Math + Standards + Internet

Presented by Linda Mills, Library Media SpecialistGreensburg Elementary

Schoollmills@venus.net

812-934-3844

Why use the Internet in Math?

• Changes the possibilities for math education • Enriches the nature of mathematics

education• Allows math to be studied in new ways• Helps to emphasize mathematical insight,

reasoning, and problem solving• Wealth of mathematical data available to

students and teachers• Opportunities to communicate insights and

comparisons with others around the world

Math Standards

• Indiana Academic Standards http://ideanet.doe.state.in.us/asap/standards/mathematics/math.html

• NCTM Standards http://standards.nctm.org/

• Electronic Examples of the Standards http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples

How to find Sites

• Math Organizations• Magazines• Books• Television, radio, newspapers• Portals• Conduct searches using search

engines or directories

Math Organizations

• Math Magazines• Indiana Mathematics Educators

http://www.indianamath.org/• National Council of Teacher of

Mathematics http://standards.nctm.org/

Other magazines to try

• Classroom Connect (800-638-1639) http://www.classroomconnect.com

• Learning and Leading with Technology (ISTE)

• MultiMedia Schools• Technology and Learning

However, most of your math magazines, news magazines, newspapers, etc. have numerous good sites to try.

These are technology magazines to try:

Books• The Internet Kids Yellow Pages by Jean Armour Polly, McGraw Hill, 2005.• Math Web Guide by Classroom Connect, 2003.• Surfin’ the Internet: Practical Ideas from A to Z

by Annette Lamb, Vision to Action, 203.• Yellow Pages by Classroom Connect, 2005.• Web Feet, Rockhill Pres, www.rockhillpress.com

These are just a sampling of books available to help you find things on the Web. Classroom Connect is an especially good publisher of educational sites on the Web. Check out their material by going to hpp://www.classroomconnect.com

Television, Radio, and Newspapers

• CNN (http://www.cnn.com)• CBS, NBC, ABC• Discovery Channel

http://dsc.discovery.com/ • USA Today http://www.usatoday.com

Central Sites for Math Educators

• Eisenhower National Math and Science Clearinghouse http://www.enc.org (no longer kept up to date)

• Math Forum http://mathforum.org/ • Math Web Sites and Resources for Teachers

http://www.sitesforteachers.com/resources_sharp/math/math.html• Additional Resources http://score.kings.k12.ca.us/additional.html• Sites for Teachers (excellent)

http://studenthome.nku.edu/~webquest/gabbard/index.htm• Indiana Department of Education weblinks for Math

http://ideanet.doe.state.in.us/opd/math/weblinks.html• Canada’s SchoolNet http://www.schoolnet.ca/home/e/resources/• Math2.org http://www.math2.org/• NCTM Math sites http://www.nctm.org/elementary/index.asp

Worksheets

• Superkids: Math worksheet Creator http://superkids.com/aweb/tools/math

• Mathwork http://members.singlepoint.net/sbryce/mathwork

• Mark Cogan’s Primary Worksheets http://www.primaryworksheets.co.uk

Search Engines• http://www.altavista.com• http://www.google.com• http://www.lycos.com• http://guide.infoseek.com• http://www.yahoo.com• http://www.northernlight.com• http://www.yahoo.com• http://www.dogpile.com

Kids Search Engines• Blue Webn’

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn

• KidsClick! http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!

• Ask Jeeves for Kids http://www.ajkids.com

• Yahooligans http://www.yahooligans.com

• Awesome Library http://www.awesomelibrary.org

Web Evaluation or What makes a good website?

• Organization, layout, and ease of use• Graphics/topography• Authority--edu.vs.com.• Accuracy• Links--within/outside• Coverage• Currency• Objectivity

Internet Domains

• com - commercial organization• edu - educational institutions• gov -government, nonmilitary• mil - military• org - other organizations• net - network resources

Email going to international locations have different domains placed on the end as a country code.

Every address is classified as a type of domain, just like every address has a state and zip code. This helps the Internet deliver the message.

What can you do with the World Wide Web?

