Math Forum Lesson Plan Collections

This page offers good places to begin looking for collections of elementary-level lesson plans. For more sites, see our page of individual elementary-level lesson plans, or you can browse all lesson plans, or search the Forum's Internet Mathematics Library.

Exploring Data - Math Forum/USI

Pages for finding and displaying data sets, designed to support workshops on statistics given by the Math Forum for the Urban Systemic Initiative in Philadephia and San Diego. Included are: links by level to relevant statistics Standards (NCTM, California, Philadelphia); lesson plans for collecting, analyzing, and/or displaying data; sources of data sets, general information, courses, and statistics software on the Web; and an "Oceans of Data" page with a data set (diving records) to download, instructions for making a ClarisWorks graph, suggested questions for discussion, and related 'ocean links' (NOAA, SeaWifs, tide tables, etc.). more>>

Introduction to Fractions for Primary Students - Varnelle Moore

A Web unit designed to introduce young children (K-2) to beginning fraction concepts. Each lesson includes an interactive, manipulative-based project, technology, paper/pencil practice, and literature connections. Helpful links and teacher support extension ideas are also provided. more>>

Introduction to Geometry for Primary Students - Varnelle Moore

A Web unit designed to introduce young children (K-2) to beginning concepts in geometry: describing shapes, making patterns, building shapes, rotational symmetry, and line symmetry. Each lesson includes an interactive, manipulative-based project, technology, paper/pencil practice, and literature connections. Helpful links and teacher support extension ideas are also provided. more>>

Introduction to Measurement for Primary Students - Varnelle Moore

A Web unit designed to introduce young children (K-2) to beginning concepts in geometry: describing shapes, making patterns, building shapes, rotational symmetry, and line symmetry. Each lesson includes an interactive, manipulative-based project, technology, paper/pencil practice, and literature connections. Helpful links and teacher support extension ideas are also provided. more>>

A Tour of Fractions - Math Forum

The Web often seems more like a maze than an organized set of resources. To help you find what you need, the Math Forum presents a 'tour' of fractions, offering links to lessons, activities, and materials, questions and answers from Ask Dr. Math, and recommended software, grouped by level (elementary, middle school, high school). Material on fractals is included. more>>

A Tour of Measurement - Math Forum

A central resource for people teaching and learning about measurement. For teachers there are links to lessons and materials, questions and answers from Ask Dr. Math, and recommended software, grouped by level (elementary, middle school, high school). For students there are general reference materials and questions and answers from the Dr. Math archives. more>>

Other Online Collections of Lesson Plans

Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plans: Mathematics

K-12 lesson plans categorized by subject (Algebra, Applied Math, Arithmetic, Careers, Functions, Geometry, History, Measurement, Number Sense, Number Theory, Patterns, Probability, Process Skills, and Statistics), as well as links to internet sites featuring mathematics lessons. more>>

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)

A site for finding federally-supported educational resources. There are subject listings (including Mathematics) and a search engine, favorite sites (reviewed by users), more sites for students, comments and feedback forms, and the opportunity to be a FREE partner in developing Internet-based learning modules and communities. more>>

K-12 Teaching Materials (Mathematics Archives) - University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)

An extensive list of Internet sites with significant collections of materials that can be used in the teaching of mathematics at the K-12 level. Organized into categories: lesson plans, schools, software and other K-12 Internet math sites. more>>

Mathematics Lesson Plans: Math - Elementary (K-5) - Columbia Education Center (CEC)

K-5 math mini-lessons, listing author, grade level, subject, overview and purpose, objectives, materials needed, and activities and procedures, including materials for learning basic operations, using manipulatives, and studying fractions, place value, ratio, estimation, problem-solving, measurement, positive and negative numbers, and more. more>>

Mathematics Lessons Database (MSTE) - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

Search a database of Internet-based lessons in mathematics and programs related to teaching mathematics. (The database contains only lessons that use the Internet in some way. Because of this restriction, the database is small, but you can search a new database being created that searches Lessons made in graduate courses by mathematics teachers. more>>

Montessori Math Album - Shu-Chen Jenny Yen

Montessori-method lesson plans for children on numeration, the golden beads, arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), the stamp game, the bead frame, fractions, and geometry. Also from the same author: Language Development, Practical Life, and Sensorial-Motor Development activities. more>>

SMILE Program Mathematics Index - Science and Mathematics Initiatives for Learning Enhancement

Over 200 single-concept lesson plans in the following categories: Geometry and Measurement, Patterns and Logic, Probability and Statistics, Recreational and Creative Math, Practical and Applied Math, Arithmetic, Graphs and Visuals, Algebra and Trigonometry, and Miscellaneous. These lessons may be freely copied and used in a classroom but they remain the copyright property of the author. more>>

This is MegaMathematics! (MegaMath) - Nancy Casey; Los Alamos National Laboratory

The frontier of mathematics is an exciting place, where mathematicians experiment and play with creative and imaginative ideas, many of them accessible to young children; others (infinity is a good example) whose profound mathematical importance is not widely known or understood. MegaMath is a project of the Computer Research and Applications Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory intended to bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to elementary school classrooms so that young people and their teachers can think about them together. See also http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/. more>>

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