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Academy Curricular Exchange: Mathematics

• Grades K-5
  
• Grades 6-8
  
• Grades 9-12
  

Mathematics mini lesson plans from Academy One/Columbia Education Center.

Activity Search

Houghton Mifflin's Education Place Activity Search gives teachers access to a wide number of K-12 traditional (i.e., not Internet) activities. It is possible to search for activities by curriculum areas and/or grade levels, or browse the activities by themes.

Appetizers and Lessons for Math and Reason

A variety of Mathematics and Logic lessons from A. Selby.

Apply: Applications of Mathematics 9 and 10

"Applications of Mathematics 9 and 10" are BC curricula which integrate theoretical knowledge with familiar, real-world applications. They are based on the premise that if course content is relevant, participatory and concrete students will learn better, retain more and apply it in their own lives. This web page, from the Centre for Applied Academics, has over a dozen lesson ideas/plans which support the curriculum.

AskERIC Lesson Plans - Mathematics

Numerous lesson plans in Algebra, Applied Math, Arithmetic, Functions, Geometry, Measurement, Probability, Process Skills and Statistics covering various grade ranges in K-12.

Cardboard Cognition

A collection of card and board games organized by subject and grade levels (K-College).

[The] Chance Database

At this site you'll find a database of materials designed to assist the instruction of a Chance course or a more standard introductory probability or statistics course.

Co-operative Learning Lessons: Math

Math lesson plans in the following categories can be found on a New Brunsick Co-operative Learning Site.

• Data Management
  
• Geometry
  
• Mathematical Numerations
  
• Measurement
  
• Operations
  
• Rapid Reinforcers
  

Core Knowledge Lesson Plans

• Building on Geometry Thirteen lessons for intermediate students in which they use hands-on activities to gain a basic understanding of Geometry. Concepts are integrated with Language Arts and Social Studies activities.
  
• Exploring Area Literature is combined with manipulatives (square tiles and tangrams) to introduce the geometric concept of area to primary students over a 10 day period.
  
• Exploring Geometry Intermediate students learn geometry (lines, angles, triangles, polygons, circles, area, perimeter, volume) as a means to better understand early exploration and navigation in this four week unit.
  
• Geometry: Beyond Pencil and Paper Here's a four week unit for intermediate students which helps them understand that geometry is part of their lives. The unit uses geoboards, grid paper, tracing paper, origami, objects in the home, and the grocery store.
  
• Simply Shapes In this 10 day teaching unit, primary students participate in a variety of hands-on activities that introduce them to shapes.

CRPC GirlTECH Lesson Plans

Lesson plans in Math, along with other lessons in Science and Information/Computer Technology.

Dave's Math Tables

Can't remember a mathematical formula or reference? You may find it here in this collection of mathematical reference tables, for example: trig identities, geometric formulas, algebraic basic identities, and more.

Discover Learning Daybook

From BC Tel and in partnership with CUEBC, the Daybook is a searchable database of BC teacher deveveloped lesson plans. Search by keyword or enter "Math" for over 30 lesson plans in this subject.

Encarta Lesson Collection: Mathematics

Select "Mathematics" on their Lesson Collection Page to find about sixty diverse lesson plans in this subject.

ERIC Clearinghouse for Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education: Lesson Plans in Mathematics

The ERIC Clearinghouse serves as a metalist of links to Mathematics lesson plans. Some of those lesson plans are already linked to directly from CLN, but there are others that may prove useful.

Explorer Data Base: Mathematics

The Explorer is a collection of educational resources (instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans ...) for K-12 mathematics and science education." These resources are browsable within broad topic folders or within a curricular framework, or alternatively, you can use a search engine. Several thousand mathematical resources are included.

Geometry Center

This site contains an educational materials area with some great projects and course materials, mainly for Jr. to Sr. High school students.

Geometry and Topology-based Magic Tricks

Five tricks suitable for demonstrating to elementary students.

Georgia College EduNet Lesson Plans: Math

A variety of lesson plans on Math.

