High School Mathematics
Hot Lists Educational Services
Basic Skills
- Funbrain.com Games a quizzes on more basic concepts. http://www.funbrain.com
- Interactive Mathematics Activities Over 350 online mathematics activities for all ages http://www.cut-the-knot.com/Curriculum/index.shtml
- MathGoodies Basically a pre-algebra site—percent, area, circumference, etc. http://www.mathgoodies.com/
General Topics
- Computing Technology for Math Excellence VERY comprehensive site with material for all grade levels http://www.ct4me.net/
- Curious Math A collection of tips and shortcuts for all things mathematics. Play around with Age Math, Calendar Math, the Mysterious Chisenbop counting methods and more... http://www.curiousmath.com/
- Eric's Slide Rule Page For a trip down memory lane! http://www.sliderule.ca/
- Fractals What are they, how to make them and interactive fractal creation center http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/frac/
- Hypergami Design and build paper polyhedra http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ctg/projects/hypergami/
- Interactive Mathematics Activities--Hotlist http://www.geocities.com/rod_oickle/math.html
- Math in Daily Life How number affect every day decisions) http://www.learner.org/exhibits/dailymath/
- Math in the Movies (Mathematics portrayed in major motion pictures http://world.std.com/~reinhold/mathmovies.html
- Math Programming and Beyond A ThinkQuest that combines math programming and visual basic in an outer space simulation. http://library.thinkquest.org/J002581/
- MiddleSchool.Net: Calculators Great for high school also--calculators of all varieties http://www.middleschool.net/MainFeatures/caculate.htm
- National Gallery of Virtual Manipulatives Lots of practice activities in most content areas for grades K-12. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
- Ohio Treasure Chest of Technology Resources http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~techresources/cgi-bin/course_list.pl?content_area=CMA
- Online Math Hotlist Lots of sites http://tlc.epsb.ca/lummis/math/
- So You Want to Learn Bookkeeping Seven lesson tutorials http://www.dwmbeancounter.com/tutorial/Tutorial.html
- Spreadsheet Resources Lots of great links http://www.lttechno.com/links/spreadsheets.html
- Symmetry and Tesselations http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/jbsymteslk.htm
High School Topics (Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Calculus)
- Algebra-Trig (Bruner Math) http://www.brunnermath.com/algebraiiiandtrig.htm
- BrunnerMath Geometry Basic geometry to conics (hotlist) http://www.brunnermath.com/generalmathprekto8thg.htm
- Brunner Math Calculus (hotlist) http://www.brunnermath.com/calculus.htm
- Calculus-Help.com Offers content for both advanced high school students and college calculus students. Has a problem of the week, practice problems, fun calculus stuff and more. http://www.calculus-help.com/
- Calculus on the Web Interactive environment. Contains Precalculus, Calculus I, II, and III, Linear Algebra, Number Theory and Abstract Algebra (NSF) http://www.math.temple.edu/%7Ecow/
- BrunnerMath Data Analysis Contains a hotlist and activities from basic data analysis to statistics http://www.brunnermath.com/dataanalysis.htm#32045859
- ExploreMath.com Activities on geometry, trig, probability and more http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspResourceCatalog
- Finite Mathematics and Applied Calculus Resource Page From Hofstra University--has calculus tutorials http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/Stefan_Waner/RealWorld/index.html
- Graphing Linear Equations Focus is algebra 1 content—lessons, puzzles, etc. http://www.terragon.com/tkobrien/algebra/
- Harder Fibonacci Puzzles http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibpuzzles2.html
- Interactive Mathematics Activities High school mathematics activities that can be done online http://www.cut-the-knot.com/Curriculum/index.shtml
- Kelly's Problem of the Week Calculus topics http://www.calculus-help.com/problem.html
- The Math Page A complete course covering basic arithmetic, trig and pre-calculus http://www.themathpage.com/
- Mr. Hoffman's Math Page Lots of worksheets and answers for grades 9-12. http://schools.spsd.sk.ca/mount/hoffman/
- Number Patterns Fun with Curves and Topology http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/jbsymteslk.htm
- Ohio Math Works Find uses of mathematics in the real world. http://www.ohiomathworks.org/
