MATH RESOURCE SITES

http://www.thatquiz.com

Online maths quiz – it not only gives % correct but also time taken to answer questions which may help students improve their speedy number facts

Tessellation Sites

What are tessellations - www.coolmath.com/tesspag1.htm

Create your own Tessellations and Tangrams

www.mathcats.com/explore/tessellationtown.html

Tessellations - NLVM

4L Puzzle Maths tangrams

Tessellation Print Outs

http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/tess/dohexsq.htm

HISTORY OF GEOMETRY AND NUMBER

http://www.subtangent.com/maths/index.php

Great interactive  whiteboard sites suitable for upper primary age.
 

http://www.geogebra.org/cms/

Primary School - www.primaryschool.com.au/

A site created and maintained by Charlie O'Sullivan, an Australian Primary School Teacher. Containing a link to a variety of online resources.

Math resources for Primary Teachers - lots of printable worksheets and online math games.

http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/de/math1-3/index.html

Links for board games at:

http://www.primaryschool.com.au/free-teacher-resourcesresults.php?strand=Free%20Board%20Games&grade=General

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

This is the 'National Library of Virtual Manipulatives' at Utah State Uni, and about which a NYTimes article today asserts, "It's extremely effective, particularly in helping students in all grades understand fractions .. It was developed by math teachers for math students .."

 

Gail Lovely - Resources - www.gaillovely.com/resources.htm

Gail Lovely has a collection of links to resources suitable for early childhood. Topics include reading and literacy, maths, tsunamis, hurricanes and seasonal resources such as Christmas, New Year and Polar Express.

21st Century Problem Solving Home Page   - www.hawaii.edu/suremath/home.html

Category: Structure & Properties  Working Mathematically  Working Scientifically 
This site is directed to students, teachers, administrators, parents and other professionals. It is dedicated to promoting problem solving literacy. It provides links to Physical problems which are explained and solved.
 

AskNumbers  www.asknumbers.com/

Category:Working Scientifically  Working Mathematically 
Asknumbers.com is an online conversion site to convert any type of units of weights, length, pressure, volume, currency and more.

Aunty Math  - www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org/aunty/index.html

Category:Thinking Skills  Working Mathematically 
Every second week, "Aunty Math" presents a new math challenge to the internet audience via the DuPage Children's Museum site. Each challenge is presented in the form of a story taken from the life of Aunty Math, her two nephews Barney and Danny, and her niece Gina. Aunty Math challenges present an opportunity for students in grades K-5 to use their math and thinking skills to solve various problems. These challenges can be found on the Challenge of the Week page.

BBC KS2 ReviseWise Maths  - www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/maths/

Category:Working Mathematically 
Created to assist UK students 4-11 years to prepare for the National Tests in Maths, this site contains some engaging learning objects and online activities. Topics relate to varying age levels and include number, data handling, shape, space and measure, mental maths, and maths problems.

BBC Skillswise - Numbers - www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/

Category: Literacy & Numeracy  Chance & Data  Measurement  Number  Working Mathematically  Work Readiness 
BBC Skillswise enables adults to number skills by providing numeracy development resources - the focus is on whole numbers, basic skills, measures, shapes, space, fractions, decimals, percentages, and handling data.

Brain Teasers  - www.eduplace.com/math/brain/index.html

Category: Thinking Skills  Working Mathematically 
Each Wednesday this site provides a new set of brain teasers. Most are based on maths or logic. There are 3 sets: one each for grades 3-4, 5-6, 7-8. Answers are provided for the previous week's teaser. Hints are given for the current brain teaser.


Connecting Mathematics: Maths Thesaurus - :http://thesaurus.maths.org/mmkb/topics.html

Category: Working Mathematically  Vocabularies 
This maths thesaurus site contains brief explanations of mathematical terms and ideas in English, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Polish and Slovak, and also maps connections between mathematical concepts. There is a thesaurus.maths.org user and editor community, and both the content and the code of the site are available under open source licences.

Count On - www.counton.org/

Category:Online Games & Activities  Working Mathematically 
Count On, originally created for MathsYear2000, has a mission to popularise maths, making it a 'can-do' subject and promoting maths for all. It features Maths MagNet, a maths e-zine aimed at early childhood; Numberland; Puzzle of the day; and Matrix, a mathematical online museum. The site also contains Maths games, and resources for senior secondary students.

