Saturday, August 08, 2009

15 Places for Math Teachers to Find Lesson Plans and Curriculum Ideas Online

Below is a guest post from education writer Karen Schweitzer. Karen is the About.com Guide to Business School. She also writes about accredited online colleges for OnlineColleges.net.



Math teachers who are in need of new lesson plans or curriculum ideas for the new school year can find many of the resources they need online. There are many websites dedicated to providing lesson plans, classroom games, student activities, and other teaching aids for the classroom. Here are 15 places for math teachers to find free lesson plans and curriculum ideas online.


TeAchnology - TeAchnology offers more than 1,000 free lesson plans and units for K-12 math teachers. The site also provides rubrics and worksheets for classroom use.


Education World - Education World provides more than 600 free lesson plans for mathematics teachers.


The Math Forum - Drexel's Math Forum features an Internet Math Library with more than 1,000 free lesson plans and other resources for primary and secondary math teachers.


Columbia Education Center - The Columbia Education Center offers dozens of free teacher-created lesson plans for math teachers. Lessons are sorted by age group and saved as text files for easy reading and printing.


K-12 Mathematics Curriculum Center - The K–12 Mathematics Curriculum Center provides research and publications to help classroom teachers develop a curriculum and instructional materials that engage students in mathematical learning.


NCTM - The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics offers guiding principles for math curriculum and assessment on their website. The NCTM guide is an excellent resource for math teachers who are developing a new curriculum.


CyberBee - CyberBee has been providing Internet resources to teachers for more than 12 years. The site offers a wide range of math curriculum ideas, lesson plans, and student activities that are easy to implement in the classroom.


We the Teachers - Although this site was not designed specifically for math teachers, it is a good place for educators to connect and search for lesson plans online. We the Teachers also offers a search engine for classroom games.


TeacherTube - TeacherTube is a YouTube-like site for teachers who want to post video lesson plans and other instructional videos online. Math teachers can use the site to find curriculum ideas and classroom-ready videos for students.


NumberNut - NumberNut is an interactive online math textbook that can be used by both students and teachers. Resources are available for basic math students and advanced math students.


AIMS Education Foundation - The AIMS Education Foundation provides a wide range of free math activities through their website. Activities are designed for grades K-9.


Illuminations - The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics created this site to provide teachers with standards-based lessons for the math classroom. Illuminations also offers a selection of student activities and curriculum ideas.


Math Playground - Created for elementary and middle school students, this interactive math resource provides fun games, videos, and others study aids to supplement classroom learning.


Math Drills - Math Drills is a fantastic resource for teachers who need math worksheets and other printables. The site offers more than 6,000 worksheets with answer keys.


Math and Reading Help for Kids - This site provides teachers, tutors, and parents with a comprehensive directory of math articles that can be used to develop curriculum and lesson plans for students who struggle with various math topics.

8 comments:

stephanie (bad mom) said...

This is a fantastic resource - I will pass it on to our new math teacher! Thanks :D

dayana said...

I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.


Margaret

http://grantsforeducation.info

Teacher Knows Best said...

I love the list of helpful sites! That really comes in use when you need some last minute lesson plan ideas.

dayana said...

I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.


Margaret

http://grantsforeducation.info

Anonymous said...

Ours is an envionment where evil is perceived to be rewarded while good is punished. As with everything the Gods have a reason for creating this perception::::
People who fall on the good side of the good/evil scale have more favor, and when they do something wrong the Gods punish them BECAUSE THEY WANT THEM TO LEARN. The Gods want them to receive this feedback in hope they make corrections and begin to behave appropriately. The Gods DON'T like evil and refuse to grant this feedback.
EVERYBODY pays for what they do wrong, only evil people must wait until their next life before they will experience the wrath of the Gods, manifested in their reincarnation as a lower form of life into environments with increased/enhanced temptations.
Sadly, this allows the Gods to position this perception of evil rewarded as temptation, one which they use as an EXTREMELY effective corruptor.

Both Africa and the Medittereanean are regions which have sexual issues. This is a sign of morbid disfavor once you understand that females are the God's favored gender. Muhammad's (Mohammed's) polygamy halfway through his life as a prophet was preditory. Now a huge percentage of Muslims believes in male superiority and that the abuse of women is God's will. Female genital mutilation is still practiced in Africa. Black misogyny is the most eggregious example in the recent past.
Black member size is temptation to a predisposed population.
The patriarchal cancer spread throughout Europe because of Christianity, of which the majority of policy makers were Italian men.

Militancy in Africa is consistant with the Iraqi example, as was slavery and the KKK here in America:::Fear enforces proper behavior. Without it we see what happens as a result of gross/morbid disfavor:::::AIDS, crack babies, dead young men in gangland retaliation killings. This is the purpose behind many black's historical tendancy towards resistance.
The same principle was true in Europe and throughout the world for centuries:::People whom lived under iron fists were conditioned to think the right way. As a result they experienced higher numbers of children accend into heaven because they were taught to think and behave appropriately. Our preditory envionment of "freedom" was the primary purpose the Gods had when implimenting this strategy that is the United States, one which they used to spred the cancer of democracy and westernization throughout the world. And the Gods use this tool that is America to prey on the disfavored both at home and abroad.

Even the Old Testiment is not to be taken literally, but the Gods do offer clues throughout to help the disfavored:::The apple is a tool of temptation used to corrupt Adam and Eve and cast them out of the Garden of Eden.
There is another lesson to be learned from this passage, and it is quite similar to the vailing issue and the discourse over women's attire which ultimately died in the 70s:::Women are responsible for and control the fate of mankind.

Think about what I say. Consider what I teach. Society is going to become disturbingly ugly as we approach the Apocalypse due to spiralling, runaway disfavor.
I do not know when this will occurr, but it is the God's way to grant some time before they end on Planet Earth.
Make the decision to always be good and never look back. Until you do this technology will employ tactics to test your resolve:::Ridicule, beligerance, doubt and refusal to abandon what people perceive to be their "investment".
Pray daily. Think appropriately. Too many are confident, unaware of the God's awesome powers or their status as antients. Others may fall prey to their positioning.
Be humbled, God-fearing and beware of the God's temptations, for everyone is tested to evaluate their worthiness.

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Meredith said...

This is a wonderful list but misses one of the best ones -- Curriki.org . Curriki has thousands of free and open source learning assets, from reference items to worksheets to entire courses! It's a huge resource, free to join, global in focus, and everything on there is free (no membership fees).

Judy Jacob said...

I have been following your blog for sometime... though this is my first comment here.

Thought would drop by and send you this site for your opinion before I start using it with my class.

Anonymous said...

These are all such great sites. I have been a little skeptical about the lesson plans I had, and I found some great alternatives here!