for using GSP. Lab is organized into five parts: Preliminary Setup (formatting a disk, starting and quitting the Geometer's Sketchpad, making mistakes); Toolbox (introduction to the GSP tools: circle, select, point,
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- Geom-e-Tree - John Miller
Explore fractals with this tree-drawing app for iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Choose the number of branches, angle between branches, and the common ratio of the levels in the tree. See, in particular, the exercises and open questions on Geom-e-Tree for the
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- Geometric Arts - Ghee Beom "Quincy" Kim
A site dedicated to geometry and visual perception: patterns, fractals, structures, rotations, spirographs, optical arts, knots, and more. Some constructions include the artist's reflections, instructions, and links to related sites and interactive applets.
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- Geometric Formulas (Ask Dr. Math FAQ) - Math Forum
Formulas for two-dimensional figures: triangle (equilateral, isosceles, right, scalene); quadrilateral (general, square, rectangle, parallelogram, rhombus, trapezoid, kite, cyclic and cyclic-inscriptable); regular polygon; circle (arc, segment, sector);
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- Geometric Sculpture - Elias Wakan
Sculpture inspired by a love of geometric form.
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- GeometriX - Benko Computer Software Ltd., Turkey
Windows-based geometric drawing, presentation, and testing system for primary to high schools. Make worksheets using the commercial software, and your students can view them on their computers or on the web using the free viewer software. Trial version
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- geometry-announcements - Math Forum
A discussion group accessible as a Web-based discussion, a mailing list, or a Usenet newsgroup, for information about lectures, announcements, special meetings, and upcoming events concerning geometry. Read and search archived messages; and register to
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- Geometry Discussion Groups - Math Forum
A gateway to the archives of the Math Forum's online electronic community comprising eight geometry discussion groups for all those interested in geometry. Access current news or follow a link to threaded past discussions to browse or search the archive
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- Geometry Gallery of Imaginary Animals (TEAMS) - Jeannie Toshima; TEAMS Distance Learning, Los Angeles County Office of Education
Students choose geometry terms and create drawings of imaginary animals from those geometric shapes. In writing, they describe their appearances, behaviors, and habitats. They send their completed drawings and stories to Jeannie to include in her Geometry
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- geometry-institutes - Math Forum
A discussion group accessible as a Web-based discussion, a mailing list, or a Usenet newsgroup. Postings include planning for and information about geometry institutes held around the country. The Forum's teacher workshops hold discussions on this group
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- Geometry On the Sphere (Geometry and the Imagination) - Conway, Doyle, Gilman, Thurston; The Geometry Center
Great circles on the sphere are the analogs of straight lines in the plane. Such curves are often called geodesics. A spherical triangle is a region of the sphere bounded by three arcs of geodesics... Geometry on the surface of the sphere will come in
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- Geometry Playground - Exploratorium
An exhibit from San Francisco's Exploratorium. People-sized exhibits let you use your hands, brain, and body to play with physical demonstrations of geometry concepts. Exhibits fall under the categories of seeing, moving, and fitting things together,
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- geometry-pre-college - Math Forum
A discussion group accessible as a Web-based discussion, a mailing list, or a Usenet newsgroup, for discussions concerning school geometry curricula, teaching geometry, new software and texts, problems for students, and supplementary materials such as
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- Geometry through Art - Norman Shapiro
Lesson ideas, facilitation suggestions, lists of materials needed, and handouts to photocopy. Norman Shapiro focuses on the student as investigator, learning through doing, and using perception to stimulate the motivation for more developed concepts and
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- Geometry Turned On: Dynamic Software in Learning, Teaching, and Research - J. King and D. Schattschneider, Editors
This book contains twenty-six papers about aspects of dynamic software for geometry. The book does not contain software itself, but this site includes downloadable files for many of the papers in the book. For a discussion of what the book is about, see
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