| Title | Description | Plan for Using in Classroom |
| Discovery Education | This website has valuable teacher resources. It has lesson plans, puzzlemakers, supported programs, and a few other odds and ends. It also has student study videos, though most of them are intended for elementary school. They would be good resources if your students were struggling with the basics. | I would use this when planning my lessons, to get additional ideas for fun activities. |
| Math Dictionary For Kids | This is a pretty cool, interactive dictionary that covers a lot of basic and less basic math terms. It involves pictures, examples and optional quizzes to help students learn. There are also charts of vocabulary words. | This would be a good outside of class resource, but it would also be good to pull up in class to define words or get a better visual of our definition. This one was pretty cool! |
| Worksheet Basics | This site creates basic worksheets for brushing students up on basics like adding, multiplyig, order of operations, and fractions. | I would use this a way to create quick reveiw or remedial worksheets to remind us of the basics. |
| Where Do We Use Math? | This site gives various resources for exploring where math is used in different careers and gives information about specific careers for math majors. | I would use this to answer "Where are we ever going to use this???" |
| Interactive Activities | I thought at first that these were just web applets, but then I realized they were more like interactive games. I explored a few and thought they seemed reasonably useful. | These can be used for practice, test reveiws or for discovery. |
| Illustrative Mathematics | This site breaks everything up into standards, and then adds links and "illustrations" to help understand and prepare to teach each standard. There are also good fraction vidoes. | I think this one would be a good resource when preparing lesson plans. It adds visual ideas to everything in the core. |
| BrainGenie | This is a super cool website that teaches so many concepts in higher level math. There are practice problems, quizzes, and games that are fun. I tried a few :) | This could be used for homework assignments, test reviews, a fun day in class...it is so fun it has many possibilities! |
| Inside Mathematics for Teacher | This is a site designed for the new common core. It has lots of helpful teacher resources. | This site helps makes sense of each of the common core standards, and offers example lesson plans. I would use this to understand what I'm teaching, and get new ideas. |
| Symbolab | This is a math search engine similar to wolfram alpha. | This engine provides other places to look to understand certain concepts. It also is useful for calculating and find the origins of mathematical concepts. |
| Resources! | This one is different. It is a site that has links to tons of other places to find out the history of the things your teaching, as well as resources for books, journals, statistics, and other miscellaneous items. | I would use this to brush up on things I've forgotten and to learn more about the history of things I'm teaching. |
| Title | Description | Plan for Use in Classroom |
| Graphing Lines | This applet gives students an equation in either standard form or slope-intercept form and they graph the line using two points. | I think this is a great practice tool for students reviewing for a test, or for an activity during class. It was a fun challenge. |
| Perpendicular Lines | This applet has you adjust one line to make it perpendicular to the other, then walks you through discovering that the product of the slopes is -1. | I think this would make a great discovery lesson! |
| Quadratic Function | This applet allows you to adjust h, k and a in the vertex form of a quadratic function to see the effects. | I like this app because it is so simple, but it illustrates so many good points. |
| Inverse Grapher | This applet allows you to input any function, and then see the graph of its inverse. | I like this one because I am intrigued by inverse functions. I like to try to graph them myself or the y=x line sometimes :). |
| Convergent and Divergent Series | This app allows you to input series, run a ratio test or limit test, and then see a visual of it converging or diverging. | I wish someone would have shown me this in Calc II!!! |