- 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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- Logicville
Anagram, chess, cryptarithm, cryptogram, doublet, logic, mathematical, magic word square, and tangram puzzles. Select a puzzle at random; solve the puzzle of the week. Interactive puzzles require Java.
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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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- Machines That Eat Your Words (MegaMath) - Nancy Casey; Los Alamos National Laboratory
An introduction to the concept of finite state machines, and how they are used to design computer systems that will recognize patterns. A finite state machine is an imaginary (or abstract) machine that is used to study and design systems that recognize
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- Magic Cards - Chunsheng Ban
You see four cards, each with eight numbers. Think of a number from 1 to 15; Check ALL the boxes below the cards that contain your number; Click on the button "What's My Number?"; Your number will be displayed on the screen. Based on an exercise in a
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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 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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- 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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- Mastering Mastermind - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
"Games offer wonderful playing fields for developing mathematical problem-solving skills. For Mathew Mitchell of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco, the preferred training ground is a classic game called Mastermind. "Students young
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- Math and Logic Contests - Mike Coulter
Contests for teams of students in each of grades 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Sample problems are provided onsite, along with current contest standings. Problems range from those most students should be able to solve independently to complex, multi-step problems
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- MathApplications - Cathleen V. Sanders
An interactive mathematics course offered via the Internet to students throughout the Hawaiian islands. Cathi Sanders, a teacher at Punahou School in Honolulu, teaches this course through ESchool, a pilot project of the Hawaii Department of Education
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- Math Becomes Way Cool - Keith Devlin (Devlin's Angle)
Over the past two or three years, books about mathematics and mathematicians have made their ways onto the bestseller lists, television series about mathematics have been aired, radio programs have carried stories about mathematics, and newspapers and
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- Math Craft - Cory Poole, administrator
A community "dedicated to the exploration of mathematically inspired art and architecture through projects, community submissions, and inspirational posts." Share images, videos, and other resources on the corkboard; post questions to the forum. The blog
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- Math Curriculum - Educational Explorers
A computer program for third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, and sixth grade students to study mathematics, language and geography skills. The program contains 200 problems and their answer in English and Spanish, some of which can be accessed free
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- Math Dance - Karl Schaffer and Erik Stern
The Dr. Schaffer & Mr. Stern Dance Ensemble has performed and conducted workshops on math dance in hundreds of schools and conferences since 1987. From that work, Co-Artistic Directors Karl Schaffer and Erik Stern wrote MathDance, a 132-page book with
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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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- Mathematical Entertainment - Eric Hiob, British Columbia Institute of Technology
Instructions for building a pinball table that demonstrates Pascal's Triangle. Also, notes on the Travelling Salesman Problem; Finding Areas Using the Monte Carlo Method; Important Numbers (pi and e); the Inside or Outside Problem; and the Roller Coaster
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- Mathematical Gems
Brief articles include Irrationality of the Square Root of 2; The Best Card Trick; Boltzmann in Berkeley; Four of a kind and two jokers; Mathematical Paint (on Gabriel's Horn); How Many Squares, Mr. Franklin? Goldbach's Proof of the Infinitude of Primes;
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- Mathematics Across the Curriculum (MATC) - Dartmouth College
An NSF-funded project which strives to integrate the study of mathematics into the whole curriculum. MATC Courses: Mathematics and the Humanities (Pattern, Chaos, Late Renaissance Thought and the New Universe, Math and Science Fiction, Geometry in Art
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- Mathematics - Alameda County Office of Education
Resources include 5th and 6th Grade CST Released Test Questions with Reasoning; FlashPapers and PDFs of the hundreds chart, multiplication table, "tell me fast" dots, ten frames template, and tips for memorizing multiplication; and Philip Gonsalves' PDF
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- Mathematics Computation and Problem Solving - RHL School
Worksheets for addition, subtraction, and multiplication. Every time you revisit or refresh one of these practice sheets, it's new. Teachers may copy single sheets for all their students, or give students similar but unique sets of examples. See also
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- Mathematics Education Partnership Program (MEPP) - National Security Agency (NSA)
Collected learning units/lesson plans for elementary school (arithmetic, data analysis, fractions, geometry, probability/patterns); middle school (pre-algebra, algebra/graphing/statistics, geometry, number theory, interdisciplinary); and high school (pre-algebra,
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- Mathematics Education Resources at Acadia's School of Education - David A. Reid, Acadia University
Learn how to design mathbags, make a fraction quilt set, and teach with algebra tiles. Activities include Folding Fractions, exploring systems of linear equations with Geometer's Sketchpad, and Deductive Euclidean Geometry, as well as two Java applets,
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- The Mathematics of the Fibonacci Series - Ron Knott
Patterns in the Fibonacci Numbers (Cycles, Factors); The Fibonacci Numbers in Pascal's Triangle (Why do the Diagonals sum to Fibonacci numbers? Another arrangement of Pascal's Triangle; Fibonacci's Rabbit Generations and Pascal's Triangle); The Fibonacci
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- Math Fun and Educational Gifts and Specials - 24Hours7Days
Purchase Clever Catch Balls, Fraction Bars, Decimal Squares, Math Chase, and other board games and manipulatives for practicing addition, algebra, decimals, division, fractions, money, multiplication, patterns, subtraction, and time.