Create a Graph - http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/index.asp

Category:Global Education Data Sets  Chance & Data  Working Mathematically 
Users of this site from the US National Center for Education Statistics can select from five graph formats, decide on display options, add data, and generate a graph which can then be printed and/or saved. 

CyberChallenge - www.mathmastery.com/cyberchallenge/

Category:Thinking Skills  Working Mathematically 
CyberChallenge is an interactive site that allows students to test their mental arithmetic. Users choose one of addition, subtraction, multiplication or division and see how many problems they can answer in 60 seconds. When time is up, they are presented with an anlaysis of their answers and an opportunity to record their scores for later comparison. Macromedia Flash 5 player is required to play CyberChallenge.

Excel Tutorial - http://einstein.cs.uri.edu/tutorials/csc101/pc/excel97/excel.html

Category:Tutorials  Computing, Information Studies, Information Processing  Working Mathematically 
Presented by United States' University of Rhode Island, Department of Computer Science and Statistics. This tutorial covers : What is Excel; Getting started; Creating a simple workbook; Writing formulas using operators and functions; Formatting the appearance of a workbook; Advanced Excel (Copying Cells); Linking documents in Excel; Creating charts. For lower and upper secondary students. This tutorial is copyrighted by the Department of Computer Science at The University of Rhode Island. It may be freely copied and used providing that acknowledgement is given to the URI Dept. of Computer Science and that it is not used for profit.

Figure This! Math Challenge - www.figurethis.org/

Category:General  Working Mathematically  Supporting Learning in the Home 
Figure This! Mathematics Challenges for Families provides interesting maths challenges that middle-school students can do at home with their families. Each challenge features: a description of the important maths involved, a note on where the maths is used in the real world, a hint to get started, complete solutions

Hand-On Maths Activities for Grades 4-6  - http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/RR/database/RR.09.99/sawatzky1/

Category:Working Mathematically  Number  Space  Measurement 
Teacher notes and ready-made task cards are available for each activity in this site. Many of the activities use a game board or a card game. Activities are available for Numbers and Operations, Geometry, Problem Solving, Data Management and Analysis, and Measurement.

Illuminations - Grades Pre-K - 12  - http://illuminations.nctm.org/

Category:Numeracy  Working Mathematically 
This page contains activities and resources that are appropriate for teachers at the PreK-12 grade level to use as they reflect on, plan for, and implement mathematics education in their classrooms. There are online, interactive, multimedia math investigations, selected web resources, lesson plans, learning objects and interactive maths tools

Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles - www.cut-the-knot.org/content.shtml

Category:Working Mathematically  General 
Tons of interactive puzzles and discussions, involving algebra, probability, group theory, chaos, magic squares and more! Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles. Math puzzles. Interactive education. A lot of math information for teachers, students and parents. Work out and enjoy mathematics. Explore unexpected connections

Math Forum: Games for Math and Social Skills - http://mathforum.org/alejandre/cooperate.html

Category:Working Mathematically  Thinking Skills 
This page lists different mathematical games to use to introduce and/or reinforce cooperative learning. Many of the games focus on teamwork.

Math Forum: K-12 Problems, Puzzles, Tips, and Tricks - http://mathforum.org/k12/mathtips/

Category:Working Mathematically  Number 
These pages from Math Forum @ Drexel contain sets of math problems and puzzles, and computation tips and tricks to speed up your calculations. They include divisibility rules for numbers 3-13, hints for multiplying by 5, 9, and 11, and more than 350 mental calculation tricks.

Math Playground  - www.mathplayground.com/

Category:Working Mathematically  Online Games & Activities 
Math Playground is a mathematics learning site sponsored by the Math Advantage Learning Center for students in grades K-6. They offer these resources at no cost: Addition and Subtraction Word Problem Practice; The Amazing Adventures of Astro; Multiplication and Division Word Problem Practice; Grand Slam Math; Practice Math Facts; Play a Math Game; Create Math Worksheets; Solve a Math Quiz; and Try a Logic Game
 

Maths Games for Young Kids - http://resources.kaboose.com/games/math1.html

This website contains printable and interactive online activities for young students aged between 3 - 6. From learning numbers and matching numbers to easy addition this resource is a great way to encourage math whilst using ICTs.

Chris's Virtual Clock and Watch Collection -  http://csmith.info/clocks/teachingtime/

This online clock and watch collection provides resources for teaching the time. Similar to a 'Judy clock' the hour hand moves with the minute hand as the time is changed. It includes both analogue and digital clocks.


