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TIMEly Links MATHEMATICS
Revised 8.3.04 - in the process of updating
Web-based tools

http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/birthday/intro.html
Birthday Problem explained with Applet
Enter number of people and a list gets printed stating how many matches you have

Open-ended Math Problems
http://www.fi.edu/school/math2/
from the Franklin Institute folks in Philadelphia. This site is for the specific purpose of preparing Middle School students for open ended problem solving on standardized tests

Lesson plans

Data Analysis

Introduction to Statistics
PBS Teacher Source: Statistics and Probablity
Exploring Data
Growing, Growing, Graphing and other excellent math lessons
A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words- Lesson on analyzing and creating graphs
Math Forum- Probablity and Statistics
Probability by Surprise
Turtle Race - watch the turtles race according to probabilities - no longer available. :(
Olympics Statistics - data from previous summer olympics

Probability

Fast Food Combinations
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.mcdonalds.html
Several contributors noticed when McDonald's introduced a special menu with 8 different items. An ad claimed that this creates 40312 possible combinations. Is this true?

Spreadsheets

Favorite math sites

The Math Forum If you only have time for one website, then this is the one!
The Math Forum Newsletter If you want Math Forums list of worthwhile math Sites
Yahoo's Most Popular Math Sites - good list
K-12 Mathematics Teaching Materials - Math Archives - extensive
http://archives.math.utk.edu/cgi-bin/k12_software.plList of software packages -
Exploratorium's 10 Cool Mathematics Sites - from 1966-2000 - looks good
http://www.exploremath.com/ Looks like one of the best of these

Schrock's Guide for Mathematics - website put together by Kathy Schrock who was inducted recently in the Internet Librarian Hall of Fame
Cynthia Lanius - math page
ENC Math Lessons and Activities - from the one of the biggest Internet sources
Virtual Manipulatives - http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html
Pattern Blocks: Exploring Fractions with Shapes - Cynthia Lanius
Block Perimeter Applet
Area Probability (Throw Darts!)
Fraction Shapes - Cynthia Lanius
Basket Math Interactive - a lousy use of the internet; player makes basket if answer is correct. From Science academy software.

A+Math - help for students
Math.com - help for students & Teachers
Houghton Mifflin's Eduplace Math section - a math portal promoting educational experiences - grades 1-6 includes prof dev, data projects, Brain teasers and test prep - on-line multiple choice
Suzanne Alejandra's resources - Great collection of math lessons.
MSTE Applets - Materials for Teachers - U. of Illinois
King Middle School Math Sites - nice collection for grades 4-6

More Sites - software (applets) on the web

*Demo version available for download
http://www.probexplorer.com/demo.html