THE MATHEMATICS TEACHER EDUCATION RESOURCE PLACE: RESOURCES

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Some interesting related sites that you might consider visiting:

21st Century Problem Solving

http://www2.hawaii.edu/suremath/home.html

Algebra and Physics problem solving

AIMS Education Foundation

http://204.161.33.100/

Activities integrating mathematics and science

AIMS Puzzle Corner

http://209.161.33.100/Puzzle/PuzzleList.html

The Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE)

http://ceemast.scx.csupomona.edu/amte/

On this site you can find information about employment opportunities, conferences, and other professional development.

Ask Dr. Math

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/dr-math.html

Students submit math questions that are answered by "experts".

Broderbund

http://www.Broderbund.com/education

Catalog of software and materials for educators

California Mathematics Council

http://www.cmc-math.org/

This site has lots of information of interest to California math teachers at all levels (K-16).

The California Mathematics Academic Content Standards

http://www.cde.ca.gov/board/k12math_standards.html

California State Superintendent's Challenge Standards

http://www.cde.ca.gov/challenge/standards/MathHTML/contents.html

Carol Hurst's Math and Children Literature

http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/math/math.html

This website includes articles and excerpts from Carol Hurst's professions books for teachers. This site is most appropriate for those working with students in grades K-4.

The Chance Database

http://www.geom.umn.edu/docs/education/chance

This website is dedicated to probability and statistics, especially the Chance method. Purpose of Chance is to make the user a more critical readers of those statistics reported in the media. Its biweekly newsletter include abstracts of news articles.

The Educator Web Guide

http://scholastic.com

This is the Scholastic website which includes information about educational products. Also include a forum for teachers.

Education Week on the Web: American Education's Online Newspaper of Record

http://www.edweek.org/

This site is an electronic journal dedicated to educational articles. It also provides an online stores for educational resources.

E-GEMS-Electronic Games for Education in Math and Science

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/nest/egems/home.html

Increase the number of students in grades 4-6 enjoying and use mathematics and science.

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse

http://www.enc.org

The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC) acts as a source of information for K-12 teachers by providing materials and teaching methods.

E-math

http://e-math.ams.org

The E-math website is the home site of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). It include information about its mathematics publications such as the Society of Mathematical Reviews. There is an online bookstore. Also, there are information concerning upcoming conferences and professional developments.

ENC’s Digital Dozen

http://carson.enc.org:80/ddnow.htm

Provides links to 13 math sites

ERIC

http://ericir.sunsite.syr.edu

The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) website provides the users with access to a large selection of educational materials.

Euclids's Elements

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/"djoyce/java/elements/elements

This website is the home of the Mathematics and Computer Science department at Clark University. It includes several hotlinks to other mathematics sites.

EXTEND

http://www.stolaf.edu/stolaf/other/extend

This is a web conference site dedicated to discussion on mathematics education.
Extend also includes NSF Comprehensive Curriculum Projects for Reform of Mathematics Education. The National Science Foundation has funded several large curriculum development projects for elementary, middle school, and secondary mathematics. These includes:

Elementary School Projects
- Everyday Mathematics. (UCSMP)
- Investigations in Number, Data, and Space. (TERC)
- Teaching Integrated Mathematics and Science. (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago)
Middle School Projects
- An Achieved Curriculum for Middle School Mathematics. (WSER)
- Connected Mathematics Project (CMP). (Michigan State Univ.)
- Mathematics Through Applications Project (MAP). (IRL, Stanford)
- Seeing and Thinking Mathematically. (EDC)
- Six Through Eight Mathematics (STEM). (Univ. of Montana)
Secondary School Projects
- Applications/Reform in Secondary Education (ARISE). (COMAP)
- Connected Geometry. (EDC)
- Core-Plus Mathematics Project. (Western Michigan Univ.)
- Interactive Mathematics Project (IMP). (San Francisco State Univ.)
- Math Connections: Secondary Mathematics Core Curriculum Initiative. (Hartford Alliance)

Family Math

http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~emjordan/famMath.html

Encourage students to enter careers in mathematics

Fractals

http://cml.rice.edu:80/"lanius/frac/

This is Rice University's Computational Mathematics Laboratory website.

