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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.

Creative projects for making math fun. I loved this site for the great ideas and imagination it has for mathematic projects. I will definitely use some of the ideas on this website for projects and for inspiration.

This website gives some good examples of projects. There are quite a few sites you can click on and see the math projects.

ThinkQuest is a protected, online learning platform that enables teachers to integrate learning projects into their classroom curriculum and students to develop critical 21st century skills. It includes a project environment where teachers and students engage in collaborative learning; a competition space where students participate in website development contests; and the award-winning ThinkQuest library, a learning resource visited by millions.

ThinkQuest is a protected, online learning platform that enables teachers to integrate learning projects into their classroom curriculum and students to develop critical 21st century skills. It includes a project environment where teachers and students engage in collaborative learning; a competition space where students participate in website development contests; and the award-winning ThinkQuest library, a learning resource visited by millions.

Wiggio is a completely free, online toolkit that makes it easy to work in groups. With Wiggio you can: - keep shared calendar (with text message reminders) - poll group in real-time - send mass text messages - store files in one common folder - setup group conference call - many others! When you need to work in groups at school, Wiggio is the best FREE tool on the web to help you organize groups like: - Academic project groups - Clubs, organizations, committees - Fraternities and sororities - Housemates and dormmates - TA sections - Sports teams - Musical and dance groups

Wiggio is a completely free, online toolkit that makes it easy to work in groups. With Wiggio you can: keep shared calendar (with text message reminders), poll group in real-time, send mass text messages, store files in one common folder,setup group conference call, and many others. When you need to work in groups at school, Wiggio helps you organize groups like: academic project groups, clubs, organizations, committees, and more.

Wiggio is a completely free, online toolkit that makes it easy to work in groups. With Wiggio you can: keep shared calendar (with text message reminders), poll group in real-time, send mass text messages, store files in one common folder,setup group conference call, and many others. When you need to work in groups at school, Wiggio helps you organize groups like: academic project groups, clubs, organizations, committees, and more.

Projects, Fun Sites and Field Trips for Middle School

The Busy Teachers' Website K-12 offers specific lesson plans and projects for many subjects as well as opportunities for classes to participate in ongoing "interactive web projects".

This site allows for personalizing and updating charts and graphs for either the teacher or the student. In can be used to create more formal illustrations of data or used as a lesson when addressing either geometric shapes or data representation. It includes instructions. For total use you need to sign in.

You have to sign up but there is a trial version to look at. This is a graph drawing application for the Web with a focus on usability.

Graph drawing application used to access graph projects from anywhere.

List of math websites about problem solving, word problems, and math projects

We wanted a fully-featured, social networking aware task management application with a user interface that made sense, something we didn't have to devote a couple of hours to learning to use. We wanted to be able to get a clear overview of the status of any project, anytime and from any place. We needed to be able to collaborate effortlessly. We wanted to be able to update project information in many different ways : via email, online, desktop, mobile, IM... and we needed to be able to share information in real time with all our team members, no matter how computer-savvy they are … or aren't.

This is a math website that contains many math resourses and websites. It contains websites for math projects and specific math pedagogy. It would be a great site for teachers becuase it contains lesson plans as well as writing guidelines for math.

This site has a compilation of resources. There are resources (such as project conceptualization and information gathering) and interactive activities for students. And lesson development and discipline integration for teachers.

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

Brainstorm and share your ideas, think visually, and share your projects! These are the tools that you can use in your classroom through this 2.0 website. Sign-up is free.

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.

Students can write, illustrate, and publish a real book. Teachers can use as a bookmaking project in their classrooms.

This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it...

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.

Throughout this website there are various articles, videos, slide shows, expert interviews, blog entries, and other resources to highlight success stories in K-12 education. Core concepts include integrated studies, project learning, technology integration, teacher development, social and emotional learning, and assessment. Teachers can use this site in order to understand the concepts used in teaching.

This 2.0 Website can be used to search local, national, and international events for student projects and field trips. The site is also a tool for keeping track of the events you would like to attent.