Illuminations: Web Links - Number & Operations

Web Links - Number & Operations




Base Ten Blocks - This site gives a visual representation of base-10 place value and multi-digit operations, a potentially valuable tool for teachers to use in class or for students to use on their own. - Direct to Web Resource
Calculator Pattern Puzzles - Students use a calculator to explore some interesting patterns. - Direct to Web Resource
Numeral Recognition, Matching, and Writing - This activity evaluates, reinforces, and reteaches numeral recognition, one to one matching, and the writing of numerals from 1-20. - Direct to Web Resource
Place Value Game - This is a game that reinforces place value. - Direct to Web Resource
Varnelle's Introduction to Fractions - This unit by Varnelle Moore is designed to guide young children (K-2) through an introduction to fraction using manipulatives, pencil and paper worksheets, online activities, and literature connections. - Direct to Web Resource
What a Crowd! - With this interactive activity, students build estimation skills as they guess the number of people on the screen. - Direct to Web Resource
Math Forum - Arithmetic - This is a collection of resources for teaching arithmetic. - Direct to Web Resource
Triangle Flashcards - This idea for manipulatives can be used to reinforce number operations by collecting fact families on one flash card. - Direct to Web Resource
Orange Slices - Kindergarten students analyze the number of slices in an orange, introducing data analysis. - Direct to Web Resource
Block It - This site provides a problem-solving and computation activity using pattern blocks. - Direct to Web Resource
What a Crowd! - With this interactive activity, students build estimation skills as they guess the number of people on the screen. - Direct to Web Resource
Aesop's Fables and Mathematics - Mathematics-literature connections using Aesop's Fables are provided on this Web site. - Direct to Web Resource
Pumpkin Pie for All - This lesson plan promotes proportional reasoning through a situation in which students have to make enough pumpkin pie for the whole class when given a recipe that makes only a single pie. - Direct to Web Resource
What is a Million? - This activity enhances students' number sense by having them figure out how big a jar they need to hold 1 million punched holes from a paper punch. - Direct to Web Resource
Counting the Rice - This lesson introduces place value using literature, manipulatives, and hands-on activities. - Direct to Web Resource
Pascal Petals - In this activity, students use Pascal's Triangle to study prime factorizations. - Direct to Web Resource
Number and Word Puzzles - This Web site has a collection of crossword puzzles with numbers—in which the clues are calculations to be performed—potentially useful in providing students guided practice. - Direct to Web Resource
Power Football - This online game provides students with practice in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of decimals. - Direct to Web Resource
Maya Mathematics - This activity demonstrates the Mayan base 20 number system. - Direct to Web Resource
Multiplication: An Adventure in Number Sense - This tutorial is meant to help students learn their multiplication facts by seeing connections and patterns; an interactive applet helps model multiplication. - Direct to Web Resource
Counting Change - This online game gives students practice in counting money. - Direct to Web Resource
Base Ten Blocks - Suggestions are made on this Web site as to how to use base10 blocks (primarily the base 10 blocks applet) for learning place value and basic operations. - Direct to Web Resource
Beating Heart - During this "Figure This!" challenge, students think about the magnitude of very large numbers by considering how long it will take their hearts to beat one million times. - Direct to Web Resource
Figure This! -- Math Challenges for Families - This site contains exciting learning activities that illustrate mathematics that students should be doing in school. - Direct to Web Resource
Base Ten Blocks - This site gives a visual representation of base-10 place value and multi-digit operations, a potentially valuable tool for teachers to use in class or for students to use on their own. - Direct to Web Resource
Beating Heart - This is one of the challenges from NCTM's "Figure This!" Web site which has students think about the magnitude of very large numbers by asking them to consider how long it will take for their heart to beat one million times. - Direct to Web Resource
Power Football - This activity gives students practice in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using the game of football. - Direct to Web Resource
Pascal Petals - In this activity, students use Pascal's Triangle to study prime factorizations. - Direct to Web Resource
Tour of Fractions (middle school) - An extensive collection of lesson plans, FAQ's, and software related to fractions for elementary school teachers. - Direct to Web Resource
