Interesting Links for MTE 210
This page will be updated as I think of new things to add. Please give me
some suggestions! (Also, please let me know if you find any out-of-date
links here.)
- Some famous mathematicians we may encounter in this course:
- an important document about the mathematical education of
teachers (can be read on-line or downloaded)
- a random
mathematical quotation
- the hundred
greatest theorems in mathematics
- the post office's rate
calculator functions (you need to choose which kind of item you want
to mail, such as a letter)
- a highly recommended on-line math magazine aimed at students 16 years
old and up
- a fantastic site of virtual manipulatives
- mathematician trading cards; here's Gauss (and an
index to lots more)
- Neat math demos
- There are some great math songs by Tom Lehrer. Here is the new
math song (wait for the audio to start).
- Here
is the math site from the Michigan Department of Education. One site you
can get to with a few clicks from there is an interesting set of views
on reform in
mathematics education.
- Here are
some interesting assessments for math at various levels.
- Here are lots of definitions of mathematical terms.
- If you have the facility to view pdf files, take a look at this review of an
important book about the mathematical understanding of elementary school
teachers in the US and China (Liping Ma, Knowing
and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of
Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States, 1999).
- On-line
poster
for Math Awareness Month (April, 2005).
- Home page for a math-related crime drama on CBS, called Numb3rs.
- A site of advice for
parents about mathematics education.
- A site
from the New York regents exam, with lots of good math
information for K-12 students. (Here is a
similar
one.)
- A new television series
in which mathematics is used to solve crimes (no, you can't watch this
for extra credit, but it might be fun to watch anyway).
- Math fun
facts.
- A really interesting site
on pupils' perception of mathematicians.
- A website from
the Girl Scouts about an advertising campaign "to encourage girls to
develop an early interest in math, science, and technology and,
ultimately, maintain that interest as they mature to ensure a more
diverse, dynamic, and productive workforce."
- A site for converting
between different bases.
- A nice site about powers of ten in
the real world, combining math and science.
- A monthly essay on
a mathematical
topic from the American Mathematical
Society.
- A site from the University of Missouri with some on-line math tests to assess your
knowledge in various areas.
- A site about the math portion of the MEAP.
- Information about the Russian peasant
algorithm.
- A site from Ole Miss with elementary level brain-teasers.
- Nick's Mathematical
Miscellany, a wonderfully rich site of math link, including some
good problems.
- Here
is something cute about prime numbers and baseball, related to an item on
Test #2 in Fall, 1998 and 2002.
- Here is a good
general site about prime numbers.
- Here is
a site about the setting of Thanksgiving as the fourth Thursday of November.
- Mathematical
cartoons.
- PBS
Mathline, which they describe as "a teacher resource service of public
television utilizing the power of telecommunications to provide quality
resources and services to teachers of mathematics grades, K-12. Using a
blend of technologies including online communications and video, MATHLINE
brings the most recent advances in instructional techniques to teachers
across the country. Through participation in MATHLINE, teachers
collaborate to make important decisions about their teaching."
- a great site on math and math education called MegaMath
-
an essay about math
education that everyone needs to read
- a problem of
the week site from University of Mississippi
- the math section of the
Michigan Teacher Network
- a site called Who's
Counting?, with some interesting columns about mathematics
applications in the real world
- a group you should join: The
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
- a math-help site called mathnerds, which you can use in two ways:
either ask questions yourself for things you're having trouble with in
this course, or, better yet, become a volunteer answerer for questions
from elementary school kids (this will earn extra credit)
- another group you should look at: The Michigan Council of Teachers of Mathematics
(MCTM). They have some good links to math and math education sites,
especially those related to Michigan (e.g., the state's Core Curriculum
for Mathematics).
- still another group you should look at: The Detroit Area Council of Teachers of
Mathematics (DACTM). They have some good activities and a newsletter.
You might want to attend their fall conference.
- an on-line copy of the NCTM Standards,
with reading assignments for this course, week by week
- a site for an on-line course in symbolic logic at OU
- a neat interactive site for things like graphing functions
- a Canadian site on math
- lesson
plans for using articles from the New York Times in teaching math
- an on-line paper about Venn diagrams
- a fun puzzle;
the goal is to get all the green frogs to the right and brown frogs to
the left
- lots of links on the Yahoo web
page devoted to K-12 math education
- a wonderful math eduation website that everyone should
explore
- a cute site about pi
(find your birthdate or any other string of digits in the decimal
expansion of pi = 3.14159...)
- an article about ethnomathematics and
a way to find out more about the debate on
these issues; see also the home page of the
International Study Group on Ethnomathematics
- a very complete site on calendars.
Here are some more:
one,
two, three. And
here is a fun site
for figuring
out how old you are (in days, minutes, and so on), with cute graphics.
- sites on math
symbols (history of their use) and math words
- an interesting list of common errors
made by math students at various levels
- a set
of links to some good math sites. This is part of a very nice site on
the history of
mathematics.
- a report on a study
(the Third International Mathematics & Science Study -- TIMSS), which
found that U.S. 12th-graders' performance "was among the lowest of the
participating countries in mathematics & science general knowledge,
physics & advanced mathematics."
- a report on
mathematical
preparation for elementary school teachers
- the Figure This web
site, billed as "Math Challenges for Familiies". Can you get them all?
- math in the movies --
self-explanatory
- more math in
the
movies
- a site called Do Math,
which
includes some good links
- A description of some interesting mathematical
games,
about which I gave a talk at the Detroit Area Council of Teachers of
Mathematics meeting in Plymouth, October 31, 1998.
- Try these websites on problem-solving strategies: one, two, three, four
- Some web-based math games (e.g., played on a donut) can be found here. Click on 2D games to
start.
- Here is another site on mathematical
games and recreations.
- Here is another game you can
enjoy.
- Here is a site of math puzzles of all
sorts. Here is another.
- The public radio program Car Talk has a weekly
puzzle, which if
often mathematical in nature. Click here for their
puzzle page.
You might also find some of the links I give on my MTE 405 class page
interesting. Click
here. (A
lot of them overlap with what's here, of course.) Or try the similar
page for MTE
211.
Last updated: July 2, 2008.
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