Karen Schweitzer
The following is a Guest Post from education writer Karen Schweitzer. Karen is the About.com Guide to Business School. She also writes about online colleges for OnlineColleges.net.
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Are you looking for new ways to present advanced mathematical concepts to your high school students? The Internet offers many free online resources for lessons, games, activities, and interactive whiteboards that math teachers can use to engage students and enhance teaching. Here is a list of 20 free resources for high school math teachers to explore:
NCTM – NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) offers lessons, practice problems, and teaching tips for high school math teachers. Teachers can also find professional development resources, journals, books, and news for educational mathematics.
TeAchnology – This comprehensive online teacher’s warehouse offers free lesson plans for use in high school math. TeAchnology also features worksheets and rubrics.
The Math Forum – The Math Forum is a huge math site that provides math resources for teachers of all grades. The site can be used by high school teachers to find lesson plans, activities, games, manipulatives, books, calculators, and more.
Math-Videos-Online.com – Teachers can use this site to find educational teaching videos for explaining difficult concepts in algebra, geometry, probability, and more.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives – The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives offers web-based concept tutorials to help with math teaching. These concept tutorials or virtual manipulatives allow your student to actually work with and visualize relationships.
Illuminations – Illuminations is an excellent site for finding activities, lessons, and standards for your math classroom. The site also features links to more than 700 math resources on the web.
Mathematics Lesson Plans – This lesson plan site features downloadable lesson plans for K-12 students. The lesson plans for high school math cover geometry and algebra.
FREE – FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence) offers over 100 resources for teaching algebra, geometry, data analysis, and number operations. Within this site, you will find activities, modules, lesson plans, advanced methods, and instructional units.
TheTeachersCorner.net – TheTeachersCorner.net provides math lesson plans, games, and worksheets for high school math. Teachers can also use this site to connect with others through message boards, bulletin boards, and a teacher’s lounge.
BGFL – This interactive whiteboard site features activities for high school teachers to use in their classroom. Just a few of the resources listed are Angle Estimator, Graph Generator, and Explore Co-ordinates.
Topmarks – Topmarks provides free online interactive whiteboard resources for use in algebra, statistics, geometry, and measures. Through this site, teachers can also find resources for K-12 literacy, science, biology, history, religious studies, geography, art, and music.
MathSwap – Just as the name states, MathSwap is a free place for math teachers to swap lesson plans and activities. The lessons are presented in downloadable PDFs and cover grades 7-12.
Awesome Library – The Awesome Library offers discussions, games, lesson plans, projects, and worksheets for high school math. Within the pages of this site, you can find resources for algebra, calculus, data analysis, graphing, and trigonometry.
Education World – Education World features over 400 lesson plans, activities, games, and more for advanced math. Just a few of the math concepts featured on this site are algebra, trigonometry, geometry, probability, and statistics.
Interactivate – The Interactivate site is a good place to find free online lessons for your high school math classroom. The site features 98 different lessons for numbers and operations, geometry, algebra, statistics, probability, and more.
Mathway – With over a million problems already solved, Mathway offers a way for your students to compare and understand solutions to difficult math problems. Within this free beta site you can find solutions and graphs for basic math, pre-algebra, algebra, trigonometry, pre-calculus, and calculus.
Math-Play.com – Math-Play.com features free online math games for algebra and geometry. This site also provides interactive, logic, and elementary games.
Wired Math – Wired Math offers free online games, exercises, and answers that teachers can use with their freshman students. The games are provided for number sense and numeration, linear relations, geometry, and algebra.
Wolfram Mathworld – The Wolfram Mathworld site is a comprehensive mathematics resource for teachers to find examples of concepts in algebra, calculus, geometry, probability and statistics, and topology.
Math.com – Although this site was designed for students, there are plenty of free resources for math teachers including worksheets, lesson plans, and formulas.
Guest post from education writer Karen Schweitzer. Karen is the About.com Guide to Business School. She also writes about online degree programs for OnlineDegreePrograms.org.
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