Fractions in Every Day Life - This activity helps students to apply fractions to real life situations. - Direct to Web Resource
Which Tastes Juicier? - Ratio and proportion are used to determine the strongest grape tastes among four grape juices. - Direct to Web Resource
Mathematics Problems and Warm-ups - This is a site of searchable mathematics word problems. - Direct to Web Resource
Majority Vote - This activity challenges students to explore percents within the context of voting. - Direct to Web Resource
You Light Up My Life - In this lesson, students examine how the interaction between solar activity and the Earth's geomagnetic field result in the phenomena known as aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, and the impact of increased solar activity on humans. - Direct to Web Resource
Famous Paradoxes - A discussion of two famous paradoxes: Zeno's Paradox and Cantor's Infinities. - Direct to Web Resource
Estimation Jars - Students make reasonable estimates using three different sets of objects in jars. - Direct to Web Resource
Fraction Cakes - Students use fraction pieces to make 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4. They relate this to sharing snack cakes. Then they label and color fractional parts. - Direct to Web Resource
Let's Count - Use this on-line activity as a resource for students or worksheets to supplement lessons on addition. - Direct to Web Resource
Mathsyear 2000 - This site provides games, puzzles and activities for all students. Mathsmagnet, Number Land, and Puzzle of the Day all provide students with the opportunity to work with numbers, patterns, and problem solving situations. - Direct to Web Resource
Eggciting Math - By hiding various numbers of objects in labeled plastic eggs, this lesson provides many actvities that reinforcethe concepts of numbers, numerals, and one to one correspondence. - Direct to Web Resource
Gone Fishing - This activity incorporates the concept of number recognition with the children's book, Fish Eyes by Lois Ehlert. Students gain an appreciation of reading, number words, and sequencing numbers as they go fishing. - Direct to Web Resource
My Number Book - Students cut and paste pictures into a book to illustrate the use of numbers in their environment. - Direct to Web Resource
Line Jumper - This on-line activity provides practice using the number line to represent addition and subtraction. - Direct to Web Resource
Maya Mathematics - This activity demonstrates the Mayan base 20 number system. - Direct to Web Resource
Math Fact Café - This site generates custom worksheets and flash cards. - Direct to Web Resource
Counting the Rice - This lesson introduces place value using literature, manipulatives, and hands-on activities. - Direct to Web Resource
Tour of Fractions (elementary level) - An extensive collection of lesson plans, FAQs, and software related to fractions for elementary school teachers. - Direct to Web Resource
Scoops - Students learn to match groups of beans by using one-to-one correspondence to determine greater than, less than, or equal to when comparing two numbers. - Direct to Web Resource
Paper Dot Plates - Features a hands-on activity incorporating the use of paper plates and sticky dot labels to reinforce the understanding of sub concepts of a number. Introduces the concepts more/less; part/whole; conservation; and the oral and symbolic names of numbers. - Direct to Web Resource
Fishing for Numbers - This game is one of better math games offered at FunSchool.com and can be found in the "Kindergarten" menu. Students match number with groups of fish to combine number recognition with counting. - Direct to Web Resource
Teaching and Learning about Whole Numbers - The Web site is an excellent resource for math educators to demonstration the mental processes of subtraction, multiplication, counting, as well as other whole number operations. It also includes links to assessment strategies. - Direct to Web Resource
1 2 3 COUNT WITH ME - This is a Web-based lesson that can be used as a spring board activity to creating counting stories and graphs for younger elementary and pre-school students. - Direct to Web Resource
First Grade Number Stories - This is a collection of number stories that may inspire young students to create their own pictures. Mathematics educators can also use this site for demonstration purposes with inservice and preservice teachers. - Direct to Web Resource
Eating to Zero - The concept of zero is introduced through this easy to incorporate snack activity. - Direct to Web Resource
Teach R Kids Math - This Webpage is a collection of online worksheets which teachers or parents may use to review number operations including sequences, patterns, time, calendars, rounding, money, fractions, and place values - Direct to Web Resource
