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 * [|Web 2.0 Tools for Math Educators] **
 * = **3Dvinci** ||= [|http://www.3dvinci.net/ccp0-display/splash.html] ||= 3D design is a great motivational and instructional tool. It exercises both left-brain and right-brain skills, and appeals to students of all abilities. ModelMetricks books contain easy-to-follow projects based on the free Google SketchUp application, to show how to model anything in 3D. ||
 * = **Algebasics** ||= @http://www.algebasics.com/ ||= This site contains a variety of interactive Algebra help/ problems/activities ||
 * = **Archimy** ||= [|http://www.archimy.com] ||= This site has a service for drawing the graphs of all kinds of functions . With Archimy, you will draw the graph of any function and form, just use your imagination. The program must be downloaded and is free. ||
 * = **Arcademic Skill Builder** ||= [|http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com] ||= Our research-based and standards-aligned free educational math games and language arts games will engage, motivate, and help teach students. Click a button below to play our free multi-player and single-player games! ||
 * = **Calc3D** ||= [|http://www.calc3d.com] ||= This site has interactive Mathematical graph and charting software for geometry and statistics ||
 * = **Chart Gizmo** ||= [|http://chartgizmo.com] ||= This site has an incredible chart builder for any type of data that can be typed or uploaded to this tool ||
 * = **Chart Tool** ||= [|http://www.onlinecharttool.com] ||= This site is another great tool for creating Charts and graphs On Onlinecharttool.com you can design and share your own graphs online and for free We support a number of different chart types like: bar charts, pie charts, line charts, bubble charts and radar plots. ||
 * = **Concord Consorium** ||= [|http://www.concord.org/work/software] ||= This site features free downloadable Math & Science software. ||
 * = **CrickWeb** ||= [|http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1numeracy.html] ||= Math interactive tools for white boards ||
 * = **Flash Card Creator** ||= [|http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/Flashcard_Creator.html] ||= This site from aplusMath allows for the easy creation of online/printable math flash cards ||
 * = **Interactive Simulations for Math and Science** ||= [|http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/index.php?cat=Featured_Sims] ||= This site is from The University of Colorado ||
 * = **Interactives** ||= [|http://www.learner.org/interactives] ||= Interactives" provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas. ||
 * = **Interactive Library Applets for Math, Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry & Earth Science 6-12** ||= [|http://edinfo.securesites.net/il/il_math.htm] ||= The Interactive Library is about "real interactivity"! The database contains hundreds of activities that make use of sophisticated java, vrml and shockwave programs. Teachers can create their own activity sheet to go with the programs. Students can use these programs to supplement their classroom activities, or use one of the more advanced applets as a starting point for their science project. ||
 * = **Introducing Integers (6-8)** ||= [|http://mathstar.lacoe.edu/newmedia/integers/intro/media/media.html] ||= This site contains hands-on approaches for teaching the sometimes challenging concept of integers. Included are video clips, concrete models and Mat Board for solving the problems. Quick-Time media player is required. ||
 * = **Java Math & Science Applets** ||= [|http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html] ||=  ||
 * = **Johnnie's Math Page** ||= [|http://jmathpage.com/index.html] ||= Links to interactive K-8 math tools and activities for students and teachers. ||
 * = **Lure of the Labyrinth** ||= [|http://labyrinth.thinkport.org/www] ||= This site contains a interesting digital game for middle-school pre-algebra students. It includes a wealth of intriguing math-based puzzles wrapped into an exciting narrative game in which students work to find their lost pet - and save the world from monsters. ||
 * = **Math.com** ||= [|http://www.math.com/students/puzzles/puzzleapps.html] ||= This site has a large number of math puzzles and games. Many can be used with an interactive white board ||
 * = **MathsNet (K-12)** ||= [|www.mathsnet.net] ||= MathsNet is an independent educational website providing free mathematics resources to the education community. Its aim is to offer truly interactive resources that are both wide and deep in terms of their applicability and usefulness. MathsNet is not an online textbook. It is interactive, requiring the user to participate rather than be a passive observer. ||
 * = **Math Forum** ||= [|http://mathforum.org/library/resource_types/simulations] ||= This site contains a listing of a number of additional sites that contain Math interactive simulations. ||
 * = **MathNet Number Cruncher** ||= [|http://mathsnet.net/cruncher/index.html] ||=  ||
 * = **Math Playground** ||= [|http://www.mathplayground.com/index.html] ||= Welcome to Math Playground, an action-packed site for elementary and middle school students. Practice your math skills, play a logic game and have some fun! ||
 * = **MathTV** ||= [|http://www.mathtv.org] ||= This site has interactive games and simulation related to math problem solving. ||
 * = **Math Tool Chest** ||= [] ||= This site has a 'kid' look and feel and many Math related interactive games. ||
 * = **MathVids** ||= [|http://www.mathvids.com] ||= MathVids.com is a website dedicated to providing high quality, instructional, free math videos to middle school, high school, and college students who need math help. ||
 * = **Mathway** ||= [|http://mathway.com] ||= This site is powered by Bagatrix Solved!™ technology, Mathway provides students with the tools they need to solve their math problems. With tens of millions of problems already solved, Mathway is the #1 online problem solving resource available for students, parents, and teachers. ||
 * = **Online Calculators** ||= [[http://instacalc%e2%80%a8http//instacalc.com%20%20%28also%20creates%20charts%29|Instacalc http://instacalc.com (also creates charts)]] ||=  ||
 * = **Calcr** ||= [|http://instacalc.com/calcr] ||= (basic calculator only - powered by Instacalc) ||
 * = **e-Tutor Graphing Calculator** ||= [|http://www.e-tutor.com/et2/graphing] ||=  ||
 * = **Calcoolate** ||= [|http://www.calcoolate.com] ||= (Also available as a download for Windows machines.) ||
 * = **Create a Graph** ||= [|http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph] ||= (creates five kinds of graphs) ||
 * = **Online Conversion** ||= [|http://www.onlineconversion.com] ||= This site can convert just about anything to anything else. ||
 * = **NumberNut** ||= [|http://www.numbernut.com/index.html] ||= This site has a variety of activities and games that can be used in conjunction with interactive white boards ||
 * = **Random Number Generator** ||= [[@http://www.random.org| www.random.org]] ||= This site allows for the generation of true random numbers. Teachers could use this for probability and statistics actives as wall as drawings, random sampling and more ||
 * = **SqoolTools MathFacts (K-6)** ||= [|http://sqooltools.com/freeworkshops/mathfacts.html] ||= Explore all of the best K-6 math tools the web has to offer! From basic addition to geometry and fractions, from virtual manipulates to interactive games, from online calculators and converters to graphing tools. You will discover resources for every math topic you teach. ||
 * = **Teaching Time** ||= [|http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/] ||=  ||
 * = **Teaching Tables** ||= [|http://www.teachingtables.co.uk/] ||=  ||
 * = **TUSD Interactive Math Portal** ||= [|http://www.tusd1.org/resources/math/students_math.asp] ||=  ||
 * = **Visual Math Learning (4-8)** ||= [|www.visualmathlearning.com] ||= This site is a free interactive multimedia on-line tutorial for math students. Its first level, Numbers and Arithmetic, is a pre-Algebra level course suitable for grades 4-8. Unlike traditional textbooks, Visual Math Learning is designed to run on any personal computer with a modern browser. ||
 * = **Web 2.0 Math Symbols Drawing Applications** ||= [|http://software.informer.com/getfree-web-2.0-drawing-math-symbols] ||=  ||
 * = **Web2.0 for Math Educators - a Wiki** ||= http://mathfest.wikispaces.com/Web2.0+For+Math+Educators ||=  ||

