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Want to learn how to quickly square a number that ends in 5? Or how to tell if a number is divisible by 3? Or maybe you'd like to learn how to calculate square roots by hand? That's the kind of fun and fascinating math tricks and trivia you'll find here at CuriousMath.com.

A collection of math tips and tricks. Want to learn how to quickly square a number that ends in 5? Or how to tell if a number is divisible by 3? Or maybe you'd like to learn how to calculate square roots by hand? That's the kind of fun and fascinating math tricks and trivia you'll find here at CuriousMath.com.

"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

With this website you can choose a telephone number and time for that number to be called with a preset recording. A good way to wish your students a happy birthday.

Here is an online Tangram game that is fun to play. This site also has logic and number puzzles as well as other types of puzzles.

Hulu is a great way to catch any missed episode of your favorite T.V. show. Hulu is a free online video service that offers hit TV shows including Family Guy, 30 Rock, NBA and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, etc. The extensive library also includes blockbuster movies, and the best part about it is that is FREE!!! You can start watching now.

Watch your Favorite TV Show - includes TV shows and movies; includes Numbers TV show;

You can create floorplans or room plans with furniture. Teachers could use this website for an activity applying scale or surface area. It even give you the measurements of the furniture with imperial or metric measurements. Who knows, it may save a spouse from moving around furniture until it looks "right"!

This online room planner helps you arrange any space by visually planning out the specifics. You input the exact dimensions of your room, and furniture and other objects are available to scale to better help see the possible arrangements of the classroom. This is extremely helpful for a teacher because it will save time by not having to rearrange the classroom a number of times.

Printable Flashcards

Create, study, print, share and download millions of flashcards. Huge number of categories of flashcards available for download. Within math cateory, here are some from a long list: GRE study cards, GMAT study cards, SAT study cards, multiplication flash cards, math vocabulary cards, percents and fractions, and geometry theorems and postulates.

This is a great site to help students develop a visual understanding of a concept. It contains 155 different lessons and activities with interactive programming. Lessons are clear and activities are interesting. Topics range from number through geometry to statistics. Difficulty ranges from elementary to secondary.

Classroom resources such as lesson plans, clip art, puzzle maker.

Discovery Education provides classroom and home resources by subject to help improve student achievement.

Powered by the number 1 non-fiction media brand in the world, Discovery Education transforms classrooms and inspires teachers with engaging content and services that measure and improve student achievement.

Powered by the number 1 non-fiction media brand in the world, Discovery Education transforms classrooms and inspires teachers with engaging content and services that measure and improve student achievement.

Math Arcade - Arcade-style math games including Ball Hogs, Mummy Hunt, Bumble Numbers and more

Powered by the number 1 non-fiction media brand in the world, Discovery Education transforms classrooms and inspires teachers with engaging content and services that measure and improve student achievement.

Interactive Resources for all math topics by grade levels K - 8. Math lessons, games and challenges.

A Platform for People who want to Study or Tutor Online. BuddySchool is an opened education platform. The main assignment of the platform is to establish and to maintain contact between a tutor and a student. The service gives the teachers both opportunity to represent their offer and number of functions supporting the education process and settlement. The platform offers also other helping functions such as lesson reminder, the notebook, chat with the possibility of saved session edition, the calendar, message system, grade system, the possibility of keeping a few profiles by the teachers or students.

This site (wiki) provides a number of interest, background and learning style surveys or questionnaires. This information can be useful for both students and teachers in building a successful classroom by allowing each to know individual profiles.

An extensive list of mathematical jokes about numbers and mathematicians to share with students.

A fractions tutorial that models fractions with number lines or circles. Fraction games are included. This site has interesting graphics like a huge scale which I think make it a little different and kids would like. Reinforcement of fraction knowledge I feel is important through out middle school

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.

FunBrain is the Internet's premier location for interactive, educational games (math, grammar, science) for children and kids of all ages.

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.