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Permalink Reply by David Roth on July 6, 2008 at 4:32pm

The website radicalmath.org has a lot of great math social justice lesson plans. They sometimes need a little tweaking for the grade level. It seems to me that math has more lessons that necessarily build on each other so it's harder to have a collection of math lessons that you could drop into any class.

I've also been able to find some stuff at curriki.org but there is more junk to wade through there.

Though they're not quite lesson plans, quizville.com and funbrain.com have good math activities/games that you could base a lesson around using either a computer lab or a computer connected to a projector.

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Permalink Reply by Donna Hebert on July 6, 2008 at 8:39pm

Thank you David! I appreciate the links.

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Permalink Reply by Marielle Palombo on July 7, 2008 at 6:46am

The math sister site to ReadWriteThink is Illuminations, which is based at NCTM. Thinkfinity is the umbrella that sponsors similar sites across the content areas. The Math Forum is another popular math resource site for educators.

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Permalink Reply by Donna Hebert on July 7, 2008 at 7:57am

Thanks! A friend suggested to me today that I check out the NCTM. Your reply is timely. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Chris on July 17, 2008 at 8:56pm

Another great site for math--as far as being interactive for the kids would be the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives. Its one of my favorites to use with my projector.

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Permalink Reply by Frank Lovejoy on February 17, 2009 at 11:51am

You are looking for www,TheMathWebSite.com

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Permalink Reply by P. Murphy on February 17, 2009 at 8:35pm

Though it's not comparable to ReadWriteThink yet, MathWire has a lot of potential. The focus feature changes each month, but there is an archive that let's you access everything that has been presented to date.

MathWire
http://www.mathwire.com

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Permalink Reply by Donna Hebert on February 17, 2009 at 11:53pm

Nice! Thank you. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Fink on February 18, 2009 at 8:03pm

I was going to suggest Illuminations, but I see that has already been done.

Thanks for highlighting resources from ReadWriteThink. We are very proud of what we have to offer on the site! If you are interested, we pay educators in the field to publish lesson plans and share teaching ideas. Let me know if you would like more information.

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