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Math + Standards + Internet

Math + Standards + Internet. Presented by Linda Mills, Library Media Specialist Greensburg Elementary School lmills@venus.net 812-934-3844. Why use the Internet in Math?. Changes the possibilities for math education Enriches the nature of mathematics education

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Math + Standards + Internet

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  1. Math + Standards + Internet Presented by Linda Mills, Library Media Specialist Greensburg Elementary School lmills@venus.net 812-934-3844

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. How to find Sites • Math Organizations • Magazines • Books • Television, radio, newspapers • Portals • Conduct searches using search engines or directories

  5. Math Organizations • Math Magazines • Indiana Mathematics Educators http://www.indianamath.org/ • National Council of Teacher of Mathematics http://standards.nctm.org/

  6. Other magazines to try These are technology 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.

  7. 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

  8. Television, Radio, and Newspapers • CNN (http://www.cnn.com) • CBS, NBC, ABC • Discovery Channel http://dsc.discovery.com/ • USA Today http://www.usatoday.com

  9. Central Sites for Math Educators • Eisenhower National Math and Science Clearinghousehttp://www.enc.org(no longer kept up to date) • Math Forumhttp://mathforum.org/ • Math Web Sites and Resources for Teachershttp://www.sitesforteachers.com/resources_sharp/math/math.html • Additional Resourceshttp://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 Mathhttp://ideanet.doe.state.in.us/opd/math/weblinks.html • Canada’s SchoolNethttp://www.schoolnet.ca/home/e/resources/ • Math2.org http://www.math2.org/ • NCTM Math siteshttp://www.nctm.org/elementary/index.asp

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Internet Domains 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. • 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.

  15. 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

  16. Lesson Plans to Link to Standards • Lesson Locatorhttp://www.lessonlocator.org/ This site will take you to specific lesson plans to correspond with math standards. • Illuminationshttp://illuminations.nctm.org/ excellent lesson plans to link with standards • Marco Polohttp://www.marcopolo-education.org/

  17. 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

  18. 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 Mathematicshttp://mathforum.org/isaac/mathhist.html • Universal Currency Converter http://www.xe.com/ucc

  19. Games, Contests and Challenges • Brain Teasershttp://www.eduplace.com/math/brain • Dr. FreeMathhttp://mathforum.org/library/view/60679.html • Interactive Mathematics Miscellany & Puzzleshttp://www.cut-the-knot.com • Arithmetic Softwarehttp://forum.swarthmore.edu/arithmetic/arith.software.html • Figure This http://www.figurethis.org • Learning Box http://www.learningbox.com • Aunty Mathhttp://www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org/aunty/ • Primary Math Gameshttp://www.primarygames.com/math.htm

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

  21. 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

  22. Online projects with other classes Make sure you are ready for an online project before plunging into one. Here’s some places to go to find projects to try. • 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/

  23. WebQuestshttp://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.htmlDeveloped 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

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

  27. 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/

  28. 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

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

  30. Fractions • Visual Fractions http://visualfractions.com

  31. Geometry • Geometry Centerhttp://www.geom.uiuc.edu/ • Interactive Math Online: Algebra and Geometryhttp://tqd.advanced.org/2647/main.htm • Math Web Site for Middle Schoolhttp://students.resa.net/stoutcomputerclass/1math.htm • Gallery of Interactive Geometryhttp://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

  32. Graphing • Graph Your Favorite http://www1.minn.net:80/~schubert/Graph.html • Chameleon Graphing http://mathforum.org/cgraph

  33. 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

  34. Logic Problems • CRpuzzles’ Logic Problems http://www.crpuzzles.com/logic • Interactive Web Games http://genesis.ne.mediaone.net/games.html

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. Math Assistance Online • MathNerds http://www.mathnerds.com

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. Measurement • The World of Measurementhttp://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

  41. 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

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

  43. Clip Art • Barry’s Clip Art (free clip art to use) http://www.barrysclipart.com • Holiday Clip Arthttp://members.cyberz.net/jkeepes/holiday.htm • School Clip Art http://www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm

  44. 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!

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