Outside Links:

A Plus Math

This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively.

Visit our game room and play exciting games like Matho and Hidden Picture...Test your math skills with our Flashcards! Try out the Math Word Find puzzle. Create and print your own set of flashcards online! Try out the Flashcard Creator. See the Worksheets section, where you can print worksheets to practice offline. Try the Homework Helper to check your homework solutions.

Illuminations

The NCTM Illuminations Web site is designed to illuminate the new vision for school mathematics as presented in NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics.  Goals of Illuminations: Provide resources that will help improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students; Provide resources that bring alive the ideas and recommendations set forth in the NCTM Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (Standards 2000); Provide Standards-based resources for classroom use; Help communicate the vision of Standards-based mathematics teaching and learning.

Math Forum

The Math Forum at Drexel University is a comprehensive resource for Math education assistance. The site contains hands-on web learning tools, lesson plans, and activities for pre-kindergarten through college courses. There is also a section, “Teacher2Teacher,?aimed at parents as well as teachers who have questions about teaching mathematics. Other helpful features are online lesson plans, divided by grade, and the Internet Mathematics Library which contains links to other math web sites. The Ask Dr. Math section is extremely helpful for librarians who field a lot of homework help questions. There is a searchable archive of answers to posted questions about mathematics from students from elementary school through college. If the answer can’t be found in the archive, then the question can be sent to Dr. Math for a response. [ALA Review]

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics

This is a three-year NSF supported project to develop a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-8 emphasis). The project includes dissemination and extensive internal and external evaluation.  Learning and understanding mathematics, at every level, requires student engagement. Mathematics is not, as has been said, a spectator sport. Too much of current instruction fails to actively involve students. One way to address the problem is through the use of manipulatives, physical objects that help students visualize relationships and applications. We can now use computers to create virtual learning environments to address the same goals.   National Science Foundation Award Number 9819107

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)