 | Calculator Pattern Puzzles - Students use a calculator to explore some interesting patterns. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Old MacDonald Growing Patterns - This PDF file presents a lesson in which students identify patterns in the song Old MacDonald Had a Farm. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Old Stamps - Students work with costs of mailing different packages to determine how many regular and lesser-valued stamps are needed for each. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Mystery Operations - This online activity allows students to explore various numerical patterns by identifying a "mystery operation" presented by the activity. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Double or Not - A challenge from NCTM's "Figure This!" Web site, this activity compares different patterns of growth, arithmetic versus geometric. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | A Thousand Lockers - This is a good activity to use in an algebra classroom. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Algebra - Fun with Calendars - A trick with the calendar provides an opportunity to do some interesting algebra. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Mystery Operations - This online activity allows students to explore various numerical patterns by identifying a "mystery operation" presented by the activity. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Double or Not - This is one of the challenges from NCTM's "Figure This!"Web site; this one compares different patterns of growth, arithmetic vs. geometric. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Old Stamps - This is one of the challenges from NCTM's "Figure This!" Web site that looks at patterns of numbers to solve a problem. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Play with Lulu - This online investigation provides students with an opportunity to look at patterns of movement in the context of the Cartesian grid. - Direct to Web Resource |
| The Hot Tub - This activity highlights the "real world" interpretation of graphs. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Rent-a-Car - This activity uses a real-world situation to illustrate linear functions. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Mathematics Problems and Warm-ups - This is a site of searchable mathematics word problems. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Fractals - Discovering patterns and using them to determine perimeters of triangles. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | QuickMath - An online utility that performs many basic (and advanced) algebraic manipulations. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | UBUYACAR - This site is a problem based learning manual that helps students think about the annual salary needed when they become interested in purchasing a new vehicle. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Visualizing an Infinite Series - In this on-line tutorial, students visualize infinite series through geometric representations. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Damping Functions - This resource provides examples of how functions are used in music. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Exploring Pascal's Triangle - In this activity, students look for patterns in Pascal's triangle. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Exploration of Pascal's Trangle - This is a activity that uses Pascal's Triangle to study patterns. - Direct to Web Resource |
| People Patterns - An online activity in which students try to figure out who should come next in a line of people. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Online Pattern Blocks - This is one teacher's example of how to incorporate pattern blocks in the kindergarten classroom. This Web site is linked to www.best.com which has an electronic version of pattern blocks for exploration. - 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 |
 | Glyphs - This is a collection of glyph resources for teachers who would like to introduce these pictorial representations based on hieroglyphics. - 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 |
 | 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 |
| Color Patterns -- Virtual Manipulative - This online manipulative provides pattern recognition practice by showing students a chain of repeating colors that they need to describe and extend. - Direct to Web Resource |
| The Function Machine - This machine processes numbers into new numbers using random or predetermined functions. Can students determine what the function is? - 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 |
 | Patterns Here, There, and Everywhere - A fairly comprehensive unit on pattern recognition that uses a variety of manipulatives. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Mitten Math - Lesson on the identification and recognation of a pattern. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Patterns to the Rescue - Finishing a pattern of numbers and shapes. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Maze Game - With this game, students use the Cartesian plane to avoid mines and lead the robot to safety. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Number Cruncher - Function machine for the addition, subtraction, and multiplication operations. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Easy Fibonacci Numbers - Students are exposed the Fibonacci sequence through various patterns and challenges provided on this page. - Direct to Web Resource |
| The Function Machine - This machine processes numbers into new numbers using random or predetermined functions. Can students determine what the function is? - Direct to Web Resource |
| Button Beach Challenge - As buttons correspond to different numbers on a grid, students must determine the values represented by the buttons by looking at the given sums for certain columns and rows. - Direct to Web Resource |
| People Patterns - With this online activity, students try to figure out who should come next in a line of people based on observed patterns. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Traffic Jam Activity - This lesson idea presents an interesting problem for students to explore using multiple ways of representation, including role-play and a Java applet. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Exploring Pascal's Triangle - This activity uses Pascal's Triangle to study patterns of numbers. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Building A Brick Wall - This activity uses dominoes to help develop mathematical understanding. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Grade Five Problems - This site has a set of challenging problems for students in fifth grade, along with hints and answers. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Guess the Number Plus - This activity can be used to introduce students to the basic form of algebraic expressions. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Thirteen! Oh No! - Searching for patterns between dates and days can be an exciting and challenging task for students as they try to find out whether or not there is a Friday the 13th every year. - Direct to Web Resource |
