- Learning Games and Activities for K-12 - Creative Teaching Associates
Over 200 non-electronic learning games and activities for ages 4 through adult. Math products include flash cards, activity cards, board games, math chips, cards, books, cassettes for basic math facts drill, and many more. Products are also listed by
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- Learning ratios and proportions through scale drawings (SMILE) - Erwin Laskey, Eugene Field School
A lesson designed to teach students that a ratio is a comparison between two numbers; that a proportion is an equivalent relation between two ratios; and that scale drawings are ratios; so that they will be able to make a scale drawing of
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- Learning Wave Communications - Human Relations Media
Learning Wave is a producer of videos, CD-ROMs and other supplementary materials for math education including interactive games such as Absurd Math. Under the name HRM Video it has created programs such as middle school math mysteries, applications-based
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- Learn Math Fast - J.K. Mergens
Sample or purchase the five volumes that explain how a homeschooling parent taught her son. The LearnMathFastBooks.com site also offers free worksheets, lessons, homeschooling articles, and other resources.
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- LEARN NC: The North Carolina Teachers' Network - Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education
A collection of resources designed by experienced North Carolina educators for classroom teaching and learning and for professional development. Resources include: The Beacon, a monthly K-12 education journal, and its archives; the complete North Carolina
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- LearnZillion
A free learning platform that combines screencast video lessons, lesson commentaries, assessments, and progress reporting. Explore lessons by Common Core State Standard (CCSS) in math.
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- Les Mathématiques - Gilles G. Jobin, Projet Diderot
Web resources, activities, lessons and tutorials for secondary-level mathematics. Illustrated geometry theorems, with extensive use of the software package the Geometer's Sketchpad. Puzzles and games; algebra problems and adult education. Activités:
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- Les quatres opérations sur les nombres entiers - Gilles G. Jobin, Projet Diderot
An interactive course, with extensive use of the Geometer's Sketchpad. Sommaire: Introduction générale; Conseils techniques; Une définition des nombres entiers; L'addition; La soustraction; La multiplication; La division; La priorité
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- Lesson for Multiplying and Dividing Fractions with Post It Notes (SMILE) - Robert Foote, Disney Magnet School
A 7th grade lesson designed to teach students to measure various dimensions of rectangles to the nearest fraction of an inch, dividing fractions to predict the number of Postits needed to meet the length and width of the rectangles. From the Arithmetic
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- Lesson Plan For Part-Whole Meaning For Rational Numbers - Michele Gahala
Students use the Geometer's Sketchpad and work as a class to represent parts of a whole using fractional parts of a triangle, and to determine the relation among parts of a whole that are unequal-sized pieces.
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- Lesson Plans and Teaching Materials (The Geometry Junkyard) - David Eppstein, Theory Group, ICS, UC Irvine
An extensive annotated list of links to lesson plans that teach some real mathematics as students perform projects, and to auxiliary material.
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- Lesson Plan Search - Google
Free math lesson plans that make use of Google Earth, Google Calendar, Exploring Computational Thinking, and other products and projects of the search engine company: Telling time & Google Calendar; Human Dimensions Project; Median of Latitude Data;
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- Lesson Plans - edHelper.com
A searchable, annotated database of over 5,500 lesson plans from other sites, in a variety of subjects. Math lesson plans include addition, algebra, applied math, calculus, discrete math, probability, statistics, and more.
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- Lesson Plans for the Graphing Calculator - Institute for Technology in Mathematics, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ
Solutions of Radical equations; Extreme Values and Calculus; Parallel Lines and Properties of Slope; Safe Linking with the TI-82; Finding Perfect Numbers; Graphing Celsius and Fahrenheit. By teachers from northern New Jersey.
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- Lesson Plans: Mathematics - The Educator's Reference Desk
K-12 lesson plans categorized by subject (Algebra, Applied Math, Arithmetic, Careers, Functions, Geometry, History, Measurement, Number Sense, Number Theory, Patterns, Probability, Process Skills, and Statistics), as well as links to internet sites featuring
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- The Lesson Plans Page - Kyle Yamnitz, Univ. of Missouri
A searchable archive of over 300 lesson plans in math, science, social studies, music, art, language arts, etc., written by Yamnitz and other members of the University of Missouri. Lesson plans are separated by subject and grade level, and users can add
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- Lessons and Curriculum - MSTE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Browse lessons predominantly for middle and high school students, from the Office for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (MSTE) and from other sources.
