- Math Travels - Real World Math
An integrated simulation of U.S. travel for grades 4-12. Students develop reading, writing, math, social studies, and art skills by planning vacations across states, applying concepts of measurement, multiplication, division, decimals, and time. The site
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- Math-U-See - Steve Demme
Manipulatives, video instruction, and textbooks for the Math-U-See curriculum, which ranges from place value through precalculus. Download competency exams; read testimonials; participate in the Math-U-See discussion forum; follow Ethan Demme's blog;
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- Math Vantage - Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education, NE
Videotapes and print materials designed to bring middle level mathematics (grades 6-9) to life and to address the NCTM Standards (1989). Five units include: Patterns; Spatial Sense; Data Analysis; Proportional Reasoning; and Language of Mathematics.
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- Mathville - Courseware Solutions, Inc.
Award-winning educational math software for children ages 5-13, for Mac or Windows. Programs: Kidway (8 activities for grades K-2 with up to 10 levels of play each), Jungleway (20 math adventures for grades 1-3), Speedway (16 activities for grades 2-4),
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- Mathville - Dianne Eash, Project Director
Technolopolis is a website funded by the Technology Literacy Grant Consortium with the goal of consolidating resources to help teachers integrate technology into language arts and mathematics. Mathville links to standards; a teacher's math academy to
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- Math Web-Linked Lesson Plans (grades 1-6) - McGraw-Hill School Division
Web-linked activities and lesson plans related to chapter themes in McGraw-Hill's mathematics program Math in My World, providing directed explorations of Web sites, with student project sheets to print, and teacher answer keys.
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- A Math Website for Middle School Students - Joan Marie Brown; University of Michigan-Dearborn
A list of recommended math sites to visit, from About Today's Date to Welcome to Hotel Infinity, including suggestions for how to use them in the classroom. For grades 5-8.
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- Mathwire.com - Terry Kawas
Standards-based activities and worksheets that support a constructivist approach to learning mathematics. Browse resources by NCTM standard or math topic, which include enrichment topics, glyphs, instructional strategies, morning math routines, seasonal
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- Math with Ms. Evans - Jill Jacobs
For her YouTube channel of videos, Jacobs plays -- and dresses -- the part of fictional high school personalities in a math class that she teaches in front of a whiteboard. Each episode lasts about twelve minutes.
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- Math - Wonderopolis®
Each Wonder of the Day® includes several paragraphs' overview (Did you know?), modeling suggestions (Try it out!), a vocabulary list (Wonder Words), and other information to stimulate children's curiosity. Share your wonderments, questions, and answers
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- Math Worksheets Center
Thousands of teacher-made K-12 math worksheets, lessons, homework assignments, quizzes, and tip sheets. Browse by grade level or student age; each math topic links to an index of the remedial math worksheets that point up the skills needed to get to that
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- Mathworld - Matt Bowling
The author developed this math story to act as a structure for the California second grade math curriculum. He finds it to be a big motivator to kids who are not usually interested in math.
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- MathWorlds - SimCalc: Simulations for Calculus Learning
MathWorlds enables students to learn through exploration of animated worlds and dynamic graphs. The worlds present moving objects and characters in a variety of settings, such as elevators in a building or duckies on a pond. Manipulable graphs control
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- Maximizing & Minimizing the Area of Rectangles Given a Fixed Perimeter (SMILE) - Tim Amrein, Franklin Fine Arts Center
A lesson for grades 5-8 designed to teach students to analyze and solve problems in which rectangles with identical perimeters are compared to maximize or minimize area; collect data and search for patterns and generalizable relations; represent problem
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- Maximum Volume & Area with the Geometer's Sketchpad - David Purdy, Wisconsin Heights High School, Mazomanie, WI
Common in calculus and advanced algebra texts, these well-known optimization problems now appear in high school geometry texts as interesting explorations that integrate measurement, model building, polynomial functions and use of the graphing calculator.
