- Monthly Labor Review Online - Bureau of Labor Statistics
A journal from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that publishes both public and private research into the labor force, the economy, employment, occupational injuries and illnesses, wages, prices, etc. Abstracts of and excerpts from current articles may
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- Moogie Math
Windows software designed to prepare students for the Ohio 4th and 9th Grade Mathematics Proficiency Test. Other states can also be accomodated (specifically, Texas, Florida, and Nevada). Downloadable and online demos. Includes ideas for funding resources
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- Mr. Bunker's Fathom Lessons - Mr. Bunker, Boston Latin School
Instructions, some illustrated, for using Fathom to graph and analyze data sets about the 1970 draft lottery, Major League Baseball batting leaders, Boston Latin School math teachers, and algebraic transformations. Also, see group projects from the class
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- Murderous Maths - Kjartan Poskitt et al.
Contents, descriptions of characters, updates, and "extra bits" for the books Murderous Maths; The Essential Arithmetricks; Desperate Measures; Do You Feel Lucky?; Vicious Circles and other Savage Shapes; The Phantom X; The Fiendish Angletron; The GCSE
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- Musing Mathematically - Nat Banting
Thoughts from a high school mathematics teacher on the teaching of mathematics, and the learning of mathematics. Posts, which date back to May, 2011, have included "Playing with Mean, Median & Mode," "Attaching a 'Why' to the 'How," "The Mathematics
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- NASA CONNECT - Dr. Thomas E. Pinelli, Distance Learning Officer, NASA LaRC Office of Education
An annual series of free integrated mathematics, science, and technology instructional distance learning programs for students in grades 5-8. Each program has three components: a 30-minute TV broadcastthat can be viewed live or taped for later use; an
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- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Strategic Enterprises: Office of Aero-Space Technology; Human Exploration and Development of Space; Earth Science; Space Science. In particular, see NASA's resources for educators and for students, formerly organized under their Spacelink project. Links
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- National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics (NLVM) - Cannon et al., Principal Investigators; Utah State University
Java applets and other virtual manipulatives cover mathematics appropriate to grades K-12, with a special emphasis on K-8. Browse by grade band or by math topic: number and operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, and data analysis and probability.
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- National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) - Republic of the Philippines
The statistics agency of the Republic of the Philippines. Tables, graphs, and articles about key socioeconomic information; catalogue of services and publications; press releases; and an explanation of concepts and methodologies for major indicators.
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- NationMaster.com - Luke Metcalfe
A website for generating graphs and correlations based on numerical data extracted from the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF, OECD, and other sources of indicators that
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- Net Investigations: Math - E-Learning Team, Montgomery County (MD) Public Schools
Classroom web-based activities designed to support the Maryland State Department of Education Core Learning Goals and to build student reading and writing literacy, data literacy, and critical thinking skills, along with links to information about the
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- NFL Stats & Research Articles - Roland Beech
In-depth statistical coverage and analysis of the National Football League (NFL). See player stats and ratings by position, and regular season team stats such as drive charts, play call by down, and red zone performance. "Classic" articles include correlation
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- Nils Ahbel - Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, MA
Access Ahbel's Blackboard courses as a guest to preview his teaching resources and download Excel files in algebra, functions, statistics, and trigonometry.
