Places+to+Visit

Below are special websites. My Favorite Sites
 * [|National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics.] Select an area and choose a virtual manipulative. At the top of the page are instructions, objectives, lesson plan hints and more.
 * [|Math Dictionary] A dictionary with pictures and examples
 * The [|Illuminations] website has ready to use interactive math activities and classroom ready activities for grades K-12.
 * [|Texas Instruments] Internet site for calculator and technology resources.
 * [|NCTM] National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
 * [|Figure This] Mathematics Challenges for Families provides interesting math challenges that middle-school students can do at home with their families.
 * [] This site has a wide variety of activities utilizing many different instructional strategies
 * [] This site has many short videos that show problem solving and real world applications of math. Sign up for email notices.
 * http://www.amstat.org/education/stn/index.html The Statistics Teacher Network publishes a newsletter which has many activities.

**Vocabulary**
 * Videos on YouTube sites to demonstrate math concepts **
 * [] A California high-school math teacher is hoping to reach additional students by posting more than 500 of his videotaped classroom lessons on YouTube.
 * [][|Khan Academy] - short instructional videos on a wide variety of mathematical concepts.
 * [|http://brightstorm.com] videos of mathematics lessons
 * [] A math tutoring subscription service uses hundreds of online videos to guide students visually through math and physics concepts. The service cost about $40 a month.
 * [|http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/>] Math dictionary with applets, simple definitions designed for students.
 * [|http://mathwords.com/>] Math dictionary
 * http://esu6vocabulary.wikispaces.com/ Our ESU has lots of vocabulary resources and ideas
 * 125 ways to use Wordle including several for math.

New Sites to Try **Categories include:Organizations, Mathematics, Miscellaneous, Trigonometry, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, NASA** **Organizations**
 * [] has facts related to different areas of math at various levels. Fun facts can be searched by level and concept
 * [|GeoGebra] is an open source program that can be used for algebra or geometry. Go to www.geogebra.org to down load the program.
 * [|Math Trax] is an open source graphing program from NASA.
 * [] has many math learning activities
 * [] has flashcards and other math games
 * [] fact of numbers 1-31
 * [] 29 algebra worksheets
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 * [|NCES Classroom] exposes student to statistics concepts in their study of mathematics.
 * [] Math cats pages has lots of applets for elementary math.
 * [] Songs and CDs can be purchased here
 * [|math and science] songs are also at this site
 * [|Math in the Middle] grant from UNL Click on the M^2 icon
 * [|Pennies] how would 1 million, 1 billion etc pennies look.
 * [|math and music] songs to help learning math concepts.
 * [|Illinois Mathematics] and Science Academy performance-based website
 * [|Number game]Try this and see if you can determine why it works.
 * [|Game Theory] a site with interactive applets for games and strategies
 * [|Curious Math] has a list of mathematics topics for fun tricks and trivia.
 * [|Moebius Strip]
 * [|Printable candy wrappers]
 * [] Scientific based research website
 * [] math research website
 * [|NCTM] National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
 * [|NATM], Nebraska Association of Teachers of Mathematics []
 * [|NSTA], National Science Teachers Association
 * [|NATS], Nebraska Association of Teachers of Science
 * [|NDE], Nebraska Department of Education
 * [|UNL] University of Nebraska Department of Mathematics, JUMP test, AMC test, Gateway Exams, and Math Placement Exams.
 * [|ENC] Eisenhower National Clearninghouse for Mathematics and Science Education
 * [|CPAM] Council of Presidential Awardees in Mathematics Listserv address: **cpamlist@contact.ncrel.org**

**Mathematics** **Miscellaneous** **Trigonometry** **Pre-Calculus** **Calculus** **Mathematicians** **NASA Sites**
 * [|MarcoPolo] is a high quality, standards-based Internet site with student activities, lesson plans, interactive math tools, math investigations and other resources.
 * [|Java applets] Choose from many interactive programs "java applets" that you can manipulate and use animation to enhance the meaning of mathematical ideas. Middle level, vectors, trig, and calculus.
 * [|Figure This] Mathematics Challenges for Families provides interesting math challenges that middle-school students can do at home with their families.
 * The [|Math Forum] provides resources, materials, activities for teachers students and parents. This includes a problem of the week, provides help with math problems, links to related math sites and much more.
 * [|Project Interactivate] is java-based courseware for middle school mathematics explorations. Resources designed specifically for students or teachers, including the java-based activities, sample lesson plans, background materials, and a dictionary.
 * [|Math Online Gallery] is a wide collection of activities and assessments from linear functions through derivatives.
 * [|TrackStar] helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) for use in lessons. The resource list remains visible allowing the user to easily stay on track. Type in a key word and find many related sites.
 * [|Practical Money Skills for Life] has lesson plans and activities for saving, investing, credit cards and much more. Some Financial calculators are also available.
 * [|Choose to Save] has several financial planning calculators.
 * [|Trig applets] Choose from many different Java programs that demonstrate trigonometric concepts.
 * [|Vector applets] Choose from many different Java programs that demonstrate vector concepts. [|Vector] concepts and opperations are demonstrated. Geometry sketchpad needed to view animations.
 * [|Calculus applets] Choose from many different Java programs that demonstrate calculus concepts. Surfing waves as tangent.
 * [|Mathematicians from Africa]
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 * [|Mars Exploration Program]
 * [|NASA Education Homepage]
 * [|NASA Spacelink]
 * [|ESU 6 forms page] Books for Math and Science
 * [|K-6 Math Science Books] web sites and activities from ENC