Step One: Scavenger Hunt

Jamie M. Begley

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I. Subject Specific Sites:

  1. Site One
    1. Math Forum High School Teachers’ Place
    2. http://mathforum.org/teachers/high/
    3. Teacher to teacher ideas and resources, internet activities and projects, lesson plans (individual and collections), sites for kids, software, math typesetting for the internet problems for the week, Q and A, tricks and tips, career workshops, mailing lists and newsgroups, links to NCTM and others, articles, and publications.
    4. Math software, workshops, Internet activities, and lesson plans.
    5. On-line collection of lesson plans.
  2. Site Two
    1. PBS Teacher Source
    2. http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math.htm
    3. Featured activities and lessons, advice from the field, math news, shopping for teachers, recommended books, links, kids section, newsletters, technology and teaching section, standards-based professional development, and TV for teachers.
    4. PBS lessons and activities by grade level, TV for teachers, shopping for teachers.
    5. TV for teachers.

II. Professional Organizations: The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

  1. http://www.nctm.org/
  2. NCTM standards, membership, conferences/events, publications/products, online classifieds, news and hot topics, on-line jobs, education materials catalog, and sections (corners) for teachers, family, leaders, and researchers.

III. Resources:

  1. Grants in the field of Mathematics
    1. Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching
    2. http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/pres_awards/
  2. Government of private industry free classroom resource
    1. The OSPI Math, Science, and Technology Server
    2. http://164.116.16.10/html_docs/HomePage.html

IV. Standards:

  1. Kentucky Department of Education: http://www.kde.state.ky.us/comm/pubinfo/standards/
  2. NCTM Standard for Grades 9-12: "Students in secondary school face choices and decisions that will determine the course of their lives."

V. Museums:

  1. Goudreau Museum of Mathematics and Art in Science http://www.mathmuseum.org/workshop.htm
  2. Platonic solids (grades 4-12): This is an introduction to solid geometry through an in depth look at five Platonic solids with comments of their place in Classical Greek concept. Some concepts that are introduced are: Euler’s theorem, duality, congruence, symmetry, truncation, compounding, and stellation.

VI. Television — Public Broadcasting (PBS):

  1. Nova on-line adventure
    1. Stationed in the Stars: Free Falling http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/station/freefalling.html
    2. The lesson talks about the free falling experience of space stations and astronauts. It also involves gravity discussions. The math portion is covered when explaining that the gravity 100 miles above the surface of the earth is only 5% of that on earth and it shows the calculations involved.
  2. Algebra and Functions: Wired for Space on KLRU was not scheduled. Note was to check back at a later date. http://klru.worldpost.com/publicarea/ViewProgram.asp?VsnID=84116

VII. Lessons:

  1. Exponential versus linear relationships: ClarisWorks Graphing: Spreadsheet Lessons — Suzanne Alejandre http://mathforum.org/alejandre/spreadsheet.html
  2. Multicultural issues and math and science: Immigrants: The Irish Experience in Boston 1840 and The Immigrants’ Experience Today http://www.coollessons.org/Imm20.htm
  3. On-line project: PBS, IBM AND CBS Launch Major Educational Technology Project http://www.pbs.org/insidepbs/news/cyberlaunch.html Brings the excitement of the 2002 Olympic Winter games to students an innovative, cross-curricular Web site providing educational benefits to students in grades 4-8 to teach students some important science, math and social studies concepts.