Change Maker   - http://www.funbrain.com/funbrain/cashreg/

This online game allows the user to choose to play in Australian, American, Canadian, or Mexican dollars or British pounds. There are 10 'how much change' questions in each round, and four levels of difficulty. The currencies are graphically represented but only by coins.

Click Mazes - Interactive Puzzles and Mazes - http://www.clickmazes.com/
Clickmazes contains a variety of unique interactive puzzles and mazes which can be played online. There are simple traditional mazes, some in which certain directions are disabled and others where pathways weave over and under each other.

Clock Wise   - http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/clock2/index.html

This activity allows the user to input any time through the day on a digital clock and see it displayed on the clock face. The user can also choose to have a random time displayed on the clock face and try to correctly identify it. The second activity is graded easy, medium and hard


Easy Test Maker   - http://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspx

Easy Test Maker is a free online test generator to create test. With Easy Test Maker you can create multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions all on the same test. You can also insert instructions and divide your test into multiple sections.

Flowering Fractions   - http://www.learningbox.com/fractions/index.html

These virtual flowers are missing different numbers of petals. Students must correctly match the falling petals to their respective flowers before they fall to the ground
 

Well worth having a look at - http://www.mathcats.com/contents.html  This site encourages the browser to join the Math Cats in a land of creative open-ended maths exploration. The magic chalkboard takes you to interactive maths activities and the maths art gallery includes geometry, symmetry, tessellations, probability, animation and much more.

Shared learning site - http://www.curriculum.edu.au/catalogue/elearning/?lar_id=MATH

A+ Math Flashcards - www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/index.htm

This site contains free Java Flashcards to be used online: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Square Roots, and Rounding. It contains also a Flashcard Creator - Create sets of flashcards for printing. There are also non-Java Flashcards for Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division, Advanced Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division, Order of Operations, Geometric Area, Algebra, Fraction Inequalities, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication,Division with Negative Numbers, Inequalities, Multiplying and Simplifying Fractions, Money, and Geometric Shapes.

Maths Learning Wave Online http://www.learningwave.com/lwonline/workingfront/frontwave.html

Learning Wave Online is a classroom resource for interactive mathematics. Each topic contains explanations of the concepts and interactive practice designed to engage and challenge students. Topics include Number Theory, Integers, Decimals, Fractions, Percent, Probability, Algebra, and Geometry.

A great site for math and lots of other activities - www.beenleigss.qld.edu.au

Clock Wise - www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/clock2/index.html

This activity allows the user to input any time through the day on a digital clock and see it displayed on the clock face. The user can also choose to have a random time displayed on the clock face and try to correctly identify it. The second activity is graded easy, medium and hard.

OCSD Interactive Games - http://www.oswego.org/staff/cchamber/techno/games.htm

This site contains a number of flash-generated interactive maths games allowing students to practice skills of estimating angles, basic calculations, sequences, telling the time, and learning co-ordinates.

Project Interactivate Activities - http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/index.html

The activities available here are designed for either group or individual exploration into concepts from middle school mathematics. The activities are Java applets and as such require a java-capable browser. They cover fractions, factors, estimations, geometry and measurement concepts, algebra, functions, graphs, statistics and probability.

Just In Time: Activities for the Classroom    www.fi.edu/time/Journey/JustInTime/

Lesson plans, printed materials and interactive activities for teaching and learning about Time. Telling the time, Clocks, Hours, Elapsed Time, Calendars, and Time zones, Changing time, Science and Time, and Seasons.

Illuminations - Grades Pre-K-2  www.illuminations.nctm.org/pages/prek2.html

This page contains activities and resources that are appropriate for teachers at the Pre-K-2 grade level to use as they reflect on, plan for, and implement mathematics education in their classrooms. There are online, interactive, multimedia math investigations, selected web resources, lesson plans, learning objects and interactive maths tools.

EdNA Online Mathematics Categories - www.edna.edu.au/browse/0,3830,759,571

* Algebra    * Chance & Data    * Graphics Calculators    * Measurement    * Number    * Space   * Working Mathematically    * Senior Secondary    * Mathematics Learning Quests    * Lesson Plans & Units of Instruction  

MathTools: - http//mathforum.org/mathtools/cell.html?&new_co=pk

This website gives a compilation of math tools for all years. Covering topics such as pattern blocks, operations with numbers, addition, subtraction, number sense and counting, the site links to a variety of learning objects and mathematical interactive games. For some there are suggested lesson plans and procedures. Others are self-explanatory.