Secondary Math

General Math Resources

Omaha Public Schools
The links below have been selected by the Omaha Public Schools based on their relevance to curriculum needs. None of these sites are owned or controlled by the Omaha Public Schools. Neither the district nor its employees are responsible for their contents or their links to other locations.

Curriculum page : Math Curriculum

Title: Prom Date
Site: http://teachertech.rice.edu/Lessons/jcasey/PromDate.html
Description: Use data from the Internet to plan a Prom Date and its costs.

Title: The Mathematics of Cartography
Site: http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/pres/map/
Description: Students use various online resources to study the mathematics of maps.
OIPs: 4, 5, 11

Title: Anywhere in The U.S.A.
Site: http://teachertech.rice.edu/Lessons/radams/usa.htm
Description: Given a set of money, students will be able to compute the time and money occurred in takinking a vacation by usinng the distance formula and adding. and subtracting decimals.
OIPs: 7.02, 7.05, 8.02, 8.05


Title: Anywhere in The U.S.A.
Site: http://www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC/Women/GirlTECH/Lessons/radams/usa.html
Description: Given a set of money, students will be able to compute the time and money occurred in taking a vacation by using the distance formula and adding. and subtracting decimals.
OIPs: 7.02, 7.05, 8.02, 8.05

Title: I Feel the Need For Speed
Site: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~jamerson/roller.html
Description: This lesson has students research and discuss famous rollercoasters around the U.S. and calculate the acceleration rates of the nations fastest coasters. Also they will research the Òoriginal CycloneÓ, and design and build their own rollercoaster.
OIPs: 7.05, 7.06

Title: Temperatures
Site: http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/meseke/weather.html
Description: Use current weather data to calculate range, mean, variance, and standard deviation of certain data sets, and then analyze these calculations.
OIPs: 7.05, 7.08, 8.04, 8.05, 8.06

Title: A Web-based Interactive Stock Market Learning Project for K-12
Site: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/edu/RSE/RSEyellow/stockmarketmath.html
Description: Students use the stock market to calculate commissions and cost for buying and selling stock.
OIPs: 7.02, 712, 8.02, 8.12) Title:Descriptive Statistics
Site: http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/hill/dstat/dstatintr.html
Description: An introduction to mode,median, and mean.

Title: Min-Max Temperatures
Site: http//www.mste.uiuc.edu/meseke/minmax.html
Description: Students use the predicted minimun and maximum temperatures for various cities throughout the U.S. to caculate averages.

Title: Birthday Problem
Site: http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/birthday/intro.html
Description: Discusses the probability of at least two matching birthdays in a small group of people. It includes an online program that creates a set of dates at random

Title: Fun with Probability! The Probable Pen in the Cereal Box
Site: http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/mcornell/cerealbox/index.html
Description: This project was a cooperative classroom project for grades K-9. During the last three weeks of April, 1996 project participants calculated the expected value of a simple probability via experimentation. This project (or one like it) will be repeated next year. Lesson plans and classroom materials are available on the site.

Title: The Cereal Box Problem
Site: http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/cereal/intro.html
Description: FREE INSIDE! Collect all six!! How many cereal boxes would you expect to buy to get all the prizes. This lesson examines the expecteds value question. It includes an online simulation.

Title: The Hermit Problem
Site: http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/hill/ev/hermitprob.html
Description: Tracks the spread of a disease on a desert island with hermits on it. It uses the internet, a computer program (written in Future Basic), and other student activities to explore the concept of expected value (i.e.: How many hermits do we expect to get the disease?).

Title: The World Series Problem
Site: http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/hill/ev/seriesprob.html
Description: Uses the internet, a computer program (written in Future Basic), and other student activities to explore the concept of expected value (i.e.: How many games do we expect the World Series to last?).

Title: NCAA Basketball Finals
Site: http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/meseke/ncaa.html
Description: A statistical lesson using data from the NCAA basketball finals.

Title: Basic Math Concepts and Fundamentals
Site: http://edie.cprost.sfu.ca/~rhlogan/basicmth.html
Description: Five lessons: Scientific Notation, Significant Digits, Algebraic Method, The Metric System, and Experimentation, Graphing and Algebraic Formulations.

Curriculum page : Math Curriculum
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Last update: Thursday, June 12, 2003