Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Math Resources

Moodle
Moodle Math documentation
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Mathematics
Pretty technical information, but accurate and detailed.

Book about teaching math with Moodle
http://www.packtpub.com/moodle-1-9-math/book

Content
http://illuminations.nctm.org/
NCTM’s free lesson and resource center, with many online applets. Note the Calculation Nation link leads to some excellent 1 and 2 player games, but require a free login account. (Guest access to try it.)

http://ohiorc.org/for/math/
An Ohio Resource Center with links to many topics by grade and content. Some high quality resources.

http://nrich.maths.org
From the British equivalent of the NCTM. Once you get past how they say ‘maths,’ there’s an excellent supply of interesting problems, some clever student solutions, and open challenges. Also features some interactive applets.

Internet Resources for in class use
http://math.hippocampus.org/
An extensive collection of online exposition of topics from algebra and calculus. (As well as Bio, Chemistry, Physics, etc. Some support for Spanish.) Includes a voice delivering reading of the text (with a skip forward feature), and assessment along the way. Not clear what the purchase of a license adds, but everything I’ve seen was free.

http://www.imagination3.com/
GE’s interactive whiteboard, open to collaboration, optional graph paper background. Colors and some shapes are possible. You can save files.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/
Wolfram|Alpha, a free computational engine online. Amazing and worth exploring. Also some encyclopedia function. Supercedes some of the older online utilities.

http://geogebra.org
GeoGebra, a free dynamic geometry program that can be used as a web app or by downloading and installing. Some powerful algebraic applications, too.

http://www.plu.edu/~heathdj/java/
A collection of java applets, from many different mathematical content areas.

http://www.univie.ac.at/future.media/moe/onlinewerkzeuge.html
Powerful collection of online tools. One of the best online function plotters (graphing calculator) is here.


Games
http://www.funbrain.com/brain/MathBrain/MathBrain.html
K-8 math games. Not very challenging, but there are students for wom this will be just right. Connected with Poptropica, which my kids love, and features some decent problem solving.

http://gprime.net/game/
Huge collection of flash games – not all kid appropriate. Some excellent math and reasoning games, though. Try 3D logic, a maze game on 3 cube faces (http://gprime.net/game.php/3dlogic), gridlock, the classic game (http://gprime.net/game.php/gridlock) or grow island, a deductive reasoning game (http://gprime.net/game.php/growisland), and one of a family of grow games (http://www.eyezmaze.com/grow/v3/index.html).

http://www.logicmazes.com/
Very challenging puzzles by a very interesting man, Robert Abbott. Also links to some games of his creation.

Utility
http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/lined/
Free graph paper pdf generator. Very handy.

Teacher
http://www.learner.org/resources/browse.html?discipline=5
Annenberg Teacher Resource Center. Extensive collection of lessons, videos of students and teachers, and professional development materials. All free. Sortable by grade level.

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