- The Latin School of Chicago Middle School Problem of the Week - Tom Canright
Math and logic puzzles -- many original, some reproduced from sources such as NCTM journals -- with solutions presented in accompanying videos.
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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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- Literature and Mathematics - Math Forum, Teacher2Teacher FAQ
Answers to a frequently asked question: How can I teach mathematics using literature?
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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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- MAA Bookstore - Mathematical Association of America
A searchable list of books, with descriptions, in the following categories: Algebra; Analysis; Applied Mathematics; Calculus; Career Information; Computing and Computers; Elementary Models; Games, Puzzles, and Popular Exposition; Geometry and Topology;
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- Making of America Books - University of Michigan
This digital library of primary sources in American social history includes dozens of schoolbooks on arithmetic and other mathematical subjects that date to the antebellum period through reconstruction. Search or browse scanned graphics or transcribed
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- MathAction Online Services - Bill Page
Axiom is a general purpose Computer Algebra system. It defines a strongly typed, mathematically correct type hierarchy. It has a programming language and a built-in compiler. You can enter mathematics using LaTeX, Axiom commands, or Reduce commands, and
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- Math Around Us - Williams, Buccola, Moderators; KIDPROJ/KIDLINK
Students participating in the Math Around Us project will explore different ways to look at math in the real world. A new activity is introduced each month from October through May; you can register and participate in all or part of the project. Math
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- Math Crosswords - Cheryl Harrigan; SCORE Mathematics
Students create crossword puzzles that use the definitions of math terms as clues. The terms are the answers that go into the puzzle. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators SCORE Mathematics
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- Math - Don Potter
Links and resources include the 1878 publication First Lessons in Arithmetic, a family heirloom that this teacher at Odessa Christian School (Texas) has scanned chapter by chapter, complete with woodblock illustrations and "slate exercises." From the
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- Matheatre - Sadie Bowman and Marc Gutman
Blog of the performers starring in "Calculus: The Musical!" This comic "review" blend of sketch comedy, musical theatre, and lecture about the concepts and history of calculus emerged as a teaching tool from the classroom of Gutman, who "... found that
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- Mathematical Copyright - Wilfrid Hodges
What do you want from your publisher? This page links to a PDF document on aspects of copyright in mathematical publication, featuring an extensive checklist on what an author and a publisher might expect from each other, and how the law can help or hinder.
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- Mathematical Fiction - Alex Kasman
Want a book or story for the students in your math class? Interested in what our society thinks about mathematicians? This site is dedicated to compiling and reviewing works of fiction that involve mathematics or mathematicians. Search the list of math
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- The Mathematical Puzzles of Benjamin Banneker - John F. Mahoney
"I am able to reproduce, for the first time, three of Banneker's puzzles in his actual handwriting...." See those and more challenging colonial-era problems recovered by Mahoney, who teaches AP Statistics at a Washington, DC, high school named in honor
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- Mathematical Symbols in Unicode - Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Information Technology Services, Penn State University
Recommended browsers and fonts for Unicode; directions for inserting symbols, inserting formulas as images, and combining diacritics; charts for common math symbols and Greek letters; and other suggestions for mathematical notation on the web.
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- The Mathematical Tourist - Ivars Peterson
"Cool stuff" that Peterson, the Director of Publications and Communications at the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), encounters while "browsing the world of mathematics and computer science: new developments in math and its applications, old
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- Mathematical Words: Origins and Sources - John Aldrich
"Notes that describe in general terms the origins of the modern vocabulary of mathematics and the sources of information" on which Jeff Miller based his Earliest Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics. See, in particular, "When and whence for some English
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- Mathematics and Multimedia - Guillermo Bautista
Blog about mathematics, teaching, learning, and technology. Begun in October, 2009, it has included posts such as "GeoGebra Tutorial 4 - Graphs and Sliders"; "Screencasting Tutorial: Making a Math Video Lesson Using Camstudio"; "Derivative in Real Life
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- Mathematics and The Human Condition - Victor M. Selby
An enrichment supplement for high school math teachers that integrates math/science with
cultural evolution. This book describes and includes student produced essays connecting the
algebra 1, geometry, and algebra 2 curriculums with the history of
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- Mathematics as an Ill-Structured Discipline (Learning and Mathematics) - Lauren Resnick; Math Forum
In this paper, published in the 1988 book The teaching and assessing of mathematical problem solving, Lauren Resnick of the University of Pittsburgh proposes using everyday language in the classroom, so that students can gain a more conceptual, coherent,
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- Mathematics by Somos - Michael Somos
A mathematician at Cleveland State University and the originator of Somos Polynomials and the Somos Sequence. Brief discussions of these objects, as well as rational triangles and Pythagorean triples, may be found on this site along with links to resources
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- Mathematics Curriculum Notes - Alan Selby
A model for mathematics instruction from primary school to college. The first part describes Pattern Based Reason, its origins, benefits and limitations in many subjects. In mathematics education there are two barriers to comprehension to be lowered or
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- Mathematics Education - Peabody College of Education, Department of Teaching & Learning, Vanderbilt University
Read about research projects such as Computer Mini-Tools for Exploratory Data Analysis; Issues in Diversity and Equity: A Synthesis of Literature Relevant to Mathematics Classrooms which Emphasize Understanding; Developing and Sustaining Technology-Intensive
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- Mathematics for Parents Newsletters - Rich Lehrer, Lee Shumow, Jeff Horvath; Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER)
The Mathematics for Parents Newsletter program aims at informing parents about how their children think about mathematics. Seventeen newsletters describe the program, the way children think in general about mathematics, and homework and activity suggestions
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- Math in HTML (and CSS) - Jukka “Yucca” Korpela
Site discusses different ways of embedding mathematical expressions in web
pages.
