WHS_Math

Euclid‘s Elements is the most successful and influential textbook ever written. Only the Bible has been published in greater number.

Amazingly a Professor of Mathematics at Clark University has translated all thirteen books of Elements and made them available online. This would be fantastic in itself but the icing on the cake is that there is an interactive geometry applet to support each postulate so you can literally interact with the maths!

The Rubix Cube has long been sited as a tool to help develop problem-solving and spatial thinking, and the YouCanDotheCube.com offers lesson plans and activities (all matched to state standards) for teachers who want to use the Cube to visualize other aspects of the math curriculum — fractions, geometry, algebra

Fold.it, an online protein-folding game. Fold.it asks players to work with proteins' 3D structures (in other words, how the proteins "fold"). The game evaluates how good of a fold the player has made, gives them a score, and rates them on a leaderboard so that players from around the world can compete with one another.

Refraction, this one aimed at "discovering optimal pathways for learning early mathematics." Refraction is a Flash-based puzzle game for learning about fractions, although players don't immediately get the sense that the game offers lessons in math

lecture of Ben Goldacre from Ted Talk via Teaching College Math on how statistics is used in manipulating results of experiments to favor some pharmaceutical companies.

et's look at We Use Math, a project triple-teamed by Brigham Young University, the Mathematical Association of America, and the American Mathematical Society. Clearly that consortium brought a lot of resources to the table. The site features polished quotations from happy and well-paid professionals testifying to the usefulness of math in their careers. There's a career tracker which lists dozens of high-paying careers, their salaries, their employers, the math required, and the ways math is used.

Engagement is a funny, fickle thing. On the subject of how to excite children about math in the same way it excites me, I have more questions than answers. Let me try to lay out a few markers, though:

check out the Peanut Math Software package from Philip Exeter University. Some software included in the package also include games and puzzles. The package includes the following software:

TenMarks offers a free online mathematics program designed to supplement your in-classroom mathematics instruction. The free TenMarks program covers materials for students in grades two through ten. In the program there are more than 2,000 video lessons available to students to view on demand. Teachers can use the TenMarks program to assign lessons and problems to individual students or to an entire class. Teachers can track the progress of individual students and the progress of an entire class. Watch the video below to learn more about the free TenMarks mathematics program for your classroom.