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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 ...more>> 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 ...more>> Math Seven and Eight - Jeff LeMieux Oak Harbor (WA) teacher Jeff LeMieux' hyperlinked lesson plans and problems for his seventh and eighth graders, who use Glencoe's Mathematics Applications and Connections textbook. Also, links to Mr. LeMieux' old lessons and lessons at Microsoft Encarta ...more>> Maximize Volume of a Box - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about maximizing the volume of a box, such as "Find the formula for the greatest volume box you can make from a sheet of cardboard with different-sized corners cut out of it." ...more>> Maximizing Cylinder Volume - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about maximizing the volume of a cylinder, such as "We are excited to unveil a new feature this month, Site Map.Find the largest possible volume of a right circular cylinder that is inscribed in a sphere of radius r." ...more>> Mean, Median, Mode, Range - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about mean, median, mode, and range, such as "When is it appropriate to use the arithmetic mean, and when the geometric mean?" ...more>> The Means - Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Alexander Bogomolny Two similar and often-confused problems, the difference between them not immediately obvious, showing that depending on the circumstances, to determine the average speed of motion, computations based on the same basic formula (S = D/T) may have to follow ...more>> Measuring with Two Containers - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about using two different containers to measure out a third quantity, such as "How can you measure 7 liters using only 4-liter and 9-liter pails?" ...more>> Medicine and Mathematics - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about medicine and mathematics, such as "How do doctors use math?" ...more>> Metacognition (Learning and Mathematics) - Alan Schoenfeld; Math Forum In his 1987 book, Cognitive science and mathematics education, Schoenfeld wrote a chapter called "What's all the fuss about metacognition?" in response to a challenge from mathematicians (among them Joe Crosswhite, Henry Pollak, Anna Henderson, and Steve ...more>> Meters Squared or Square Meters? - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about the difference between saying "units squared" and "square units," such as "What is the difference between 10 square miles and 10 miles square?" ...more>> Metric Measurements - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question Tables of metric measurements for length, volume, mass, and weight, with equivalences, prefixes, and abbreviations. ...more>> 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 ...more>> Microsoft Math Partnership Through partnerships with eight area school districts and the Puget Sound Educational Service District, the Microsoft Math Partnership (MMP) provides support to schools to help students become critical thinkers and proficient in mathematical skills and ...more>> 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 ...more>> A Million/Billion Seconds - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about millions and billions of seconds, such as "What is a million seconds in weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds?" and "How can I work out the number of seconds since 1980, taking leap years into account?" ...more>> Mixture Problems - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about mixture problems, such as "How many liters of a 14 percent alcohol solution must be mixed with 20 liters of a 50 percent alcohol solution to get a 20 percent alcohol solution?" ...more>> Monkeys Dividing Coconuts - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about monkeys dividing coconuts, such as "A monkey divides a pile of coconuts into three, tosses the extra one, and takes his share...." ...more>> MOTIVATE - Univ. of Cambridge, UK MOTIVATE is a project incorporating a series of videoconferences, run by the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge. The objectives of MOTIVATE are: to enrich the mathematical experience of school students, to broaden their mathematical horizons, ...more>> Mr. Pitonyak's Pyramid Puzzle - John S. Pitonyak A webquest in which students are divided into construction teams that research the cost of building a pyramid, explore actual pyramids through online exhibits, and submit calculations that they would use to build their pyramid. The site includes instructions, ...more>> Multiplying by Zero - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about multiplying by zero, such as why zero turns other numbers that clearly have a greater value to zero when multiplied? ...more>> 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 ...more>> Music and Mathematics - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about music and mathematics, and pitches, tones, and musical scales, in particular ...more>> Negative Exponents - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about negative exponents, from simplifying nested negative exponents to whether multiplying by 10 to the negative 3rd power is the same as dividing by 10 to the positive 3rd power. ...more>> 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 ...more>> Number Facts - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A list of sites with facts, curiosities, trivia, and other information about individual numbers. ...more>> Number Sentences - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about number sentences and other puzzles involving order of operations, such as Four 4's and making 24. ...more>> Odds vs. Probability - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about