Math Links

Postings include tips on teaching math facts, and information about two math practice books, Two Plus Two Is Not Five: Easy Methods to Learn Addition and Subtraction and Five Times Five Is Not Ten: Make Multiplication Easy.

IWB Framework What is the IWB Framework? The framework for effective mathematics teaching and learning using the Interactive Whiteboard was designed after systematic research in 12 classrooms in Ontario. The framework describes how teachers and students are using Interactive Whiteboards in their classrooms.

Grade 8 Math Diagnostic Assessment Tool from Nelson (Canada), sample pages

How big a role does randomness play in our lives? Do we live in a world of magic and meaning or … is it all just chance and happenstance? To tackle this question, we look at the role chance and randomness play in sports, lottery tickets, and even the cells in our own body. Along the way, we talk to a woman suddenly consumed by a frenzied gambling addiction, two friends whose meeting seems purely providential, and some very noisy bacteria.

Game Classroom is an educational games website catering to the K-6 market. Game Classroom offers mathematics games and language arts games. Games can be found by selecting a grade level and then a subject area. Both the mathematics and language arts categ

Also from SLU, simple interface, easy to change function, upper/lower/middle, number of intervals, and graphing window.

Anything from Wolfram Alpha is going to be rigorous and well done. I like their descriptions. Although I wish there was a more dynamic kind of presentation of derivatives and integrals, etc.

Series of videos by Khan Academy, a not-for-profit organization with the mission of giving access to knowledge to anyone, anywhere. Great opportunity for students to see lectures at their own pac.

Geometry explorer, worth downloading. Geared towards geometry constructions more so than Geogebra.

Experiments by University of Chicago psychologists with deaf people in Nicaragua who learned "homesigns" rather than formal sign language, could not count beyond three. In contrast, people learning sign language learn number words and number concept and understand large numbers. The findings ""suggest that language is an important player in number acquisition." The research is reported in PNAS: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/01/31/1015975108.abstract

Pleased with the #MathMaths History Tour video # 2. Look out for it alongside # 1 & the π slide interlude at http://bit.ly/mathmathshistory - Peter Rowlett (peterrowlett) http://twitter.com/peterrowlett/status/49785133376606209

Applying mathematics to biology and complex life processes

"This comprehensive book covers the theory, the structure of the written proof, all standard exercises, and hundreds of application examples from nearly every area of mathematics."