Conference Material

PROMISING WEB SITES

• To search for locations on a particular topic, I would recommend http://www.metacrawler.com/

1. Organizations:
   • http://www.nctm.org/ The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' home page. For journal abstracts, go to http://www.nctm.org/publications/ For the NCTM Standards online, go to http://www.enc.org/reform/journals/ENC2280/nf_280dtoc1.html

   • http://www.ams.org The American Mathematics Society's home page; an article on Math Reform is located at http://www.ams.org/publications/notices/199612/forum-wu.html

   • http://www.maa.org "MAA Online"--The Mathematical Association of America's home page. A very good source of information, updates, and articles pertaining to mathematics (and math ed). Check out the "News and Features" section at http://www.maa.org/news/news.html. Also see http://www.maa.org/features/invisible.html for info on the excellent PBS series "Life by the Numbers"

   • http://www.unifr.ch/psycho/pme/pme.html The International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education

   • http://www.nsta.org The National Science Teachers Association has a very informative web site. It's a great place for math educators to check out, too!

   • http://ceemast.scx.csupomona.edu/amte/#Mission Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators

2. http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/mathed *A great resource for elementary math methods instructors.*

3. http://teech-lsc.terc.edu/ Interested in professional development for math and science teachers? This site was designed for NSF Local Systemic Change grant recipients but contains a plethora of information for all staff developers (resources, papers, practical tips for professional development, vignettes, etc.)

4. http://forum.swarthmore.edu/ The Math Forum--a great resource for math educators--designed to help you keep informed about math on the Internet. To subscribe to the Math Forum Internet Newsletter, send a message to majordomo@forum.swarthmore.edu and write in the body subscribe newsletter

   http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/ Ask Dr. Math

   http://forum.swarthmore.edu/geopow/ Problem of the Week

   http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~steve/ Internet Resources

   http://forum.swarthmore.edu/teachers/elem/ "We've gathered the better Internet resources available for you to use in your classroom and for your professional development. A customized search interface allows easy locating of materials both at our site and elsewhere on the Internet. We offer you: Highlighted Math Forum projects and activities, Problems and puzzles, Lesson plan sites and units, Fun sites for kids, Software, Discussion groups for teachers, Articles and publications, and Professional organizations."

5. http://www.mathpropress.com/math/mathCenter.html "Internet Center for K-12 math problems"

6. http://www.ed.gov/NCES/TIMSS/ or http://timss.msu.edu/ Information on the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Also check http://timss.enc.org/ for "Tools for Discussion: Attaining Excellence Through TIMSS." This project is also available free on CD-ROM.

7. http://www.ed.gov/NCES/naep/ "NAEP on the Net"--Includes the "Report in Brief: National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1994 Trends in Academic Progress"--comes from the National Center for Education Statistics

8. http://www.enc.org Eisenhower National Clearinghouse. For links to math/science standards and reform articles/documents, use http://www.enc.org/reform/index.htm

9. http://www.geom.umn.edu/software/download/KaleidoTile.html KaleidoTile: Downloadable geometry software: polyhedra--color, sound--excellent! A great instructional aid!

10. http://www.learner.org/ Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project; "The Guide to Math and Science Reform," science and math initiatives, and more!

11. http://www.stolaf.edu/stolaf/other/extend Math education reform conversations

12. http://ourworld.compuserve.com:80/homepages/mathman Home of "Mathematically Correct." Anti-math reform conversations, articles, references, etc. For updates, check <..... mathman/whatsnew.htm>. Other related sites are HOLD's (Honest Open Logical Debate): http://www.rahul.net/dehnbase/hold/, http://www.intres.com/math/ (Where's the Math?"), and "The Truth About Math Standards and Math Reform: http://www.wgquirk.com/

13. http://www.tiac.net/users/ckassoc Gender equity in math and science education

14. http://home.ust.hk/~philipl/omino/omino.html A great resource for polyomino information/activities

15. http://www.mathpro.com/math/glossary/glossary.html A glossary of mathematics terms

16. http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/data.html A collection of math quotations (83 pages)!

17. http://www.csun.edu/~hcmth014/comicfiles/newcomics.html Math-related cartoons!