Goals 2000 Carroll County 1995

This site has a downloadable booklet (Adobe Acrobat format) that contains 16 lessons and 55 activities for middle grade mathematics and science using spreadsheets, databases, graphing, and probeware.

Grade 12 Provincial Examinations

Full information on the BC Grade 12 provincial examinations, including copies of previous exams and their keys (e.g., Mathematics), exam timetables, exam results, holistic scoring guides, reports to schools and general information.

Helping Your Child Learn Math

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, this document describes learning activities for children aged 5 through 13. These are organized by location (home, grocery store, travelling).

Integrated Resource Packages (IRPs)

These Integrated Resource Packages (IRPs) provide some of the basic information that teachers will require to implement the BC Ministry of Education math curricula in K-12.

• Mathematics K-7
  
• Mathematics 8-10
  
• Introductory Math 11 and Principles of Math 11 and 12
  
• Applications of Math 11 and 12

Integrating Mathematics, Science and Language

A series of multidisciplinary units (math, science, language arts) for K-3 students from SEDL. Included in each unit is an overview and background information for the teacher, lessons and links to associated web sites on dinosaurs. Units include: K (Five Senses, Spiders, Dinosaurs); Grade 1 (Plants and Seeds, The Human Body, Good Health); Grade 2 (Oceans, Weather, Sun and Stars); Grade 3 (Matter, Sound, Simple Machines).

Kodak Lesson Plans: Mathematics

About a half-dozen lesson plans on Mathematics, all of which use photography in some respect.

Lesson Plans for Technology

This site has a database of over 200 technology-based lesson plans developed by Florida educators. Known as T'NT (Technology 'Nformation for Teachers), the site can be searched by grade level, subject, or key word. Lessons allow subject area teachers to incorporate technology within business, computing, fine arts, guidance/health (including safety), language arts, math, science, and social studies subject areas.

Madras College Mathematics Department: An Assortment of Resources

A collection of contest papers, lesson and investigation ideas, mathematical games, mathematical images and worksheets. The site is hosted by Madras College - a Scottish comprehensive secondary school.

Marbelous Rolls

Middle grade students learn about acceleration and deceleration as well as median, mean, and range in this marble rolling activity. Two worksheets are included.

Math

Over 30 brief lesson plans in math for elementary level students from CanTeach. Categories of lessons are Numbers; Patterns and Relations; Shape and Space (Geometry); Measurement, Time, & Money; and, Statistics and Probability.

Math

This is a meta-list of links to other sites which contain lessons plans, classroom projects, and interactive activities for elementary teachers of Mathematics.

Math Activities for K-12 Teachers

A collection of activities organized by grade level (K-6, 7-8, 9-12) in which students engage in real world applications of math. The activities are provided in a lesson plan format complete with rationale, background information, activity materials, instructions, and enrichment. Caution: the developers use NASA-based examples, products, and problems throughout the activities and, as such, there is an intended, subtle promotion of NASA itself.

Mathematics

Two teaching units from IBM in which students use Internet resources to learn more about Mathematics. One unit is for grades 3-6 and the other is for grades 9-12. Teacher guides are available.

Mathematics Lessons Database

The University of Illinois (Urbana/Champaign) sponsors this searchable database of about 50 Internet-based lessons in mathematics, algebra, statistics, probability, geometry....

Mathematics Strategies Lesson Plans

At this site, the Mathematics curriculum for the Public Schools of North Carolina is outlined in a matrix showing grade levels (K-12) and 7 Competency Goals. Included within the curriculum guides are "strategies for instruction" (lesson plans, suggestions) for each competency goal and subgoal.

Math Fair Topic Sheets

This section of the Eduzone Tips and Handouts site has quite a number of resources for teachers and students interested in math fairs.

[The] Math Forum (includes Ask Dr. Math, MathMagic)

The Math Forum is a centre for teachers, students, researchers, parents, and mathematicians at all levels. The Math Forum offers "Ask Dr. Math", as well as problem-solving activities, an annotated collection of Internet math sites and sections devoted to math education and key issues of interest to the mathematics community.

