Group 3: STEM: Mathematics

You don't have time to look for resources, find someone who does. Then, subscribe to their blog.

• Math Teacher Blogs
  • 10-minute Math. This is a great blog for people who are looking for springboard activities.
  • Be Aware, Math is Everywhere by Steven Diaz
  • dy/dan by Dan Meyer (Watch as great TED video featuring Dan Meyer)
  • Dr. Nicki's Guided Math Blog
  • Great Maths Teaching Ideas
  • Intersections - Poetry with Mathematics
  • f(t) by Kate Nowak
  • Math Hombre
  • Math and Multimedia
  • Math Spig
  • MathStories
  • Number Warrior
  • Teaching College Math
  • Teaching with Smartboard
  • Technomaths
  • Web Maths by Jeff Trevaskis
  • Reflections of a High School Math Teacher
  • Without Geometry, Life is Pointless
  • For mathematics with students, check out Mr. Kuropatwa's Classes (Applied Math 40S - W07, W08,PreCalc 20S - F06, PreCalc 30S - F06, PreCal 40S - F06, W06, W07, APCalc AB - W07, Calc 45S -S06). He uses blogs, collaboration, and images to enhance the social and emotional aspects of his classes.
• Looking for more ideas? Go to Math Education Bloggers, Top 25 Blogs for Math in the Classroom

The Classics

Do your students know "the classics" in your field? Do they know the best starting point for quality information?

Teacher Resources: Illuminations, PBS Math, Walk a Math Trail, Wolfram Mathworld, Cynthia Lanius, Thinkfinity

• Count on It
• Math 2.0 Interest Group
• Math in Daily Life
• MathActive
• Math Can Take You Places
• MathsLinks
• Natural Math
• Nrich - STEM
• Online Math Applications
• Plus Magazine - contains lots of ideas for math-science connections
• Your Life Your Money
• PBS Science
  • Forensic Science
  • Science and Technology Activity Packs
  • STEM Science Resources
• Real World Math
• SMART Measurement. Provides links to resources that can be used with electronic whiteboards.
• SMART Geometry. Provides links to resources that can be used with electronic whiteboards.
• STEM Education Coalition
• Teacher Engineering

Student Resources:

• ScienceDaily: Math News
• Pre-Alegra
• Wolfram Research

Multimedia

Teaching Resources

• PBS Math
• PBS Nova: Mathematics
• Mr. Nussbaum Math
• Cool Math
• Practical Money Sites for Life
• Math-Kitecture - math architecture
• MathBits

Student Resources

• Physics and Math
• Algebra: PBS LearningMedia
• Data Analysis and Probability: PBS LearningMedia
• Geometry: PBS LearningMedia
• Measurement: PBS LearningMedia
• Number Operations: PBS LearningMedia

Math Audio

• How Stuff Works: Money
• Math Dude
• Math Grad
• Money Planet
• Math for Primates
• Plus Magazine
• Real World Math Community

Math Video

• America's Math Teacher (subscription-based)
• Arvin Gupta Toys YouTube Channel - STEM videos
• Brightstorm Math Tutorials: free tutorials
• Math A Tube: collected video
• Mathalicious
• Maths Centre
• Math in the Real World: Video Production
• Math is Everywhere from YouTube
• Math Migrations
• Math Train
• MathTV: math tutorials
• Powers of Ten (1977)
• Real Life Math
• Real World Breakfast
• Story of Mathematics: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
• Thinkport Math Clips

Student Video Productions

• Graphing Stories from Dan Meyer
• How to Make a Math Project winner of the CSTMF.

