Phone Book Math
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson270.shtml
Did the phone company just deliver new phone
books to your door? Don't throw out the old ones! Ask students to bring them to
school. Those old phone books offer opportunities for lots of valuable math
practice; they're a great teaching tool! Included: Five "phone book
math" lessons!
Following are some details about the five
original lessons included in this week's Lesson Planning article:
Area Code Mathematics
Students solve math problems based on a U.S.
area code map. (Grades 3-12)
Surname Survey
A study of data from the U.S. Census Bureau
reveals the most common family last names in the United States. Does your local
phone book reflect that list of most common last names? Where does your surname
appear on the Census Bureau list? (Grades 3-12)
1-800-MATHFUN
What numbers and letters can your students
combine to form creative 1-800 numbers for businesses in the local Yellow
Pages? Invite them to design posters featuring prominent phone numbers used to
advertise fictitious businesses. (Grades 3-12)
Yellow Pages Ad-dition
Help students determine the revenue generated
by sample pages from the Yellow Pages. Discuss with them the value of
advertising a business in this venue. (Grades 3-12)
Let Your Fingers Do the Estimating
How many phone listings can be found in the
White Pages of the local telephone directory? Nobody could possibly count them
all, but your students can estimate! (Grades 3-12)
MORE MATH LESSONS FROM THE ED WORLD
Have you seen these math articles in the Education
World archives?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson265.shtml
Math Fun! -- Five "Invisible Math"
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson124.shtml
On-Line Math Tools -- and Activities to Use With
Them
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson118.shtml
Use It or Lose It: Puzzles to Exercise the Brain
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson061.shtml
Math Sites to Count On
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr403.shtml
Hitting the Math Trail
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson173.shtml
Count on the Census for Math Lessons
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson232.shtml
Financial Literacy Begins at School
TEACHER-SUBMITTED MATH LESSONS
Education World's Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plan
database includes the following math lesson plans:
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/02-1/lesson012.shtml
Ladybug Math
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/02-1/lesson009.shtml
Telling Time
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/02-1/lesson003.shtml
Counting With Marshmallows and Licorice
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/01-1/lesson0031.shtml
Lighting the Perimeter
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/01-1/lesson0026.shtml
Twenty-Five: A Math Card Game
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/01-1/lesson0025.shtml
Area and Perimeter
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/01-1/lesson0017.shtml
Two-Dimensional Geometric Shapes
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/01-1/lesson0015.shtml
Web Adventure -- Oakland to Chicago Flight
August Coloring Calendar
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/calendar/august02.shtml
A reproducible student
work sheet. Add the dates and color the August scene!
25 Ideas for Using
Education World Monthly Calendars
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson272.shtml
Turn the monthly coloring
calendar into a teaching resource!
OVERALL GRADE: A+
NASA Connect
GRADE LEVEL: 6-8
CONTENT: A+
"NASA Connect is an annual series of
free integrated mathematics, science, and technology instructional distance
learning programs for students in grades 6-8" that can be viewed right
from your desktop computer.
AESTHETICS: A+
The site features an easy-to-navigate format
that has a nice mix of color and graphics. RealPlayer is required for viewing
the broadcasts.
ORGANIZATION: A+
A left-side menu on the main page and a top
menu on subsequent pages make the site user-friendly. There is also a helpful
site index.
REVIEW: A+
Students and teachers will find that this
site is a natural for teaching and learning critical-thinking and
problem-solving skills. The NASA Connect programming is available free to any
school, and provides lessons in math, science, and technology competencies for
grades 5-8. By registering at the site (free) teachers can fully involve their
students in the broadcasts. Registrants receive program schedules and lesson
guides via e-mail. The programs are transmitted via satellite hookups and PBS
stations but are also available on the Web through NASA's Learning Technologies
Channel. Accompanying each broadcast is a teacher's guide with hands-on
activities and an interactive Internet activity. Additionally, teachers can
request a mentor to help students complete the work. All the shows for the past
three years are archived in the library, and there is an extensive list of
additional resources.
RELATED REVIEWS:
Science: General
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/past/topics/science.shtml
Educational Technology: Miscellaneous
Technology
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/past/topics/ed_tech.shtml#Misc.%20Technology
Math & Finance: General Math
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/past/topics/math.shtml
OVERALL GRADE: A+
The U.S. Mint's Site for Kids
GRADE LEVEL: All
CONTENT: A+
This site, also called H.I.P. (History in
your Pocket) pocket change, offers many entertaining and informative games and
activities about coins. Kids can put together a puzzle of a state quarter,
watch an animated movie about how coins are made, and read lots of fun facts
about the U.S. Mint and what it does. A time machine takes visitors back to
look at periods in this country's development and lots of other games and
activities involving coins.
AESTHETICS: A+
This professionally developed site is colorful
and inviting, but not too busy -- very child-friendly!
ORGANIZATION: A+
The U.S. Mint's Site for Kids is easy to
navigate, and the activities load surprisingly fast, considering the quality of
the animations and activities. Many activities opened in a new window, which
made moving back to the original page quite simple. There is a search function,
and easily accessible links appear on each page.
