- Connect-ME - Faculty of Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Connect-M(athematics)E(ducators) supports early-career elementary teachers with resources made by teacher candidates and recent graduates of the Queen's P/J B.Ed. program: units, lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, and webquests. Also, a help line;
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- Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP)
"What is all this for, anyway?" COMAP helps answer that question. This non-profit organization offers multidisciplinary and academically rigorous curriculum materials and teacher development programs based on mathematical exploration of real-world problems.
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- Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) - Information Institute of Syracuse
A community of organizations, government agencies, corporations, and individuals in important leadership roles formed to further the development and use of telecommunications in K-12 education. Topics include legislative issues, conference participants
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- Constructivism and Education: A Shopper's Guide - Moses A. Boudourides
A brief review of the various streams of constructivism in studies of education, society, science and technology: philosophical, cybernetic, educational, and sociological. A paper presented at the International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics
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- Constructivism and the Five E's: The pH Factor - Miami Museum of Science
Constructivism is a philosophy about learning which proposes that learners need to build their own understanding of new ideas. To introduce the pH factor to students in a constructivist way, the Miami Museum of Science adapted their "Seven Es" (Excite,
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- Constructivism - Classroom Compass
The winter 1995 issue of Classroom Compass explores this theory of learning, including a brief literature summary and suggestions for the constructivist classroom. Two instructional activities (Which Container Holds the Most? for younger children and
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- Constructivism in mathematics education - what does it mean? - John and Annie Selden; The Math Forum
A presentation given at the Joint AMS/MAA Mathematics Meetings, January 1996, Orlando, Florida. Includes an annotated bibliography: Kinds of Constructivism.
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- Constructivism in the Classroom - Mathematics Education at the Math Forum
The Math Forum's suggested sites on constructivism in math education, including projects and Web resources (conference sessions, articles, reports). See also our page of selected Internet sites with a constructivist orientation or that offer readings
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- Content Knowledge: The McREL Standards Database - Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL)
A compendium of standards and benchmarks for K-12 education. Browse or search the standards, which treat subject areas from math and science to language arts and physical education (e.g. Mathematics Standards.)
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- Continued Fractions, Infinite Continued Fractions, and Iteration - Don Cohen, The Mathman
Ten different ways to solve a quadratic equation - an area of mathematics with applications to population increase, finding the square root of a number, chaos theory, and fractals. Sample problems from Chapter 8 (Solving Equations and Iteration) of Don
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- Conversion Page - Keith Hooker
Convert to and from U.S. fluid/dry and metric measures: quarts, cups, teaspoons, gallons, fluid ounces, tablespoons, liters, milliliters; pounds, ounces, grams, kilograms.
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- Conversion Program - Lawrence Goetz
A page that uses JavaScript to convert temperature between Fahrenheit and Celsius, length among inches, centimeters, feet, yards, meters, miles, and kilometers; weight among grams, ounces, pounds, and kilograms; and volume among fluid ounces, cups, pints,
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- The Converter Site - Alastair Hazell
A user friendly metric and imperial converter tool. Converts length, area,
weight, speed, temperature, time, energy, force, length, mass, power and
currency.
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- Converting Inches to Miles - NASA Lewis Learning Technologies Project
The scale on a road map is 1 inch = 250 miles, how many inches would represent 1250 miles? A detailed answer is provided. From NASA's 9th Grade Math Proficiency Test.
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- Converting Tons to Pounds - NASA Lewis Learning Technologies Project
A loaded moving van weighs 5 tons. How many pounds would 10 loaded moving vans weigh? A detailed answer is provided. From NASA's 9th Grade Math Proficiency Test.