Wolfram Alpha - Education Portal
Interactive, Online textbooks, lessons, activities, demonstrations in **ALBEGRA** and **CALCULUS** @http://education.wolfram.com/
 * Wolfram has long been a trusted name in education—as the makers of //Mathematica//, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Demonstrations Project, we've created some of the most dynamic teaching and learning tools available. We are pleased to offer the best of all of our technologies to you here in the Wolfram Education Portal, organized by course. In the portal you'll find a dynamic textbook, lesson plans, widgets, interactive demonstrations, and more built by Wolfram education experts. You can take a look at the types of materials they offer on the website, but to get full access to all materials, you need to sign up for a free account. Service is in beta now and may charge a fee when it goes public.


 * Graphing Calculators**
 * Desmos, a free online graphing calculator, has updated their offerings again. The most significant update is a switch to HTML5 which means that Desmos will now work on iPads. The second significant enhancement is the option to register for an account and save your work online or share your work online. Desmos could be a good alternative to expensive TI-84 (or whatever the latest model is) calculators. If your school has a 1:1 program with laptops or iPads you can use Desmos in any classroom.
 * Calkoo is a website that offers forty-three free online calculators for a variety of functions. The list of calculators that Calkoois divided into ten categories. Those categories are mathematics, measurement & conversion, saving & investing, capital budgeting, cost of capital, wages & taxes, financial analysis, health, loan & leasing, and stock analysis. A favorite activities in middle school and high school are stock market simulation activities. Calkoo offers a good set of calculators that could be used for stock market simulation activities. Of course, if you just need some basic online calculators for your students to use Calkoo puts a bunch of good ones in one place for you.


 * [|Kids Teach Kids with Mathcasting]** - I can across Eric Marcos' work when he was mentioned at the Schools of the Future Conference a couple weeks ago. He has students create tutorial movies/podcasts for the concepts he teaches in math. He also announces that the tutorials will not just be geared for fellow classmates, but students the world over. Magically, student motivation, engagement, and retention skyrockets. The great thing about working at IPA is that we have the tech tools to produce these tutorials easily. If your game, go for it! If you're interested but would like a bit of coaching, let me know.