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- The Math Life - Conquest, Drake, Rockmore
A 52-minute movie that shows the general public that the inside of the head of a mathematician is not such a scary place. There are interviews with Freeman Dyson, David Mumford, Ingrid Daubechies, Persi Diaconis, Michael Freedman, Fan Chung Graham, Kate
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- Math Mama Writes... - Sue VanHattum
The blog of a community college math teacher and "mama of a young son" interested in all levels of math learning -- but VanHattum "may throw in posts on parenting, kids' books, living simply, peace & justice, ..." Blog entries date back to March,
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- MathMastery - MathMastery.com
Play CyberChallenge Shockwave addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division games. Test Your Skills with placement exams (online or printable) on adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, fractions, and decimals. My Math Class offers Shockwave
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- MathMem - Jim Guinness, Wachusett Regional High School, Massachusetts
A list of mnemonics and similar memory aids that math teachers have found useful for helping students remember math conventions, algorithms, definitions, techniques, and formulas. "Most high school math teachers are familiar with using PEMDAS, FOIL, and
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- Math Mistakes in the News - Paul Cox
Recent news stories of mathematical interest, where people did not check their facts or were outright trying to deceive the public. Where available, you can click on the headline to read the whole story.
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- MathML and Math on the Web - Wolfram Research
An October 20-21, 2000 conference to present current research and applications
involving MathML, an XML application for describing mathematical notation
and capturing both its structure and its content. The primary goal of
MathML is to enable mathematics
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- The Math Place - Frank Sobierajski and Mickey Jo Sobierajski
Narrated PowerPoint presentations, problems, and video files of student solutions -- some with references to versions published in journals such as Mathematics Teacher and supporting documents such as Geometer's Sketchpad sketches: Newton's Square Root
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- Math Reasoning Inventory - Scholastic
An online formative assessment tool for the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) math domains of number and operations. Watch Math Reasoning Inventory (MRI) clips of face-to-face interviews of students as they reason and explain their strategies, demonstrate
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- Maths Busking
Maths Busking aims "to show the public the surprising and fascinating side of mathematics through the medium of street performance," stage performance, entertainment at educational/scientific events, performer training sessions, teacher development and
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- Maths Concept Maps - New Zealand Council for Educational Research
This is a series of framework statements that have been developed in significant areas of mathematics. They provide information about the key mathematical ideas involved, link to relevant ARB resources, and
suggest some ideas on the teaching and assessing
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- Math Solutions Newsletter - Marilyn Burns Education Associates
A free quarterly newsletter that provides up-to-date classroom activities and opportunities for year-round professional development, including five-day summer courses, as well as resources for K-8 teachers that model effective teaching and extend the
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- Math Teaching Videos - Colleen King
Macromedia Flash "videos" of problems being solved; students are invited to solve problems themselves following the given example, and then to make up and submit problems of their own. New videos appear each week. The goal of this program is to encourage
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- The Math Wizard - Susan Kennison
A book on teaching and learning math from the top down instead of the bottom up. Kennison contends that this approach is crucial to spreading numeracy, and catching those students who otherwise fall through the cracks into thinking they can't do math.
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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 Words, and Some Other Words, of Interest - Pat Ballew
Why do they call it a right angle? Where did the word hundred come from? A
list of over 120 mostly math words, and their origins.
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- Maxwell's Demon - Edmund Harriss
Harriss, a mathematician and artist of substitution tilings, tilings with a scaling symmetry like the Penrose Tiling, writes that "the major themes of this blog revolve around mathematics communication and mathematics art." His posts, which date back
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- The Most Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics - Eric Schechter
Errors in communication: teacher hostility, student shyness, bad handwriting, not reading directions, loss of invisible parentheses, terms lost inside an ellipsis; Algebra errors: sign errors, everything is additive, everything is commutative, undistributed
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- MSRI Journal - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
The new journalist-in-residence program at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley, California represents one effort to improve communication of mathematics. Peterson will spend the summer of 1999 there.
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- The National Numeracy Strategy - Department for Education and Employment, United Kingdom
The Standards Site: Numeracy. Frameworks for teaching mathematics from Reception through Year 7, key elements of the training materials that will support the U.K.'s Numeracy Strategy. Assessment in and planning the National Numeracy Strategy, schools
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- The Nature of Mathematics - Ouida B. Kinzey; Kodak
A description of how students created a mathematical slide show based on research projects. Colorado State Standard addressed: students develop number sense and use numbers and number relationships in problem-solving situations and communicate the reasoning
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- NCTM San Diego Sessions on Humanistic Math - Mathematics Education at the Math Forum
A selection of presentations from the 74th Annual NCTM Meeting, April 1996, San Diego, CA.
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- The Nuffield Foundation
Math teaching and learning resources include freely downloadable Free-standing Mathematics Activities (FSMAs) and Applying Mathematical Processes (AMP) activities, a mix of investigations and practical explorations. The Nuffield Foundation works to improve
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- NumberQuotes - Steve Duncan
Enter some digits, and get data containing that number to help put that figure in perspective -- or to just associate it with a fun factoid. Learn what cities have your number as a population, or about its purchasing power in dollars. Many five-digit
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- Numericana.com - Gérard P. Michon
The online companion of Numericana, this site contains excerpts from Michon's book, including the entire glossary of scientific terms. Browse an index with pithy summaries, browse by popularity, or search nearly two hundred of his "final answers" of readers'
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- Off The Hypotenuse - Glenn Kenyon
Kenyon started this blog in pursuit of "a good discussion of resources, ideas, and innovative ideas for teachers of Algebra." Humorous videos, comic strips, and posts, which date back to March of 2007, have included "Math Lessons learned from Karate,"
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