Nancy Powell's Web Pages
for Students, Parents, and Teachers!

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1. Radical Places on the Web Radical - get it? - Another Math Site
2. Richard Briston: Math Assignments
3. ROBIN'S LESSON PLAN #1 "ANYWHERE IN THE USA"
4. Resources for Math Teachers from Memorial University in Newfoundland

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1. SAMI - Lesson Plans and Projects - There are a lot of projects here, not only mathematics
2. School Environment Affects Math Studies
3. SCORE Mathematics K-12 Resources (Schools of California Online Resource for Education)
4. Shell Centre's Distractions page - This contains entertaining items of varying degrees of educational value
5. Shell Centre's Mathematics Resources from the University of Nottingham, England
6. SkyMath -- designed for middle school mathematics teachers. It contains all of the information needed for teachers to use the 15 classroom activities of SkyMath, including the module itself. We believe that it is an effective and innovative way to present elements of the middle school mathematics curriculum. A Skymath Module Context Matrix has been prepared that identifies which of the NCTM standards are addressed in each of the 15 activities.
7. S.O.S. MATHematics Home Page from the University of Texas at El Paso
8. The Spanky Fractal Database
9. Statistics Resources
10. Susan Boone's Internet Projects: A group of lessons that incorporate the use of the Internet. Students are asked to research various topics and apply applicable math skills to answers questions.

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1. Taking Stock : A six lesson unit on the stock market. Worksheets are included with each activity. Grade levels could be from 7 grade and above.
2. Teaching Mathematics in the Middle and Secondary Schools - 40 lesson plans created by teachers from Florida. Covers grades 4-12. Lessons contain detailed explanations and directions. A number of the lessons are integrated with other disciplines. NCTM standards are documented. Some lessons utilize websites. Projects require practical use of math in real life situations. More than 30 lessons with fairly simple preparation. Lessons require 1 to 2 days.
3. Teachnet - The Teachers Network from IMPACT II - includes award winning math lesson plans from teachers from all over the United States
4. TEAMS classroom projects
5. TERC
6. Tessellations (tilings) and Sources for Illustrations
7. Tesselmania software from MECC
8. Third International Mathematics and Science Study - TIMSS
9. Transforming Ideas for Teaching and Learning - Mathematics

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1. Understanding Algebraic Factoring While working through algebraic factoring it is helpful to remember that all you are doing is working with breaking up and putting back together squares and rectangles!
2. Understanding Factoring Through Geometry A collection of lessons on factoring from Forum Teacher Associate Suzanne Alejandre. Using algebra tiles, students find a geometric basis for factoring.
3. Understanding the Principles of Budgeting - Lesson helps students to understand the principles of budgeting. Students use newspapers to understand the costs involved in living on their own.
4. Using Charts and Graphs to Present Information - Using the newspaper, bar graphs, circle graphs and line graphs are explored.

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Nancy Powell is the Lead Teacher of the Mathematics Department at Bloomington High School in Bloomington, IL
For more information or comments about this Web site, contact
Nancy Powell at npowell@bhs-ms.org

The BHS Mathematics Department would like to thank
Dave's World (dave-world.net) for providing the Web space for this site.

This site was last updated on August 14, 1997