 * [|Mathalicious]** - Mathalicious is transforming the way math is taught by providing teachers with the most relevant, engaging, and effective math lessons anywhere. We do this by designing lessons around real-world topics that students care about, from sports to technology to health & wellness. This contextual approach helps students make sense of the math, and develop both conceptual understanding and procedural fluency. Learn more about the site by clicking the link, take a tour, and check out their lessons

Apps for Common Core Math Standards, Grades 6-8 Apps for Common Core Math Standards, Grades 9-12

Dan Meyer shared this video earlier on Twitter and I just have to pass it along. NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal is now a host on TNT's Inside the NBA show. Last night he had a little trouble calculating percentages. I used Embed Plus to queue-up the video to the section in which he struggles with the calculation**.** Queue-up the video and show it to your students. Stop it before the correct answer is explained to Shaq and ask your students why Charles Barkley is laughing at Shaq's comment//.// //This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. Follow on Google+, Facebook, or Twitter.//
 * Real life math with Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley**

Rhyme 'N Learn produces clean rap songs about math and science. They've just released a new song, "Don't Let Pi Make Ya Cry." In this new song students are introduced to the function of Pi. You can watch the video below. And if you really like the song, you can buy it along with other Rhyme 'N Learn productions on iTunes and CD Baby. > > This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.
 * Math Rap - Don't Let Pi Make Ya Cry **

Get the Math - Multimedia Algebra Challenges

Get the Math is a super website designed to provide teachers and students with Algebra-based mathematics challenges. Get the Math tries to put the challenges in the context of the "real world" scenarios of fashion design, video game design, and music production. Get the Math features short videos of professionals in each of the three areas explaining and showing how mathematics is used in their professions. After watching the videos students try to complete a series of challenges based upon the work done in the professions of fashion design, video game design, and music production. For example, after watching the Math in Fashion video students have to design a shirt to match a specific price point. Watch Get the Math: An Intro on PBS. See more from THIRTEEN Kids.

Gapminder is a great tool for creating data visualizations. Gapminder gives users the ability to create graphs of hundreds of demographic and economic indicators. I like Gapminder because it provides a good way for visual learners to see data sets in a context that is significantly different from standard data sets.

Gapminder has a page for educators on which they can find thematic animations, graphs, quizzes, model lessons, and a PDF guide to using Gapminder. For teachers working in schools with slow Internet connections or very strict filtering, Gapminder has a desktop application that you can download and install for Mac or Windows computers. The video below demonstrates Gapminder desktop.



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==Complete Missions on NASA's Station Spacewalk Game ==

NASA's website is full of great resources for teachers and students. Here is another good example of that. NASA's Station Spacewalk Game is designed for middle school students to learn about the purposes and functions of the International Space Station. In the game students go on Extravehicular Activities modeled after real EVAs performed by astronauts. Station Spacewalk can be played online or downloaded for free as a Windows game or as a Mac game.

NASA offers a short set of questionsthat students should be able to answer after attempting the EVAs in Station Spacewalk. The question set isn't terribly deep or complex so you will probably want to expand the questions to match your curriculum. //This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.//
 * Applications for Education **

==Guides to the Global Economy for Students == The Global Economy.com is a nice resource developed for high school and undergraduate students by Georgia State University Economics Professor Neven Valev. The purpose of TheGlobalEconomy.com is to provide guides to understanding the economies of individual countries and the global economy in aggregate.

To accomplish the goal of helping students understand global economics, TheGlobalEconomy.com offers a database of articles about the economies of individual countries. You can select any country from the list of more than 200 to find basic economic indicators about that country. The country profiles include not just the data associated with economic indicators, but also explanations of the indicators, and graphs of the data in comparison with other countries.

==Four More Good Math Tutorial Channels Not Named Khan On YouTube == On Monday I published a list of Seven YouTube Channels Not Named Khan Offering Math Lessons. Thanks to three helpful readers I learned of three more good YouTube channels offering mathematics tutorials. Then I reminded myself that The New Boston which is primarily a channel for computer science lessons also has some good playlists of geometry, algebra, and basic mathematics lessons.

James Gubbins commented on Monday's list with the suggestion of adding Hurley Calculus to the list. Hurley Calculus, as the name implies, provides lessons on calculus. There are currently 73 videos in the Hurley Calculus channel.

Math Doctor Bob's YouTube channel was suggested by a reader using the Disqus ID Npisenti. Math Doctor Bob offers nearly 700 video lessons on statistics, algebra I and II, calculus, geometry, and much more. The lessons feature Doctor Bob giving the lesson in front of a whiteboard so you see him and don't just hear his lessons.

Patrick JMT was suggested by Robert Borgersen who wrote, "Patrick JMT is HUGE, and equally good, if not better in some places, than Khan." Patrick JMT doesn't cover as many topics as Khan or Math Doctor Bob, but the videos are equally solid. I've included one of the Whole Numbers and Place Values lesson video below.

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The Scale of the Universe -- An Experience in Exponents and Powers of Ten
by Cary Huang A graphic illustration of the size of a person in scale with other things in the universe - large and small - from space to microbes. It's amazing and a bit mind-bending. @http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white

[|Create Smart Investors on the Virtual Stock Exchange]
[|The Virtual Stock Exchange Game at MarketWatch]  offers a challenging interactive experience that is completely free and online. Users create a fictional portfolio of investments whose value goes up and down as it would in the real stock market. The players’ net worth is ranked on a scoreboard, adding a competitive element that makes it like financial fantasy football. Click here for more information.