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- Maze Design - Adrian Fisher
What's new in the maze world? The latest maze news, plus general maze information: Tessellations & Tiling Patterns; 1998 Dragon Maize Mazes; World's Best Mazes for families to visit; World Maze Database (all the mazes on Earth, country by country);
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- A McTrip Back In Time - Melanee Stearns; SCORE Mathematics
Students travel back to 1954 to a McDonald's Restaurant to see how prices have changed, adding and subtracting money with regrouping. It is assumed that they have had some prior experience with graphing. Aligned to the California State Standards. From
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- Mean, Median, Mode, etc. (SMILE) - Charlotte Goldwater, Kenwood Academy
A lesson for grades 4-12 designed to teach students to generate their own data and then analyze their information, teaching such concepts as mean, mode, and median; histogram; bar graph; probability; and circle graph. From the Probability and Statistics
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- Measurement (cup, pt, qt, gal) (SMILE) - JoAnn Campbell, Leslie Lewis School
A 5th grade lesson designed to teach students to rename measurements with cups, pints, quarts, and gallons, and to choose appropriate units of capacity. From the Geometry and Measurement section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by
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- Measurement of Objects Using Similar Triangles in The Plane (SMILE) - John Gabrielson, Chicago H. S. for Agri. Science
A high school geometry lesson designed to apply the use of similar triangles to a sight tool in order to measure the distance between or height of large objects such as buildings or trees. From the Geometry and Measurement section of a collection of almost
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- Measurement of Volume (SMILE) - Richard Murray, Gage Park High School
A lesson designed to teach students to measure the volume of a clear container; use a stop watch; and estimate the volume of a container using proportions. From the Geometry and Measurement section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons
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- Measurements: Inches (SMILE) - Joyce McCoy, Spencer Math and Science Academy
A lesson for the primary grades designed to teach students to solve problems involving measurement using information taken from various items measured. Students measure to the nearest inch, identify the length and width of rectangles, write simple addition
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- Measurements In The Metric System (SMILE) - Christine Fair, Farragut Career Academy
A 3rd grade lesson designed to teach students to estimate and then measure to the nearest inch and centimeter. From the Geometry and Measurement section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics Initiative for
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- Measurement - What Is It? (SMILE) - Claudy E. Chapman, Hartigan School
A lesson designed to teach students practical reasons for measurement; the use of various tools for measurement; how and why those tools might be chosen and/or designed; and the need for uniformity and agreement on definitions of measurement. From the
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- Measuring for Cookies (SMILE) - Sally J. Hill, Roberto Clemente Community Academy
A lesson designed to teach students to measure ingredients using standard and metric measuring utensils; read envelope contents and follow directions in sequential order; and make a batch of chocolate chip cookies. From the Practical and Applied Math
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- Measuring in Inches and Centimeters (SMILE) - Debra Thomas, Douglass Math and Science Academy
A 6th grade lesson designed to teach students how to measure in inches and centimeters. From the Geometry and Measurement section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement.
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- Measuring Mixed Numbers (SMILE) - Karen Trout, Sumner Math and Science Academy
A lesson for grade 5 designed to teach students the need and everyday use of mixed numbers; to measure different lengths to the nearest fraction of an inch; to review equivalent values of fractions; how to come up with the common denominator and why;
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- Media4Math
Free algebra and geometry videos, PowerPoint presentations, Promethean Flipcharts, critical thinking activities, worked-out examples, and other media resources. An initiative of Emmy award-winner Edward de Leon, executive producer of "Greatest Inventions
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- Memory Joggers
An aide to learning multiplication and division facts, using multiple learning modalities including seeing, hearing, speaking, drawing, and moving. Site includes description of the product, a sample lesson, description of the teachers' package, and ordering
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- Meteorology: Does Weather Happen Randomly? - Richard Levine, Tefft Middle School, Streamwood, IL
Does weather happen randomly or are there patterns that can be recognized? If there are patterns, what are they and how can we use them? Scientific skills involved are: collecting, recording and analyzing data; thinking creatively and critically, and
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- A Method of Front-End Arithmetic (SMILE) - Eddie Newton, Carver Area High School
A lesson for grades 3-12 designed to teach students to transfer computational fatigue from the most significant to the least significant columns; eliminate carry-overs and their errors; and use one or more of the fundamental laws of commutation, association
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- Metrics Matter - ThinkQuest Junior
A simple introduction to the metric system, starting with a basic explanation of how the metric system works. Read about the metric system in relation to other methods of measuring, and learn how to measure time, length, volume, mass, and temperature.
