Principles and Standards of School Mathematics Released

Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, the newly revised National Council of Teachers of Mathematics national standards, espouses rigorous, high-quality mathematics instruction for all K-12 students.  It envisions knowledgeable teachers who have adequate support and ongoing access to professional development, a curriculum that is mathematically rich and which provides students with opportunities to learn important mathematical concepts and procedures with understanding, and students who have access to technologies that broaden and deepen their understanding of mathematics.  For information on this exciting document visit the NCTM Web site at http://www.nctm.org/standards/defalt.aspx?id=58 or call (800) 235-7566.  To download the Electronic Standards version and the Curriculum Focal Points, go to http://www.standards.nctm.org .

Conferences/Meetings/Events

Making A Job Registration Form a program for teachers that teach middle and junior high school students focusing on business creation

     National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

http://www.nctm.org

NCTM Conferences/Meetings - Plan ahead to attend one of these future National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual or Regional Meetings.  Joining with thousands of mathematics teachers coming together to share ideas, experiences, and resources is a sure way to enhance your mathematics program as well as avoid burn-out.

MCTM Mississippi Council of Teachers of Mathematics http://www.mctmonline.com/index.htm. Go to http://www.mctmonline.com/index.htm/conference.htm to register for MCTM Fall Conference.

Mathematics Resources on the Internet

http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids/imageFolio.cgi?direct=Clipart/Mathematics
http://www.jc-schools.net/instruct/math-symbols.html
http://school.discovery.com/clipart/category/math1.html
http://www.clipartforteachers.com/mservlet?cmd=loadPage&pg=default&fin=math
Math Clipart

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/math.html
Discovery Schools - Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Mathematics

Cynthia Lanius Math Lessons
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/
Math lessons that are fun, fun, fun!

Mathline  New 12/14/00
http://www.pbs.org/mathline/
A professional development program that includes Internet-based learning communities facilitated by experienced classroom teachers.

Ideas for Math Centers
http://www.track0.com/canteach/elementary/mathcentres.html
For grades K-2, numerous suggestions will inject your math centers with some new activities for measurement, patterns, numbers and equations, and geometry

Aplusmath.com Worksheets
http://www.aplusmath.com/Worksheets/index.html
At this site you are able to create free math worksheets in addition, subtraction, fractions, multiplication, division, and order of operations for all skill levels.

Math.com
http://www.math.com
A free site providing math help for students, parents, and teachers.  It includes homework help, games and puzzles, math practice and test preparation, on-line calculators, and more.

MathNerds
http://www.mathnerds.com
MathNerds provides free, discovery-based, mathematical guidance via an international, volunteer network of mathematicians. MathNerds does not supply answers to homework, take home tests and the like; rather, they provide hints, suggestions, and references to help clients understand and solve their mathematical problems.

FunBrain.com
http://www.funbrain.com
This award-winning interactive learning and entertainment website that links children, parents and teachers is a member of the FamilyEducation Network, the Internet’s largest K-12 and parent network.  It features games, quizzes, and help for teachers and parents.

Figure This!  Math Challenges for Families
http://www.figurethis.org
This site includes challenging problems for students and their families to solve along with hints and multiple solutions.  It also includes a Family Corner with math resources for parents and advice on how they can help their children be successful in and get the most out of mathematics.

Arithmetic
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/iongoal/index.htm
This site deals with K-8 mathematics and contains over 200 pages of lessons.  Each lesson features interactive practice, challenge games and an explanation of the topic.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
http://www.nctm.org
Grades K-12. This site provides updates on publications, meetings, and links to related mathematics education sites.

Math Education: Problem of the Week
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~mathed/problem.html
Each week a new mathematical problem is posted. Students are encouraged to provide a solution. Each correct solution for the week will be entered in the weekly drawing for a CASIO FX-280 Solar, Scientific Calculator.

