MATH
- Digital Education Network's Math Den for middle and high school math students; interactive online lessons in three areas: The Internet, Graphics, and Math.
- Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education - resources for the math/science education professional. Resource Finder for curriculum and lesson products; "Digital Dozen": 12 interesting math/science internet sites per month; articles, curriculum frameworks, and reform documents
- Math in the Kingdom ~ Online Learning System: operates from the website, hundreds of interactive lessons. Gives immediate feedback. Automatically sends progress reports by email. MITK can be used as a primary resource for homeschooling, or as a supplement to classroom instruction. Tuition: $9.95 per month; Also, Cool Fact of the Day (also available by free email subscription), free online math and word games.
- Houghton Mifflin's Education Place - The Math Center has Brain Teasers
- Cuisenaire Learning Materials math manipulatives
- Timberdoodle sells
Cuisinaire and Miquon
- Key Curriculum Press "The Geometer's Sketchpad" software, also carry Miquon
- Math-U-See site ~ Steve Demme observed the link between seeing math and understanding math, and Steve developed a complete multi-sensory math program that utilizes interlocking, colorful blocks and fraction overlays to teach math, along with curriculum to provide the systematic practice and reinforcement. Building with manipulatives incorporates the visual, kinesthetic and tactile; Saying taps into the auditory, and Writing bridges the concrete and the abstract...so that when a student sees the numbers on paper (abstract) he thinks and visualizes the concept.
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