HELPFUL WEBSITES

NOTE: The collection of sites below are but a drop in the bucket of all of the information one can find on the web. I am putting these sites forward as worthy of your time to explore. However, simply going to Yahoo or an educational search engine site (such as AskERIC) can be an excellent way of finding what you need. And please don't forget about books and leading journals such as Teaching Children Mathematics and Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School from NCTM, available in the WSUV Library.

BEST GENERAL LAUNCHING POINT

http://www.refdesk.com/ is the best launch site I have found. It has current events, access to encyclopedias, and a great collection of internet search resources..

General/Lesson Plans

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/ Lesson plans, video, and technology resources in a variety of content areas (click on math).
www.nwrel.org/sky/index.php From the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) in Portland, this "library in the sky" site has all kinds of resources for various content areas (click on math).
http://mathforum.org/library/ From the Math Forum at Drexel University, this is a LARGE collection of articles, lesson plans, and other resources in mathematics.
http://www.goenc.com/ This site from the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse is huge and constantly updated. Be prepared to spend some time searching.
http://www.pasd.wednet.edu/school/mathwasl/ is an enormous collection of "WASL-like" problems along with solutions.  Very nice site for finding "good" tasks for classroom activities.
http://www.teachnet.com/ All submissions seem to come from teachers to this Teachnet site (click on math under "Lesson Plans"). Not a whole lot here, really.
Have you wanted to provide your lesson plans to others? Here's how ... http://techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=14700421

Launching Points to More Sites with Resources

http://www6.semo.edu/rpdcmath/web%20sites.htm  Great set of links, including a very good site where you can find online manipulatives that are pretty good.
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/ From Learning Page - LOTS of links to resources sites.
http://www.showmecenter.missouri.edu/ Specializes in reviewing middle school mathematics curricula. Also, great "launching point" for finding a variety of math resources, brought to you by the "Show Me Math Project".
http://scssi.scetv.org/mims/ This is the Midlands Improving Math and Science Hub; clicking on "Lesson Plans" takes you to a page of several good sites for viewing lesson plans.

Research

http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/vis/lib/library.html Home page of the Washington State University Vancouver Library. Click on "Griffin" under Library Resources to browse the collection. Click on "Databases" and scroll down to "Eric" for a a wide-range of on-line articles and materials from all fields of education (coverage is from 1966 to the present).
http://mathforum.org/mathed/mathed.research.html Links to a variety of research sites in mathematics education.
http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal This site contains "ERIC Digests", a collection of research articles available online.
http://ericir.syr.edu/Eric/ AskERIC is a searchable and comprehensible data base of research articles in the field of education. This site will give you the titles of articles in journals that can then be located in the library.
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~PErnest/reflist6.htm Site created by Paul Ernest in 1994, so it is somewhat dated, but it has tons of references nicely categorized. The list of journals at the end of the page is also good.
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/eyk/  This page contains various items from the TIMSS (Third International Mathematics and Science Study), answers, and international comparisons for each item.  Items are at the 4th, 8th, and 9th grade levels.

Important Policy Documents

WASHINGTON STATE
The Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements The "EALRs".

MATHEMATICS
The NCTM Standards The new 2000 updated version.
Crossroads in Mathematics: Standards for Introductory College Mathematics Before Calculus 1997 report from the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) containing a set of "basic principles" in regard to a math curriculum.
Quantitative Reasoning for College Graduates: A Complement to the Standards from the Mathematical Association of America.

SCIENCE
Benchmarks for Literacy This is the full text of the Project 2061 Benchmarks, maintained by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
National Science Education Standards These standards were created by the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences.

TECHNOLOGY
National Educational Technology Standards from ISTE.

Textbooks

http://www2.edc.org/mcc/ The K-12 Mathematics and Science Curriculum Center is funded by the National Science Foundation to inform and assist schools and districts as they select and implement standards-based mathematics curricula.
Project 2061 This is the AAAS review of 12 middle school math textbooks.
http://www.project2061.org/newsinfo/research/textbook/hsalg/outcome.htm This is the AAAS review of 12 high school algebra textbooks.
http://www.enc.org/professional/federalresources/exemplary/ Click on "Exemplary and Promising Mathematics Programs Report" for reviews of (EXEMPLARY PROGRAMS) Cognitive Tutor Algebra, College Preparatory Mathematics (CPM), Connected Mathematics, Core-Plus Mathematics Project, Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP), (PROMISING PROGRAMS) Everyday Mathematics, MathLand, Middle-school Mathematics through Applications Project (MMAP), Number Power, and The University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP).
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/triedandtrue/index.html Click on CSMP under "Instructional Content and Practice" for an overview of the UCSMP program description & lessons. Many other non-mathematical sources at this site.