• Lesson plans• Research• Games and Contests• Online projects• WebQuests• Online professionals/Listservs• General Reference • Other specific math areas

Lesson Plans to Link to Standards

• Lesson Locator http://www.lessonlocator.org/

This site will take you to specific lesson plans to correspond with math standards.

• Illuminations http://illuminations.nctm.org/

excellent lesson plans to link with standards

• Marco Polo

http://www.marcopolo-education.org/

Lesson Plan Sites• Busy Teachers Website K-12 http://

www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt• Discovery School http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/• Scholastic Network http://teacher.scholastic.com/index.htm• Eduhound http://www.eduhound.com• Edupuppy http://www.edupuppy.com• Gigglepotz http://www.gigglepotz.com• Math Lesson Plans

http://www.lessonplansearch.com/Math/index.html• Teacher’s Net for Math

http://www.teachers.net/cgi-bin/lessons/sort.cgi?searchterm=Mathematics

• Awesome Library http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Library/Materials_Search/Lesson_Plans/Math.html

Research• Biographies of Women Mathematicians

http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm• Dictionary of all Math units

http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm• Temperature Scales

http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/general/tscales_en.html

• MegaConverter 2 http://www.megaconverter.com/Mega2/home.asp

• Scientific Notation http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/textbook/scinot.html

• Maths for Morans Like Us http://library.thinkquest.org/20991/home.html

• Famous Problems in the History of Mathematics http://mathforum.org/isaac/mathhist.html

• Universal Currency Converter http://www.xe.com/ucc

Games, Contests and Challenges

• Brain Teasers http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain

• Dr. FreeMath http://mathforum.org/library/view/60679.html

• Interactive Mathematics Miscellany & Puzzles http://www.cut-the-knot.com

• Arithmetic Software http://forum.swarthmore.edu/arithmetic/arith.software.html

• Figure This http://www.figurethis.org• Learning Box

http://www.learningbox.com• Aunty Math

http://www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org/aunty/

• Primary Math Games http://www.primarygames.com/math.htm

Online projects

• Email or keypals• Projects to join up with• Your own projects

Keypals and International competition

• KidLink (empowering kids and youth to build global networks of friends) http://www.kidlink.org/english/general/intro.html

• Epals http://www.epals.com• Keypals http://www.teaching.com/keypals• Thinkquests (a non profit organization offering programs designed to

advance education through the use of technology) http://www.thinkquest.org

Online projects with other classes

• Classroom Connect http://www.classroomconnect.net• Global School Net http://gsn.org• Web 66 http://web66.coled.umn.edu• The Global Grocery List Project

http://www.landmark-project.com/ggl/ • The Noon Day Project

http://www.k12science.org/noonday/

Make sure you are ready for an online project before plunging into one. Here’s some places to go to find projects to try.

WebQuestshttp://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html

Developed in 1995 by Bernie Dodge and Tom March“A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity activity in which most or

all of the information used by learning is drawn from the Web.”

WebQuests should increase the learner’s use of “analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.”

They are often cooperative group work with each learner given a specific job title, assignment, and tasks.

WebQuest on Place Value http://studenthome.nku.edu/~webquest/gabbard/index.htm

On line professionals and Listservs

• Ask an Expert http://www.askanexpert.com• Big Chalk http://www.bigchalk.com• NCTM-L listproc@sci-ed.fit.eduArchives at

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/nctm-l

• Ask Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math/dr-math.html

General references sites

• Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/kidspace

• Library Spot http://www.libraryspot.com• Inspire http://www.inspire-Indiana.net• Homework Spot

http://www.homeworkspot.com• Research It

http://www.itools.com/research-it• New York Public Library http://

www.nypl.org

Calculus

• Karl’s Calculus Tutor http://www.karlscalculus.org

Data/Statistics

• Numbers in Search of a Problem http://score.kings.k12.ca.us/junkdrawer.html

• Statistics http://www.learner.org/exhibits/statistics

• Statistics Every Writer Should Know http://www.robertniles.com/stats

• Finding Data on the Internet http://www.robertniles.com/data/

Drill and Practice• A+ Math www.aplusmath.com• AAA Math

http://www.aaamath.com/index.html• Math Flashcards for Kids

http://www.edu4kids.com/index.php?TB=2&page=12

• Figure this Out! http://www.figurethis.org/• Problem of the Week • http://www.wits.ac.za/ssproule/pow.htm• Numbertime