REVIEW: A+
This is a quality site that kids and adults
will enjoy. The site presents plenty of factual information about the Mint and
its workings, along with activities such as Cents of Color, a paint program for
kids; Coin Memory Machine, concentration with coin fronts and backs; Mark My
Words, a word search with lots of history included, and many other great
activities. The Teacher section provides lesson and unit plans involving the
Mint and has project suggestions and links to other coin-related sites. The
Camp Coin section includes an animated timeline of the development of the coins
of our country. This site is not to be missed for anyone who is interested in
the history of our money!
RELATED REVIEWS:
Teachers: General
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/past/topics/teachers.shtml
Internet: Interactive Web Sites
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/past/topics/internet.shtml#Interactive%20Websites
Social Sciences: Economics
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/past/topics/soc_sci.shtml#Economics
Students: Games & Fun Sites
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/past/topics/students.shtml#Games%20&%20Fun%20Sites
September Coloring Calendar
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/calendar/sept02.shtml
Students fill in the numbers and color the
picture. For additional ideas for using the calendar, don't miss...
Twenty-Five Ideas for Using the Coloring
Calendar
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson272.shtml
September Coloring Calendar
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/calendar/sept02.shtml
Students fill in the numbers
and color the picture. For additional ideas for using the calendar, don't
miss...
Twenty-Five Ideas for Using
the Coloring Calendar
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson272.shtml
OVERALL GRADE: A
Math-Kitecture
http://www.nycenet.edu/oit/math-kitecture/
GRADE LEVEL: 6-12
CONTENT: A
This site, alternately named
Real-Life Math, Architecture and Computers, has a number of activities to
encourage students to study math by doing architecture. Students can work on
"Architivities," including Floor Plan Your Classroom and then use CAD
software to create a design and submit it to this site.
AESTHETICS: A
Math-kitecture is easy to
read and use.
ORGANIZATION: A
The Math-kitecture site is
organized into five sections, easily accessed by buttons at the top of each
page. On each page, links are organized in tables to allow easy reading. There
are also links to the sections at the bottom of each page.
REVIEW: A
Math-kitecture uses
architecture to offer opportunities for students to study estimation, measuring
skills, proportion, and ratios by hand-drafting a floor plan of their classroom
to scale. Then students may use software to create a computer-aided design
(CAD) version. Students may submit their work to the site for display in the
online Student Work Gallery. The Office of Instructional Technology of the New
York City Board of Education designed the site. The Student Work Gallery has
many valuable examples for students to study and discuss. Mathematics &
Architecture: Resources has more than 25 links to software resources and other
Web resources to study architecture and other uses of math skills. Some
examples include Archi-Maticians links to Frank Lloyd Wright and R. Buckminster
Fuller and Archi-Design links to Skyscrapers and the Big Buildings site.
RELATED REVIEWS:
Educational Technology:
Computers
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/past/topics/ed_tech.shtml#Computers
Math & Finance: Geometry
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/past/topics/math.shtml#Geometry
Clocks -- Teaching About
Time
Rating: A+
http://www.education-world.com/awards/past/2000/r0300-14.shtml
The
change of the seasons is a marking of the passage of time. This website
highlights how we mark time
September Coloring Calendar
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/calendar/sept02.shtml
Students fill in the numbers
and color the picture. For additional ideas for using the calendar, don't
miss…
Twenty-Five Ideas for Using
the Coloring Calendar
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson272.shtml
OVERALL GRADE: A
Grade Level: K-5
CONTENT: A
The home page of this site
offers links to pages where you can print flash cards for grades 1-4 - addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and division. Pre-made worksheets are also
available. There is also a page available where you can design your own
worksheet.
AESTHETICS: A
Simple graphics on this
homepage allow easy access to each section of this site. White backgrounds make
reading the pages easy. This site is visually attractive.
ORGANIZATION: A
This site offers links from
the homepage to all its' features. It is easy to move from one area to another.
The help feature is an easy way to get information about the site.
REVIEW: A+
The home page of this site
offers links to all the other features - Pre-Made offers fact sheets for grades
1-4, and Flashcards has printable cards for grades 1-3 with 4th grade coming
soon. Build Your Own allows you to choose problem type, font size, division
answers with choices such as whole numbers, ranges for the numbers used in the
problems, and the amount of space available on the page for working area.
Newsletters are available from January 2001. You can sign up to be sent current
newsletters as they come out. In addition, you can sign up for notification of
new features added to the site. The relax and play a game section allows you to
play the peg game made popular at CrackerBarrel restaurants. This site offers a
tremendous resource for teachers of grades 1-4 in math. Easy to use and print,
the worksheets and flashcards can be valuable for teachers and parents of
children at these grade levels.
RELATED REVIEWS:
Math & Finance : General
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/past/topics/math.shtml#General
Parents : Home Schooling
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/past/topics/parents.shtml#Home%20Schooling
Teachers : Grades 1-5
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/past/topics/teachers.shtml#1-5