Various Topics

ESL and Math Instruction http://www.stanford.edu/~kerrye/math.htm Great collection of research and resources.
Writing in the Math Class http://mathforum.com/library/ed_topics/writing_in_math/branch.html Communication in the mathematics classroom section of the Math Forum.
http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/slavitd/WritingInMath.html A long and fairly thorough list of article citations on writing in the context of mathematics teaching and learning can be found at this site.
Parental Involvement http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Math/ Published by the US Secretary of Education in 1999, this book is designed to give ideas to teachers in promoting the support of parents in their children's mathematical learning.
Comics http://www.csun.edu/~hcmth014/comics.html Math comics and cartoons!!!!
Mayan Mathematics http://www.cancunsteve.com/mayan.htm Activities and information about Mayan mathematics.
Biographies of Mathematicians http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/ Very large and excellent collection of stories, portraits, and important events in the lives of numerous mathematicians (from Abbe to Zygmund!!!).
Resources for Teachng Math to Rural Populations http://kant.citl.ohiou.edu/ACCLAIM/rc/rc_sub/pub/1_nl/rme/index.html Resources and an on-line journal.

Games and Fun Stuff

http://www.aplusmath.com/Games/index.html JAVA MATH GAMES FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS. Matho is a combination of math and Bingo... also play Hidden Picture and Concentration.
http://www.conk.com/puzzle/maze-ez.htm MAGIC MAZES AT CONK! Does the title mean you conk your head if you can't figure out the mazes?? For grades three and up.
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/ MEGA MATHEMATICS. Welcome to the Hotel Infinity... isn't that a great, intriguing title? Or how about, Machines That Eat Your Words? Here's more: Games on Graphs; Algorythms & Ice Cream For All; Untangling the Math of Knots, etc. Each unit comes with an overview, evaluation, preparation, and activities. Challenging and often remarkable fun!
http://www.suzannesutton.com/about.htm NEWTON'S WINDOW. Throw out those math drills, here comes Newtons' Window, packed with resources--for activities, try Tidbits and Challenges, or this Month's Tidbits.
http://www.mathpuzzle.com/ MATH PUZZLE.COM. Puzzles ala Martin Gardner, with several challenging links as well. NPR's Sunday Challenge Puzzles are included, as are contests and other math challenges of note.
http://www.geocities.com/~harveyh/ MAGIC SQUARES & MAGIC STARS. Numbers, stars, patterns, squares; lots of fun and challenging puzzles.
http://www.vendian.org/envelope/dir2/day_of_dots_clock/?do=12:04:43#topofclock  Graphic representation of the passage of time in one day.  One dot = one second.

Grant Opportunities for Teachers

http://www.donorschoose.org/  The DonorsChooseSM model of citizen philanthropy begins with a teacher who wants to provide his or her students with an activity that school funds would not cover. At this website, the teacher can describe a student project and list the materials needed to make it possible.  Next, civic-minded individuals can browse teachers' submissions. A donor can make a tax-deductible contribution that fully or partially funds a chosen proposal.
http://www.nwesd.org/151010611143022147/blank/browse.asp?a=383&c=54448 The Teacher Leadership Project is an initiative that provides training and hardware to facilitate the integration of technology into the classroom. It is an annual award and the applications come out around the first of each year.
http://www.ed.gov/funding.html Funding opportunities provided by the U.S. Department of Education.

Secondary Mathematics

http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/html.f/resource.xml From the U. of Illinois, this is a collection of secondary math and science lessons and other resources.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com LARGE collection of resources for high school and college math.

Geometry, Symmetry, Tesselations, etc.

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.html Great site on Euclid's Elements.
http://comp.uark.edu/~cgstraus/ Entire unit on symmetry.
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/briston/briston.tessel.html Entire unit on tesselations.
http://www.tessellations.com/index.html
Lots of stuff on tesselations. http://www.WorldOfEscher.com/ Large amount of material devoted to the life and work of M.C. Escher, with lots of tesselation products, ideas, and activites.
http://www.etropolis.com/escher/ Escher drawings and sketches.

Geometer's Sketchpad

http://www.keypress.com/sketchpad/index.html Web address for Geometer's Sketchpad (does not print or save files, but is fully functional)

Advanced Statistics

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/hyperstat/Statistical_analyses.html Contains various tools for statistical analyses.
http://www.psychstat.smsu.edu/MultiBook/mlt00.htm Multivariate Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications by David Stockburger of Southwest Missouri State University is worth a visit, if only to see the interactive graphics of the dataclouds.
http://www.cne.gmu.edu/modules/dau/stat A site with some modern topics (e.g., clustering methods).
http://trochim.human.cornell.edu A general overview of data based reasearch methods has been developed by William Trochim of Cornell. Called the Knowledge Base, it's a modern guide through survey, sampling, experimental design and analyses for social scientists (choose the link for Knowledge Base).

Fibonacci Numbers

A biographical entry for Fibonacci can be found in the University of St. Andrews's History of Mathematics Archive.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Fibonacci.html
Another Biography of Leonardo Fibonacci can be found in an article on the history of algebra by Karen Hunger Parshall.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/science/parshall/fibonacc.html
The Fibonacci Quarterly has a home page. (Unfortunately, the text of articles appearing in the Quarterly is not available on-line.)
http://www.sdstate.edu/~wcsc/http/fibhome.html
The Seventh International Conference on Fibonacci Numbers and their Applications was held July 14-19 1996 in Graz (Austria).
The Eighth International Conference on Fibonacci numbers and their applications took place at the Rochester Institute of Technology from June 21-June 26, 1998.
http://www.sdstate.edu/~wcsc/http/fibconfer.html
A paper with spreadsheet activities for Fibonacci numbers can be found at:
http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emt669/Student.Folders/Jeon.Kyungsoon/writeup5/writeup5.html

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