Cool Links for Kids

Selected Internet links for high school students: projects, activities, sites, and software to help make math fun! Selected Internet resources for high school teachers: lessons, activities, sites, and software for your classroom.

Global Classroom – http://www.globalclassroom.org/authors/florida/math/interactive.html

Interactive Activities in Math gives kids practice using pattern blocks, integer bars, and base-10 blocks to reinforce understanding of perimeter, area, division, and geometry. Great for visual learners.

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

NCTM website that contains resources for teachers and an online component for students.

Interactive games for multiplication practice – http://www.multiplication.com/interactive_games.htm

Math Challenge – Math Mystery Daily Brains: http://www.mathmastery.com/

Put on your thinking caps and then visit this online math challenge site, where a new word problem needs to be solved each day.

MathSlice – http://mathslice.com/

Math jeopardy, money worksheets, time worksheets and more.

National Library of Virtual Mathematics – http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

The National Library of Virtual Mathematics, with K-12 activities in operations, geometry, algebra, measurement, data analysis, and probability.

Primary Grades Activities – http://www.sln.org/pieces/knox/onlineactiv.htm

Primary-grades activities and quizzes to help reinforce concepts about addition and money; the activities give immediate feedback and allow kids to keep trying until they get the right answer.

Speed Math – http://education.jlab.org/smdeluxe/index.html

SpeedMath Deluxe from Jefferson Lab challenges kids to take four digits and quickly create an equation using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Upper Grade Math Activities – http://www.cut-the-knot.org

Upper-grade activities in math, including fast arithmetic tips, card magic, and the Taylor series for cosine.

Who Wants Pizza? – http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/fractions/index.html

Who Wants Pizza? provides a fun way to learn about fractions – instruction, practice, and immediate feedback, also teachers’ notes.

8^th grade math topics – http://www.aaamath.com/B/grade8.htm

Using A Protractor

Slides Flips Turns –
- http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/icy_slides_flips_turns/
Practice Angle Measurments –
- http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/protractor.html
Using A Protractor –
- http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/protractor-using.html
Using A Protractor to Measure –
- http://www.kidport.com/Grade6/Math/MeasureGeo/MeasuringAngles.htm

Math Tutorials

AAA Math – http://www.aaamath.com/

Explanations for hundreds of math skills with interactive practice pages

Ask Dr. Math – http://mathforum.org/dr.math/

An archive of math questions submitted by students and answered by Dr. Math

Create A Graph – http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/

An online tool for creating bar, line, pie, and x-y graphs

MathWorld – http://mathworld.wolfram.com/

A comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia.

Numerical Mathematical Utilities – http://www.akiti.ca/Mathfxns.html

Several numerical mathematical utilities. For example, utilities for solving the Quadratic, Cubic, and Quartic Equations; solving N Equations in N Unknowns; Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors; and more.

Seeing Math – http://seeingmath.concord.org/sms_interactives.html

Seeing Math has developed interactive software Java tools to clarify key mathematical ideas in middle and high school mathematics. Each interactive provides a real-time connection between representations of the mathematics (symbolic, graphical, etc.), so that changes in one representation instantly cause changes in the other.

Virtual Math Lab – http://www.wtamu.edu/academic/anns/mps/math/mathlab/index.htm

Online tutorials covering algebra that include definitions, formulas, illustrations and step-by-step examples.

Algebra

Factoring with Mr. Yang and Mosley the alien: – http://www.geneyang.com/factoring/index.html

A comics based lesson for Algebra students.

National Library of Virtual Mathematics – http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

The National Library of Virtual Mathematics, with K-12 activities in operations, geometry, algebra, measurement, data analysis, and probability.

Purplemath – http://purplemath.com/

Online algebra resource.

RI Mathematics Teacher Association – http://www.ri.net/RIMTA/index.htm

You can join RIMTA’s listserv, learn about math standards, apply for grants, and obtain information about their annual conference.

Seeing Math – http://seeingmath.concord.org/sms_interactives.html

Math Slice – http://www.mathslice.com/

These math games (including Math Jeopardy and Math Millionaire) are complemented by a wide selection of online multiple choice activities that test class knowledge of math concepts from basic counting to algebra and statistics.

Geometry and its Applications (GeoMAP) – http://www.comap.com/highschool/projects/geomap.html

Eight complete high school geometry units created by the Consortium of Mathematics and its Applications.

MathStories – http://www.mathstories.com/

A library of math word problems for elementary and middle school students.

Mudd Math Fun Facts – http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/

Fun math facts created by the Harvey Mudd College math department that teachers can use to enrich their lessons.

PBS TeacherSource – http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math.htm

Math lessons and activities organized by grade and topic.

Teacher2Teacher – http://mathforum.org/t2t/

A forum for teachers and parents to exchange questions about math.

Feed the Pig – http://feedthepig.org/tweens/

A fun, hands-on financial literacy program for grades 4-6 from the American Institute for Certified Public Accountants. Feed the Pig helps children learn about the urgency of saving while building important math skills in a fun and engaging way.

AAA Math – www.AAAmath.com.

Customized by grade level and topic, AAA Math features explanations of various mathematical topics, practice problems and fun, challenging games.

Cool Math – www.coolmath.com.

This fully interactive site and allows the user to sharpen basic math skills, play games and explore new math concepts.

Figure This – www.figurethis.org.

Created by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, this site helps families enjoy mathematics outside school through a series of fun and engaging challenges.

Math Cats – www.mathcats.com.

Math Cats provides playful explorations of important math concepts through games, crafts and interactive projects. Includes a magic chalkboard and an art gallery.

Math League – www.mathleague.com.

The Math League, designed for students in fourth grade through high school, specializes in math contests, books and computer software. The “Help Facility” is handy reference guide for math topics complete with examples, definitions and explanations.

Fun Brain – www.funbrain.com/numbers.html.

This site includes 17 original games based on soccer, car racing and much more Other games include Math Baseball, where a child can score runs with correct answers and Operation Order, where students can build pyramids with their knowledge of algebra.

The Math Dude http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/itv/mathdude/

Tutorials on various mathematical concepts. Videos are downloadable.

Teacher Tube – www.teachertube.com

Math videos and podcasts.

Mr Duey – www.mrduey.com

Teacher who created a website that has various math concepts set to rap music. Check out “Fractions!”.

Book Websites

Glencoe: http://www.glencoe.com/sites/maryland/student/mathematics/index.html
Holt McDougal: http://holtmcdougal.hmhco.com/hm/series.htm?level2Code=MSIB10010&level3Code=3_MM
Key Curriculum Press: http://www.keypress.com/x10.xml
McDougal Little: http://www.classzone.com/cz/find_book.htm?tmpState=&disciplineSchool=ma_ms&state=RI&x=21&y=27
Prentice Hall: http://www.phschool.com/atschool/txtbk_res_math.html
Connected Math: http://www.phschool.com/