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Internet Lessons - Susan Boone; GirlTECH '95, CRPC, RUSMP Lessons with an Internet component, developed for GirlTECH'95, a program funded by CRPC Rice University and the RUSMP. A Functional Housing Market asks students to search the Internet for housing prices and compare them to the area of a house, thus deriving a linear equation. The Internet Pizza Server lets students order pizzas, calculating their area and determine the better buy. With Pop Clock, students look at the census site, study data and make predictions on future populations. Find the mean and median speeds for racers in the INDY 500. Study rates and speeds by using the Real-Time Traffic Report. more>> Wikipedia Mathematics The free encyclopedia's entries on mathematics. A wiki is a collection of interlinked web pages, any of which can be visited and edited by anyone at any time. Many pages also available in a range of foreign languages. more>>

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100s and 1000s - Horsham Primary School; WimmeraNet An Internet project from Horsham, Victoria, Australia. Activities about 100s and 1000s, a Wimmera Global Classroom project coordinated by Ian Clough at Horsham 298 to recognize the beginning and end of a century and a millennium. Contributions are added ...more>> 100th Day of School Celebration - Loogootee Community Schools, Loogootee, Indiana A collection of interactive and other suggested classroom activities for celebrating the 100th day of school, for kids ages 8-14. A 100 E-Mail Messages Project invites your class to exchange e-mail worldwide, linking geography and language arts with a ...more>> 3-D Drawing and Geometry - Cathi Sanders A Math Forum Summer 1998 Institute project that uses examples of paintings, architecture, etc. to analyze different types of 3-D drawings, and teaches students how to create them. Careers in 3-D drawing that use these techniques, from architecture to ...more>> 42eXplore - Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson Web projects that offer definitions, activities, four good starting points, and many more links and resources for thematic topics such as charts and graphs; codes, ciphers and secret messages; fractals, tessellations, geometric shapes, and figures; number ...more>> Academic Employment Network (AEN) - Career Network Associates AEN lists available positions in colleges, primary and secondary educational institutions for faculty, staff, and administrative professionals, striving to bring you the most comprehensive listing of educational positions available throughout North America. ...more>> Activating EnergyNet (Handbook of Engaged Learning Projects) - Bonnie Kuhrt; Carl Sandburg Junior High School, Rolling Meadows, IL Junior high students design resources for other students involved in the EnergyNet data collection and interventions project and create Web pages for a district energy program. Site contains a summary, scenario, student pages, and useful Internet links, ...more>> AdventureOnline.com - Learning Outfitters, Inc. Interdisciplinary curricula that use the Web to connect students to expeditions from around the world, creating motivating, real-time materials for K-12 classrooms. Thematic content includes traditional and online lessons, games, quizzes, research stations, ...more>> Air Pollution: A Local and Global Problem - Karen Bardeen, Handbook of Engaged Learning Projects Students investigate the problem of air pollution in a given location and research possible solutions using a variety of tools (laboratory technology, Internet resources, multimedia technology, etc.). Mathematics goals include estimating, making, and ...more>> APlusStudent Online Learning Interactive math lessons with graphics, animation, and audio, based on Micromedia Flash technology. Teacher-designed, standards-based lessons. Parents can monitor the progress of their children. There is also homework help and an online gallery where ...more>> The Apple Learning Interchange - Apple Education Division An online resource for teaching, learning, research, and collaboration for educators interested in professional development, creating and sharing curriculum resources, and building a worldwide community of people committed to finding better ways to teach ...more>> Aunty Math - Angela Giglio Andrews; DuPage Children's Museum An every-other-week math challenge for grades K-3 from "Aunty Math." Each challenge is presented in the form of a story taken from the life of Aunty Math, her two nephews, and her niece. Students with questions or suggestions can e-mail Aunty Math directly, ...more>> Balanced Assessment in Mathematics - The Harvard Group; Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA A National Science Foundation project charged with developing new approaches to the assessment of mathematical competence in the elementary and secondary grades. This project has created a type of mathematics assessment that contrasts sharply with traditional ...more>> BestWebQuests.com/ - Tom March Tom March has designed and assessed WebQuests since 1995. He presents these top ten choices on the subject of mathematics: For the Love of the Game; Franchise; A Creative Encounter of the Numerical Kind; The