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.

Aunty Math
Every other week, Aunt Mathilda Mathews provides math challenge for students to try to solve.

Brainbashers
BrainBashers is an exciting collection of brain teasers, puzzles, riddles, games and optical illusions

Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing
This site has a list of competitions students can participate in.

Chuck Peterson's Problem Solving Page
A variety of problem solving tasks for grades 6 and up.

Figure This
The Figure This! Mathematics Challenges for Families consist of  80 math challenges. The challenges are designed for middle school students and their families to work on together at home.

InterMath Site
This site contains examples of mathematical investigations that are supported by technology.

MARS Problem of the Month
This site contains sample problems to download as long as a lot of other resources related to performance assessments.

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.

Northwest Regional Education Laboratory
This site features staff development oppurtunities based on NWRESD's Mathematics Problem-Solving Model
Through these professional development experiences, teachers learn to implement teaching strategies that improve student learning and performance.

ODE Task Bank
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.

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.

Problem of the Week
This site gives students tips on how to write good solutions to math problem solving prompts plus offers a variety of tasks to solve.

Problem Solving and Released Items Sites
This is a site of links to multiple problem solving sources.

Reynolds School District Task Bank
A collection of K-8 tasks available in both English and Spanish.

Salem-Keizer's Task Bank

Click on the navigation links to the left to access a large variety of tasks and multiple choice practice problems.

Swarthmore Math Forum Problem of the Week

Another collection of weekly tasks for a variety of grade levels.

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.

LD In-Depth: Math Skills
Learning disabilites in the area of math are explored at this site.

Math Matters Gateway Site
This page shares many great math related pages  

Math Anxiety 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.

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 Educator's Reference Desk:
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:

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

The Tired-Teacher Website
This site has lesson plans in a variety of content areas including mathematics.

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