Additional resources for mathematics education majors: content and useful tools for teachers


Content:

• Illuminations: NCTM lessons and activities for any grade level and any math topic
• YouTube for teachers
• Curriki (a curriculum + wiki); users upload curriculum in all subjects and grade levels
• Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view
• Math train, math lessons taught by kids
• Great websites for teachers, website with links to many other sites, including lesson plans, puzzles, and games
• Calculation Nation, highly popular NCTM-developed math games
• Greening schools (math), a project by Illinois WPA and WMRC, includes lessons, projects, and resources for doing environmental math

Tools:

• Dynamic paper on Illuminations, creates not only grids of any size, but also shapes and solids with any specifications
• Poll everywhere, instant polling in a classroom, using only cell phones and a computer
• Prezi, a toll for creating non-linear presentations
• The hat, creates random ordering of names -- replaces pulling them out of a hat
• Cool timer, times in-class activities