Classroom Tools Series:
Mathematics Resources I
Our classroom tools series brings you links with summary and
reviews to useful educational sites. Explore some of these sites and
find out how you can use projects for teaching. Soon, we will also
feature resources for other subjects such as Science, English, and
Social Studies. We are continuing to improve this series so we also
encourage you to send us your favorite resource links with your
user-review and recommendations.
Science Explorer’s Math testing center portion
http://library.thinkquest.org/11771/english/hi/math/tests/
Loads of tests on algebra, geometry and pre-calculus topics. These online tests can be used as reviewers for students.
Megamath
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/
Introduce some important mathematical ideas to the classroom by
making it fun through activities, games and puzzles that students can
work on. Topics include The Most Colorful Math of All, Games on Graphs,
Untangling the Mathematics of Knots, Algorithms and Ice Cream for All,
Machines that Eat Your Words, Welcome to Hotel Infinity and A Usual Day
at Unusual School. Also contains a glossary and reference section as
well as mathematics stories. MegaMath is a project of the Computer Research and Applications Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Discovery Channel School’s Math Lesson Plans
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/math.html
Part of a website dedicated to making teaching learning exciting,
DiscoverySchool.com also contains Math lesson plans for teachers.
Currently in their list for high school levels are Astronomical Scales,
Concepts in Advanced Algebra, Concepts in Algebra, Concepts in Business
Mathematics, Concepts in Geometry, Concepts in Number Theory, Concepts
in Precalculus, Numbers in Nature and Rational Number Concepts. Lesson
plans suggest use of Discover Channel videos as additional resource
materials but teachers can still get ideas and apply the lesson plans
for their own classroom use.
Index to Biographies of Mathematicians
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BiogIndex.html
Alphabetical and chronological indexes listing biographies of famous
mathematicians from the School of Mathematics and Statistics of the
University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
Problems and Solutions from the Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge
http://www.cms.math.ca/Competitions/COMC/
This site sponsored by the Canadian Mathematical Society contains
archives of previous problems and solutions featured in the yearly
contest from 1997 to 2005. Materials maybe appropriate for advance
classes or for those with experience in problem solving.
Problems and Solutions from the International Math Olympiad
http://sms.math.nus.edu.sg/simo/simo.aspx
The
homepage of the Singapore International Mathematical Olympiad contains
links to past International Math Olympiad (IMO) questions and
solutions. The IMO is said to be the pinnacle of all mathematical
competitions for school students. If you want to see what kind of
problems these wiz kids get to crack, visits this site.
