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Middle School
Math Internet Resources
All Mathematical Topics
PBS Teacher Source-
Math
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PBS TeacherSource
provides math lesson plans and activities for all grade levels,
preschool through high school. For instance, choose Geometry for grades
3-5 and get 42 projects ranging from bridge building to tessellations
to the geometry of bike design to "Sir Cumference and the First Round
Table." Many activities are interactive and you can match the activity
to state standards. |
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Stock Market Game |
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Math Java Applets |
great
for middle and high school math courses to use with an interactive
whiteboard; contains some fraction topics as well |
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Yenka |
700
classroom resources (interactive animations and graphics) for students
14-16 years old in math and physics |
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Thinking Blocks |
An interactive math tool created by
classroom teachers to help students learn how to solve multi-step math
problems |
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Interactive Math Dictionary |
A Math Dictionary for kids which includes
examples, interactive elements, and practice sections |
The
National Math Trail
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The National Math Trail Internet
project contains real-world examples of mathematics. It also provides
an opportunity for students to develop an understanding of concepts and
to just practice skills. Teachers can integrate technology into the
project at beginner, intermediate, or advanced levels. Exceptionally
detailed, this site contains lesson plans, learning exercises, rubric
assessments, examples of student work, resource guides, technology
ideas, and more — all documented with video clips. |
Shodor Project
Interactivate
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Contains over 100 Java based
interactive math activities that explore many areas of mathematics.
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Math TV Problem Solving |
Math Teaching Videos for Middle Schoolers
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Dr. Super's Virtual &
Concrete Math Manipulatives
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Geared towards students in
grades 3-8, this site enables students to manipulate shapes to create
their own geometry exercises.
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Math Teaching Resources |
Java programs, flash movies and
interactive templates |
Drexel's Math Forum
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This site contains the "Ask Dr.
Math" section which lets students send in questions about math and have
them answered by mathematicians. For teachers, the site contains
a teacher to teacher message board.
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Kaidy
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Kaidy manufactures math
manipulatives for younger math students. This site contains free
puzzles to download. This site was recommended by the School
Library Journal.
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BBC-Brainbox Challenge |
Challenging activities for students to
solve such as Shaping Up and Total Recall- great to use
with a SMARTboard |
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Scholastic
Math Hunt |
Math problems based on science and social
studies information |
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Learn with Math Games |
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CPMP Math Tools |
Algebra, geometry, discrete math and more
java applets |
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Math247 Wiki |
math screencasts made by students and
teachers geared for K-7 |
Number and Operations
Cookies for Grampy
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This
activity
requires students to make a cookie
for Grampy with fractional pieces. As
the student builds the cookie with the fractions, it shows both a
visual and
the fraction that is built so far. The
student must decide what fraction to then add to that to make the whole
cookie. |
Number
Line Bounce
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This virtual manipulative can be used to
visualize a
sequence of operations on a number line and to create number sentences
representing the operations. |
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The Math’s
File Game Show
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Activities
can be done alone or as a group. Students
practice place value, algebra,
probability, decimals, and negative numbers. Contains games and
teacher guides with print out
activities. |
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Count On-
Where’s the Monkey Activity
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Using a grid
and a city map, the student must
find where the monkey is located. This
is a great activity to do alone or in small groups and then discuss
strategies. |
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Math-O |
Interactive order of operations game |
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Aunty
Math
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Math Challenges for younger students. Students find out
about Aunty Math and her
family and every other week, she posts a story about something related
to her
life and family. With each story, there
is a problem. Students must try to
figure out how to solve the problem and then post on her site their
solution (a
form is provided on the site). Aunty
Math then personally responds to their findings. These
story problems can be done as a class
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Algebra
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Lure of the
Labyrinth |
is a digital game for
middle-school pre-algebra students. It includes a wealth of intriguing
math-based puzzles wrapped into an exciting narrative game in which
students work to find their lost pet - and save the world from monsters!
Linked to both national and state mathematics standards, the game gives
students a chance to actually think like mathematicians.
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Domino Activity
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Students
explore whether it is possible to cover
a 6x5 grid with 15 dominoes, then build a variety of "brick walls"
and create a brick wall catalogue. |
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Traffic Jam
Problem
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Everyone must move so that the people
originally standing on
the right-hand stepping stones are on the left-hand stones, and those
originally standing on the left-hand stepping stones are on the
right-hand
stones, with the center stone again unoccupied. Contains a
java-applet.
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Fractals:
An Introductory Lesson
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Introduces
what a fractal is and allow students
to explore different kinds of fractals. This activity is not
entirely project-based but does allow
for a
tremendous amount of discussion.