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- Convert-me.com - Mariya Voznesenskaya and Sergey Gershtein
Online converter of areas, capacities and volumes, circular measures, computer storage, currencies, distances and lengths, energy and work, fuel consumption, power, pressure, speed, temperatures, time, torque, weights and masses. Convert-me.com offers
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- Cool Cosmos - Education and Public Outreach Group, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center and the SIRTF Science Center
To communicate the world of infrared astronomy to the public, the Cool Cosmos web site offers: classroom activities; infrared light lessons; infrared astronomy tutorial and timeline; multiwavelength astronomy; Ask an Astronomer; Cosmic Kids; image galleries,
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- coolmath.com: Cool Math - Karen
A searchable "amusement park of mathematics" for exploring math: functions, tessellations, polyhedra, limits, logs, fractals (with galleries), puzzles and problems, fun with numbers, how to succeed in math, careers in math. Also Cool Links for Math for
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- Cooperative Learning - Classroom Compass
The fall 1994 issue of Classroom Compass looks at some aspects of cooperative learning and ways it can be implemented in the classroom. Two instructional activities, one providing suggestions for elementary students (Pumpkin Exploration) and one for higher
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- Coping With Math Anxiety - B. Sidney Smith, Wendy Hageman Smith; Math Academy Online/Platonic Realms
A "mini-text" concerning the potentially disabling fear of math. This site defines math anxiety, discusses its social and educational roots, addresses some widespread myths about math and learning math, and deals with possible strategies for overcoming
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- Corn Curriculum - National Corn Growers Association
The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) has developed "Korn for Kids," which provides information related to corn, its diverse uses and impact on daily life. This page features the curriculum broken out by subject, including lessons for math and
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- Cosmeo - Discovery Education, Inc.
Homework help from the Discovery Channel. Browse math help by topic to watch math Flash videos (many with closed captioning), read articles, play "brain games," and more. Walk through your math problem with WebMath. Cosmeo's video library has more than
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- Council of Presidential Awardees in Mathematics (CPAM)
An organization whose members are recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics Teaching, a program established in 1983 by The White House and sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to identify outstanding science and
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- Countdown! - Objective Consulting Inc. (OCI)
Calculate the number of seconds between any two events: find out how long it will be until the millennium, until your birthday, or simply how long you have been alive. Answers are also expressed in days, hours, and minutes.
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- Counting Cards - Chris Taylor
A teaching aid that uses simple graphic designs on cards to represent different place values and numbers, from 1 up to one million, for teaching addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and place value concepts. The site offers a teachers guide,
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- Counting to Calculus: Mathematics - William K. Bradford Publishing Co.
Math software, printed supplements, workbooks, textbooks, posters, and teacher tools available for Elementary, Middle and Secondary math curriculum.
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- Count Madness Number Puzzles - James E. Garner
Cards with questions covering a wide range of subjects, each of which can be answered with a counting number. Answers are upside-down on the card. Examples and ordering information provided on site. Teacher's copy available.
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- Count On - Department for Education and Employment, UK
Activities and resources -- some simple and some fancy -- for parents, teachers, and students. Resources offers, among other things, guides: to mathematical misconceptions; for parents helping with homework; for promoters of math fairs; and for providers
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- Count Us In! - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Fifteen colorful counting and math games designed to help young children understand basic number concepts. Each game has directions and some have levels of difficulty to choose from. Number concepts include: Comparing and Classifying; Patterning; Counting;
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- Course Project Suggestions (Geometry and the Imagination) - Conway, Doyle, Gilman, Thurston; The Geometry Center
An list of suggestions for projects in geometry, topology, symmetry, making geometric solids, calendars, spherical and hyperbolic trigonometry, puzzles, models, etc. Projects were to be exhibited at the Geometry Fair at the end of the course.
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- CourseServer - Jud Cornish; Fairbanks Country Day School, San Diego, CA
A Web-hosted math problem generator that allows you to select from thousands of different problem types and automatically generate problem-and-answer worksheets in your browser that can be printed out. Choose from a list of courses from Grade 1 (beginning
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- Crafty Puzzles - James Cole, The Crafty Puzzles Company
A U.K. establishment selling wooden puzzles of all sorts: jigsaw puzzles, puzzle boxes, brain teasers, models, and functional pieces.
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- Creative Ideas from Ellison: Math - Ellison Educational Equipment Inc.