Dilemma of the Dangerous Meat Loaf; The King ...more>> bit-player - Brian Hayes In Hayes' weblog, the author of the American Scientist Computing Science column elaborates on those articles, posts errata, records notes from conferences in progress, and explores other topics. The blog dates back to January, 2006, and includes articles ...more>> Boil, Boil, Toil and Trouble: The International Boiling Point Project - Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) People from all over the world boil water at different elevations and post data to discover which factor in the experiment (room temperature, elevation, volume of water, or heating device) has the greatest influence on boiling point. Anyone can boil water, ...more>> A Brilliant Madness: The story of Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Nash - PBS "The story of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by a descent into madness." Read a synopsis of the documentary, the film's transcript, primary sources such as John Nash's dissertation, his Nobel autobiography, and more. Based on the documentary, ...more>> Calculus Resources On-Line (Mathematics Archives) - University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) Links to resources on the Web for calculus projects, software vendors, publisher sites, articles and discussions, listings of other calculus resources. ...more>> Cast Your Vote! What's Your Opinion On Polling? - Annenberg Media An exhibit that explores well-known statistical concepts - random sampling, margin of error, and confidence - through activities where YOU play the pollster. Also included is a wealth of links to Web sites related to statistics. The exhibit is part of ...more>> CEISMC (Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing) - Georgia Institute of Technology CEISMC includes the Virtual Institute, which introduces teachers to technology, connects them to the Internet, encourages collaboration, and provides training and resources; and other programs for students and teachers covering: mentoring; career awareness; ...more>> Challenges - RSA Security Read about three cryptographic challenges: RSA Factoring Challenge, Secret-Key Challenge, and DES Challenge III. For the solution of these cryptographic challenges, RSA offers cash prizes as "... modest rewards for some of the hard work that goes into ...more>> Chips A Tally - Bayonne, NJ Board of Education - 5th Grade Teachers A collaborative math project to determine whether the number of chocolate chips in Chips Ahoy cookies is the same everywhere. Classes may submit data, and results will be posted November 30, 2000. Site includes: lesson plans that use statistics to analyze ...more>> 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 ...more>> 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 ...more>> class.com - Class.com, Inc Class.com provides distance education over the Internet, and offers a complete high school diploma from a fully accredited, university-based independent study high school. Math course listings include a math skill review, basic mathematics, beginning ...more>> Classification of Patterns - Brown-Herbst, Donnelly, Stratton, Anderson-Nielsen; The Geometry Center Materials about symmetry and classification of repeating patterns for students in grades 7-10 using wallpaper patterns, to be used as either an introduction or a review: a classroom-ready source of information. A final project created for Math 5337, Technology ...more>> 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 ...more>> CLEO: Collaborative Learning Environments On-line (TERC) - Eric Hilfer; Testbed for Telecollaboration Supports inquiry and collaboration in science and mathematics by publishing classroom investigations on the Web. It promotes the use of real data in the pursuit of research questions by giving students tools to share, analyze and discuss results, as well ...more>> 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 ...more>> 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. ...more>> Commons-Math: The Jakarta Mathematics Library - Phil Steitz, The Apache Software Foundation Commons Math is an open source Java library of lightweight, self-contained mathematics and statistics components. Download releases; post to the wiki; read the users guide and project documentation. ...more>> Concurrency Points in a Triangle - Brakalova, Johnson, Scalzitti, Thornberry; The Geometry Center An interactive Web-based exploration designed to facilitate the teaching of triangle concurrency, both as an integral part of a geometry curriculum and as enrichment material. These pages can be used by individual students as a computer exploration, as ...more>> Connecting Mathematics to Our Lives - De Orilla a Orilla Through bilingual discussions online, sister class partnerships, global data gathering, and other classroom collaborations at a distance, students explore how math is used in their families and communities; use math skills to investigate community or ...more>> Connecting Math to Our Lives A bilingual English-Spanish collaboration among an international group of classes. Students correspond with each other and create a series of projects investigating the uses of math in their lives and analyzing social issues in