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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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- Number Loving - Laura Rees-Hughes and Sharon Derbyshire
Freely downloadable PDFs, Microsoft Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations, organized by UK key stages, strands, and topics. The Number Loving blog offers new approaches for teaching maths and tips for classroom makeovers. Posts, which date back
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- Numerical Integration: Accumulating Rates of Change - Geometry Center
The fundamental theorem of calculus tells us that if we know the rate of change of some quantity, then adding up (or integrating) the rate of change over some interval will give the total change in that quantity over the same interval. But often scientists
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- Occupational Outlook Handbook - U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Career information and statistics about many different jobs, such as mathematicians. Each outlook includes a description of the nature of the work, working conditions, number of people in a field and sources of employment, training, other qualifications,
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- Occupational Outlook Quarterly Online - U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
A journal about jobs and careers covering new, emerging, and unusual occupations, training opportunities, salary trends, results of new studies, etc. Includes summaries and excerpts from articles, with full text available for download in PDF format and
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- Oceanographic Data - National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
From An Introduction to Atmospheric and Oceanographic Datasets, a text or Instructional Aid (IA) that describes, in very general terms, the datasets most commonly used to study the atmosphere-ocean system, including observations from conventional meteorological
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- Online Ideas Maths Resources - James Bancroft
Problems in Microsoft Word, HTML, and JPG, organized into general resources; addition and subtraction; multiplication and division; numbers and the number system; fractions, decimals, percentages, ratio, and proportion; real life problems; measure and
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- Online Resources - Georgia Tech School of Math
Syllabi, course notes, problems, and Maple worksheets for single- and multi-variable calculus, linear algebra, statistics, and a Math for Management course (statistics, probability, sets, and some calculus). The site also contains sample exams for calculus
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- Open-Ended Math Problems - Gwenn Holtz and Mary Lee Malen, Levering School and the Franklin Institute
An eight-month slate of open-ended problems for middle school students to solve in preparation for standardized testing. The authors have composed and selected problems that lend themselves to multiple solution paths, and then organized them into three
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- Paper Pool (SMILE) - Barbara Williams, Cook Elementary School
A lesson designed to teach students to recognize rectangles whose sides have the same ratio; use the concept of common factor to find rectangles with the smallest
area having a given ratio of sides; practice organizing data and looking for patterns;
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- Paper Toss Shootout (SMILE) - Edwina R. Justice, Gunsaulus Scholastic Academy
A lesson for grade 8 designed to teach students to use class data to calculate percentages; participate in a group activity; relate this activity to NBA (National Basketball Association) stats; and calculate select percentages for NBA Finals data. From
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- Passy's World of Mathematics
Lesson outlines by this Australian-born math teacher include Venn diagram word problems, combining like terms, translate word equations, and isometric drawing and 3d cubes; PowerPoint presentations include traversable networks, sharing using ratios, real
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- Pearson Learning - Dale Seymour Publications
A leading publisher of educational materials, emphasizing math, science, and the arts. The site contains: an online catalog; math curricula include: CMP (the Connected Mathematics Project) and Investigations (Investigations in Number, Data, and Space,
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- Phenomenological Probability (SMILE) - Robert Foote, Disney Magnet School
A lesson for grades 6-8 designed to find the difference between theoretical and experimental probability in three different experiments: rolling dice, using marbles and a spinner, and through a card trick. From the Probability and Statistics section of
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- Pop Clock - Susan Boone
A lesson on data collection, problem solving, research skills, interpolation of data. Students review the Census Bureau's home page on the Internet and gather data regarding trends in population. They study these data and make predictions of future populations,
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- Population Ratios - Kelley Wilcox; SCORE Mathematics
An interdisciplinary project (mathematics, social studies) where students choose a county in the United States and, using ratios, convert the statistics into meaningful numbers. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California
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- Potent Problems - Institute for Studies in Educational Mathematics
A database of problems that deepen understanding of mathematics through multiple answers, approaches to an answer, interpretations, extensions, perspectives on a mathematical idea, layers of complexity, or algorithms. Potent problem content topics include
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- The Power of One - Robert Matthews, The New Scientist
Benford's law demands that around 30 per cent of the numbers in a given data set will start with a 1, 18 per cent with a 2, right down to just 4.6 per cent starting with a 9. This essay provides a mathematical history behind the counterintuitive law,
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- A Practical Guide to Wavelet Analysis - Christopher Torrence and Gilbert P. Compo
Read an introduction to wavelet analysis and Monte Carlo methods, or download it in PDF or PostScript format. Use an interactive wavelet plotting form to investigate sample time series or your own data. Download wavelet software in Fortran, IDL, or
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- Probability of Childhood Games (SMILE) - Robert Foote, Disney Magnet School
A lesson for grades 6-8 designed to explore the probability of several different events theoretically and experimentally using spinners and a Monopoly game board. From the Probability and Statistics section of a collection of almost 200 single concept
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- Probability (SMILE) - Ana Timbers, Stockton School
A lesson for grades 6-8 designed to teach students the relation between theoretical probability and experimental results as they draw marbles from a bag and record the results. From the Probability and Statistics section of a collection of almost 200
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- Probability (SMILE) - Laura Willis Moss, South Shore Community Academy
A lesson designed to teach students to derive a general formula for the probability of a given event when each possible outcome is equally likely. From the Probability and Statistics section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the
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- Probability (SMILE) - Sandy Reed, Robert Fulton School
A lesson for grades 5-8 designed to help students learn, discover, explore and make a table of the number of times a specific event can occur, considering the results of two types of events: repeated sampling with replacement (events are independent)
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- Problems with a Point - Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC)
A collection of problems designed to help students in grades 6-12 learn new mathematical ideas by building on old ones. Varying in difficulty and approaches, these problems are useful for teachers, students, parents, math clubs, home-schoolers, and others.