- Open Problems Links to solved and unsolved problems, mostly in
geometry. High level
http://compgeom.cs.uiuc.edu/~jeffe/open/open.html - Paper Models of Polyhedra Over 80 models available http://www.korthalsaltes.com/
- Polyhedra Pastimes http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/jbpolyhedra.htm
- Science U: The Geometry Center http://www.scienceu.com/geometry/
- Webmath Help with problems in Pre-algebra, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, data analysis and real world mathematics.http://www.webmath.com/
- Visual Math Learning Lessons and Games http://www.visualmathlearning.com/
History of Mathematics
- History of Mathematics Extensive biographies and archived information http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/index.html
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi Timeline and Interesting Math from her life http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/faculty/sgray/Agnesi
- Mathematician of the Day Gives the day and a biography of mathematicians born on that day--with an index. http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Day_files/Now.html
- The Proof Fermat's last theorem shows connections across the curriculum. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/
HotLists
- Math Ideas for Science Fair Projects Hotlist http://mathforum.org/teachers/mathproject.html
- Subject Area Resources: Mathematics Extensive hotlist http://www.mcrel.org/resources/links/math/math.asp
Measurement
- Convert It http://www.image-ination.com/test_maker/convert.html
- Dictionary of Units of Measurement http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/
- MetricConversions.org http://www.metric-conversions.org/
Organizations
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics http://www.nctm.org/
Puzzles, Games, and Problems
- Brain Boosters Interesting problems in lateral thinking, logic, number and math play. http://school.discovery.com/brainboosters/index.html
- Clever Games for Clever People Strategy games for K-12 http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~casey931/conway/games.html
- The Maths File Game Show Animated games to teach topics in number, data, algebra, shape, space and measurement. Also has printable worksheets. http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/
- Mathematical Interactivities Activities that can be done directly on the computer http://mathematics.hellam.net/
- Pi Day Gives activities you can do on March 14--which is 3.14 http://mam2000.mathforum.org/t2t/faq/faq.pi.html
- Plane Math Contains three levels of problem solving on elapsed time, capacity, measurement and more http://www.planemath.com/activities/pmactivitiesall.html
- Problem of the Week http://www.wits.ac.za/ssproule/pow.htm
- Welcome to Mathematrix Explores mathematical recreations http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/7773/index.html
- Word Problems for Kids Tons of good problems for grades 5-12 http://www.stfx.ca/special/mathproblems/welcome.html
Spread Sheets
- Tutorial for Spreadsheet in general and then Excel http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/
- Graphs How to make graphs using a spreadsheet Mac http://mathforum.org/alejandre/spreadsheet.html
Statistics
Teacher Resources
- Best Free Teacher Resources Not all are really free http://home.amaonline.com/teacherstuff/mathteacher.htm
- Illuminations: Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. Lessons using higher order thinking skills http://illuminations.nctm.org
- Math Guide Lessons and quizzes through first year algebra http://www.mathguide.com
- Math Teacher Link Professional Development Opportunities for high school and lower level college courses http://mtl.math.uiuc.edu/
- Mathematics Lessons that are Fun! Fun! Fun! Most are high school level http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/
- Standardized Test Preparation Hotlist Gives help in all areas of standardized testing. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Innovative-Teaching/message/344
- Student Math Notes Frequently updated—from NCTM http://nctm.org/publications/smn
- The Technology Lab Nice lessons and units for middle school students http://www.highland.madison.k12.il.us/jbasden/activities.htm
- Texas Instruments Lessons using calculators http://otresources.ti.com
- National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics Lesson plans for K-12 http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/index.html
