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Looking for a great spreadsheet layout for a special project? Microsoft Excel provides a huge array of templates sorted by category for home, school, office or recreation

Escape from Planet Knab by correctly figuring savings from wages. Excellent

This website offers excellent resources for in class activites, as well as fun ways for students to practice their skills at home. I've had many students come in and tell me they "beat" one of these games at home. It's great!

This is an excellent site that allows you to clip information from the web. There are programs that cost money will accomplish the same thing but with the use of this site you can clip and save articles, and other information into a kind of scrapbook of information.

A huge site with problems, calculators, converters, flash cards and more. Sections: Math Tools, Flash Cards, Metric Converter, The Magic Square (game), Math Glossary, Multiplication Table, Metric Conversion Factors and lots of links. Excellent

Live Documents offers a suite of web-enabled Office productivity applications (equivalents of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint) that can be used as software on your desktop or as services within your browser. Live Documents gives you unprecedented choice and flexibility and increases personal productivity and group collaboration. Live Documents office tools include feature-rich applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mail, database and lists. This website could be a great help if you need to share presentations that are too big to send through email.

This site offers charts and graphs of all types with a multitude of data. Excellent resource for math teachers teaching data and statistics as well as functions and variables.

"The Factor Game engages students in a friendly contest in which winning strategies involve distinguishing between numbers with many factors and numbers with few factors. Students are then guided through an analysis of game strategies and introduced to the definitions of prime and composite numbers." Excellent

Planning for and accomplishing the goal of attaining your National Board Certification as a teacher is among the highest achievements in teaching. This makes a statement of your commitment to excellence in teaching. And it is rewarding financially.

This Annenberg Foundation site uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools. This is carried out chiefly by the use of educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers. There are also programs for use in the classroom. There is a wide variety of topics for differednt content areas.

Subscription based utility for teachers to use in creating rubrics for classrrom acitivties. Potentially a big time saver for teachers in place of using Excell.

RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. RubiStar provides generic rubrics that can simply be printed and used for many typical projects and research assignments. The unique thing about RubiStar, however, is that it provides these generic rubrics in a format that can be customized. The teacher can change almost all suggested text in the rubric to make it fit their own project.

Create rubrics for problem based learning activities.

Math Cats provides playful explorations of important math concepts through games, crafts and interactive projects. Includes a magic chalkboard and an art gallery.

Fun math projects and activities. Sections: Math Cats Explore, Math Cats Love Microworlds (projects), Math Crafts, Math Cats Art Gallery, Math Cats Attic and Math Cats Love Mail. Excellent

Good ways to keep track of home work

This is an assignment tracker that will assist students with keeping track of assignments, homework, and due dates.

A simple but powerful way for students to keep track of their homework, and to never miss a due date again.

Gives specific nutritional information favorite fast food restaurants...real data your students will be interested in

When you go to a restaurant, do you know the nutritional content of what you're ordering? Fatburgr gives you weight watchers points plus nutritional information from your favorite restaurants. You can search Fatburgr for menu items via their restaurant or category.When you go to a restaurant, do you know the nutritional content of what you're ordering? Fatburgr gives you weight watchers points plus nutritional information from your favorite restaurants. You can search Fatburgr for menu items via their restaurant or category.

Fatburgr gives you nutritional information from your favorite restaurants. A math instructor could easily use this information in a project dealing with nutrition, especially since March is national health month throughout schools, to appeal to the students. Students could gather data after attending the specific restaurant and then put their information into graphical form.