WME Project Resources

Mathematics Education Research Links

• Research Finds Laptop Learning Yields Better Students and Better Teachers Through Anytime, Anywhere Access
• Developing Adults' Numerate Thinking: Getting Out From Under the Workbooks an article by Mary Jane Schmitt.
• Mathematics Instruction web version of the Volume 4, Issue B of Focus on Basics from the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy.
• State-by-State Profiles of K-12 Science and Mathematics Education
• A Brief History of American K-12 Mathematics Education in the 20th Century
• Mathematically correct a website of concerned parents, mathematicians, and scientist on the NCTM standards.
• Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, an NCTM Journal.
• Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) a website of the National Center for Education Statistics
• The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 1999 Video Study is a follow-up and expansion of the TIMSS 1995 Video Study of mathematics teaching
• NCTM Principles and Standards for mathematics education (download the full document in gzipped PDF)
• NCTM Books and Articles on Mathematics Teachihng
• NCTM Mathematics Education Centre (MEC) at Loughborough University, UK

WME Related Sites and Tools

• WME Blog at NDSL Expert Voices
• SVGWeb, for SVG on browsers with or without native SVG support.
• Interfacing WME Pages to Java Applet Manipulatives
• Creating Mathlets with Open Source Tools
• The Wolfram Demonstrations Project
• Accessible Internet Based Mathematics And Aeronautics Materials for 4th-7th Grade Children with Physical Disabilities
• Web-based astronomy and astrobiology lessons
• HeyMath a password protected site of HeyMath (a project in India and Singapore, along the same lines as WME). Seems to use a lot of Flash animation to illustrate math and geometry. For evaluation purposes use id: evala4031, password: evala4031. (See also this New York Times article by THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
• Our preliminary comparison of WME with Heymath
• Collection of Graphics Illustrating Various Aspects of WME
• ICM Live Demos
• Internet Accessible Mathematical Computation (IAMC) Page
• Smarth Math Editor and demo page.
• Geometry Step by Step from the Land of the Incas
• A MathML introcuction: MathML - What's in it for us?
• Math in text converter, converts infix notation math expressions contained within text into MathML presentation. Can be downloaded from SourceForge
• Techexplorer, an IE plugin from Integre Technical Publishing Co. for Tex/Latex and MathML rendering.
• A MathML Equation Editor
• MathType Mathematics Editor information, free trial.
• To enable mathematics (MathML) display in your browser: Mathplayer for IE, and built-in support for Netscape 7.1 or higher
• CNN Article
• MathML in Mozilla where you can find up-to-date info and new tools such as live TeX-to-MathML translations are possible with server-side converters such as itex2MML and the prototype JavaScripted MathML editor
• Adobe SVG Zone and Adobe SVG Viewer Download, Adobe SVG Viewer X - 3.0 download for Mac OS X.
• HTML 4.0 Entities
• American Mathematical Society Entity Table
• Javascript Widgets Download
• Adobe SVG Viewer Plugin Installation Guide
• SymbolicNet

Mathematics Education Contents and Standards

• The new Ohio draft Science Education Standard
• The math education section of Top Science from Google.
• eNLVMeModules using the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives at Utah State.
• Art of Problem Solving online math community.
• Math and science Teaching Materials at goENC.COM.
• Course listing from the Grace Academy for homeschoolers and their families. Fees required.
• The Connected Math, NSF-funded standard-based mathematics curriculum for grades 6-8. It includes a complete set of sequenced units. Each student unit includes these features, and each teacher unit includes these support and guide features.
• COMPUTERS IN SCHOOL: Smart Schools, Dumb Courseware
• IT-Using Mathematic Educators Site
• NSF funded ShowMe Project and its CURRICULUM SUMMARIES

• Following the Leaders project

  addresses the No Child Left Behind Act in US education.

• Assessment question data bank sites:

  • Questions that encourage written communication in math (from WASL)
  • At the Vermont Institute
  • From the Texas Education Agency
  • Mathematics Classes from the MIT OpenCourseWare Project.
  • At the Mathforum at Drexel
  • At the National Center for Educational Statistics (the US Education Department)
• Singapore Math
• 2003 TIMSS Results
• Bringing Business and Real-World Problems into the classroom.
• Math Education Research Literatures at MSTE UIUC.
• Multimedia Math Glossary
• Multimedia for Education and multimedia by teachers at the Mathematics Department, CCBC Essex Baltimore, MD, USA
• Math Info on the Web at geometry.net
• listing of math education resources on the Web
• Math Concepts to be covered at different grades (USA).
• Improving Mathematics in Middle School: Lessons from TIMSS and Related Research article by Edward A. Silver School of Education and LRDC University of Pittsburgh.
• TIMSS Homepage Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, Boston College.
• Online resources for mathematics education at the Ohio Resource Center (ORC) for Mathematics, Science, and Reading.
• The Data Driven Decisions for Academic Achievement (D3A2) project at the Ohio Department of Educatino (ODE)
• Correlation of Ohio's K-12 Benchmarks and Grade-Level Indicators
• Seventh Grade Math Skills
• US Department of Education Site, select Quick Click on Math and get a vast amount of useful info.
• Interactive Math Tools by the NCTM Illuminations Project, mostly applets but with interesting ideas.
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics at Utah State.
• The Mathforum at Drexel University.
• The Mathforum Problem of the Week
• The Mathforum Math Library

Software Tools and Math Education Websites

For a business (needing math) for young people site, see Little Entrepreneurs Business for Kids.

• ECOT (Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow) is the first and most popular tuition-free online public school in Ohio
• Guide to Online Schools from SR Education Group.
• The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.
• Free Windows Screen Recorder to produce .swf/flash files. Useful for demo, tutorial, and presentation.
• Free MathChat for IE
• Free Javascript drawing library and Javascript function grapher, There is no magic in javascript graphing. The drawings consist of hundreds of tiny div elements.
• Moodle - An open source Course Management System
• Common Cartridge a course management system to course content interface standard under development.
• Math Gizmos at ExploreLearning.com.
• AJAX is what AdaptivePath.com calls dynamic HTML with DOM and XML-based Web Services. See also blog discussion and don't be confused by NAMES.
• Cross-browser AJAX Support
• Math911 step by step tutorials for High School and College Mathematics courses. See also Math911 homepage.
• Intelligent Book Project a cooperation of MIT (USA) and University of Cambridge (UK)
• K-12 Teaching Materials Internet sites which contain significant collections of materials which can be used in the teaching of mathematics at the K-12 level.
• ActiveMath
• math.com simple form-based site, (don't register, just click on the topics).
• Math League brings challenging mathematics to students with multimedia products and online contests.
• Calc101
• Ezmath
• Institute for Computational Mathematics demos of mathematical computation
• Java-based courseware for middle school mathematics explorations
• Internet Accessible Mathematical Computation home page.
• Mathematics HQ Everything Mathematics, from A Maths Dictionary For Kids to World Of Mathematics.
• GEONEXT dynamic mathematics learning at University Bayreuth, Germany.
• LiveMath
• Maple
• MathLink J/link
• MathML
• MathScript
• MathWeb
• Mathwright
• MAXIMA Manual
• SymbolicNet, information center for Symbolic Mathematical Computation.
• WebMathematica
• MathWorld.com (USA)
• WIMS
• Building dynamic Web sites with mathematical content
• Cumulate Draw: an online drawing tool

Organizations for Mathematics Education

• Search NSDL the Nation's online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• International Mathematical Olympiad
• Ohio Mathematics Education Leadership Council (OMELC)
• Ohio Resource Center for Mathematics, Science, and Reading
• Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• Ohio Mathematics and Science Coalition

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