the world around them. ...more>> Continuing Studies and Corporate Education - University of Massachusetts Lowell The UMass Dartmouth and UMass Lowell Divisions of Continuing Education offer a selection of standard, full-credit university courses offered over the web. Students and faculty use the World Wide Web, email, chat and other Internet resources to review ...more>> 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 ...more>> A Creative Encounter of the Numerical Kind: A Webquest for Middle Grades Math Students - Alice Gabbard Students create their own numerals and base four number system for an alien civilization. This web quest features background and evaluation materials, links to state and national standards, and tips for teachers. ...more>> CYBERCHASE Online - Educational Broadcasting Corporation (PBS.org) Companion site to CYBERCHASE, PBS’s new animated math adventure series, intended to foster math literacy and problem-solving skills for kids ages 8-11. Play interactive games, crack challenging puzzles, download free stuff, check out the CYBERCHASE back ...more>> CyberStat - Rick Thomas An introductory statistics course for high school students who would like to get a background in basic statistical concepts and learn to apply them in a variety of curricular and vocational fields. The course will also prepare you to take the new AP Statistics ...more>> Dare to Fly with Class - New Brunswick Public School District A collaborative project designed to give students in grades 3-5 an opportunity to use patterns to create two different styles of paper airplanes and determine which type of paper airplane will fly the greatest distance and stay aloft the longest time. ...more>> Data Analysis Project: Honors Functions, Trigonometry, and Statistics - Harley, Hasskamp, O'Neil, Kent School Projects by students of Nils Ahbel at the Kent School in Connecticut. Using UCSMP's "Functions, Trigonometry and Statistics" textbook, students learned how to do a statistical analysis and communicate the results, finding information and data on the Internet. ...more>> The Data Library - Pat Daley Ongoing data-sharing projects, downloadable Excel spreadsheets, and other sources of data on the Web. Collaborative Projects - specific data collection projects that teachers and their students may become a part of; Data Sets that can be downloaded as ...more>> A Day at the Office (Global Citizen Project) - Georgia Perimeter College Your new boss assigns you to get on the Internet and find out as much as you can about data mining - who's doing it, why are they doing it, what benefits could the company receive if we did it, what software is available and the cost of the software, ...more>> Demos with Positive Impact - David R. Hill and Lila F. Roberts Demos with Positive Impact organizes effective math teaching tools. Submit your own demo, or browse the existing collection of physical demos, calculator demos, databased demos, browser-based demos, and software demos, each with statements of objectives, ...more>> Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) Learning materials for teachers and students include resources on algebra, advanced functions, and mathematical modeling; data sets used with the NCSSM textbook Contemporary Precalculus Through Applications; the AP Calculus Web Center; and Mathematics ...more>> A Difference - Darren Kuropatwa This Winnipeg pre-calculus teacher's blog serves to "... record and reflect on my personal evolution of how to integrate ... technologies into my teaching." Blog posts dating back March, 2005, include "Wikis As Assessment For Learning Tools" and "Great ...more>> DuPage Children's Museum - Wheaton, Illinois A hands-on, activity-driven museum near Chicago. At the museum, find the math in art and the art in science. On the Web explore Aunty Math: "Aunt Mathilda" posts a math challenge for elementary level students, in story form, drawn from her own interactions ...more>> Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) - Stanford University Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) Multimedia computer-based courses in a variety of subjects, including mathematics and physics, for bright students of all grades, offered through the Stanford Continuing Studies Program. EPGY also researches computer-based distance learning instruction ...more>> Education Resources for Oceanography and Earth Sciences - JPL Physical Oceanography DAAC A list of documents, data, and software for Education from NASA, UNESCO, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), etc. ...more>> EDU-SIG: Python in Education - Python Software Foundation An informal venue for comparing notes and discussing future possibilities for the Python programming language in education. The special interest group's origins trace to Guido van Rossum's pioneering Computer Programming for Everybody (CP4E), a grant ...more>> Electronic Emissary - Judi Harris; Univ. of Texas at Austin An Internet-based interpersonal resource online since February of 1993: a searchable database of experts and a way to request "matches" that helps teachers with access to the Internet locate other Internet account-holders who are experts in different ...more>>

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