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Title: CRPC GirlTECH Lesson Plans
Site: http://www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC/Women/GirlTECH/Lessons/
Description: A collection of lesson plans from the GirlTECH project that are designed to take full advantage of Internet resources and to teach mathematics and science concepts in new and exciting ways.

Title: CCHS Math Department Homepage
Site: http://staff.feldberg.brandeis.edu/~petera/cchs/Atlas.html#MathLessons
Description: Six topics to choose from: Census, Probability, Currency, Weather, Astronomy, and Used Cars.

Title: Appetizers and Lessons for Math and Reason
Site: http://www.cam.org/~aselby/lesson.html/
Description: Alan SelbyÕs math logic teasers and other mathematical problems.

Title: Math Resources
Site: http://www.stritch.edu/~math/resources.html#Top
Description: A very complete and thorough guide to lessons and links to other math sites.

Title: Math Lesson Plans and Activities
Site: http://www.eduplace.com/math/links/mth_2.html
Description: A link to eight other major math sites.

Title: Texas Instruments Homepage
Site: http://www.ti.com/calc/docs/graph.htm
Description: Information about the latest calculators.

Title: Math Teachernet
Site: http://www.teachnet.com/lesson.html#Math
Description: Nine Lesson plans or ideas to incorporate into the classroom.

Title: Min-Max Temperatures
Site: http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/meseke/minmax.html
Author: Meseke, John
Date added: 10/4/95
Content area(s): statistics, general mathematics
Description: Students use the predicted minimum and maximum temperatures for various cities throughout the U.S. to calculate averages.

Title: The Pixel Calculator
Site: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/metip/software/pixel.html
Author: University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering Department
Date added: 10/29/95
Content area(s): cross-content, general mathematics
Description: The Pixel Calculator is intended primarily for use by students of ages 12-17 in a variety of enrichment activities involving mathematics and digital image processing.

Title: The Image Warper
Site: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/metip/software/warper.html
Author: University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering Department
Date added: 10/29/95
Content area(s): geometry, general mathematics
Description: The Image Warper is a PC program for MS-Windows that supports exploratory learning and enjoyable activities involving geometric transformations and image distortion.

Title: Only If Nice Weather Could Last Year Round
Site: http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbsmat/temp/temp.html
Author: Glazer, Evan
Date added: 12/10/96
Content area(s): general mathematics
Description: Your mission is to examine patterns and fluctuations in temperature data from cities around the United States. Creating a model of the data will help you predict the times during the year that these locations would be nice to visit.

Title: Weather Here and There
Site: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/edu/RSE/RSEred/WeatherHome.html
Author: Foster, B., Walton, E., and Foertsch, D.
Date added: 10/2/95
Content area(s): general mathematics
Description: WEATHER HERE AND THERE is an integrated weather unit which incorporates interaction with the Internet and hands-on collaborative, problem solving activites for students in grades four through six.

Title: Temperatures
Site: http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/meseke/weather.html
Author: Meseke, John
Date added: 10/4/95
Content area(s): general mathematics
Description: Use current weather data to calculate range, mean, variance, and standard deviation of certain data sets, and then analyze these calculations.

Title: I Feel the Need for Speed
Site: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~jamerson/roller.html
Author: Amerson, Jeff
Date added: 6/3/96
Content area(s): general mathematics
Description: This lesson has students research and discuss famous rollercoasters around the U.S. and calculate the acceleration rates of the nation's fastest coasters. Also, they will research the "original Cyclone," and design and build their own rollercoaster.

Title: Lesson Plan for Part-Whole Meaning
Site: http://mstemac4.ed.uiuc.edu/courses/ci330ms/gahala/lessonpage.html
Author: Michele Gahala
Date added: 7/8/97
Content area(s): general mathematics
Description: Teacher Objectives: - To illustrate cooperative classroom group work. - To enhance the students understanding of what a whole is. Student Objectives: - To represent parts of a whole using fractional parts of a triangle. - To determine the relationship among parts of a whole that are unequal-sized pieces.

Title: Cornell Theory Center
Site: http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway
Description: Geometry, Fractals, History of Mathematics, Biographies of over 1000 mathmaticians, Pi.

Title: Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
Site: href=http://www.enc.org/
Description: (ENC) Online Information Service includes an electronic catalog of mathematics and science curriculum materials and a set of Internet resources for K-12 teachers.

Title: Game Zone
Site: http://imagiware.com/games.html
Description: An intriguing collection of interactive on-line math games.

Title: Geometry Center at U. of Minnesota
Site: http://www.geom.umn.edu/
Description: A mathematics research and education resource at the University of Minnesota. It is funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the Science and Technology Research Center program. The Center has a unified mathematics computing environment supporting math and computer science research, mathematical visualization, software development, application development, video animation production, and K-16 math education.

Title: History of Mathematics
Site: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/
Description: Located at the University of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland contains biographical information on over 1000 mathematicians.

Title: Interactive Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Resource Home Page
Site: http://www.ops.org/nescp/modelhomepage.html
Description: Designed for secondary science and math educators interested in integrating Web-based resources into their curriculum. This page is supported by the NSF and the NCSA Resource for Science Education Program and is being maintained on the OPS Web server by several Nebraska teachers.

Title: Introduction to 21sdt Century Problem Solving
Site: http://www2.hawaii.edu/suremath/home.html
Description: A variety of story problems - algebra and physics

Title: Kid's Web
Site: http://muse.bio.cornell.edu
Description: Digital library for schoolchildren with a subset of the WWW that is simple to navigate and has information tailored to the K-12 level.

Title: Lincoln Public Schools Math Site
Site: http://www.esu18.k12.ne.us/instruction/curr/math/math.html
Description: This site includes many different links to some excellent math and science sites.

Title: The Math Forum
Site: http://forum.swarthmore.edu
Description: An electronic community located at Swarthmore College, near Philadelphia. The Math contains newsgroups with discussions of geometry, research, and mathematics education. Workshop information and projects for students are also included.

Title: MathMagic!
Site: http://forum.swarthmore.edu/mathmagic/
Description: A K-12 telecommunications project developed in El Paso, Texas. It provides strong motivation for students to use computer technology while increasing problem-solving strategies and communications skills. MathMagic posts challenges in each of four categories (k-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12) to trigger each registered team to pair up with another team and engage in a problem-solving dialog. When an agreement has been reached, one solution is posted for every pair.

Title: Math and Science Gateway
Site: http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway/
Description: Locate science and math resources on the web-for students in grades 9-12 with links to subject areas such as astronomy, biology, chemistry, computing, environment, math, and physics.

Title: Mega Math
Site: http://www.c3lanl.gov/mega-math/menu.html
Description: A project that attempts to bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to elementary school classrooms so that young people and their teachers can think about them together.

Title: Nebraska Mathematics and Science Coalition Home Page
Site: http/www.nde.state.ne.us/NMSI/
Description: Provides links to Nebraska Association of Teachers of Science, Ask Dr. Math, Yahoo Science and Mathematics Page, UNL and many others.

Title: Virtual Science and Math Fair
Site: http://www.educ.wsu.edu/fair_95/announcement.html
Description: Vision, description, schedule, activities, etc.

Title: WWW Virtual Library: Mathematics
Site: http://euclid.math.fsu.edu/Science/math.html
Description: An excellent source for math resources such as gophers, WWW servers, and newsgroups.