Number Stories - This Math Cats Web site collects number stories that are produced by first grade students which teachers may use to inspire their classes. Students are welcome to submit number stories for online display using an electronic form on the Web site. - Direct to Web Resource
Really Big Numbers - This site would be a good remediation tool for writing numbers from the decimal system to words. The learner types in the number and the site gives instant feedback. - Direct to Web Resource
AAA Math Resources - This is a collection of online remediation and extra practice activities. - Direct to Web Resource
Zoom Dinosaurs Math Games (First Grade) - This site contains a collection of resources for teachers and students designed for the first grade student. - Direct to Web Resource
Button Beach Challenge - This is a very good on line activity that asks students to use buttons to represent different numbers on a grid. They must determine the value represented by the buttons by looking a the sum of a column. - Direct to Web Resource
Online 100 Board - This is a GREAT online 100 board complete with transparent counters. Teachers can use this for pattern recognition and in one-computer classrooms it's a great way to demonstrate things. - Direct to Web Resource
Fun with Spot - This is an "I spy" type of game where preschoolers are asked to count various items. This links to the Fun with Spot Web site. The counting game can be found by "Going to the beach" or clicking on the pail and shovel. - Direct to Web Resource
123 Order--The Learning Planet - Online counting game which stresses number recognition and sequencing. It provides excellent verbal reinforcement for non-reading students. - Direct to Web Resource
M&M Math - Data collection, bar graphs and probability are the focus of this hands-on lesson using M & M candies. - Direct to Web Resource
Human Place Value Game - A nice lesson on place value that includes a "Human Place Value" game in which the teacher is the decimal point and the students make up the digits. - Direct to Web Resource
Reinforcing Place Value - A nice classroom game that reinforces place value. - Direct to Web Resource
Scribble Square - This is an electronic version of a one-hundred board that teachers may use for demonstrations and class explorations - Direct to Web Resource
Square Maker - This is an interactive number pattern generator that students may use to recognize the structure of numeric patterns or create puzzles for their peers to solve. - Direct to Web Resource
Parts of A Whole -- Virtual Manipulative - This online tool is another manipulative teachers can choose from to connect visual representations of common fractions to their mathematical notations. - Direct to Web Resource
Visualizing Fractions -- Virtual Manipulative - This online tool is allows students to check their understanding of fractions by asking them to create visual representations of given fractions. - Direct to Web Resource
Counting Chickens - This is a well-designed online game that teachers or parents can use to help their children practice counting from 1 to 10. - Direct to Web Resource
What's My Number? - Teachers looking for ways to incorporate the Internet into the classroom will love this lesson that turns Web searches for information into a math problem solving activity. Students will also use the 100 board as part of the activity. - Direct to Web Resource
Shopping for Toys - This lessons takes children on an Internet shopping spree that connects math to real world problem-solving. - Direct to Web Resource
Addition Grab Two - This site provides an activity with tools to make the game that can be printed from site. - Direct to Web Resource
Place Value - There is an inexpensive manipulative in this activity using a zip-lock bag and base ten blocks. This is a good idea to use with young hands or special learners as they work with the objects inside. - Direct to Web Resource
Addition and Subtraction Game - This game will encourage students to practice basic addition facts will reinforcing the concept of place value. - Direct to Web Resource
Greedy Dog - The concepts and symbols of more than, less than, and equal to, are illustrated in this whole class activity about a greedy and hungry dog. - Direct to Web Resource
Number Puzzle -- Virtual Manipulative - This collection of number puzzles can be used to develop logic and problems solving techniques while reinforcing addition of single digit numbers. - Direct to Web Resource
Hungry Frog - This is a Java based Internet game that tests students’ arithmetic additional, subtraction, multiplication and division skills. - Direct to Web Resource
Egyptian Addition - This presentation of the Egyptian number system and arithmetic operations is an excellent, readible reference for teachers who want to add cultural dimensions to the classroom while demonstrating the utility of the base ten system. - Direct to Web Resource
Can you balance? - An on-line activity that allows students to practice balancing blocks that are translated automatically into equations. - Direct to Web Resource
