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Mathematics Classroom Resources
This collection of lessons and web resources is aimed at classroom teachers, their students, and students' families. Most of these resources come from the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). NSDL is the National Science Foundation's online library of resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. See www.nsdl.org
We All Use Math Everyday 
http://www.weallusematheveryday.com/tools/waumed/home.htm
This innovative program combines math learning with entertainment to help educators teach students that math is not only fun, but is also relevant and important to their everyday lives and sets the stage for future success in school and life.
Fresh Baked Fractions
http://www.funbrain.com/fract/index.html
"Fresh Baked Fraction"—part of the FunBrain.com Web site--lets kids in middle school test their fraction skills by reading and answering multiple choice fraction questions. Kids who answer 24 problems correctly can put their name on Jackson's "List of Master Pie Bakers."
Math Cats
http://www.mathcats.com
A highly interactive site geared to children ages 12 and under. It includes a math art gallery, Microworlds and Logo programming and math questions on a "magic chalkboard."
MathMovesU
http://mathmovesu.com
Raytheon Company has announced a new program aimed at improving math and science education among middle school-aged students. Investigate for yourself how this Web site shows math plays a role in "cool" careers.
Welcome to Zona Land
http://id.mind.net/~zona/
In Zona Land you will find educational and entertaining items pertaining to physics, mathematical sciences, and to mathematics in general.
Statistics Online Computational Resources
http://socr.stat.ucla.edu
A hierarchy of portable online interactive aids for motivating, modernizing and improving the teaching format in college-level probability and statistics courses.
Mathematical Moments
http://www.ams.org/mathmoments
The American Mathematical Society's Mathematical Moments shows how math affects us all, with examples that range from origami to robotics to fractals.
Educational Programs that Work (EPTW): Mathematics
http://mathforum.org/library/view/12891.html
The Catalogue of the National Diffusion Network's descriptions of exemplary educational programs in mathematics.
World of Mathematics
http://mathworld.wolfram.com
The Web's most complete mathematical resource, assembled over more than a decade by Internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein, with assistance from the mathematics and Internet communities.
Factasia:
Mathematics
http://mathforum.org/library/view/9158.html
Math essays organized into three categories: general (threads in the Web of mathematics and
re-use and abstraction); real numbers (a logical development, some history and computing with
reals); and history (a short history of rigour in mathematics).
Project Mathematics: Modules for High School and Community College Mathematics
http://www.projectmathematics.com/
Funded mostly by grants from NSF, these videotape and workbook modules explore basic topics in high school mathematics in ways that cannot be done on the chalkboard or in a textbook.
American Mathematics Competition
http://mathforum.org/library/view/4587.html
The American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) seek to increase interest in mathematics and to develop problem solving ability through a series of competitions for junior/middle (grades 8 and below) and senior high school students (grades 9-12).
Resources for Teachers of
Developmental Mathematics (MAA)
http://mathforum.org/library/view/6285.html
Assembled by the ad hoc Subcommittee on Developmental Mathematics, with the beginnings of an
annotated bibliography of articles related to developmental mathematics, including articles on
the adult learner of mathematics
MSEB Classics
http://mathforum.org/library/view/9158.html
Several reports issued by the Mathematical Sciences Education Board, National Research Council,
between 1990 and 1995, with titles such as "What Should I Look for in a Mathematics Classroom?"
and "Mathematics Reform Goes to College."
Conference Board of
Mathematical Sciences (CBMS)
http://mathforum.org/library/view/61978.html
An umbrella organization consisting of sixteen professional societies, all of which increase or
diffuse knowledge in the mathematical sciences.
Mathematics Research Overview
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