| What's Your Index? - A problem regarding the "body mass index" from the Figure This! collection. - 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 |
| Line Up! - Students try to figure out how long they must wait in line if they are number 300 in line. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Fill it up! - Students figure which of two cylinders will hold more popcorn. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Play Ball - look at rate of change over time - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Let's Go Home - Juan and Lori just bought a house that needs to be remodeled. - Direct to Web Resource |
| The Great State Mystery - This project incorporates math, geography, science, language arts and social studies into fun-filled lessons and activities that will send your students on a journey across the United States. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Earliest Uses of Various Mathematical Symbols - This site provides information about the individuals who first used various common mathematical symbols. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Cuisenaire-Kid's - Cuisenaire-Kid's Place lets students engage in problem-solving activities that are manipulative/pictorial-based. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Weather Here and There - Weather Here and There contains an integrated weather unit that incorporates the Internet and hands-on collaborative, problem-solving activities. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Breaking Chocolate Bars - An applet is provided on this page to help figure out the minimum number of breaks it would take to split a chocolate bar. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Understanding Algebraic Factoring - This lesson briefly shows the geometric basis of algebraic reasoning. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Calendar Magic - This online exploration includes a Java monthly calendar that students can use to discover some simple mathematics built into calendar tables. - Direct to Web Resource |
| QuickMath - An online utility that performs many basic (and advanced) algebraic manipulations. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Toads And Frogs Puzzle - (counting, logic, problem solving) - Direct to Web Resource |
| Polyominoes - This activity uses a fun mathematical puzzle to provide a base for investigation and discover. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Revisewise - This 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 |
| Building A Brick Wall - This activity is aligned to NCTM Standards - Grades 6-8: Algebra, Problem Solving, Reasoning and Proof, and Communication. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Traffic Jam Activity - This lesson idea presents an interesting problem for students to explore using multiple ways of representation, including role-play and a Java applet. - Direct to Web Resource |
| UBUYACAR - This Web site is a problem based learning manual that helps students think about the annual salary needed when they become interested in purchasing a new vehicle. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Rectangle Pattern Challenges - Students use rectangular shapes to find patterns and formulas. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Stressed Out - In this activity, slope is presented as "rate of change." Students investigate the slope of curves as well as straight lines. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Online Calculators - This site has calculators for all types of situations. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Mathematics of Cartography - In this activity, students study the mathematics of maps. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Smiles - Determine how much a smile is worth given only the worth of a smile and a frown added together. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Access Ramps - Given specific information, determine how far away from the base of a set of steps an access ramp should begin. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Patterns in Color - This activity uses Pascal's Triangle to look for patterns and properties. - 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 |
| Algebriac Factoring - Algebra tiles are used to understand operations involving binomials. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Building A Pyramid - Fun in class project on surface area and volume that could be used to let students derive these formulas on their own from given information. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Leonardo da Vinci - Is the ratio of arm span to our height really equal to one? - 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 |
 | Travel Solutions to Global Warming - Northeast Sustainable Energy Association provides worksheets and lab instructions to collect data on conserving energy by analyzing the students travel means and graphing the Carbon Dioxide production by country - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Trips - This Web site is an online activity with quizzes that uses data analysis and arithmetic in the context of taking trips in America. - 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 |
| Investigating Patterns: Symmetry and Tessellations - Collection of Web links consisting of anything related to symmetry or tessellating, from interactive links to order forms for books and videos. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Escher in the Classroom - Jill Britton's condensed article on symmetry and tessellations with links to other resources. - Direct to Web Resource |
| The Million $ Mission - This lesson allows students to explore exponential growth through an engaging story problem. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Function Machine - Virtual manipulative related to algebra and functions. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Mathematical Scavenger Hunt - Students are introduced to basic algebraic expressions by finding the values of letters using their knowledge or books and applying these values to evaluate other algebraic expressions. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Coding and Decoding - Using and manipulating codes to recode and decode. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Liines and Slopes - Joan the Chameleon uses points and slopes of lines to determine different aspects of lines. - Direct to Web Resource |