The Fruit Game - This is a colorful, interactive version of an ancient oriental game known as Nim. It is much like “Tic Tac Toe” in that if you know the correct strategy, you can guarantee your success. - Direct to Web Resource
100th Day Activities - This is a nice collection of activities for celebrating the 100th day of school. - Direct to Web Resource
A Fictional History of Place Value - This is a neat story that can be used to introduce the concept of place value. - Direct to Web Resource
Assorted Money and Place Value Games - This is a small collection of games that teachers may use to reinforce the concept of place value and the use of money. - Direct to Web Resource
Base 10 Block Teaching Ideas - This site provides a collection of activities for base ten blocks that range from developing understandings of place value to illustrating arithmetic processes. - Direct to Web Resource
Cinderella Web Quest - The literary tale of Cinderella provides a foundation for math and group activities available on this website. - Direct to Web Resource
Strategy Banks - Teachers will find a collection of strategies that children may use in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. This is an excellent resource for teachers who want to familiarize themselves with alternative strategies that children may use. - Direct to Web Resource
Sesame Street Games - Sesame Street has a collection of games for preschools that teachers can refer parents to as a resource for home activities. The games quiz young children on shapes, numbers, etc and have no pop up ads. - Direct to Web Resource
Numberland at Counts On - On this page you'll find a board filled randomly with numbers 1-100. When you click on a number, you'll go to a page that designed just for it! You'll see poems and pictures and information. - Direct to Web Resource
Race to a Quarter - This is a simple activity that teachers can use to reinforce number sense, counting, and money changing skills. - Direct to Web Resource
Counting: The Beginning of Mathematics - This website explores the mathematics of counting through rich descriptions and activities. It is a good tool for teaching preservice teachers about how children count and a good resource for practicing teachers. - Direct to Web Resource
Guess the Number - Children can attempt to guess the number between a user-defined range of numbers that the computer has selected using this applet. - Direct to Web Resource
Math Facts Game - Applet that allows students to practice their math facts. - Direct to Web Resource
Online Integer Bars (Cuisenaire Rods) - An applet simulating Cuisenaire Rods, along with sample activities. - Direct to Web Resource
To Half or Half Not - This lesson introduces simple fractions using geoboards and some very creative activities, including a story about an alien from the planet of Fractional. - Direct to Web Resource
Bowling Facts - This is a fun lesson plan that introduces subtraction through a game of bowling. - Direct to Web Resource
The Abacus - Students will be introduced to the abacus, an ancient oriental mathematical tool and use it to reinforce number concepts. Teachers would need access to abacus' for the lesson, but may use an electronic version provided in the review. - Direct to Web Resource
Online Integer Bars (Cuisenaire Rods) - An applet simulating Cuisenaire Rodes, along with sample activities. - Direct to Web Resource
Fractional Hi-Lo - Working against the computer, students can play the traditional game of Hi-Lo using fractions on this Web site. - Direct to Web Resource
Math Facts Game - Applet that allows students to practice their math facts. - Direct to Web Resource
Decifractator - This applet converts fractions to decimal form and may be good for pattern explorations. - Direct to Web Resource
Mayan Addition - This activity uses the Mayan number system to challenge students to compose and decompose numbers with regards to place value. - Direct to Web Resource
Math Scramble - Math game that incorperates the order of operations. - Direct to Web Resource
Airborn - Investigating what makes an airplane fly by building a model airplane. - Direct to Web Resource
Estimation - Estimate quickly and accurately. - Direct to Web Resource
Cyber Chow Combos - Creating lists to determine combinations. - Direct to Web Resource
Multiplication -- Ancient Egypt Style - Using the Egyptian hieroglyphic number system, students practice regrouping and multiplication in this lesson. - Direct to Web Resource
Hungry for Math Fraction Card Game - Students use cards to try to come up with the largest fraction. - Direct to Web Resource
LCM's Via the Calculator - Students play a game in pairs with calculators to practice finding the LCM of numbers. - Direct to Web Resource
Addition Totals - Students explore different combinations of numbers that have the same sum. - Direct to Web Resource