Interactives and Social Media

Interactives

• PBS LearningMedia
• PBS Math Interactives
• Math in Daily Life
• Statistics
• Learning objects from WISC-Online
  • Factoring by the Difference of Two Perfect Squares
• Illuminations Activities
• Interactivate
• Math in Daily Life
• MathsKit
• Math Snacks from New Mexico State
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
• NumberNut
• Wolfram Demonstrations Project
• Brainnook
• Feed the Pig for Tweens
• Geometry 3D Shapes
• Let Roly Go
• Lure of the Labyrinth
• Manga High Games
• Math by Design
• Metric Conversions
• Mr. Nussbaum
  • Death to Decimals
  • Estimation Valley Golf
• Proportionland
• Rock N Roll Tour
• Scale City
• Seeing Math
• Middle School Mathematics and High School Mathematics
• Sense & Dollars
• Villainy
• Walker

General Data Sets

• Polls and Surveys
  • Gallup Polls
• Government Resources
  • CDC Public Health FastStats
  • FedStats
  • FedStats Kids - links to kid's pages
  • USA.gov - search government agencies such as ATV Safety
• Collaborative Data Collection Projects
  • Blue Zones - Secrets of Longevity
  • Budburst - Record climate change data
  • CIESE Online Classroom Projects
  • CyberFair Projects
  • eBird
  • Frogwatch USA
  • Global Schoolhouse Registry.
  • Great Backyard Bird Count
  • Great Turtle Race
  • Journey North - Track butterflies, robins, hummingbirds, whales, and other wildlife migration
  • Ocean Explorer
  • School Yard Habitats
  • Whalenet
  • Wildlife Watch
• Other Resources
  • Escrapbooking Data

Topical Data Sets

• Demographic Information
  • Canada Data Map (Activity: Where is everyone? (Math/SS 6-8)
  • State Data Map (Activity: State Data (Math/SS 3-5), A Swath of Red (Math/SS 6-8), Why is California Important? (Math/SS 6-8)
  • Area Vibes - search for a city and make comparisons.
  • City Data - information about the top 100 US cities
  • Factfinder from US Census Bureau
  • World's Best Countries from Newsweek
• EarthQuakes
  • Deadliest Earthquakes by Year
  • Earthquake Facts and Statistics
  • US Deaths from Earthquakes
  • Latest Earthquakes from USGS
• Energy
  • Energy Statistics
  • Gasoline Prices
  • Nonrenewable Sources - oil (petroleum), natural gas, coal, nuclear (uranium)
  • Renewable Sources - biomass, geothermal, hydopower, solar, wind
  • Energy Calculators
• Health
  • Adolescent Health
  • Flu
  • How Healthy Are We?
• Hurricane Center
  • NOAA Hurricane Data
• Volcano Information
  • NOAA Volcano Data
• Water
  • Water Kids
  • Water Use
  • Water Questionnaires - compare your results to other states
• Weather Information
  • AirNow Air Quality
    • Learn about the Air Quality Index. Use the National Air Quality Summary to make comparisons between different locations.
  • Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters. What weather disasters are the most expensive? Why?
  • Gobal Measued Extremes of Temperature and Precipitation
  • State of the Climate from NOAA
  • Storm Events from NOAA
  • Tornado from NOAA
  • U.S. Climate Extremes from NOAA
  • Wildfires from NOAA
• Social Issues
  • Adoption - Trends Graph, July 2010
• Transportation
  • Airline Fares Chart
  • Baggage Fees (Students need to find the costs for bags at the airline websites)
  • Causes of Flight Delays

ReadWriteThink Interactives

• Acrostic Poem, Alphabet Organizer, BioCube, CD/DVD Creator, Comic Creator, Comparison Map, Compare/Contrast, Crossword Puzzles, Diamante Poem, Doodle Splash, Drama Map, Essay Map, FlipBook, Graphic Map, Letter Generator, Persuasion Map, Profile Publisher, Timeline, 2 Circle Venn, 3 Circle Venn, Word Matrix

Topical Ideas

Background information and links to quality websites, activities, webquests, and teaching materials

• charts & graphs
  
• codes, ciphers & secret messages
• fractals
• geometric shapes and figures
• number systems
• patterns
• Pi
• polls and surveys
• statistics & probability
• tessellations

Use the links on the left to move through this online workshop.

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