| October Calender - A fun puzzle problem to ponder over. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Noon Observation Project - A worldwide project to accurately estimate the circumference of the earth. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Traffic Jam - A collection of detailed lessons that address algebra by looking at a traffic jam. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Understanding Factoring through Geometry - Introduces students to factoring beginning with numbers and working through algebraic factoring using algebra tiles. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Experiment and Explore Mathematics - This site contains several Java applets that help you explore mathematical concepts and topics interactively - Direct to Web Resource |
 | "Call Me" - This webquest explores whether those "10-10" long distance numbers really save money. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | High School Operations Research: Jurassic Oil - An instructional module drawn from an operations research problem involving determining the optimal gasoline blend using linear programming. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | MathApplications - Curves - An exploration of historical and real-world applications of lines. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Exploring Parabolas - Lesson plan and applets to help students understand what the roots of the quadratic equation determine on the graph of the parabola. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | When Will I Ever Use This? - Exploration of the importance of algebra in every-day life. - Direct to Web Resource |
| More Complicated Functions: Introduction to Linear Functions - This lesson is designed to introduce students to the idea of functions. - Direct to Web Resource |
| The Million $ Mission - This lesson allows students to explore exponential growth through an engaging story problem. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Reflections - This page uses real-time equations and graphs to help visualize and experiment with reflections of a linear function and reflection of a quadratic function. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Stressed Out - This lesson discusses slope in terms of rate of change, building from slopes of straight lines to slopes of curves. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Drop Everything! - This lesson plan on computing velocity and distance from a falling object is motivated by a microgravity simulation in a NASA experimental drop tower. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Moving Man - This clever applet shows the relationship of distance, velocity, and acceleration. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Calculus 101 - Calculus student help line offering instant solutions to first year calculus problems. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Fractals - An Introduction - This site offers students a hands-on introduction to understanding and constructing fractals. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Frequently Asked Questions about Trigonometry - An introduction to the trigonometric functions and their graphs. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Water to the Max - This lesson includes a concrete investigation of a maximization problem. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | In on the Ground Floor - This site is designed for both students and teachers. While designing several constructions, students will see how algebra is used in construction. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | A Functional Housing Market - Students access the Internet to search for housing prices and compare the prices to the number of square feet found in the living area of a house. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Airfares - Students investigate the relationship between how early you purchase your tickets and how much the flight actually costs. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Online Calculators - This site has calculators for all types of situations. - Direct to Web Resource |
| The Hot Tub - This activity will help students interpret graphs. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Exploring Pascal's Triangle - In this activity, students look for various patterns of numbers in Pascal's triangle. - Direct to Web Resource |
| High School Operations Research - This Web site offers modules developed for secondary mathematics concepts in real-world context drawn from the field of operations research. - 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 |
| Graphing Calculator - This Web site provides an on-line graphing calculator. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Algebra and Calculus Sketches - This set of sketches from the Geometer's Sketchpad can be used to explore equations for lines, parabolas, and tangents. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Embryo Calculus - This section examines exponential growth and the number e by looking at the growth rate of an embryo. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Polyominoes - In this activity, students use polyominoes to explore perimeter and curves of best fit. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Emergence of Chaos - The resource introduces chaos theory (related to fractals), including an interactive applet to illustrate the ideas. - Direct to Web Resource |
| A Candy Game - Students are asked to analyze a game based on an iterative process, which is illustrated by a Java applet. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Minimax Principle - The purpose of this activity is to illustrate a mathematical fact that plays an important role in Game Theory, Economics, and general optimization problems. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Pythagorean Triples - An applet is used to geometrically explore Pythagorean Triples. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Calendar Magic - This online exploration includes a Java monthly calendar that students can use to discover some simple mathematics built into calendar tables. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Investigating Functions Using Spreadsheets - This activity allows students to see how spreadsheets can be used to investigate functions. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Weather Plots - This lesson uses online weather data to involve students in reading weather plots and making conjectures about the relationship between temperature and humidity. - Direct to Web Resource |
 | Ms. Lindquist: The Tutor - Ms. Lindquist is an interactive program to personalize teaching of algebraic word problems. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Mathematics Problems and Warm-ups - This is a site of searchable mathematics word problems. - Direct to Web Resource |
| Salaries - organizing and interpreting information - Direct to Web Resource |
| Smiles - An introduction to systems of equations. - Direct to Web Resource |