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- Math Fun With Beanie Babies! - Amanda Blake, Heidi Gish, Amy Jackson, and Jessa Paschke
Find the next beanie baby in the pattern.
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- Math in Motion: Origami in the Classroom, K-8 - Barbara Pearl
Workshops and a book which use an interdisciplinary and manipulative-based approach to teaching mathematics, supporting the NCTM Standards and unfolding a positive attitude toward math and learning. Barbara Pearl developed "Math in Motion" while working
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- Math Is Power Math Puzzles - National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME)
Six Shockwave games. CodeBreaker requires using trial and error to deduce the correct string of colored circles, given feedback on position and quantity. In Space Tag, two players take turns moving on a grid, one of them attempting to occupy the other's
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- Math Kangaroo - Maria Omelanczuk
Math Kangaroo's international "not-selective competition" recognizes all students who participate in its 75 minute-long multiple choice test: "Each participant is seen as a winner and receives recognition and gifts on the test day in March." Open to any
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- Math Learning Center (MLC) - Gene Maier
A non-profit Oregon-based educational organization that develops and publishes curriculum materials, provides continuing education for teachers, consults with educational agencies, and provides opportunities for parents and others to become knowledgeable
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- mathlibs.org - Jessika Sobanski
Practice solving arithmetic word problems in "Mad Libs" format with Shockwave; explore fractions, probability, and rotation. Also, lessons in numbers, patterns, measurement, geometry, graphing, and probability.
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- The Mathman - Don Cohen
Materials for sale for K-12 students, teachers and parents; pre-calculus. Materials include Get Ready for Calculus (Calculus By and For Young People book, CD-ROM, worksheet book, videotapes and map) and Changing Shapes with Matrices. Patterns, visualization,
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- Math Olympiads for Elementary and Middle Schools
An international mathematics competition for elementary and middle school students. Individual students can take one exam each month from November to March. The site includes a few sample problems and information about ordering materials and joining the
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- Math Parent Handbook: A Guide to Helping Your Child Understand Mathematics - Patsy F. Kanter
Organized into sections such as Math in the Home; Mathland: The Grocery Store; and Math on the Go. Appendices include Parents and the Schools; What Should I Expect from a Math Program? and What We Can Do To Help Our Children Learn? With activities for
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- MathPARTNERS - Education Development Center, Inc.
MathPARTNERS is an EDC project funded by the National Science Foundation in Spring 1999 to develop mathematics tutoring materials in support of the America Counts Federal Work-Study Program. MathPARTNERS supports tutors of students from kindergarten through
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- Math - PhET Simulations - University of Colorado
Dozens of free interactive, research-based simulations of mathematical phenomena, from arithmetic, estimation, graphing lines, and Plinko probability, to projectile motion, wave on a string, Fourier (making waves), and blackbody spectrum. PhET's Java
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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 Planet
Hundreds of free video lessons, exercises, and examples to solve. Get help with pre-algebra, algebra, or geometry by posting questions to Math Planet's forums. See also the downloads of SAT and ACT sample tests. The Swedish non-profit organization behind
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- MathRack - MathRack, Inc.
"The original arithmetic rack," this manipulative resembles an abacus, but lacks place value columns. Also known as a Rekenrek, and originally developed by the Freudenthal Institute's Adrian Treffers.
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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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- MathResources247.com - Ampac Enterprises, LLC
Educational math toys, games, activities, and teaching supplies such as MathSafari, Hot Dots, Math Ad Libs, overheads, geoboards, algebra tiles, balances, and play money (realistic looking coins).
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- Maths & Numeracy Games - Keen2Learn
Increase understanding and build up speed in preparation for tests, SATs, 11+ and GCSE exams with Keen2Learn's maths and numeracy games on adding and counting, algebra, division and multiplication, fractions, numbers, percentage, shape and space, subtraction,
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- Maths Outdoors - Juliet Robertson
Blog posts from an education consultant "passionate about getting children outside." Posts on learning math outside with a kinesthetic emphasis, which date back to September, 2008, have included "Leaf Logic," "Investigating Right Angles with Sticks,"
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- Math Toys, Presented at NCCE and NECC - Adam Rabinowitz
Excel documents for math, in the following subjects: number sense (addition and subtraction, multiplication and division), patterns and geometry, and portions (fractions, decimals, perecnts).
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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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- MathWonders, LLC - Amy Clark-Wickham
Makers of ClockWise products, which draw on the image of the 12-hour analog clock to conceptually unite the decimal (10), duodecimal (12), and sexagesimal (60) patterns that emerge from nature and everyday experience. Purchase the ClockWise system book,
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- Michael Serra
From the author of Discovering Geometry: An Investigative Approach and Smart Moves: the Games and Puzzles series; videos such as DG Investigations and "How to Teach Math Anxiety"; articles and handouts on cooperative learning; speaking engagements and
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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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- Middle School Problem of the Week - Department of Mathematics, Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU)
Word problems in number patterns, algebra, geometry, and other topics. Read the solution to the most recent problem, and archives of previous problems and their answers.
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