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- Lesson Study in Japan - U.S. Science Education - Education Department, Mills College
Research into Japanese "lesson study," a process in which teachers cooperatively develop and critique new lessons. The site focuses on possible applications and challenges of lesson study to U.S. science and math education. Read related articles and
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- Let 'Em Roll™ Simulation - Matthew Carpenter
The goal of this activity is to demonstrate a real world situation where the probabilities of mutually exclusive and independent events occur. Each student is asked to calculate the experimental and theoretical probabilities of these events. Students
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- Let's Have a Field Day! (ITDC Webquest) - Noelle Kreider, Rialto Unified School District
A lesson plan in which sixth grade students are asked to plan a field day for their class. Some of the integrated skills include using an almanac to assist in decision making, using and interpreting weather sources, and reading and drawing maps, and basic
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- Let's Play Math! - Denise Gaskins
"As a homeschool mom who loves math, I want to help other homeschoolers see the variety and richness of the subject.... I hope this blog will be a place where we can play around with ideas about learning, teaching, and understanding math. (For me, it
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- Let's Take a Trip - G. Carney
Students use the Internet to find the distance from their home city to another city; decide how many miles they could travel in one day; find places of interest to visit along the way to their final destination; and describe in a daily journal the places
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- Lightspan - The Lightspan Partnership Inc.
The education portal and Internet presence of The Lightspan Partnership, whose primary concern is the use of technology in teaching, offering Lightspan PageOne, which allows teachers to use forms and templates to create a class resource page on the Web.
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- Linear Algebra - Jim Hartman, The College of Wooster
A course outline featuring a timeline of developments in linear algebra and notes on change of basis; a QuickTime movie illustrating linear transformation; definitions and "facts" (many of the theorems, lemmas and propositions that one encounters in a
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- Linear Equations (SMILE) - Beatrix U. Ennis, Senn Academy High School
A lesson designed to teach students to emulate the steps in solving linear equations by means of a manipulative; and to transfer the operations performed on the manipulatives to equation form. From the Algebra and Trigonometry section of a collection
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- Linear Regression (MSTE) - Amar Patel; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
A lesson that allows students to explore notions of the relations between two variables using a variety of problems and activities to aid learning and classroom discussion. Requires Excel 5.0 and Netscape (or equivalent). Includes a look at how the lesson
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- Line Graph Applet - James Brennan
An interactive applet: move a straight line and see the coefficients m and b of its equation.
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- LiveCube.com - Min Shih
A puzzle-building system: small colored cubes may be joined to create larger assemblies. Site includes puzzle models, discussion areas for puzzle designers and educators, and a catalog of puzzle components for purchase. Requires several plugins; files
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- Living Math! - Julie Brennan
A site dedicated to sharing resources for learning, exploring and enjoying math in a dynamic and holistic manner. The homeschooling author has "... found that math history and literature humanizes math, makes it come alive, and provides the context needed
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- Locating IIT Using Ordered Pairs (SMILE) - Diane Yvette Branch, Harold Washington Elementary School
A lesson designed to teach students to plot and locate ordered pairs in a coordinate plane; and to understand how to read and create a map. From the Graphs and Visuals section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics
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- Locating Points Using Cartesian Coordinates (SMILE) - Mercedes Rodriguez, Clemente Community Academy High School
A lesson designed to teach students to give the coordinates of a point; to plot a point given its coordinates; and to use the coordinate system in locating places on the map. From the Graphs and Visuals section of a collection of almost 200 single concept
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- Locating Rational Numbers On the Number Line (SMILE) - William Winebrenner, Dunbar Vocational School
A lesson designed to teach students about rational numbers using the number line; to write rational numbers as the ratio of two integers; to convert each rational number to a mixed number; and to divide any given length into n equal parts. From the Arithmetic
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- Logic and Reasoning (SMILE) - Pearline Scott, Greeley School
A lesson designed to teach students to use logic and reasoning strategies to classify blocks by their attributes; recognize one, two and three attribute differences; use Venn diagrams to form sets and show their intersection; and use the attribute blocks
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- Logic (SMILE) - M. Elaine Granger, Irvin C. Mollison
A lesson for grades 6-8 designed to use pattern puzzles to teach students to understand word problems by use of reasoning techniques; identify the validity or non-validity of the problems; discern which factors are needed for problem resolution; and use
