Instructional lesson plans, activities, and
resources aligned to Kentucky curriculum
Links to useful classroom websites
Monthly core content and instructional
articles
Applet that will build a box to dimensions specified by student.
http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/carvell/3dbox/
The Forum experiments with using the Web for instruction and with involving Forum users in the creation of materials. The goal is to open possibilities for educational materials that combine hypertext, interaction, multi-media, and communication at a distance.
http://mathforum.com/
The things you need to know about spreadsheets are summarized here, with particular reference to Microsoft Excel, though note that much of what is written for Excel will apply to most ofther "Windows" spreadsheets as well.
http://www.mathsnet.net/a2zofssheets.html
This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively.
http://www.aplusmath.com/
Explore how real numbers can be added together using a number line.
http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspDetail&ResourceID=95
A group activity where students investigate the value of e as it pretains to banking, pharmaceutical,architecture, etc.
http://www.ngsc.k12.in.us/tickit/in_search_of_the_missing.htm
This site gives not only information on flight but great simulators for curve ball and flight where you can vary speed, angle, etc.
http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/bga.html
In this activity, students are asked investigate the relationship between how early airline tickets are purchased and how much the flight actually costs.
http://www.wfu.edu/~mccoy/NCTM00/lisa.html
Algebra Online is a free service created to give students, parents, and educators an opportunity fo communicate. The site offers private tutoring, live chat, a message board, and a bibliography of texts. In the works for the site is an "interactive tests" section. Questions and discussions relating to all levels of mathematics (not just algebra) are encouraged.
http://www.algebra-online.com/
This website features a series of 26 half-hour videos (VoD - Video on Demand) which play from the web in a quarter screen view. Topics cover exponents, radicals, polynomials, linear functions, complex numbers, quadratic equations, absolute value, circle and parabola, ellipse and hyperbola and more. The site requires a (one-time) registration and log in for viewing. Registration is free.
http://www.learner.org/resources/series66.html
Interactive Java program that solves the Pythagorean Theomem by looking at the areas of squares.
http://sunsite.ubc.ca/LivingMathematics/V001N01/UBCExamples/Pythagoras/pythagoras.html
The balance has three different objects that can be placed on it. The weight is given to one of the three and students try to figure out the other two objects weights.
http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/wofford/balance/
Applet allow student to select data points then it plots the line of best fit.
http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/exner/ncsa/leastsquares/
Explore the patterns made by numbers given in Pascal's triangle.
http://www.howe-two.com/free/Pascal/index.html
This is a great tutorial with interactive lessons for most alegbra topics.
http://www.purplemath.com/index.htm