Jackie Cooke's Favorite Math Sites on the Internet

Contents of this site:

100 Problems for Primary People

Problem Solving Strategies

Problem Solving Sites

Math Assessment Sites

Other Math Related Internet Sites

Math Professional Development Sites

Problem Solving Sites:

AIMS Education Center:
The AIMS Home Page includes puzzles and other math and science activity ideas, plus information about their newsletter.

Brain Teaser Page:
Another good source for problems to solve that is organized by grade level.

The Intro to 21st Century Problem Solving
This site is dedicated to promoting problem solving literacy.... from grade school to grad school and beyond.

Math Forum's Problem Solving Links
A huge list of links related to Math Problem solving.

Math Line Puzzles
Many critical thinking math puzzles can be found on this page.

MathMagic!:
This is another page from the Swarthmore site that gives information about a national classroom contest that student's can enter.

MegaMath Menu:
The MegaMath project written by the Los Alamos National Laboratory is intended to bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to elementary school classrooms.

PBS MATH Main Menu
Visit this site to find a searchable data base of Mathline lesson plans. The lesson plans include video clips of teachers actually deomonstrating the lessons in their classrooms.

Writing a good math solution
This site gives students tips on how to write good solutions to math problem solving prompts.

Word Problem Solving Strategies
Problem solving strategies are listed at this site written by elementary aged students.

Math Professional Development and Assessment Sites:

Assessing Young Children's Progress Appropriately
This site displays a research article written about the issue of appropriate assessment for young children and includes links to many other related sites.

Educational Resources - Math Equity
A resource for educators concerned about creating equitable conditions in which every child can succeed. These equity materials can help teachers acknowledge children's diverse strengths, identify inequities, and improve the ways they serve students with varied needs.

LD In-Depth: Math Skills
Learning disabilites in the area of math are explored at this site.
  
Math Anxiety
The goal of this site is to share information that will help students develop a solid foundation for learning math and prevent math anxiety.
 
Math Anxiety Tests
At this site, information is given for finding The Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scales.  

Math Help by Professor Freedman
Teachers can find many resources at this site to help understand better how to support student learning of mathematics in non-stressful ways.

Mathemematics Reform: The ARC Center Home
The ARC Center promotes the wide-scale and effective implementation of standards-based mathematics curricula. The Center consults with school and districts and provides information and resources to support teacher enhancement, leadership development, and public awareness of mathematics.

NCTM
Visit this site to find out about this professional educational organization, the revised standards, a catalog of math resources to purchase, and much more.

The Oregon Council of Teachers of Mathematics
This is the home for Oregon's professional educational mathematics organization Go to this site to find out about TOMT Magazine, who your area representatives are, current math events, links to other math sites, etc.

ODE
This link takes you directly to the resource page for the Oregon Department of Education that allows visitors to download sample assessments related to our Oregon Benchmarks and much more related to the state assessments.

OPEN-Network
Another great site for assessment information related to the Oregon's benchmarks. Teachers can earn CPD credits by participating in the scoring practice activities at this site.

The Science and Math Consortium for Northwest Schools (SMCNWS)
Provides another great list of links to assessment related sites.

Welcome to AskERIC:
This well know site includes a searchable index to find math research articles, lesson plans, etc. The articles really came in handy when writing our Math Position Paper and Technology Plan. 

Other Math Resources:

42 Ways To Start a Math Journal Entry
A great list of prompts to get students started with math journaling.

AirplaneMath
A place to learn cool things about math and aeronautics!

Amusing Mathematics Web Pages
The Forum's Internet Mathematics Library provides a comprehensive database of links on the subject of Math and Humor.

Biographies of Famous Mathematicians
This address takes you to a page created by University of St. Andrew in Scotland with information about many famous mathematicians. It's organized in many different ways to help you find that famous math person's bio.

The Busy Teachers Website K-12
has lesson plans in a variety of content areas including mathematics. Of special interest is an electronic parent booklet entitled, "Helping Your Child Learn Math."

Click on Bricks: Multiplication
These pages help students to practice and learn multiplication facts from 1 to 4. These pages use bricks to show arrays, and include 16 practice problems plus links to many other multiplication sites.

ENC Educational Resources:
The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse is a huge site that includes lesson plan ideas, math research articles, classroom resources, and much more.

Fractions : Elementary Lessons & Materials
This page provides a series of pages that contain elementary school fraction lessons and materials for teacher.

Hotlist: Mathematics:
Another good site with many math links that gets updated frequently.

Internet Math Hunts
This site contains many math hunts that consists of questions about math and mathematicians. The answers can be found somewhere on the Internet.

KIDPROJ: KIDLINK Special Projects for Youth 10-15
This well known site has a number of telecollaborative projects described that integrate math skills with other content areas.

Martindale's 'The Reference Desk: Calculators On-Line'
This site is fun and amazing. A list of computer calculators available for a wide variety of uses. Mathematics is just one of the categories. I lost track of time exploring all the different types of calculators there were and especially enjoyed the section on calendars.

Math Activities: TEACHERS HELPING TEACHERS
Lesson plans created by teachers for all subject areas including math can be found at this site.

Math Lesson Data Base
Another good source of mathematics lesson plans for the elementary classroom.

Math and Literature
Visit this site for some lists of children"s literature and lesson plans related to a variety of math strands.

Math Their Way
The Center for Innovation in Education, a nonprofit organization, was co-founded in 1975 by two classroom teachers, Mary and Bob Baratta-Lorton. They shared a philosophy based upon the belief that all children can learn and that every child matters. This professional development site contains information in how to order materials, set up workshops, and has downloadable PDF files for the Math Their Way summary newsletters.

Mathematical Connections
Mathematical Connections seeks to provide a forum for exploring the interplay between mathematics and the humanities. This includes, but is not limited to the relationship between mathematics and the arts, anthropology, history, literature, philosophy, music and religion. Classroom applications ofthese topics, such as the use of history in the teaching of mathematics, also fall within the scope of this periodical.

Math Glossary
This site contains an electronic glossary of math vocabulary words organized by grade level. Or check out the home page for this site to find lesson plans for many content areas including math. This page is created by Harcourt Brace.

Math Learning Center
Visit this site to find out about current course offerings and how to order many useful math resources and materials. P. O. Box 9278, Portland, OR 97207-9278 1-800-547-8887, ext. 3041 Fax # 503 725-3021.

Math Lessons by Cynthia Lanius
has many interactive math lessons on a variety of topics such as fractions, algebra, etc.

Math Solutions¨ Online
This is the home page for Marilyn Burns. Information how to order published materials plus excellent online newsletters related to a variety of math topics can be found here.

NW Math Links:
This site has been created by The Science and Mathematics Consortium of Northwest Schools formerly known as the Columbia Mathematics Center. If you're looking for a way to fund a team mathematics project, this site may be of interest to you. This site also contains math lesson plans, and much information regarding scoring math tasks.

Teacher2Teacher - The Teachers' Lounge
A question and answer site to many commonly asked questions about teaching mathematics. FAQ are archived along with a bulletin board where teachers can write in to have burning questions answered by Presidential Awardees in Mathematics teachers.