Internet Links and Resources
(Linked to NCTM Standards)
Number Sense
- http://www.sears-tower.com
This is a well-designed website with many interesting Sears Tower building facts and much, much more. - http://www.the-skydeck.com
This page can be found through a link on the Sears Tower Home Page and contains many building facts and other visitor information. - http://www.census.gov/popest/estimates.html
U.S. Census Bureau Population Statistics - http://www.isbe.state.il.us/research/Default.htm
This site contains Illinois School Facts about report cards, schools and districts, publications and other statistics. - http://www.nps.gov/jeff/generalinfo.htm
General information about the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/number/m-ms.xls
An excel spreadsheet that can be used to form bar graphs and pie graphs of different numbers of different colors of M&Ms - http://www.m-ms.com/us/
Learn all about M&M candies and the M&M store such as how the colors are mixed in every bag. - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/number/gizabase.gsp
Use this Sketchpad file to help yourself visualize the pyramid bases. - https://mste.illinois.edu/malcz/IxpFit/INTRO.html
With this site, you can explore Exponential Fit with an example of world record times for the running of the mile over a 70 year period. - http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/pyram/pyramtg.html
A site with many links to various websites about pyramids and Egyptian mathematics. - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/khufuenter.html
A NOVA Website in which you can webcrawl through the pyramids all the way to the King's burial chamber - http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/egypt/
A listing of Egyptology Resources - http://www.egyptvoyager.com
All the information you need about Egypt from the pyramids to travel information - http://www.ti.com/calc
A site for anyone involved in education with discussion groups, education technology information, and many more teaching resources. - http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum98/participants/sanders/
Learn about the geometry of drawing in three dimensions, how to make a 3D picture, and careers available with this talent. - http://scrtec.org/track/tracks/f07124.html
A site by Karen Hemmerling exploring the circle with many practice problems following each lesson. - http://www.math.rice.edu/~lanius/
Informative math website by Cynthia Lanius. One of these is the dueling pinwheels lesson for Geometer's Sketchpad. The Hand Squeeze is a data collection and analysis activity. - http://www.studyweb.com/
Listings of research sites in varying subjects that are appropriate for students - http://www.parentech.org
Technology information initiative for families of middle school students, created by NCREL and funded by Ameritech - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/
Look at the quadrilaterals lesson in the geometry located near the upper left corner. Check out the numerous other interesting lessons and links on the site. - http://www2.edc.org/mathproblems/
Problems "with a Point" help students in grades 6-12 learn new mathematical ideas by building on old ones. Each problem or sequence focuses on one mathematical idea and also connects that idea with others.
Measurement
- http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/chap6/6.3/part2.htm
With the NCTM Standards Website, learn about length, perimeter, area, and volume of similar objects by using interactive figures. - https://mste.illinois.edu/users/carvell/rectperim/RectPerim2.html
Experiment with a rectangle's length and width to see the effects on area and perimeter. - https://mste.illinois.edu/users/carvell/3dbox/
Study the volume of a rectangular prism and how to maximize it.
Algebra
- https://mste.illinois.edu/java/
A set of java activities in mathematics - https://mste.illinois.edu/users/mmckelve/applets/mlmtoothpick2/
Examine geometry first hand by using this web activity to draw boxes using toothpicks. - https://mste.illinois.edu/activity/boxperim/
A great web tool for building knowledge with perimeter - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/algebra/tableForPolygons.xls
An Excel spreadsheet with a blank table for polygon interior angle values that can be used to find patterns - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/algebra/Nonagon.gsp
A Geometer's Sketchpad file of a regular nonagon which can be rotated, moved, and resized - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/algebra/Nonascpt.gss
This is a script for automatically constructing the nonagon - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/algebra/Fastnona.gsp
A Geometer's Sketchpad file that explains how to draw a regular nonagon more quickly using the central angle - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/algebra/table2Polygons.xls
A spreadsheet with the values of interior angles of regular polygons plotted - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/algebra/20gon.gsp
A Geometer's Sketchpad file of a regular 20-gon which can be rotated, moved, and resized - https://mste.illinois.edu/java/java/angleobject/
This applet will show the interior angle sum of a polygon in a circle. - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/algebra/nonregs2.gsp
A Geometer's Sketchpad file of irregular polygons which can be moved and resized - http://www.enc.org
Marilyn Burns talks about what a reform-based classroom looks like. - http://www.keypress.com
Geometer's Sketchpad, a dynamic geometry software, is available at this site. - https://mste.illinois.edu/java/
A set of java activities in mathematics - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/
The main M2T2 page
Geometry
- https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/geometry/quads.html
"Java Sketchpad" file exploring quadrilaterals - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/geometry/QUADS1.GSP
The original Geometer's Sketchpad file of the previous "Java Sketchpad" file is available at this site, but not necessary. - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/geometry/quadsdiag.html
Explore the diagonal properties of quadrilaterals - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/geometry/quadsdiag.gsp
The original Geometer's Sketchpad file of the previous Java applet is available at this site. - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/geometry/diags.html
Use this "Java Sketchpad" file to try to draw different quadrilaterals on given diagonals. - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/geometry/diags.gsp
The original Geometer's Sketchpad file of the previous Java applet is available at this site. - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/geometry/quadsInQuads.html
Find the relationships that exist when you create a figure from the midpoints of the sides of a quadrilateral. - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/geometry/QUADS2.gsp
The original Geometer's Sketchpad file of the previous Java applet is available at this site. - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/geometry/Rhmrect.htm
Quick proof that the quadrilateral formed by joining the midpoints of a rhombus is a rectangle. - http://www.nctm.org/publications/smn/
A general view of the Euler Relationship can be found here, the NCTM Student Math Notes site under the "Let's Be Discrete" link - http://www.nctm.org/publications/smn/2000-11smn.pdf
This is the address that the link, "Let's Be Discrete", in the above link will bring you to. (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) - http://nctm.org
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. See Principles and standards for school mathematics, as well as the Navigations and the on-line Illuminations. - https://mste.illinois.edu/m2t2/geometry/perspective
Links to all the electronic files associated with drawing in perspective - https://mste.illinois.edu/dildine/sketches
James P. Dildine's Java Geometry: Additional Java sketches that any student or teacher can access from the Web - http://www.webmath.com
Webmath: Web-based interactive mathematics resources (Dictionary, Formulas, etc...) - http://www.keypress.com
Key Curriculum Press: Textbook and Software Publisher specializing in the Geometer's Sketchpad and references for GSP.
Statistics
- https://mste.illinois.edu/reese/cereal/
An interactive version of the Cereal Box Problem - https://mste.illinois.edu/reese/cereal/cereal.php
A Java simulation for the Cereal Box Problem - https://mste.illinois.edu/activity/rocket
A java applet designed to teach an application of probability using a simulation of a rocket launch - http://www.census.gov
U.S. Census Bureau Website - https://mste.illinois.edu/users/hill/ev/hermitprob.html
An interactive simulation of the Hermit's Epidemic problem showing expected value