odds and probability, such as gambling odds, probabilities in games of chance, and the difference between the terms "odds" and "probability." ...more>> Online Catalog: Math - Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Publishers of math activity and skill-building books: practice for basic math concepts and extensions into real-world situations. Activity cards, daily problem solving, word problems and more. ...more>> 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 ...more>> Online Lessons Using Streaming Video - Your Other Teacher.com Tutoring via streaming video and online tutors (using whiteboards). Free samples available. The math section includes arithmetic, pre-algebra, factoring for algebra students, algebra 1 and 2, word problems, CAHSEE (California High School Exit Exam), introduction ...more>> Online Math Applications - Leung, Jiang, Jiang, Chiu, Klopfer, Chiu; ThinkQuest Junior Activities, examples, problems, and online quizzes about math applied to real world situations in investing (a stock market simulation game), music (classical MIDI files), history (biographies and anecdotes), science (astronomy, computers, 'math in the ...more>> 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 ...more>> Order of Operations - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about order of operations, such as "What is PEMDAS?" and the place of factorials in arithmetic operations. ...more>> Ostrich Llama Count - Examining Solution Methods - Suzanne Alejandre Activity, alignments, directions, extensions, and activity sheets that detail five ways to solve the Problem of the Week (PoW) "Ostrich Llama Count." Originally published in the March, 2013, issue of the CMC ComMuniCator, journal of the California Mathematics ...more>> Pattern Based Reason - Alan Selby This book surveys rule and pattern based thought in daily life, society, science and technology. The first chapters show how reliable implication rules can be employed one at a time or one after another to arrive at conclusions. The middle chapters describe ...more>> PBS Mathline: Math at the Movies Math concepts, challenges, and more, from the movies. For kids: solve puzzles from the movies; explore movie math concepts; and learn about a movie career involving math. Teachers, there are teaching and assessment tips here as well, not directly connected ...more>> Percentage Increase/Decrease - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about percentage increase and decrease, such as "Why doesn't a decrease of 15%, followed by an increase of 15%, get you back to where you started?" and "If I increase an initial amount by P percent, by what percentage ...more>> Perplexus - flooble A large archive of mathematically inclined puzzles and problems displayed by category. Includes logic, number theory, geometry, probability and other problems. All are rated by difficulty and quality and discussed in depth by visitors. Most with solutions. ...more>> Peter Ash's Thoughts on Math and Education - Peter Ash Musings on doing and teaching mathematics, book reviews, and math problems both elementary and advanced from the creator of Cambridge Math Learning. Blog posts, which date back to August of 2007, include "Very Proper Fractions"; "Physical Models for Non-Euclidean ...more>> Piecewise Functions - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about piecewise functions, such as how to graph them and how to determine the values of parameters that make a particular piecewise function continuous and differentiable. ...more>> Place Value - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about place value, such as how to write a decimal from words such as hundreds and hundredths. ...more>> Place-Value: Problem-Solving and Written Assessment Using Digit-Correspondence Tasks - Ross, Sunflower This study examined the effects of researcher-developed lessons on students' understanding of two- and three-digit numeration. Digit-correspondence tasks, often used for individual interview assessment of place value understanding, were adapted to be ...more>> Poetry and Mathematics - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of sites with mathematical poetry, including limericks. ...more>> Poker Probabilities - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about poker probabilities, such as "In a standard deck of cards, how many different ways are there to get a straight, a flush, a straight flush, one pair, or two pairs?" ...more>> Polygon Diagonals - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about polygon diagonals, such as "How many diagonals can be drawn for a polygon with n sides?" ...more>> Positive/Negative Integer Rules - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about positive and negative integer rules, such as "When do two negative numbers equal a positive?" ...more>> Primality Testing - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question A selection of answers to questions about primality testing, from "How does the Sieve of Eratosthenes work?" to "Is there an algorithm to determine whether a very large number is prime?" ...more>> Problem Solving in Mathematics - Jim Wilson; Univ. of Georgia Problems in algebra, geometry, conversion, cryptarithm, "mean," trigonometry, and a mixture of all, many with comments and solutions, from a course given in the Dept. of Mathematics Education at the University of Georgia. The site also provides links ...more>> Problem Solving Island - Samuel A. Rebelsky Challenging open-ended word problems on the topics of games, such as Blockade, Finger Multiplication, and The Word Pyramid; puzzles such as Error Correction, Error Detection, The Fake Coin, Friday the 13th, and Leap Birthdays; and problems based on figures, ...more>>

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