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Although a few years old, this article, entitled "When Technology Integration Goes to Math Class," addresses some still very relevant issues and positive outcomes from the integration of technology into the mainstream math classroom. The article touches on the reasons why teachers have been more hesitant to move to the constructivist approaches now readily seen in language arts, social studies, and in some cases science classrooms. The article features the author's first attempt at this type of teaching in math: a telecollaborative project entitled "Statisitics: A Curiosity Factor."

With this amazing website, students can enter in any type of math problem from basic math, pre-algebra, algebra, trig., precalc, or calculus. The site will then ask a series of questions, break the problem down, and explain it step-by-step.

This website provides several flash games that teach kids math concepts such as fractions, percentage, money change, and geometry. Students will like the way the site is deleivered, as well. On the "Play with Numbers, Give Your Brain a Workout" pages, students can do flash cards, use manipulatives, use a calculator, model math problems with blocks, etc. There are new problems for each month, as well.

The National Center for Educational Statistics created this site to help students and parents learn about school systems, plan for college, play math games, take math quizzes, participate in probability and graphing exercises, and much more. The "Create a Graph" feature comes in handy when teaching bar graphs, pie graphs, and line graphs in lower elementary.

Braingle is a site full of teasers and teaser activites for teacher use. This particular page has several examples of math brain teasers of various levels. Students can open different tools as they work to solve problems.

Anna Adam interviewed Amy with Inspiration Software. She shared a little about what Inspiration and Kidspiration are - both mind-mapping software applications - and specifically about some of the new features of Kidspiration 3 which includes new symbols, new prepared teacher activities, and a whole math view with new math applications.

Video podcasts suggesting ways for teachers to teach Math concepts. Similar to Common Craft technique of using whiteboard. It might be interesting to have students create their own video podcasts to explain a concept for their classmates. [At times confusing as to who their audience is supposed to be.]

Can be used in math as a game for counting and skip counting when learning math concepts in the classroom

This Syvum site provides math puzzles and brain teasers for students at varying levels (easy, medium, and challenging). All activities are interactive and provide immediate scoring.

video presentations of math lessons

Collection of Math Tech activities, Related Rates examples.

Collection of math activities for all content areas

This economics lesson was developed by The Department of Treasury, Citigroup, and the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Here is one of the developers: Money Math: Lessons for Life teaches students responsible financial practices before they develop bad habits. For example, one path to accumulating wealth is to start saving at a young age and let compounding interest pay you for your effort. Another is to plan your budget realistically, by bringing your income and expenses into balance-minimizing spending so that you will have money to save. These two life lessons alone would reduce credit card debt, reduce financial pressures on families, and increase personal savings and wealth. It's a long, but thorough course.

Hundreds of articles, expert interviews, research, and resources highlighting success stories in K-12 education. Short videos provide case studies in technology integration, project-based learning, emotional intelligence, teacher preparation, assessment and more." /> metatext/html; charset=utf-8

This ISTE designed and inspired site offers help with K-12 professional development and school reform. The bookcase on the left side conatins a lot of good information, including curriculum and student stuff links that lead to resources in math, languages arts, the sciences, soical studies, and more.

BrainPop provides animated movies and follow-up quizzes/activities related to hundreds of curriculum topics in Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Art, Music, Health, and Technology. The movies are correlated to the Georgia Performance Standards, so you can select a standard (objective) and search for movies that are related to a specific standard.

Math practice site. Can do activities online or print them out. Flashcards, games, and worksheets area available with the user able to customize the worksheets and cards to what they need.

Combination activity with science and math with many different applicatoins.

Use Movie box regression to explore different types of applications