Free Resources for Math Teachers

Published Date 04/10/21 07:33

Resources for Classroom Teaching

Here is a sampling of resources for lessons in the classroom:

The Journal of Online Mathematics and Its Applications offers not only articles, but also learning modules, “mathlets” and reviews of other online resources. (Made available by the Mathematical Association of America and the National Science Foundation)

MathTools offers hundreds of online tools, lesson plans and learning activities for teaching math in grades 2 and 7. (National Science Foundation)

Math Forum provides high-quality math education content . Its website features a problem of the week for students in grades 3-12, plus collections of math resources grouped by subject and grade level. (Drexel University and the National Science Foundation)

Seeing Math features a math curriculum, professional development for teachers and software interactive, which are available on the web and clarify key algebra concepts. (Concord Consortium, Department of Education)

The Physics Front provides selected resources for teachers of high school physics, including hundreds of lessons, as well as labs and other activities. (National Science Foundation)

Collected Learning Units in Mathematics provides more than 200 instructional units in arithmetic, algebra, calculus, data analysis, fractions, geometry, number theory, pre-algebra, pre-calculus, probability and statistics. (National Security Agency)

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Mathematics Activities for Students

Here are but a few of the resources for student activities and projects:

Practical Uses of Math and Science offers more than 60 one-page examples of how science and math can be used in interesting settings and everyday life. They are useful to assign as reports for students to gather more information to share in the classroom. Topics include clouds (why they float), social security benefits (algebra) and natural selection and a scavenger hunt. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

Ms. Lindquist: The Algebra Tutor is a place where students get extra help learning how to write algebra expressions for word problems. (National Science Foundation).

Create a Graph helps students create their own graphs and charts. This online tool can be used to make bar graphs, line graphs, area graphs, pie charts and XY plots. (Department of Education)

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives provides interactive online math lessons, activities and assessments. Topics include fractions, functions, geometric transformations, integer arithmetic, patterns and sequences.

NCES Classroom invites students to create their own graphs, solve a math teaser, play a probability game or take an online quiz. (Department of Education)

For Kids is the U. S. Treasury Department’s website for students. Children can learn about money, saving and investing, and the history of the Treasury. Tours are available.

Resources for Math Teachers

The Department of Education and other agencies offer numerous resources for teachers. They include;

InterMath is designed to help middle school teachers deepen their understanding of math concepts. More than 200 “recommended investigations” are offered for teachers to solve and then modify for use with students. They are presented in 13 units.

Teacher Workshops provides materials from 2007 summer teacher workshops sponsored by the U. S. Department of Education. It includes slides and handouts for teaching algebra, algorithms, computation, data collection, decimals and fractions, geometry, integers, linear equations and other mathematical functions.

Pedagogy in Action documents more than 25 techniques for teaching sciences to undergraduates. They include case-based learning, game-based learning, making and testing conjectures, peer review, quantitative writing, role playing, and using spreadsheets. Find more than 600 learning activities in math and the sciences.

How to Organize Your Teaching suggests ways to organize instruction to improve students’ ability to remember information, solve problems faster, understand abstract concepts and make use of what they have learned.

A One-stop Site for Teaching Resources

Need to learn more about factors and fractals, tessellations, platonic solids and geometric shapes? That information, plus all the above resources, is available through a single source. It is the mathematics page at the Department of Education’s “Free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence” section of its website.

A companion article lists free online at-home math resources for parents. They relate math to routine daily events and include fun ways to involve parents and students in exploring math topics.

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