Famous Mathematicians

Math Activites for Students

Virtual Library of Manipulatives
Fill and Pour

PBS Kids --Pour to Score
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/hardproblems/hardproblems.html

MathGames.com
http://themathgames.com/

Exploring the area of a triangle
http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=106

Mathfrog- online games and activities for grades 4, 5 and 6
http://cemc.uwaterloo.ca/mathfrog/openingpage.html

Math Central-- resources for teachers and students
http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/

Figure This! take the math challenge
http://www.figurethis.org/index.html

Purple Math ---for help with algebra
http://www.purplemath.com/

aaamath.com- math activities about many topics.
http://www.321know.com/

Math Playground
http://www.mathplayground.com/index.html

Math Forum- Problems of the Week

Math Lesson Plans

Access the Connecticut CMT
Fourth Generation Handbook.
This will be a pdf file.

Links to specific lessons

Estimation

Fun with estimation
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/math/math24.txt

Estimating the number of cars in a parking lot.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L265

Grid it and Percent It
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L249

Developing Number Sense
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L252

Let's Measure!

A Game of Estimation and Measurement

Professional Organizations

Illuminations Lesson Plans by the NCTM

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

AAAKnowMath

Berit's Best Math Sites

Education Planet

Cornell University Math Gateway

Math Forum from Drexel University

Mathworld

AllMath

Geometry and Measurement

An Introduction to Area and Perimeter

Circles, Diameter, Radius and Pi

Scavenger Hunt for Lengths

Tessellations

Translations, Reflections, Rotation

Data and Graphing Lessons

Alphabet Soup- Recognizing the Mean, Mode and the Median

Every Breath You Take

Eat Your Veggies- using a variety of graphs

Representing Data- applying data to real
world situations

Weather Watchers- stem leaf plots

Algebraic Reasoning- Patterns and Functions

Patterns that Grow

Two Problems that can be Solved in Several Different Ways

Sets and Venn Diagrams