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American Scholastic Mathematics Association
"Our mathematics ENRICHMENT service, in the form of a contest, provides your students with an opportunity to COMPETE NATIONALLY with other high ability students across the country." |
Fermi Off-the-Wall Math League
"The Fermi Off-the-Wall Math League is an internet-based math competition appropriate for enrichment, small group work and individuals wanting creative, technology- rich experiences. In its tenth year, the Fermi Math League is open to school districts and individual students world-wide. Last session had over 150 kids and teams playing around with math, art and technology." |
MAA American Mathematics Competitions
"The AMC 8 is a 25 question, 40 minute multiple choice examination in junior high school (middle school) mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem solving skills." |
MathCounts
"MATHCOUNTS is a national enrichment, coaching and competition program that promotes middle school mathematics achievement through grassroots involvement in every U.S. state and territory." |
The Math League
"The Math League is dedicated to bringing challenging mathematics materials to students. League specialties include math contests, books, and computer software designed to stimulate interest and confidence in mathematics for students from the 4th grade through high school. Over 1 million students participate in Math League contests each year. Contest questions are designed to cover a range of mathematical knowledge for each grade level. Questions on the contests never require any mathematics beyond the grade level tested. They're fun too!" |
Math Olympiads
"Created in 1977 by Dr. George Lenchner, an internationally known math educator, the Math Olympiads went public in 1979. Last year 150,000 students from 5,000 teams worldwide participated in the Olympiads. All 50 states and 25 other countries were represented." |
Rocket City Math League
"The Rocket City Math League (RCML) organizes an annual math competition for motivated and talented middle and high school math students from Pre-Algebra through Calculus and beyond. RCML was created in 2001 by the math team students at Grissom High School in Huntsville, AL. Our goal has always been to provide a high-quality math competition to foster interest and develp a deeper understanding of mathematics." |
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The Art of Problem Solving
"Is math class too easy for you? Looking for a greater challenge? You've come to the right place." |
Cogito
Cogito.org is an online community for academically talented youth. |
Johns Hopkins University - Center for Talented Youth
"Since 1979, the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) at Johns Hopkins University has focused on the needs of students with exceptionally high academic abilities. The CTY community includes very bright students from all over the world whose talents place them well ahead of their agemates. These students need special attention: greater academic challenges, interaction with intellectual peers, and teaching strategies designed especially for the gifted. CTY offers gifted students, and their families and schools as well, a wide range of programs and services to nurture their intellectual abilities, enhance personal development, and foster better understanding of the needs of talented youth." |
NUMB3RS, CBS TV Show's Weekly Math Puzzle
"Calling All Math Geniuses: Are you a math genius and think you can solve this weekly puzzle?" |
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| Parents |
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Middle School Math: What Parents Should Know and Can Do
"This 28-page guide helps parents build a partnership with the school to enhance their children's math learning. It suggests ways for parents to learn about their school's math program, meet teachers and find out how their children are doing. It provides tips for improving communication among parents, children and school staff." |
Lawrence Hall of Science
"EQUALS programs at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California at Berkeley, provide workshops and curriculum materials in mathematics and equity. They serve PreK–12 teachers, parents, families, and community members." |
Parents' Resources for Gifted Children
This site has sifted through the thousands of websites for gifted and talented children, what you see on this site are the best resources. |
Mrs. Nguyen's Website RESOURCES Page
This page has a comprehensive listing of useful websites for interactive lessons, worksheets to download, and general tutorial sites. |
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| Math Circles |
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Dr. Reiter's Math Website
Harold Reiter is a math professor at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He just has tons of problems on his site! |
Los Angeles Math Circle
The UCLA Math Circle is a top-tier math circle, free and open to advanced elementary, middle school and high school students interested in mathematics and eager to learn. Students are divided into 4 groups: Junior circle (elementary school students, grades 1-4); Group A (two subgroups: for new students in grades 4-7 and for continuing students in grades 6-8) and Group B ( students in grades 7-12).
