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This is going to be an amazing tool! Use engaging videos to create customized lessons. You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube. Watch the video to learn how.

"The portal comes equipped with a dynamic and interactive textbook, lesson plans aligned to the common core standards, and many other supplemental materials for your courses, including Wolfram Demonstrations, widgets, and videos. The Education Portal currently contains full materials for Algebra and partial materials for Calculus, but will continue to grow and improve with your comments and feedback. We developed the interactive textbook by working with the CK-12 Foundation, a non-profit organization with the mission to produce free and open source K-12 materials aligned to state curriculum standards and customized to meet student and teacher needs. The available Algebra textbook takes CK-12′s Algebra I FlexBook and makes it dynamic with our technologies."

"With the release of its mobile app for iPhone and iPod Touch, Khan Academy has given students the ability to take its collection of more than 3,500 educational videos on the go." Here is the iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/khan-academy/id469863705?mt=8

Making Math more interesting.  You may have seen this video before (2010) but still very good.   Very interesting perspective by Conrad Wolfram.  He thinks the way we are teaching Math is the problem. http://www.ted.com From rockets to stock markets, math powers many of humanity's most thrilling creations. So why do kids lose interest? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach -- calculation by hand -- isn't just tedious, it's mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He presents his radical idea: teaching kids math through computer programming.

Function Carnival helps students get a handle on confusing graphs lessons and helps them experiment to resolve misunderstandings. Through video, graphing, and replaying graphs as animations students can begin to construct their own understanding of what these graphs really mean.

fun real-world math project./lessons with accompanying youtube situation videos

founder of YouTube's Khan academy on the Colbert Report a few days ago

integrating computer programming into the math curriculum... and interesting argument!

Looks like some good resources for kids. They are free online books with videos and examples of typical math topics organized by subject.

Tons of videos/simulations and assessments for all math topics.

CK-12 Foundation provides a library of free online textbooks, videos, exercises, flashcards, and real world applications for over 5000 concepts from arithmetic to history