Math Lesson Plans

This link will take you directly to a sub-list of links to about 100 math lesson plans. The sector is part of a larger list called "The Lesson Plans Page." The lessons aren't particularly well described so you may waste some time exploring and the ads can be a nuisance; however the sheer quantity of direct links to actual lesson plans is probably worth it.

MathStories.com

Thousands of math story problems organized by grade level and then by topic. Worksheets can be printed and used free of charge.

Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies: Gems from the Classroom

An electronic bulletin board where math teachers can ask for and receive teaching tips and creative lesson ideas.

New York State Regents Examinations

The N.Y. State Regents Examinations are a set of subject-based standardized tests for N.Y. high school students. Here are two resources, from different organizations, that can help teachers and students prepare for these or other similar standardized exams.

• New York State Education Department Download PDF formatted copies of recent Regents Examinations and answer keys from this page.
  
• Regents Exams Prep Centre: Math The Prep Centre, developed by Oswego County high school teachers, is intended to help Grade 12 teachers and students prepare for the N.Y. Regents Exams. Teachers can access sets of sample questions that are organized by subject and then by topic. Alternatively, students can attempt the questions, view the correct answer, or follow a link to a tutorial on the curricular content in the question if they need assistance.

New York Times Learning Network

A variety of lesson plans for grade 6-12 students with a New York Times article serving as a starting point. Most of the lessons are multidisciplinary in nature.

Pi Mathematics

Included at this site are activities where students can learn about pi, a collaborative project, information on the history of pi, applications where students can put their knowledge of pi to work (using Internet resources) and additional teacher resources.

Points, Planes,Lines and Angles Lesson Plans

Here are strategies, from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, for teaching various geometric topics. At the time of this writing, they had ideas for grades 1, 2, and 4. These are more instructional stategies than full lesson plans.

Primary Resources: Maths

Lots of Mathematics worksheets, activities and resources for the primary teacher. Select from Lesson Ideas and Activities, or Worksheets. Some resources are viewed online and others are in PDF format.

Score Mathematics Lessons

Lesson plans written by California teachers to accompany their curriculum. Lesson are organized into the following categories: Functions, Algebra, Geometry, Statistics and Probability, Discrete Mathematics, Measurement, Number, and Logic and Language.

Smile Program Mathematics Index

Teachers participating in the SMILE (Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement) summer session programs each create a single concept lesson plan. This database has close to 200 lesson plans organized under the following headings: Arithmetic, Algebra and Trigonometry, Geometry and Measurement, Graphs and Visuals, Patterns and Logic, Probability and Statistics, Practical and Applied Math, Recreational and Creative Math, and Miscellaneous. Caution: Since there is a wide number of authors who have contributed to the database, the detail and quality of the lesson plans will vary.

Teachers Helping Teachers: Math

The Teachers Helping Teachers web site is a collection of lesson plans submitted by practicing teachers. New lessons are added to a cumulative math file throughout the school year so be prepared for some long downloads.

Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers

There's a variety of math ideas, activities and worksheets for elementary students at this site. You'll also find a feature titled "Time-Fillers". This is a collection of short activities which can be used within a number of subject areas to fill a few spare moments during the day.

This is Mega Mathematics

In this series of instructional units from Los Alamos National Laboratory, students are exposed to unusual and important mathematical ideas so that they and their teachers can think about them together. Each unit contains sections describing background information, vocabulary, big ideas and key concepts, activities, evaluation, and preparation and materials. Units cover such topics as minimum number of colours needed to colour a map, graphing, knots, algorithsm, finite state machines, infinity, and logical analysis. Although targeted for elementary students, the site has potential value for students of all ages.

wNet School: Mathematics Lessons

wNetStation, a public television station in New York, hosts a web site designed for K-12 teachers which contains Internet-based lessons for core math curriculum topics. Student and teacher guides are included with each lesson. At the time of review, the site contained lessons on math history, graphs, measurement, and polyhedra.