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Fantastic Links
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Free Tools
Time saving tools, templates and ideas that I have written, trialled and tested, that work. Send in your best templates and ideas for teaching and I'll put them here to share.
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Webquests
So the question is - "How do you use all the information on the web to develop meaningful lessons?"
The answer is
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Creativity & Inspiration
Videos Cleese, Jobs, Mitra, IB
Video2 Chomsky, Gilbert &
What if Money didn't matter ?
Video3 SHOCKING! The real purpose of your life!
FLOW, The SECRET to Happiness, How I fell in love with a FISH.
Video4 How a boy became an ARTIST
DESIGN Thinking
Infinite Thinking MACHINE
Video5 Shane Koyczan: "To This Day" ... for the bullied and beautiful.
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
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Mind Candy
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Newsletters
Ignite The Revolution
What is the Purpose of Education?
3 Elephants in the Room
The Discovery of Planet Krypton
InLove with Fish
Ultimate Classroom
Toxic Workplace
Pi Day - March 14th
School Kills Creativity
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Articles & Seminars
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Product Reviews
Great MathsWebsites to Explore
A Brief History of Mathematics
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics
is the driving force behind modern science. Ten fifteen
minute podcasts that reveal the personalities behind
the calculations from Newton to the present day.
How do these masters of abstraction find a role
in the real world? Fabulous.
Adrian Bruce's Fantastic Site on Math's Stuff
Here you'll find a lot of free printable maths games, maths vocabulary posters, a couple of webquests, puzzles to solve and shapes to make.
Also the Symmetry webquest page is excellent, sticks to the subject as well as being easy to navigate. Some of the images are quite fascinating and all sorts of symmetry is explained using wonderful imagery. Go there your students will love it.
Illuminations (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics)
This is a fantastic site - just what you have been looking for - interactive maths activities online. Spanning the entire K-12 range, this great resource includes:
1. i-Maths: online, interactive, multimedia math investigations. All i-Maths are built around interactive math applets, and some also include video clips.
2. Internet-Based Lesson Plans: examples of how the Internet can be used to help create effective Standards-based mathematics lessons.
3. Math-lets: math applets you can download and use to explore math and create interactive lessons on your own.
4. Inquiry on Practice: video vignettes, research reports, and articles designed to encourage thinking and discussion about how to improve the teaching and learning.
A Fantastic Maths Dictionary for Kids - Interactive works every time by Jenny Eather
The Young Child and Mathematics - PDF for Educators, Offers some interesting insights.
The Frightening World of Mathematics
World Population Growth and Exponential Functions
Frightening Math About Time Wasting
Mathematics of Beauty
What has mathematics got to do with beauty? Actually, a lot. Physical attraction depends on ratio.
Our attraction to another person's body increases if that body is symmetrical and in proportion. Likewise, if a face is in proportion, we are more likely to notice it and find it beautiful.
PI
Pi has excited mathematicians for thousands of years. Why all the interest?
Time
Here's a great site for teaching the Time - interactive games as well as printout.
Fractions
Dozens of colorfully illustrated pages with explanatory lessons and interactive practice games
***** Gigafloppingly Brilliant TESSELLATIONS *****
Mathematicians define "tessellate" as covering a plane with a pattern, and it is a concept that interests scientists and artists, as well as mathematicians.
Marjorie Rice discovered four new tessellating pentagons in the late 1970's.
Japanese artist Makoto Nakamura has taken tessellations a step beyond the plane with his awesome animations. See his tessellated birds fly, his tessellated fish swim, and his
tessellated dancers dance. Next, visit Nakamura's Jigsaw Puzzles reassemble tessellated cats, pigeons, gorillas and more.
M.C. Escher,the Dutch artist and father of modern-day tessellations. Includes many of his images.
This Math Forum page is a great introduction to tessellations.
Interactive, make online tessellations.
Geometry
A famous mathematics story, I just love it. "Be patient, for the world is broad and wide."
Flatland the Movie Trailer is a great teaser video.
Graphing Resources Grades 1-8. It's also about graphs and the resources they have there are all legit. It would be great to see this small contribution of mine up on your site and I know people will benefit from it as well.
sent in by Katrina
Competitions + Problem Solving
Dr Math POWS - Problems of the week
Ask Dr Math Your problems you never have to have a problem you can't solve again at Swarthmore. This is a great place to investigate. And you can get a weekly BEATCAL email giving you the great maths trick of the week.
NRICH Enriching Mathematics site has age appropriate problems and this site also has a news letter and many other links - well worth a look.
Historical Maths
Cool site for Egyptian Calculator
Translates into heiroglyhpics, does mathematical calculations online, excellent site. Includes 16 other terrific interactive Ancient Egyptian activities.
Biographies of Women Mathematicians very comprehensive
Games
Interactive Maths K-12 deals with all strands of maths with simple manipulative java scripts.
AAA MATH Hundreds of pages of Basic Math Skills. Interactive Practice on every page.
An Explanation of the math topic on each page. Several Challenge Games on every page.
BBC Games Wheel includes Probability, means and averages etc -games are interactive and require shockwave player
Penta Play Game with Pentominoes
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Math Practice
Maths Grid Interactive
Choose from multiply divide, add, and subtract
It's pretty wild - can you take it.
The site provides math quizzes for teachers and students. You can create a quiz and select the range of numbers you'd like to use. Students can grade the quiz online and generate new problems for more practice. Sent in by John
AlwaysMath Maths Learning REsources for all ages, includes, games, expalanations and Practice Tests, also a good number of links.