Helping Your Child Learn Math
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Math/index.html
This site is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement. Most parents will agree that it is a wonderful experience to cuddle up with their child and a good book. Few people will say that about flash cards or pages of math problems. For that reason, this site offers some math activities that are meaningful as well as fun. Parents might want to try doing some of them to help their child explore relationships, solve problems, and see math in a positive light. These activities use materials that are easy to find. They have been planned so the parent and child might see that math is not just work to do at school but, rather, a part of life.

The Geometry Center
http://www.geom.umn.edu
These are resources that the Geometry Center makes available to the world-wide web community. They include the following categories: Interactive Web Applications (These are programs that you can run over the Web using the fill-out forms capabilities of your browser. They allow you to investigate some interesting areas of current mathematics by providing you with the means to manipulate the mathematical objects directly. Most include descriptions of the underlying theory, as well as interactive graphics.); Interactive Java Applications (These are Java applets developed at the Geometry Center. Unlike the web applications these run locally on your own computer, which makes them more interactive. But you need to have a java-compatible browser - like Netscape 2.0 - These applets allow you to investigate some areas of current mathematical research.); Multimedia Documents (These are hypertext documents on a variety of topics in mathematics. They include research papers as well as papers of a more expository nature.); and Geometry Reference Archives (These pages contain several hypertex-based reference works developed at the Geometry Center, and provided as a service to the Web community.)

The Math Forum
http://forum.swarthmore.edu
This project is an outgrowth of the Geometry Forum project which established an electronic community where all interested in geometry could turn to find colleagues and resources on the Internet, from kindergarten to college, and venturing into other areas of mathematics. Expanded activities included: Internet workshops for teachers, summaries of math education research published on the newsgroups, school networking support, Ask Dr. Math, the Elementary Problem of the Week, project archives and Internet mathematics resource indexes, web-based lessons and classroom materials.

Calculus & Mathematics
http://www-cm.math.uiuc.edu/
Calculus & Mathematics presents a complete rethinking of: the mathematics of calculus; calculus as a first course in scientific measurement; mathematics as an empirical science; how to present calculus ideas visually; what students do in calculus; what motivates students to do calculus; helping students realize that calculus is a discipline connected with reality; how to give students a sense of accomplishment; how to motivate students to want to write about calculus; how a math class should be conducted; and how technology should be used in mathematics education.

The Internet Geometry Hunt
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/hunt/index.html
This is a new monthly project from the Math Forum, the Internet Geometry Hunt. It consists of questions about math and mathematicians, often related to geometry, to which the answers can be found on the Internet.

Math Proficiency Test
http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/Other_Groups/K-12/p_test/math_pro1.html
Want to see how good you are? This site is a proficiency test for 9th graders. It is well designed and explains all answers and how you might get there. Can you make it through without errors?

Calculus Graphics
http://www.math.psu.edu/dna/graphics.html
Excerpts from a collection of graphical demonstrations developed for first year calculus.

Fun With Probability
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/mcornell/cerealbox/
A cooperative classroom project for grades k-9. Project participants jointly calculated the expected value of a simple probability problem via experimentation.

Ice Cream Stand Problem
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/workbk/dom/doice.html
In this activity, a graph is used to represent the map of a city. Students may experiment with a variety of approaches to solve this problem.

The Office for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (MSTE)
http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/
At this site you will find lessons and curriculum resources.

Yahoo Math Subject Tree
http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Mathematics/
Includes hundreds of links to math related sites.

America Counts
http://www.ed.gov/americacounts/
This site contains resource information related to the America Counts six strategic goals:

• Equip teachers to teach challenging mathematics through high-quality preparation and ongoing professional growth.
• Provide personal attention and additional learning time for students.
• Support high-quality research to inform best practices of mathematics teaching and learning.
• Build public understanding of the mathematics today's students must master.
• Encourage a challenging and engaging curriculum for all students based on rigorous standards.
• Promote the coordinated and effective use of Federal, State, and local resources.

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Revised 07/1/10