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Rabu, 02 September 2009

15 Places to find Teaching Resources and Math teaching strategies

Trying to get a classroom of 20 to 30 individual thinkers to understand difficult math concepts can sometimes be challenging. Fortunately, there are many websites that offer lesson plans, activities, teaching strategies, and other resources to help you out. Here is a list of 15 sites that math teachers will find especially useful:

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics - The NCTM, a public voice in mathematics education, provides professional development strategies, lessons, journals, books, and other resources that can be used in a K-12 math classroom.

The Math Forum - This free online math warehouse offers lesson plans, activities, educational materials, teaching strategies, career development resources, and much more. The Math Forum also provides links to other resources that are useful for math education.

TeAchnology - TeAchnology, a huge database of lesson plans and classroom resources, is loaded with lesson plans specifically for math teachers. The lesson plans cover all grades, areas, and concepts.

Math.com - Even though this site was created to help students with math, Math.com features a variety of resources teachers can use as well. Under the teachers section of this site, you can find lesson plans, classroom resources, career information, standards, and other free resources.

Math-Videos-Online - This free online math site features math videos that teachers can use with their lessons to demonstrate important concepts. The site also offers interactive games, quizzes, and printable worksheets to be used in conjunction with the videos.

Rader's Numbernut - Rader's Numbernut is a site that contains interactive math games and activities for beginning and advance math. Teachers can use these activities within their lessons to illustrate important concepts.

Illuminations - The Illuminations site features a library of 103 activities that teachers can use with their K-12 students. In addition to the activities, this site also features over 500 lessons specifically for math.

TheTeachersCorner - Teachers looking for a wide range of online teaching resources will enjoy the lesson plans, worksheets, and activities offered on TheTeachersCorner. This site also features a message board, printables, bulletin board, and other general resources that teachers will find useful.

AAA Math - AAA Math provides a comprehensive set of lessons for K-8 students. The lessons come with unlimited practice to help students master concepts.

FREE - The Federal Resources for Education Excellence (FREE) features a huge list of teaching resources for algebra, data analysis, geometry, measurement, numbers and operations, and other math concepts. The teaching resources cover lesson plans, tools, learning activities, and more.

Discovery Education - Discovery Education offers free math lesson plans for elementary to high school students. The lesson plans are broken up into three sections for elementary, middle school, and high school children.

Mathematics Learning - This blog, created by an educator with over a decade of experience, provides math teachers with a place to find and share new strategies in the teaching of math. Throughout the pages of this blog, teachers will find resources, activities, and strategies that have been successful in other math classrooms.

Terri Husted - The Terri Husted site is designed specifically to give math teachers information and ideas on how to improve their teaching strategies. Throughout this site, you will find information on classroom management, new teacher resources, math activities, homework assessments, and much more.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is a free online activities site that teachers can use with their K-12 classrooms to visually demonstrate numbers and operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, and data analysis.

Math Drills - Math Drills provides thousands of free printable math worksheets that are great for assessing student's abilities, giving extra practice, and teaching new strategies.

Guest post from education writer Karen Schweitzer. Karen is the About.com Guide to Business School. She also writes for OnlineCollege.org, an online college resource.

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