A list of creative math teaching ideas that use the Ellison Machine, which
cuts stock paper into a variety of shapes, letters, and numbers. Among the dozens of math ideas: What Comes Next Sequencing, Train Time, Mathematical Pie, Multiplication Fact
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- Crib Sheets - Parents Online
Guides to educational jargon, teaching methods, and "the strange things
children may bring back from school as homework." "Other crib sheets" for math, written for parents in the United Kingdom, offer explanations, examples, lesson plan sketches, and
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- Critical Evaluation Information - Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators, Discovery Channel School
With the advent of the World Wide Web and the huge amount of information it contains, students need to be able to evaluate a Web page for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usability. To help teachers get students started with this process,
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- Critical Issues in Mathematics (NCREL) - Pathways to School Improvement
Articles from the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL). The Significance of the NCTM Standards; Ensuring Equity and Excellence in Mathematics; Locating, Using, and Integrating Internet-Based Mathematics Materials; Providing Hands-On,
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- Critical Thinking Books and Software
Critical thinking books and software for home and classroom for use in mathematics, science, language arts, social studies, and more. Search for Content Area Mathematics from the classroom catalog or the home catalog.
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- Critic of Technology in Schools Faces Tough Audience - Pamela Mendels
From the New York Times column on Education, an April 1998 report on public opinion of the views of Todd Oppenheimer (author of "The Computer Delusion", which apperared in the Atlantic Monthly magazine), from a public meeting concerning technology in
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- CROC'Sciences: le net.magazine de la pédagogie des sciences - P. Lambert
Un mensuel faisant le tour des sites scientifiques d'intérêt
pédagogique, soit pour la construction d'un cours, soit pour les
élèves eux-mêmes. Chaque numéro comporte 6
catégories: Mathématiques,
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- Cross-Age Tutoring - Marah Fortson; Math Forum
An annotated bibliography: articles to help teachers deal with a classroom of learners with different abilities, different strengths and weaknesses, who are at different levels academically, behaviorally, and socially. The task of the teacher is a challenge,
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- CSMC: Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum
An NSF-funded project serving the K-12 educational community by focusing scholarly inquiry and professional development around issues of mathematics curriculum. Major areas of work include understanding the influence and potential of mathematics curriculum
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- The CTK Exchange - Interactive Math Miscellany and Puzzles, Alexander Bogomolny
A page devoted to questions and answers concerning Bogomolny's pages and math in general. Postings are approved by Bogomolny, and usually answered by him, although they may be answered by the general public as well. Posting topics vary all the way from
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- CTK Math Games for Kids - Interactive Math Miscellany and Puzzles, Alexander Bogomolny
This site presents a collection of Java-based interactive games and puzzles with mathematical contents and a few practice exercises disguised as games. Alexander Bogomolny, the site's author, writes, "There are a few games whose purpose is to allow for
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- Cube-It - Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC)
A math group activity: you will need fifty cubes per group. Gather sugar cubes, wooden cubes, units from Dienes blocks or Cusinaire rods, or any manipulative that has a cubical shape. Students will: estimate the dimensions of the largest cube that can
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- Cubeworld - Hank Gross
Cubeworld: an adventure in solid geometry. This book, with 21 illustrations by the author, is in the tradition of Edwin Abbott's classic Flatland and explores what might happen if the Earth were transformed into a cube. Gravity is different, rain falls
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- CUE (Computer-Using Educators) - CUE, Inc.
A non-profit California educational corporation that supports an active membership of more than 10,000 professionals from within and outside California, in schools, community colleges, colleges, universities, related institutions, and related fields.
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- Cuisenaire Math - ETA/Cuisenaire
From the makers of Cuisenaire Rods: Connecting Cuisenaire Rods, Cuisenaire Roddles (board games and puzzles that emphasize spatial reasoning skills), Cuisenaire Rods for the Overhead, Magnetic Cuisenaire Rods, and other manipulatives. Publications include
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- Curious and Useful Math - Clay Ford
Tricks and rules for quickly calculating certain types of math problems, many from the 1888 book The Carpenter's and Joiner's Pocket Companion. Multiplication Tricks; Division Tricks; Squaring Tricks; Can it Divide...?; Age Math; Bible Numbers; Box Tricks;
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- Curricula, Lessons, and Activities - ARTSEDGE
Annotated links on the Internet and additional offline resources highlighting lessons that interrelate the study of math with the arts. Organized into online curriculum, and related online resources of primary resources and indices.
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- Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM Standards, 1989) - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
Log in to access the original 1989 NCTM Standards for grades K-4, 5-8, and 9-12, one facet of the mathematics education community's response to the call for reform in the teaching and learning of mathematics, reflecting a consensus that all students need
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