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Algebra-Fun
With Calendars
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Uses a fun
mathematical puzzle to demonstrate
solving a simple linear equation. It's an average math trick, but it's
an
excellent activity to demonstrate algebraic applications. |
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Interactive
Problem Solving
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Assists students in solving algebra story
problems. Helps students understand what
the problem is
focused on in a step by step process. After taking students
through the process, the students
can then solve a
variety of algebra problems that are on the site:
http://www.hawaii.edu/suremath/intro_algebra.html
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Geometry
| Paper Pool
Activity |
The interactive
paper pool game in this i-Math investigation provides an opportunity
for students to further develop their understanding of ratio,
proportion, and least common multiple. |
Attribute
Trains
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This activity
involves practice of recognizing
patterns. The student must figure out
first if the pattern relates to numbers, shapes or colors, they try to
complete
the pattern.
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Transformations
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Students go through a variety of steps to
understand
transformations and then they are able to change shapes using
rotations,
reflections, translations or enlargements - and their mouse. The
colored grids on the activity allows for
more of a challenge. Students do the
following things with this activity:
Observe, understand, explore, and construct
The
tools for each are similar to Geometer Sketchpad
tools and allows for students to manipulate shapes using their mouse. |
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How
Big is a Whale?
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Lesson plan
which incorporates the web and has
students compare the lengths of three different types of whales to the
size of
trucks by using web resources and geometric concepts. |
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Pyramid
Puzzle
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This web
activity could be an integrated
activity with a social studies class. Students must figure out
the cost of building a pyramid
using today’s
resources and ancient methods. In teams students will plan, collect
data,
submit a bid for the job (only the lowest bidding company will be
awarded the
job), create a scale drawing and model, and present a final report to
the
class. |
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Interactives: British and Metric Conversions |
Explains how to convert mass units and
how metric and English symbols are used to measure and express volume,
length, temperature, and mass |
Data Analysis
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Mighty M&M Math
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Students
predict colors of M&M’s in a bag,
find the actual percentages of those M&M’s, report their findings
and hear
back from other schools around the world that did the same
activity.
A great way to combine math and geography. |
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Global Grocery
List
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Global Grocery List is a long standing
Internet project that
asks classes to go to their local grocery stores and record the prices
for a
list of common items that they can compare to prices in other parts of
the
world.
Complete instructions found at:
http://www.landmark-project.com/ggl/
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Income
Levels &
Social Class: is it all about cash?
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Students
will analyze income levels and cost of living expenses then relate them
to
social class.
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Probability
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Coin
Flipper
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(note: you need microworlds web player in
order to run
program which can be downloaded from site)
This
activity should be either an introductory
activity or a follow up to a lesson. |
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High Low Game
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In this game,
students must predict if the next
card will be higher or lower than the one given. This
activity is a great way to begin a unit
on probability and discuss chance and percentages of what the next card
will
be. |
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Racing
Game with Two Dice
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Players roll
two dice, the lucky player moves
one step to the finish, or everybody moves one step and the lucky
player moves
two steps to the finish. Parameters: the number of players, number of
trials
and length of the race.
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Master
Web
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The object is to decipher the code
represented by a series
of colored balls. There are several features to make the game more or
less
challenging. Students must try to
solve
the code. Students could use this
activity in conjunction with a math game evaluation that students do on
math
games. Students can be provided with a
scoring rubric, decide whether the game is good or not, show it to the
class,
explain how to play it and decide if it is challenging.
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Problem Solving
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The Game of Rush
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This game is
also known as the traffic game
where students must figure out a way to get their car out of the maze
in as few
tries as possible. Teams of students can
try the activity and a class discussion can take place on which team
got out
first. The games get progressively more
difficult and as they do, it really promotes some great discussion. |
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Distance Rate Time |
Distance, rate and time investigations in traffic control sponsored by
NASA |
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The Cereal
Box Problem
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Contains an online simulation which involves
students
predicting how many boxes of cereal they would have to buy in order to
get all
the different prizes the cereal company was giving away. This
activity is really a great probability
project so it could be placed under the probability category.
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Playing
Mankala
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Strategic game consisting of seven pits
where seeds are
placed one at a time, into the successive pits, moving
counter-clockwise around
the board. The game ends when all of the pits on one side of the board
are
empty. The player with seeds remaining gets to put them.
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Numerical
Amusements
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A variety of
number oriented math puzzles with
directions and some guidance for students to work and play with.
Contains puzzles and then explanations on why
it works the way it does. These are
great activities for times in math class when you have about 15 minutes
left of
class. It also encourages group work and
discussion. |
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Numbers
in Nature
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Explores the
Fibonacci sequence using a sea
shell and a variety of concepts. Students are taken on guided
tour and expected to solve
problems along
the way. |
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The Mint
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This site
focuses on helping students become
more aware of what to do with their money. There are so many
great projects to do on this site, I
can’t list just
one. This is a great site for a career
club. |
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