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This is the official website for World Math Day which is March 4th. On that day, students and classes compete online doing math problems!

World Math Day registration and practice games are now open! In 2008 182,455,169 questions were answered. Students around the world are challenged to creating a new world record! Click the Register button to join students around the world in a celebration of numbers.

World Math Day is a global competition/community separated by individuals/schools/teams to all come together one day and complete as many math problems as possible. During this time of year, this is a great way for a math teacher to solidify math facts and create a fun competition between different school teams/classes or different schools.

All teachers are a little bit nervous on the first day of school. This website will help you organize your thoughts and plan out a terrific and effective first day!

This website can be used to figure out conversions with the online calculator. There are some interesting calculators that could be used with different types of problems involving science. This page also has math tricks for age and days of the year. It could be used in something as simple as a last minute note to keep the students guessing until the next day!

Resources for teachers. FREE Teaching Resources for April/May 2009 including Earth Day Resources, Spring and Easter Lessons, Cinco de Mayo, as well as Mother's Day and much more - complete with Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Theme Units, Certificates, Teacher Tools and a Whole lot more!

Use this site every day. Nat Geo provides a perspective on the world outside our classroom no one else ever seems to match!

Math/Science site w/activities by grade...Created with the goal of using new media technologies to create a channel between "the" scientists, engineers, exlorers and visionaries who are shaping the future, and today's learners who will one day succeed them.

The primary goal of this site is to collect book lists. Lists of author's books, award lists, books you want to read, etc. etc. Future plans for the site include the ability to blog your lists, share lists with friends, and much more. I could not find anything on math, though perhaps one of us could start a "classroom library" list...

Need a place for you mind to escape? How about relaxing with a good book? Need any suggestions? Try 22books.com! Its a great place to recieve wonderful feedback on new books that will help take your mind off a hard day of work, problems at home, or anything you just need a break from!

Wikio is a user managed news search engine. It watches, real time, thousands of news sources, gathers hundreds of thousands of stories every day and classifies them by their topics in a multi millions documents database. information classification is based both on its relevancy and on its members popularity who vote, discuss or even write new stories

Resource for new teachers. Identify with others who are facing the same problems you may be facing.

Help for new teachers including classroom management and things to do on the first few days.

Fun little web site that has warm up for each day of the month, along with fun math, thinking skills, a fun tool to use to select random students and put in groups.

This site is the website for a television program TV411. It is focused on adult education in the practical basics of reading, writing, vocabulary and math skills. I found the math lessons tie the use of math in every day problem situations like buying something over time, Mortgage Basics, Using Credit Cards wisely. These are good sources for teachers to show relevency and the practical use of the math they are learning in real life problem situations.

This website contains a personal time tracker which could be shared with students as a way to keep track of the time they spend on homework, and a fun way to time themselves when practicing math fact tests at home in order to increase their fluency.

Your time is your product. Every minute you spend working that goes unaccounted for is like giving away your product for free. Tracking your time accurately is essential to staying profitable. Keep track of anything with Klok's simple work timer and visual display of how your days "fill up". Good for students to manage the time the spend on homework and school work along with their other activities.

A time tracker to assist you in following your lesson plan to the minute.

This site helps users to find, organize and share famous quotes by subject and author. Quotes may be posted as inspirational or reflective "thought for the day" in the classroom.

Over 1,000,000 Life quotes, Death quotes, Funny quotes, Love quotes, Inspiring quotes and many more. If you need it, the Quotes Daddy quotes it. You can save your favorite quotes and share them on your website, blog or profile. Can even be used to motivate your students!

This website is an interactive website for children to reinforce understanding and practice of math and other key subject areas. The operations are shown in the form of a brief video clip with real world examples. Students have the opportunity to take a brief quiz at the end of the video segment. A subscription is required but there is a free 3 day trial.

Help students learn using activities, videos, and quizzes.

Great way to address different learning styles in your Math class and to break things up into smaller segments to keep kids attention. Unfortunately, you do have to pay for this awesome resource, but I believe it is worth it.

This website is for children, parents, and teachers to practice math skills. It is tailored for grades Pre-K thru 5th with more grades coming soon. This site has a 30 day trial and membership becomes $9.95/mo.

Practice makes perfect, and IXL makes math practice fun. With unlimited math questions in more than 1,000 topics, students improve their skills and confidence and always have new challenges to meet. Only kindergarten through 5th grade right now but more grades to come.

Web-based instruction, practice, assessment and reporting built for YOUR state's standards.

Web-based instruction, practice, assessment and reporting built for YOUR state's standards.

State Testing at Study Island. Specializing in state assessments, no child left behind testing, state assessment tests and no child left behind tests

Student Organization Made Easy Notely is a collection of online tools designed to help all you crazy busy students out there to organize your hectic lives. Whether you're in University, College or High School Notely has the tools to help you get organized and achieve better grades. (Updated 1/26/2009 2:58 PM) Student Organization Made Easy Notely is a collection of online tools designed to help all you crazy busy students out there to organize your hectic lives. Whether you're in University, College or High School Notely has the tools to help you get organized and achieve better grades. (Updated 1/26/2009 2:58 PM)

Notely is a tool for students of all ages who are looking for help getting themselves better organized so they can get better grades. Tools include: scheduling, calendar, note-taking, and homework planner.

Helps students organize their notes. If teachers have students with papers everywhere in their notebook, they can tell the students to check out this site.

Brain Training Games sharpens your memory, helps you to stay focus longer, help you to think logically.

Mind360 highly engaging brain training games are designed to help strengthen key cognitive functions including Memory, Attention, Executive Functions, Thinking and Reasoning, and Visual Perception etc., and all in enjoyable ways.

Mind360 provides engaging brain training games to help strengthen key cognitive functions including Memory, Attention, Executive Functions, Thinking and Reasoning, and Visual Perception. Enjoy!