The Math Forum: Tour of Measurement
Includes links to a variety of resources for teachers and students available at the Math Forum, including lesson plans, questions and answers, reference sources, and more. http://mathforum.org/paths/measurement/
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Figure This: Math Challenges for Families offers 80 downloadable and printable math challenges to ponder and solve.
Some of the challenges are:
How long do you have to stand in line?
How fast does your heart beat?
Which shape holds the most popcorn?
Why aren’t manhole covers square?
What letters can be read the same upside down as right-side up?
How many [...]
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An animated, interactive dictionary that explains over 500 mathematical terms in simple language
A Maths Dictionary for Kids by Jenny Eather
This site features a free online interactive tutorial for pre-algebra students that is rich in games, puzzles, and animated manipulatives that emphasize learning concepts by visualization. It is an excellent resource for parents and educators of students at the elementary and middle-school level. Access to the tutorial requires [...]
The Webliographer is a tool designed by former Peabody Learning and
Teaching Center developer Jay Pfaffman, now a professor of Computer
Science at the University Of Tennessee Knoxville. The University School of
Nashville’s “Lower School Webliographer” is possibly the most
comprehensive webliographer in Pfaffman’s extensive system, containing
anywhere from 900 to 1000 age-appropriate, teacher-screened websites
alphabetically arranged by cross-curricular study topic [...]
The Math Goodies CD contains over 230 pages of self-paced instruction
to make math fun! Each unit has in-depth learning modules that actively
engage students. For each unit of lessons there is a corresponding set of
puzzles and worksheets. Units include geometry, probability, percent,
integers, number theory, pre-algebra, statistics and symbolic logic.
The unique instructional design facilitates use by learners [...]