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Half - Challenge your students to think about what one half really means with this online activity. - Direct to Web Resource
The MegaPenny Project - Students explore large numbers by looking at increasing numbers of pennies. - Direct to Web Resource
Curious and Useful Math - Tricks for calculating certain mathematical problems,along with entertaining facts and trivia. - Direct to Web Resource
Human Decimal Activity - This lesson is designed for teachers to assess students' understanding about decimals using an activity in which students arrange themselves into decimal numbers. - Direct to Web Resource
Mars Fraction Hunt - Students construct words based on the fractional parts of other words in order to create a clue for a hidden candy bar. - Direct to Web Resource
Understanding Fractions - This lesson plan uses pattern blocks to help students understand fractions and operations on fractions. - Direct to Web Resource
Fraction City - This lesson provides instructions for an in-class activity in which students compare fractional parts. - Direct to Web Resource
Shopping for Toys - Students will enjoy the real world connection as they surf the Internet to find toy prices that fit within a given budget. - Direct to Web Resource
Happy Birthday to You!! - Students work with the concept of the Least Common Multiple while planning a birthday party. - Direct to Web Resource
Addition and Subtraction Game - This game will encourage students to practice basic addition facts while reinforcing the concept of place value. - Direct to Web Resource
Pattern Blocks Program - This interactive applet allows students to use pattern blocks to explore various mathematical concepts, including fractions. - Direct to Web Resource
Majority Vote - This "Figure This!" activity challenges students to explore percentages within the context of voting. - Direct to Web Resource
Beanie Babies - This activity looks at calculating profit. - Direct to Web Resource
Pigeonholes - The pigeonhole principle used in this problem can be a way for elementary students to begin working with counting and probability concepts while engaging in fun and challenging problems. - Direct to Web Resource
Working with Fractions using Pattern Blocks - This Web site provides an activity using pattern blocks to understand part-to-whole relationships. - Direct to Web Resource
Decimals, Fractions & Percentages - This game could be used when working with the equivalence of decimals, fractions, and percentages. - Direct to Web Resource
Teaching and Learning about Whole Numbers - This Web site contains data, ideas, and resources to help in teaching about whole numbers. - Direct to Web Resource
Tour of Fractions (elementary level) - An extensive collection of lesson plans, FAQs, and software related to fractions for elementary school teachers. - Direct to Web Resource
Play My Way - This activity allows students to design their own playground that is safe and cost effective. - Direct to Web Resource
Math Fact Café - This Web site generates custom worksheets and flash cards. - Direct to Web Resource
Fraction Games - This lesson provides a hands-on activity in which students use equivalent fractions to make wholes in a game format. - Direct to Web Resource
The Abacus - This Web site provides information about the use, history, and construction of the abacus. - Direct to Web Resource
Four Star Math Problems - This activity helps students learn the guess and check strategy as they work to create numbers. - Direct to Web Resource
Free Standing Structure - This activity allows students to use mathematics in a real-world situation. - Direct to Web Resource
The Stamp Game - This applet provides a fun and interesting way for students to learn more about place value, addition, and subtraction. - Direct to Web Resource
How Many Different Paths? - This activity provides students practice in developing counting strategies and problem solving. - Direct to Web Resource
Tangrams and Fractions - This activity provides opportunities for students to explore fractional parts using tangram pieces. - Direct to Web Resource
Mathematical Poems - This activity helps students to develop their problem solving skills using literature. - Direct to Web Resource
Fun with Estimation - Students practice their estimation skills in this lesson while modeling the real life situation of shopping for groceries. - Direct to Web Resource
Large Bead Frame - This applet will help to increase students' understanding of basic addition and subtraction, as well as long multiplication. - Direct to Web Resource
Chequerboard - This online applet helps students with multi-digit multiplication. - Direct to Web Resource
Mathcar Racing - Mathcar Racing is a game in which students can practice arithmetic skills as well as practice developing a winning strategy. - Direct to Web Resource