Gallery of Interactive Geometry

http://geom.umn.edu/apps/gallery.html

A site with a collection of amazing and interactive digital arts.

Galaxy

http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Science/Mathematics.html

This website includes articles relating to various topics of mathematics including algebra, calculus, geometry, number theory, and others.

Graduate Group in Cognitive Psychology

University Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

Site Language: Portuguese

Chair: Luciano Meira

Gratuitous Fractals

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/VUCC/Misc/Art1/fractals.html

Interactive gallery of fractal arts.

The History of Computing

http://www.cs.uregina.ca/"hoyle/Lecture/

This website belongs to the University of Regina's Computer Science Department. It is dedicated to various topics relating to computer.

Hobbes's Internet Timeline, V3.1

http://www.info.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html

This site has a timeline of the Internet. It also has a lots of raw data and graphs.

Hoop Happenings

http://www.wested.org/tales/05hoop01.html

A site which allows students to solve mathematics problem together via email.

The Hub

http://hub.terc.edu/

Resource place for math and science teachers

International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education

http://www.unifr.ch/psycho/pme/pme.html

Internet Center for K-12

http://www.mathpro.com/math/mathCenter.html

This website identifies sources of mathematics problems on the Internet.

Internet Resources

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~steve

Material and sources for educators

Issues in the Undergraduate Mathematics Preparation of School Teachers

http://www.k-12prep.math.ttu.edu

K-12 Statistics

http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/stat/stat.html

This site list resources on statistics. It also includes lessons and useful data sets. The project of the winners in the 1996 American Statistics Project Competition is also available on this site.

Key Curriculum Press

http://www.keypress.com

Materials and software from Key Curriculum

MathDEN

http://www.actden.com/Math_Den

To get on this site you must first register at www.actden.com. This site is a subsite of Digital Educational Network. On MathDen students can sharpened their mathematics skills with the challenging math problems available.

math-ed-ology CD

http://tblr.ed.asu.edu/mdp.html

Mathematics Education Social Research Group

http://acorn.educ.nottingham.ac.uk/SchEd/pages/gates/peter.html

University of Nottingham, UK

For research information

For details of international conferences on Mathematics Education and Society

Contact Peter Gates, Coordinator for information

To subscribe to listserve on PME Working Group on Social Aspects of Math Education

The Math Forum

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/

This website give access to the following:

Chat areas, mailing lists, newsgroups
Games, hobbies, cool sites
Internet activities and projects
Math software
Organizations and publications
Problems, puzzles, tips, and tricks
Reference shelf

For easy access, the website is organized into levels:
Students

Elementary school--http://forum.swarthmore.edu/students/elem/
Middle School -- http://forum.swarthmore/edu/students/middle/
High School -- http://forum.swarthmore/edu/students/high/
College and University -- http://forum.swarthmore/edu/students/college/
Graduate Level -- http://forum.swarthmore/edu/students/grad/

Teachers

Pre-Kindergarten Teachers’ Place -- http://forum.swarthmore/edu/teachers/pre-k/
Kindergaten-2nd Grade Teachers’ Place -- http://forum.swarthmore/edu/teachers/elem/k-2/
3rd-5th Grade Teachers’ Place -- http://forum.swarthmore/edu/teachers/elem/3-5/
Middle School Teachers’ Place -- http://forum.swarthmore/edu/teachers/middle/
High School Teachers’ Place -- http://forum.swarthmore/edu/teachers/high/

Math HomeWork

http://www.erols.com/bram/

This site discusses various mathematics topics. It also provides practice problems. The best thing about this site is that a student can email the webmaster for help on any mathematics question.

