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  • Exploring Pascal's Triangle: Lessons These lessons from the Math Forum web site are divided into elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Each level includes a Discovery Lesson to help students find patterns in Pascal's Triangle.

  • Fraction Inequalities Decide if a fraction is less than, greater than, or equal to another fraction. This online game helps you practice ordering fractions and keeps track of your score.

  • Helping Your Child Learn Math. This resource was written for parents of children in kindergarten through fifth grade, but will also be useful for tutors. It includes a variety of activities to help children learn and apply mathematical concepts such as geometry, algebra, measurement, statistics, and probability in a useful and fun way. All of the activities relate math to everyday life and complement many of the math lessons that children are learning in school. Activities use materials that are easy to find.

  • Illuminations : principles and standards for school mathematics (ENC-016955) Created by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), this site provides online information and activities to support and demonstrate how the new mathematical standards, PRINCIPLES AND STANDARDS FOR SCHOOL MATHEMATICS (PSSM), can be applied in the classroom. A section called i-Math features ready to use online interactive mathematical investigations for students; these include teacher notes, discussion questions, and connections to pages of the PSSM. Other sections of the ILLUMINATIONS web site offer video vignettes of classroom activities to promote discussion; Internet resources offering mathematical background information and support for the implementation of the PSSM; lesson plans for each grade band; and a searchable interactive version of the updated NCTM standards.

  • Math Forum (ENC-004498) This site is a center for teachers, students, researchers, parents, educators, and all who have an interest in mathematics education. The Math Forum collects Internet and teacher-initiated mathematics resources and organizes them by subject so that these resources can be readily accessed. A favorite Math Forum feature, Problems of the Week, provide a creative mathematical challenge for students that can be used in the classroom or at home. New problems are offered each week for elementary, middle school, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry and calculus students.

  • Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies : interactive math lessons with a problem-solving approach! (ENC-014903) This web site offers 32 problem-solving lessons for grades 5 to 8. Math topics include integers, percent, and circumference and area of circles. The lessons are organized into volumes of related lessons and can be down loaded as shareware and used offline. Each individual lesson is designed as an independent learning module or as a supplement to other math instruction and includes three or more detailed examples.

  • Power Football Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division with decimals in this online game. Enter the answer to a math problem to throw the football. If you answer correctly, the ball will move toward the goalpost, but if you answer incorrectly, you lose a down. You score when the ball goes through the goalpost. If you answer the next question correctly, you get the ball back and the downs go back to zero. This game can be played at the easy, medium, hard, or super brain level.

  • A Tour of Fractions These web pages provide lessons and materials on fractions for elementary, middle, and high school students. Tutors might review these pages to catch up on their own content knowledge. The site also presents questions and answers about rational numbers and fractions from the Math Forum's Ask Dr. Math. These pages also describe software available for working with fractions.

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