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- The Long Island Consortium for Interconnected Learning (LICIL)
The Long Island Consortium for Interconnected Learning in Quantitative Disciplines is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary project aimed at improving how faculty teach and how students learn in mathematically based subjects. It combines change in modes
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- A Look at LOGO: MicroWorlds Pro - Jordan, Alex, Josh, Rex; ThinkQuest 2003
Sixth grade students Jordan, Alex, Jonah, and Rex draw on MicroWorlds Pro to learn to solve problems, use geometry, and think critically. Their site includes two lesson plans and several activities using MicroWorlds Pro, and some information on real turtles
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- Lower School LEGO Projects - The Blake School, Minneapolis/Hopkins/Wayzata, MN
LEGO Logo projects are integrated into the science and computer curriculum of the Blake School. Students in the second grade study levers, third graders study pulleys, fourth graders study gears, and fifth graders combine their previous studies into a
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- Lure of the Labyrinth - Learning Games to Go (LG2G)
In this free online adventure game, middle-school pre-algebra students rescue their pets, combat mysterious monsters, and embark on whimsical math missions to gain a better understanding of proportions, fractions, and ratios, variables and equations,
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- M2C: Maricopa Mathematics Consortium - Alan Jacobs, Project Director
A Consortium for creating mathematics programs in which students learn the knowledge, skills, principles, and applications they can use throughout life to become smarter employees, consumers, citizens, and learners; and to build a coalition of schools
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- Magic Mountain Coaster Computation - Stephanie Loopstra, Ed Avery; SCORE Mathematics
You are going to Magic Mountain. Everyone has a favorite roller coaster. Some are fast, or loopy, or crazy. You will discover the highest, and fastest coaster in Magic Mountain. Aligned to the California State Standards. An activity guide from the Energy
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- Make Math More - Make Math More, LLC.
Activities, lesson plans, extensions, teacher guides, student worksheets, and other materials created and sold by a Cleveland middle school teacher to engage his students by making math relevant to their lives: "Probability of Rock Paper Scissors"; "Creating
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- Making Ice Cream (SMILE) - Vickie Townsend, Crown Fine Arts Community Academy
A lesson for grades 5-8 designed to teach students to change a recipe to arrive at the amount of each ingredient needed to serve a given number of people; explore, observe, examine, measure and mix the ingredients provided; and convert metric units to
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- Making Polyhedra - Jan Garner
Exercises on constructing polyhedra. Introduction, Triangular Face Exercise, Regular Polyhedra. Also polyhedra links on the Web.
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- Making Predictions (SMILE) - Lucille Chambers, Lyman Trumbull School
A lesson designed to teach students at any level to classify and make predictions as they learn about ecology and plant life. From the Practical and Applied Math section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics
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- Mandelbrot Set and Applet - Peter Alfeld, University of Utah
The Mandelbrot set is the the set of all complex numbers z for which sequence defined by the iteration z(0) = z, z(n+1) = z(n)*z(n) + z, n=0,1,2, ... Its boundary exhibits complicated structure at all length scales from about 1 down to zero: it is a fractal.
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- Manipulating Formulae...Using Recipes To Understand (SMILE) - Nancy Ressler, Oakton School
A lesson for any grade level, designed to teach students to increase or decrease recipe amount; fill in missing data for any given situation; understand the importance of formula applications to everyday life; and develop a tentative understanding of
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- Maple Application Center - Waterloo Maple, Inc.
Software you can order to explore, share, and publish math on the Internet. Interactive media for exploring and exchanging mathematical ideas, with content on a variety of subjects at the high school, university, and graduate level. (There are high school
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- Maps (Geometry and the Imagination) - Conway, Doyle, Gilman, Thurston; The Geometry Center
A map in the plane is a collection of vertices and edges (possibly curved) joining the vertices such that if you cut along the edges the plane falls apart into polygons. These polygons are called the faces. A map on the sphere or any other surface is
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- Maps & Graphs - Lesson Ideas: Math; Teachnet.Com
Line Graphs of Weather Forecasts (students learn to interpret data; make and read a line graph, understand plotting points on an X-Y axis, and round numbers); Take a Road Trip (students integrate map reading, math, library research skills and writing).
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- Margo Lynn Mankus - Margo Lynn Mankus
Talks include Using Virtual Manipulatives on the Web to Develop Number Sense, Connecting Whole Number Arithmetic to Algebra: Hands-On/Number Sense Activities, and Learning About Nutrition Using the TI-73 and the Web. Also, online or downloadable classroom
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