MathMagic

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/mathmagic/what.html

This site is designed as a telecommunications project for K-12. It enables students to use computer technology while learning problem-solving strategies and communications skills.

MathPad

http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mwidholm/MathPad

This site uses a text window to depict a scientific calculator.

Mega-Maths

http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math

This site is an interesting site which tries to bring unusual and important mathematics idea to primary schools. There are many activities and games which would attract teachers and their students.

NAEP

http://www.ed.gov/NCES/naep/

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) website include reports which provide objective data about this country's student performance at all levels.

Includes the "Report in Brief: National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 1994 Trends in Academic Progress".

NASA 9th Math Proficiency Test

http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/Other_Groups/K-12/p_test/math_pro1.html

This site is developed by NASA. It provides math problems at the ninth grade level. If a problem is inaccurately answered, the solution is provided.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)

http://www.nctm.org

Listing of NCTM’s educational materials including the followings:

Hot topics in mathematics education
Complete listings of NCTM journals and publications
A searchable catalog of NCTM educational materials and products
Member benefits, services, and application forms
Publishing opportunities
Meeting dates and locations
Jobs Online (see reverse side for more information)

National Parent Information Network (NPIN)

http://ericps.ed.uiuc.edu/npin/

Clearinghouse on elementary and early childhood education.

Clearinghouse on Urban Education

National Science Foundation (NSF)

http://www.nsf.gov/

MathPro Press Index

http://www.mathpro.com/math/

Definitions from A to Z

The Pentominoes Page

http://lonestar.texas.net/~jenicek/pentomin/pentomin.html

Possible combinations nd mathematical properties

Pentomino Puzzle

http://sue.csc.uvic.ca/inf/misc/PentInfo.html

An illustration of the puzzle

Polyominoes

http://home.ust.hk/~philipl/omino/omino.html

Java applets and more on dominoes, trominoes, and other.

Polymonio Enumerations

http://www.seanet.com/~ksbrown/kmath039.htm

An article from he Combinartories area of Brown's Math Pages on the Web

PROMPT

http://weasel.cnrs.humboldt.edu/~prompt/

PROMPT is an acronym for Professors Rethinking Options in Mathematics for Prospective Teachers.
" How can we prepare elementary school teachers to teach for the future rather than the past? "
This site try to answer this question by examining collectively how/what we are teaching. Also this site investigate appropriate responses to the challenges of mathematics education reform.

PROOF site of IMAG, Grenoble, France

http://www-cabri.imag.fr/Preuve

Contains a PME21 forum on proof, with PME bibliography

Contact: Nicholas Balacheff

Schools of California Online Resource for Education

http://kings.k12.ca.us/math

Mathematics at The Kings County Office of Education

Since the contents reflect mostly California's Mathematics Framework, this site is dedicated to mathematics teachers and students in California.

State of California: Academic Standards Commission

http://www.ca.gov/goldstandards

State of California Academic Standards Commission (July 8, 1997)

Mathematics [Standards] Draft 1.2 (or equivalent).
http://www.ca.gov/goldstandards/Drafts/currentdraft.html

Tenth Planet

http://www.tenthplanet.com

Third International Mathematics & Science Study (TIMSS)

http://www.ed.gov/NCES/TIMSS/

The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) website reports the findings of its international study of the school and students in over 41 countries. The initial report on fourth and eight grades are available on this site.

U.S. Department of Education—Grant Information

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/KnowabtGrants/

U.S. Department of Education—Federal Register Online Source

http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/annoncements/index.html

Welcome to the Math League

http://www.mathleague.com

Provide information about math contest conducted by Math League. The site also have sample of contests and books.

Xmorphia

http://www.ccsf.caltech.edu/ismap/image.html

This site show how differential equations can be used to exhibit a variety of digital patterns.

Your On-Line Phone Book

http://www.anywho.com

An phone directory search engine.

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