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/numbertime

Fractals

• Sprott’s Fractal Gallery http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/fractals.htm

Fractions

• Visual Fractions http://visualfractions.com

Geometry

• Geometry Center http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/ • Interactive Math Online: Algebra and Geometry

http://tqd.advanced.org/2647/main.htm• Math Web Site for Middle School

http://students.resa.net/stoutcomputerclass/1math.htm• Gallery of Interactive Geometry http://

www.geom.uiuc.edu/apps/gallery.html • Breaking Away from the Mathbook

http://www.math.nmsu.edu/breakingaway/main.html • Conjentures in Geometry

http://www.geom.umn.edu/~dwiggins/mainpage.html • Geometry Junkyard

http://www1.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard

Graphing

• Graph Your Favorite http://www1.minn.net:80/~schubert/Graph.html

• Chameleon Graphing http://mathforum.org/cgraph

Interactive Resources

• Interactive Math (variety of math publishers and skills http://www.globalclassroom.org/ece1100/javamath.html

• Math Playground http://www.mathplayground.com/index.html

• Virtual Manipulatives http://www.matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/projinfo.html

• Pentominos Puzzle Solver http://godel.hws.edu/xJava/PentominosSolver

Logic Problems

• CRpuzzles’ Logic Problems http://www.crpuzzles.com/logic

• Interactive Web Games http://genesis.ne.mediaone.net/games.html

Money

•Money Templates http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/kadkins/coins.htm•Money Flashcards http://www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/flashcards/money•Escape from Knab http://www.escapefromknab.com/ •US Treasury for Kids http://www.usmint.gov/kids•KidsBank.com http://www.kidsbank.com •Sense and Dollars http://www.mpt.org/senseanddollars

Problem Solving• World Problems for Kids

http://juliet.stfx.ca/people/fac/pwang/mathpage/math1.html

• Math Problems http://www.mathstories.com/

• Problem of the Week http://www.wits.ac.za/ssproule/pow.htm

• MathCounts Problem Solving http://mathcounts.org/problems/problems.html

• Math Mountain http://www.mcrel.org/products/math-science/mathmtn

Math Assistance Online

• MathNerds http://www.mathnerds.com

Math and Literature

• Carol Hurst’s Math and Children’s Literature http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/math/math.html

• Maths Thesaurus http://thesaurus.maths.org

Math for the Young

• Magic Math Resource for the K-4 Teacher http://www.geocities.com/smilecdg

• Math Cats http://mathcats.com/contents.html

• Primary.games.com:Math http://primarygames.com/math.htm

Measurement

• The World of Measurement http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/webunits/measurement/

• Measure for Measure http://www.wolinskyweb.net/measure.htm

• Dictionary of Units http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm

Stock Market

• Good News Bears http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/edu/RSE/RSEyellow/gnb.html

• Stock Market Millionaires Club http://students.Washington.edu/jwerle/stockproject.htm#top

• StocksQuest http://investsmart.coe.uga.edu/10326/test/StocksQuest/login.htm

• Stock Market Simulation http://investsmart.coe.uga.edu/C001759/stocksquest/mystocks.htm

Time

• Teaching Time http://www.teachingtime.co.uk

Clip Art

• Barry’s Clip Art (free clip art to use) http://www.barrysclipart.com

• Holiday Clip Art http://members.cyberz.net/jkeepes/holiday.htm

• School Clip Art http://www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm

In Conclusion• Keep searching for sites. There are new

sites every minute.• Always make sure you try sites out BEFORE

you use them with students• Never let students ‘surf the net’ especially

young students• Make sure you have some sort of directed

study while using the Internet.• Tell or show students sites to use.

Most of all the Internet is a GREAT resource for every math classroom and teacher. Make sure you are using it. And have fun!