In addition to the main group's instructors, each Math Circle meeting is attended by a group of outstanding undergraduate and graduate students who are being trained in teaching extra-curricular mathematics to advanced school students. They offer a lot of individual attention to the circle's participants. |
Washington University Math Circle
"A math circle brings students who enjoy the beauty and fascination of mathematics together with an instructor who leads the exploration of intriguing topics." |
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| Reference Resources |
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Electronic Encyclopedia of Statistical Exercises and Examples
Supplementing introductory textbooks, the Electronic Encyclopedia of Statistical Exercises and Examples (EESEE) comprises over 80 "real-world" stories or examples about the uses and abuses of statistics and statistical inference, drawn from published and printed media encompassing a wide range of subject-matter areas. |
The FunWorks, For Careers You Never Knew Existed
"This Web site is about careers. Not just the interesting ones other people have, but the ones YOU can have." |
Geometry Step-by-Step from the Land of the Incas
"Welcome! Geometry Step-by-Step from the Land of the Incas provides an eclectic mix of sound, science, and Incan history in order to raise students' interest in Euclidean geometry. Visitors will find geometry problems, proofs, quizzes, puzzles, quotations, visual displays, "scientific speculation", Cuzco, Machu Picchu, Lost City of the Incas, Nazca Lines, the Quipu, the Lord of Sipan, Caral: the oldest civilization in the Americas, and more. On July 7th, 2007, Machu Picchu was voted as one of New Open World Corporation's New Seven Wonders of the World. Site created and maintained by Antonio Gutierrez." |
Glencoe's eGlossary Terms
Glencoe's dictionary has expanded, added a language, and changed format. It now offers terms defined in 15 languages. In addition to illustrated definitions, sound files pronounce the terms in the glossaries of some languages, while others require downloading PDF files. |
Interactive Mathematics Dictionary
"The Interactive Mathematics Dictionary is a dictionary for middle school students, teachers, parents, and anyone else interested in learning more about mathematical topics in the middle school curriculum." |
Khan Academy
"We have 1400+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, biology and finance which have been recorded by Salman Khan." |
The Largest Known Primes
"Are you looking for the largest known primes? Lists of records? Information on who finds the biggest primes (and how?) You are at the right place! Here we keep the list of the 5000 largest known primes, updated hourly (hundreds of new primes are submitted every month). We are the world's primary source to the current prime number records." |
Links to Learning
State Standardized Curriculum Resources, arranged by grade level. |
Math Family Tree
The Math Family Tree maps all of the content from the series on a timeline. This timeline illustrates how early mathematicians and their breakthroughs (as far back as 25,000 B.C.E.) influenced those that came later. |
Math Open Reference
Index to geometry terms from Math Open Reference, has great interactive features. |
Pi Day Resources
"Pi Day openly promotes the celebration of mathematics education, the collective enjoyment of mathematics, and the ageless, multicultural interest in pi. Educators, students, and parents are encouraged to join together in a variety of public activities, expressing in imaginative ways, their passion for the longstanding creative nature of mathematics." |
Pi Land
Ms. Eve Anderson created a great website for Pi, I love the Pi Trainer! |
PUMAS: Practical Uses of Math and Science
PUMAS is a collection of brief examples, written primarily by scientists, engineers, and other content experts, showing how math and science topics taught in K-12 classes can be used in interesting settings, including every-day life. The project's goal is to capture the flavor of the vast experience that working scientists have with interesting and practical uses of math and science. |
Statistical Assessment Service (STATS)
STATS is a non-profit, non-partisan resource on the use and abuse of science and statistics in the media. Its goals are to correct scientific misinformation in the media and in public policy resulting from bad science, politics, or a simple lack of information or knowledge; and to act as a resource for journalists and policy makers on major scientific issues and controversies. |
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
"The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) provides reliable and timely data on the mathematics and science achievement of U.S. 4th- and 8th-grade students compared to that of students in other countries. TIMSS data have been collected in 1995, 1999, 2003, and 2007. TIMSS 2007 results were released on December 9, 2008." |
TryEngineering.org
TryEngineering.org is a resource for students (ages 8-18), parents, teachers and school counselors. This is a portal about engineering and engineering careers, designed to help young people understand better what engineering means, and how an engineering career can be part of their future. |
WolframAlpha
AMAZING SITE!! Wolfram's new computational knowledge engine, built with its own Mathematica software, "computes whatever can be computed about anything." |
Wolfram Math World
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics: A comprehensive, interactive mathematics encyclopedia, searchable either by keyword or topic. |
Worldometers
See real-time data on a host of topics important to daily life around the world. Worldometers' algorithm takes the latest statistical data available from the United Nations (UN), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and other institutions, and then processes them together with its estimated progression to compute figures current up to the millisecond. |
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| Math in Art, Music, Life |
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The Math Images Project
The Math Images Project aims to introduce the public to mathematics through beautiful and intriguing images found throughout the fields of math. The images feature resources around the mathematics of the images, including discussions, applets, and other related features. |
Found Math Gallery
The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) hosts this gallery of mathematically interesting photographs: ordinary sidewalks, extraordinary art, natural symmetries, and more. See something interesting in your daily life? Snap a photo, write a brief description, and submit it to editor@maa.org. |
Math and Music
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Where Math Meets Music
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Virtual Math Museum
A virtual "mathematical museum" being developed and improved by an international group of mathematicians called the 3DXM Consortium. In addition to images, the museum also offers some applets and explanatory papers available for download as PDFs. |
3D-XplorMath
"3D-XplorMath is a Mathematical Visualization program... It presents itself as a gallery of interesting mathematical objects, ranging from planar and space curves to polyhedra and surfaces to ordinary and partial differential equations, and fractals." |
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| Mathematicians |
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African American Mathematicians
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Minorities and Mathematics
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Mathematics Biographies
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Women Mathematicians
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| Brainteasers and Puzzles |
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Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
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Math Puzzles
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The Ultimate Puzzle Site
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Logicville: Puzzles and Brainteasers
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Famous Problems in the History of Mathematics
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