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- Metric System: a WebQuest for 7-10 grade Science - Deborah L. Folis
A project that covers the history of the metric system, symbols, prefixes, and unit conversions. Comparisons are made using the history of the U.S. System and the Metric System. Common measurements and units used in Physics are also found, and a better
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- Michele's Math
Review and tips about addition, subtraction, multiplication, and place value.
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- Microsoft in Education - Microsoft Corporation
Organized into K-12 education, higher education, academic products and pricing, and education resellers and business partners. Math, Economics, and Science Lessons for using Office in the classroom use Word, Excel, Power Point, and Internet Explorer to
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- Middle-School Math Through Applications Project (MMAP) - Institute for Research on Learning (IRL)
Developers of curriculum materials and software designed to make math relevant, accessible and successful for middle-school students. While working on real-world multidisciplinary design problems, students grapple with mathematics from basic skills to
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- Mike's Math Club - The Milken Family Foundation
A curriculum enrichment program, Mike's Math Club provides "handy hints" that promote mastery of such basics as double-digit multiplication, and math games that show elementary school students how to use logic and deductive reasoning to create strategies
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- Millenium Mix-up? - Lesson Ideas: Math; Teachnet.Com
1999, 2000, 2001... A new century; a new millennium. But have you thought about when exactly this "next millennium"? Here's the lowdown.
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- Milliken Publishing
K-12 instructional books and software for home or school use, in several subject areas including math. "Math Sequences" software demo for Windows is available on the web. Software may be purchased on the web, and book dealers are listed by town within
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- Min-Max Temperatures (MSTE) - John Meseke; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Students use the predicted minimum and maximum temperatures for various cities throughout the U.S. to calculate averages.
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- The Mint - The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Learn about starting your own business, saving and investing, government spending, making a budget, learning and earning (the financial rewards of finishing school), and your role in the economy. Lesson plans for parents and teachers include Financial
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- Mirrors (Geometry and the Imagination) - Conway, Doyle, Gilman, Thurston; The Geometry Center
How do you hold two mirrors so as to get an integral number of images of yourself? Discuss the handedness of the images. Set up two mirrors so as to make perfect kaleidoscopic patterns. How can you use them to make a snowflake?...
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- Mission: Critical - San Jose State University, California
A self-paced interactive tutorial for critical thinking. Introduce your students to the basic concepts of logic. Immediate reinforcement to a series of increasingly complex exercises is provided after each right or wrong answer.
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- Mission: Possible (SMILE) - Mary Terhune, Rachel Carson School
A lesson for grades 5-8, designed to teach students to convert scaled directions in inches to actual measurements in feet; correctly measure distances on an outdoor path; and enlarge a section of a map 5:1. From the Practical and Applied Math section
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- Miss Maggie's Earth Adventures - Kathy Smith
An animated site for students that offers free curriculum material for teachers. Math activities are based on the concepts in the animation and help students see the relevance of math in daily lives and in making important decisions. Stories suggest
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- Mixture Problems (SMILE) - Alphonso Kennedy, Lindblom Tech. High School
A lesson for grade 9 designed to teach students to write an equation and solve mixture problems. From the Practical and Applied Math section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement.
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- M&Ms: Line Plots and Graphing - Deanna Lehar; SCORE Mathematics
Using small individual bags of M&Ms, students do activities including estimating, sorting, graphing, mean, median, mode, and averaging. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators SCORE Mathematics Lessons.
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- Mobius - Paul Doherty
A Mobius strip is a band of paper that's deceptively simple in its appearance and exceptionally twisted in its properties. This activity is organized into an introduction, materials required, warming up, "what's going on?" and tools for further study,
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- Modeling Permutation Group (SMILE) - Mary Margaret Nee, Von Stueben Science Center
A lesson designed to teach students to construct equilateral triangles on cardboard; develop the transformation concept with a one to one correspondence; generate the rotation and reflection table; and deduce from the model the abstract axioms of a group.
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- Modern Math - Taoufik Nadji, Malek Physix Inc.
Mr. Taoufik Nadji's pre-calculus students at Interlochen Arts Academy introduce modern mathematical topics: fair division (methods: divider-chooser, lone divider, lone chooser, last diminsher, markers, sealed bids); graph theory (applications, terms,
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