For Educators:

0. http://chronicle.merit.edu/ The Chronicle of Higher Education online

1. http://www.edweek.org/ Education Week on the Web: "American Education's Online Newspaper of Record"; site contains an abundance of information for the professional educator: Education Week; Teacher Magazine; Education Week archives--all articles since 1989; The Daily News--the best articles written about education each day in newspapers around the country; "In Context"--education jargon explained, promising web sites, best-selling education titles; "Special Reports"

2. http://www.ascd.org The Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development's home page. Contains Educational Leadership online and updates about ASCD programs, products, services, and more.

3. http://commons.somewhere.com/reportcard/index.html Daily Report Card: A summary of news in K-12 education--particularly education reform--produced three times a week and sponsored by the National Education Goals Panel.

4. http://www.time.com/teach Teaching & Technology's web page

5. http://www.scholastic.com Scholastic Place--freebies for teachers and students, and lots more!
   http://scholastic.com/EL The Educator's Web Guide

6. http://www.gsn.org Classroom projects, collaboration opportunities, school Web pages; also see http://www.classroom.net/classweb/

7. http://www.mightymedia.com Chat online with teachers from around the world!

8. http://ericir.sunsite.syr.edu ERIC database on-line, along with exemplary lesson plans, and ITV teachers' guides

9. http://web66.coled.umn.edu Information to help get your school online

10. http://nscp.fie.com/htdoc/fed/all/any/any/foa/any/faq.htm Funding source for future activities. They'll send out messages according to your interest area.

0. http://www.lycos.com/pplfndr.html Looking for someone? If they have a listed phone number, "PeopleFind" will locate them for you! Want to find out their internet address rather than their mailing address? Try http://home.netscape.com/home/internet-white-pages.html You may also want to try http://www.whowhere.com/phone.html

1. TRAVEL: http://travel.yahoo.com/travel/ Locate the best airline connections and fares! http://www.flifo.com/ is also a great site to locate hotels and flights and to see if flights are on time.
   http://www.zip2.com/ Get directions, maps, flight & hotel information, and a lot more!
   http://www.freetrip.com/ Creates personalized and comprehensive driving itineraries!
   http://www.mapblast.com Maps out trips of < 1000 miles; points out "Really Important Landmarks"
   http://professionals.com/~vilas/flights/allFlights.html Flight information for all major airline carriers
   http://www.americanair.com/aa_home/features.htm is a related site--a great jumping off place for a plethora of information related to American Airlines--airplane seating charts, route maps, etc.

2. http://cnn.com/WEATHER/html/ Complete four-day forecast for over 6000 cities! Great site!

3. http://hawaii.ivv.nasa.gov:80/space/hawaii/virtual.field.trips.html Virtual field trips of Hawaii!

4. http://www.nytimes.com/ The New York Times online--one of many papers online; searchable.

5. http://www.slackinc.com/matrix/ Medical Matrix: Guide to internet clinical medicine resources; has a link to Medline and thousands of articles on diseases and medical specialties.

6. http://thomas.loc.gov/ Legislative updates, Congressional Record, historical documents, committee information, U.S. Government internet resources, etc.

7. http://www.familytreemaker.com/facds.html The FamilyFinder /index is the place to start genealogy research. It contains over 153 million names; about 20% of people who have ever lived in the US are listed.

8. http://www.keirsey.com/cgi-bin/keirsey/newkts.cgi and http://keirsey.com What is your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator? Take the test and get your results back quickly!

9. http://www.bluemountain.com Lets you design and send web-based greeting cards to your friends!
   http://www.cardcentral.net/ "Meta-site" for free virtual greeting cards!

10. http://www.iflorist.com/ or http://www.virtualflorist.com/ Send a "virtual" flower bouquet via e-mail (free of charge!), as well as order real flowers and plants.

11. http://gort.ucsd.edu/ek/refshelf/refshelf.html An incredible site, with links to reference books, thesauri, zip code directories, colleges & universities, Books in Print, city info, tax forms, moon phases, etc. Another great overall site is B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper - http://tristate.pgh.net/~pinch13/