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This site is great. It lets you take any site found on the web and highlite important passages you have found. What a great way to make sure students get the point.

This site is great. It lets you take any site found on the web and highlite important passages you have found. What a great way to make sure students get the point.

many algebra lesson plans and activities all ready to use in your classroom. Also includes down loadable versions of "who wants to be a millionaire", "Jeopardy" and "weakest Link" power point review games.

This website features games for students. This game asks students to identify the points of view for a given figure from different views in the room. This is a great way for students to integrate technology and math.

Site filled with games like Jeopardy, power point lessons and videos. All broken down by grade, subject and standard.

Copy and paste the url of your favorite You tube video and this web site will convert it to a mpg file. Then you can make the file part of a power point presentation. Great to used at school where You tube is blocked or a internet connection is not available.

Purplemath contains practical algebra lessons demonstrating useful techniques and pointing out common errors. Lessons are written with the struggling student in mind, and stress the practicalites over the technicalities. Links and other resources also available.

This site is great. It lets you take any site found on the web and highlite important passages you have found. What a great way to make sure students get the point.

I use the website for extra credit for the students. They can complete the self-check quizzes for test points. The quiz results can be printed or e-mailed to me. I also let parents know about the site so they can help their child study or if the parents want to print worksheets for their children to have extra practice at home. The Parent and Student Study Guide is a worksheet that has an answer key provided for the parents.

This page suggests some topics for students in grades 6, 7 and 8 who are planning to do a math project. This website would be a great jumping off point to figure out projects. There is not however enough information for a complete project, but worth taking a look at.

I thought I would choose an interesting non-teaching site today. This site is a tracker of sleep over time. This site would be cool to use in a classroom for tracking the sleep of students for health reasons, but also for math. The ideas that could be used with graphing and the use of points, averages, etc. are promising. Otherwise, this site seems kinda pointless?

Useful for pointing out the importance of base case and inductive step.

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.

Online dictionary of math terms and their definitions. This would make a good reference site for students that need to be reminded of math vocabulary and or formulas . I suggest it as a starting point for for a problem solving situation for students that need it.

Power point templates of many populargame shows. You add the questions and the answers and the template provides the backdrop, the music and/or sound effects that help make the game identifiable.

A large collections of power points for teachers and students to use. Great for class use or for putting on your class web site as a resource for students.

How many people use alone their car for work, study or else, even several times a week? RoadSharing is an easy way to find someone to share a trip with, is a meeting point between those who offer and those who look for a lift and it is the best way to save money, pollute less and meet new friends.

As shown in class today, using a wiki such as wetpaint in place of a power point, blackboard or overhead projector can be successful. The benefit of using and editing problems and activities on a wiki is that your students can access these problems at home. This could also be useful in having the students post content and ask questions.

Wetpaint is the largest network of free websites. Wetpaint sites are great for groups, classes, and more; start your free website in 3 steps.

Connotea is a place to keep links to the articles you read and the websites you use, and a place to find them again. It is also a place where you can discover new articles and websites through sharing your links with other users. By saving your links and references to Connotea they are instantly on the web, which means that they are available to you from any computer and that you can point your friends and colleagues to them.

reference management...share references w/group

A straight forward how to page for students. Another perspective always helps!