Online Resources For Math
A California State University Dominguez Hills PT3 Project

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California Math Academic Content Standards

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Lesson Plans

Lesson Plans Correlated to Standards
AIMS
Activities Integrating Math and Science. http://www.aimsedu.org/
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Ask Dr. Math
Swarthmore College math students provide help with math questions for elementary, middle, high school and college students. Answers are achived, so students can search to see if their question already has been answered. If not, they can submit a question and get a response.
Explorer
A collection of math/science lesson plans from the University of Kansas.
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Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
Links to some of the most outstanding math and science lessons on the web.
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Lessons are from many sources. Most are aligned with standards.

GirlTech
Lesson plans that use internet resources and are designed to make math and science particularly appealing to girls.
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* Illuminations
Standards-based math lessons from NCTM. Don't miss imath, online, interactive ready-to-use multimedia math lessons. Don't miss this site.
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Interactive Math
A variety of interactive activities that might help students understand some math and geometry concepts. Fun.
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Interactive Math Lessons and Puzzles
Lesson plans designed to teach specific math concepts. Includes crossword and word search puzzles relevant to math.
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Interactive Math Miscellaney
A looooooong list of interactive math activities. Kids can drag the points of a triangle around the screen, (geometry), play a sort of on-line slot machine (probability) and just generally have fun with math. Teachers could use the site to illustrate basic or advanced math concepts.
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Math Cats
Interactive math activities for elementary students. Fun ways to learn principles of math.
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Math Forum
From Swarthmore College, K-12, college and advanced math resources by subject, as well as special places for students, teachers and parents. Look here for web units and lessons, many of which ask students to explore data.
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Math Goodlies
Fifty-four online interactive lessons that teach a variety of important math concepts.Some include worksheets. Some have online quizzes. Could be used for students who need extra help in certain areas.
These ARE the lessons.

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Math Lessons from Access Indiana Teaching and Learning Center
Pre-K thru 12 lesson plans plus other math resources.
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Math Lesson Database
Maintained by the University of Illinois department of Math, Science and Technology Education; mostly middle and high school lessons. For real fun in a lab with a high speed connection, check out the java lessons, which allow students to explore probability using prizes in cereal boxes, rocket launches and other interesting subjects.
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Many of the lessons correlate with NCTM standards

Math Realm
Lesson plans and ideas from Education World.
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Mega-Math
Fascinating lesson plans from Los Alamos National Laboratory: games, graphs, knots, and more, with background explanation, stories, examples, links and activities.
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Lessons are correlated with NCTM standards

Moneyopolis
Middle-school kids learn about money while playing a game
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Lessons are correlated with NCTM standards

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics
Interactive lessons for pre-K through grade 12, designed to help students learn various important math concepts.
Site features activities, rather than lessons.
Activities are correlated with NCTM standards
Problem Solving Across the Curriculum
Why we need to teach it, how to teach it, lesson plans.
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Lessons are correlated with NCTM standards

RiverDeep Interactive Learning:
You can take out a three month trial membership in this site and explore their interactive lessons in k-12 math and science. You'll need to download a couple of plug-ins for your web browser but it's well worth the effort. Dozens of interactive simulations allow students to see how something works, develop a hypothesis, change assorted variables, chart the results of their changes, and begin to understand their environment, their body or some scientific concept.
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Some lessons are keyed to national and state standards

Science U
Interactive lesson plans and exhibits help students understand geometry. Included art program allows students to modify images from the site.
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The Shodor Foundation
A nonprofit research and education organization uses modeling and simulation to teach math and science. Project Interactive provides interactive exercises for middle school math. Braille Through Remote Learning is just what its name suggests. ChemViz offers interactive chemistry instruction. Site includes other interactive teaching tools.
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Geometry Junkyard
Geometry teachers should spend some time here. It includes lesson plans and teaching materials.
Headbone
Math and money management games for kids. Note: kids must create an account and log in. Teachers can create an account for a school. Site has instant messaging, chat and pen pals, but also some excellent games that focus on everything from making change to investing in the stock market.
A History of Algebra and Computing
Includes links to a history of math, women in math and other math-related topics.
Interactive Geometry
Java based
Web based
Applets that may or may not help the user understand geometry.
Interactive Math Miscellany and Puzzles
Fun stuff to get students thinking about math concepts
Math and Science Resources
Curriculum projects, grant information, Internet sources, professional and government organizations, web-based lessons.
Math Resources from California State University, Fullerton
Algebra, measurement, decimals, geometry, probability and stats, problem solving, magazines and newsletters, and more.
Math Archives
Teaching materials, software and web links organized by math topic. A must-see for math teachers.
Math Online
Links to a variety of math resources, all topics, all levels, many of which have lesson plans.
Purple Math
An algebra resource, this site contains dozens of lessons on algebraic concepts, plus links to other good algebra sites. Designed for students, teachers could use it as a tutorial or reinforcement for students who are having trouble, or for suggestions on how to explain a difficult concept.
Science and Math Initiatives
An extensive list of math links from SAMI, an Annenberg-CPB project.
SpeedMath
Could be a game for a group or a class; could be a place to practice. This site allows students to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication division and inequalities by creating, as quickly as possible, an equation, given four computer-generated numbers.
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