No Matter What Shape Your Fractions are In - Students use pattern blocks to investigate and build relations among fractions. - Direct to Web Resource
Estimation -- Tens - This site allows students to practice rounding/estimating to the nearest tens via matching games. - Direct to Web Resource
Antonio's Pizza Palace - This activity uses Pascal's Triangle to determine how many different pizzas can be made at the Pizza Palace. - Direct to Web Resource
Line Jumper - This online activity provides practice using the number line to represent addition and subtraction. - Direct to Web Resource
Guess the Number Plus - An online activity in which students solve a number sentence. - Direct to Web Resource
Line Jumper - This is a good introduction to the number line and using it for arithmetic operations. - Direct to Web Resource
Pi Mathematics - Pi is the focus of this site, including a variety of activities to help you learn about pi and discover its approximate value. - Direct to Web Resource
PIGS Space: Cooperative Learning-Modules - This Web site focuses on cooperative learning in language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. - Direct to Web Resource
Prize Numbers - In this lesson, students explore what a proof is as well as how and why mathematicians create them. Then, they compose essays on how reason and logic are employed in the workplace. - Direct to Web Resource
Education 4 Kids - Offers drill games for kids in grades K-12. Students practice on basic arithmetic facts and more. - Direct to Web Resource
Revisewise - This Web site provides activities, factsheets, and tests for each category. It includes numbers, data handling, shape, space and measure, mental maths, and number systems. - Direct to Web Resource
Four Star Math Problems - This activity helps students learn the guess and check strategy as they work to create numbers. - Direct to Web Resource
How Much Does It Cost? - An activity to stimulate investigation of percentages. - Direct to Web Resource
Plus or Minus - This game relies on the associative property of addition and subtraction to encourage students to calculate sums so that they might win an online game. - Direct to Web Resource
World of Numbers - Numbers involving palindromes and much more. - Direct to Web Resource
Puzzling Primes - This problem helps to understand the properties of prime numbers and gives suggestions on how to find them. - Direct to Web Resource
The Price of Relief - In this lesson, students calculate and graph the costs of essential items needed in refugee camps. - Direct to Web Resource
Epidemic Proportions - In this lesson, students research various epidemics that have devastated the world population at various points in history. - Direct to Web Resource
World Shopping Spree - This activity challenges students to use their mathematical skills to compare prices. - Direct to Web Resource
Good News Bears - This is an interdisciplinary project about the stock market specifically designed for middle school students and teachers. - Direct to Web Resource
Which Way? - How many ways are there to go from home to the video store? - Direct to Web Resource
Batting Averages - Look at sports data to learn about statistics. - Direct to Web Resource
How Do I Get the Most for My Shopping Dollar? - An activity that builds number sense, build around shopping. - Direct to Web Resource
Planning a Trip - Basic problems related to planning a trip. - Direct to Web Resource
Will I Ever Be Able to Fill My Piggy Bank? - A web site dealing with personal finances. - Direct to Web Resource
How Did I Get a C in Spanish? - A lesson exploring how grades are calculated. - Direct to Web Resource
Least Common Multiples - To show students how least common multiples are achieved using two and three numbers using spreadsheets. - Direct to Web Resource
Pigeonholes - How many people would have to be in school before it was guaranteed to contain two people with the same first and last initials? - Direct to Web Resource
Gasoline Tanks - Determine which vehicle will go the farthest on one tank of gas? - Direct to Web Resource
The MegaPenny Project - Students explore large numbers by looking at increasing numbers of pennies. - Direct to Web Resource
Investigating Patterns: Number Patterns - Series of activities that look at different areas dealing with patterns. Some make useful investigations and lessons, and some are more "fun" oriented. - Direct to Web Resource
Elementary Algebra- The Importance of One - Algebra I lesson plan using the property of one to review fractions and transition to understanding rational expressions. “The Importance of One” is the connection to the Olympic games stressing the worth of the individual. - Direct to Web Resource
Estimate! - Estimation is used in a game to determine the answer closest to the target number. - Direct to Web Resource
Make Five - Game board with multiplicvation tables, or addition or subtraction. Click on correct equation to give the given answer. Try to get five in a row in as few clicks as possible. - Direct to Web Resource