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- Productive Struggle
Group blog, with most contributions by secondary math and science teachers, that aims to "push teachers to learn in the same way that we push our students to learn" and "work together to make our struggles productive." Posts, which date back to March,
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- Project Interactivate - Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
Interactive middle school lessons on number and operations, geometry and measurement, functions and algebra, and probability and statistics. They feature: online activities (illustrative Java applets including: Venn diagrams; clock arithmetic; Pythagorean
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- Questionnaire Design and Surveys Sampling - Prof. Hossein Arsham; University of Baltimore
Course notes on basic statistical analyses of data from sample surveys, especially for marketing science.
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- Rainforest Realities - Furlano, Nelson, Rakes, Willis; Braceville Elementary School, Braceville, Illinois
A project for third and sixth graders, involving Internet research, data collection, and conservation efforts on behalf of the Brazilian rainforest. Site includes a summary of the project, scenario, sample student projects, and Internet reference links.
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- Raisin Cane - Rob Roy; SCORE Mathematics
California's San Joaquin Valley is the largest agricultural producing area in the world. Raisins are an important part of the valley's agriculture. This activity prompts students to estimate and count how many raisins come in a box and then chart the
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- Real World - Lesson Ideas: Math; Teachnet.Com
Activities: Buy Groceries; Plan Christmas Vacation; Credit Cards for Kids; Who's Average?; Carpet Your Classroom; Division from a Printer's Viewpoint.
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- Real World Math - Thomas J. Petra
Lessons that use Google Earth to teach math include Oil Spill Estimates and Scientific Notations; Iditarod Challenge and Typhoon Project; Four Color Map and Mazes & Labyrinths; Crop Circles and Fractal Measurement; Lunar Sports and Rockets. Each lesson
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- Recent Earthquake Teachable Moments - Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS)
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) is a university consortium sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), dedicated to the operations of scientific facilities for the acquisition, management, and distribution of freely available
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- Relativity - Brian K. Wegley; Glenbrook South High School, Glenview, IL
High-energy high school physics: an open-ended investigative study of relativity. Site contains a summary, scenario, student pages, and useful Internet links, as well as a list of standards addressed, and assessment rubrics. Part of the Handbook of Engaged
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- Resource Room (Math Central) - University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
French version: Centre de ressources. A service of Math Central that allows mathematics educators to share resources having to do with math teaching. Submissions are stored in a database that can be browsed by educational level and curriculum strand,
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- Resources for Spreadsheet Analysts - Thomas A. Grossman, University of San Francisco
Add-ins, templates, standalone software and resources that assist in building models, performing analysis, distributing models to other people, compliance, and managing spreadsheet information systems and spreadsheet model assets. Categories of resources
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- Retrosheet
Digitizing play-by-play accounts of Major League Baseball games from the past century through the present. Freely download event files, which detail "literally every play" in big league baseball; game logs; schedules; narratives, which provide text play-by-play
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- Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics - David M. Lane, Rice University
A comprehensive interactive resource for studying statistics, in four modules: HyperStat Online--an introductory-level hypertext statistics book, with links to other statistics resources on the Web; simulations/demonstrations--Java applets that display
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