The Number Factory - Given four numbers and a target number, have to arrange given numbers with proper symbols to equal the target number. - Direct to Web Resource
Fraction Facts - Lesson on different operations on fractions such as add, subtract, multiply, divide, percentages. Good reference for definitions of mathematical terms. - Direct to Web Resource
Multiplying Decimals and Mixed Numbers - Teachers can introduce the multiplication of numbers with decimals or mixed numbers through student investigations. - Direct to Web Resource
Patterns in Fractals - Discover the patterns in different fractals such as Koch's Snowflake. - Direct to Web Resource
Mathletics - Engages students in working with the obvious math behind sports, specifically baseball, bowling, basketball and football. - Direct to Web Resource
Bean toss - Colored lima beans are used to help students understand the rules of the different operations using negative integers. - Direct to Web Resource
A License to Drive - This is a very intriguing Web site that will make students think about the responsibilities of driving. Uses Excel to organize data, and connect driving to real life situations. - Direct to Web Resource
A Pizza Family Reunion - This site uses Excel to set up charts on the amount of ingredients need to buy in order to cook a given number of pizzas. - Direct to Web Resource
Pi Mathematics Activities - This activity introduces students to pi. - Direct to Web Resource
The Odd Times Table - Make a "modified" times table and determine what patterns arise. - Direct to Web Resource
Magic Rows and Palindromes - Students explore number patterns. - Direct to Web Resource
Number Bracelet Game - Make a bracelet using numbered beads and then use the bracelet for other functions of math such as patterns. - Direct to Web Resource
Curious and Useful Math - Tricks for calculating certain mathematical problems, along with entertaining facts and trivia. - Direct to Web Resource
Cassette Tape - Arrange songs on a cassette tape to give the most efficient time on both sides. - Direct to Web Resource
October Calender - A fun puzzle problem to ponder over. - Direct to Web Resource
math.com - Math.com offers exploratory and recreational introductions to the world of math that will lead to deeper understanding and enjoyment. - Direct to Web Resource
Airborn - Investigating what makes an airplane fly by building a model airplane. - Direct to Web Resource
Chinese Remainder Theorem - An - Direct to Web Resource
An Introduction to Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences - On-line activity introducing arithmetic and geometric sequences. - Direct to Web Resource
Clock Arithmetic and Cryptography - Interactive applets to explore clock arithmetic and cryptography. - Direct to Web Resource
Welcome to the Hotel Infinity! - The story of the Hotel Infinity helps introduce students to the concept of infinity. - Direct to Web Resource
Addition - This web page explores how addition is defined on various sets. - Direct to Web Resource
Chinese Remainder Theorem - Students will study the Chinese Remainder Theorem and its benefits. - Direct to Web Resource
Curious and Useful Math - Tricks for calculating certain mathematical problems, along with entertaining facts and trivia. - Direct to Web Resource
Fractals - This site provides students with a brief summary on fractals. - Direct to Web Resource
World!of Numbers - Palindromes are the main topic with other recreational topics and puzzles presented in this Web site. - Direct to Web Resource
I see - Students learn about complex numbers while practicing binomial expansion and solving quadratic equations. - Direct to Web Resource
Tournaments - An exploration of the mathematics behind the collegiate championship basketball tournament. - Direct to Web Resource
Puzzling Primes - This resource presents some interesting properties of prime numbers. - Direct to Web Resource
The Value of Pi - This resource gives a brief history of pi and its computed values. - Direct to Web Resource
Dot Patterns and Sierpinski Gasket - An interactive exploration of the Sierpinski Gasket from a number theory perspective. - Direct to Web Resource
Prize Numbers - In this lesson, students explore what a proof is as well as how and why mathematicians create them. Then, they compose essays on how reason and logic are employed in the workplace. - Direct to Web Resource
Pi Mathematics - Pi is the focus of this site, including a variety of activities to help you learn about pi and discover its approximate value. - Direct to Web Resource
Math to Build On - Johnny and Margaret Hamilton's book covers much of the basic math used in the construction trades and gives practice in its application. It also offers a few sections of possibilities for alternative introductions to these fundamental concepts. - Direct to Web Resource
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