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MathPath: An Advanced Summer Camp for
students age 11-14 who show high promise and love mathematics
- NCTM: The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics offers numerous resources
for mathematics teachers. These include middle school math articles with activities, including articles from NCTM’s Journal
“Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School”, other NCTM middle school links and a Weekly Problem for your students.
Grade specific resources for teachers can be found
here. NCTM’s bookstore also offers numerous volumes of interest to
you and your students.
NCTM also hosts Calculation Nation a fun website with educational math games. -
MAA: The Mathematical Association of America offers the Number of the Day,
Minute Math, and the online Digital library
of math articles and activities. While these can be at a higher mathematical level, there is much here to
stimulate even your middle school students. MAA also offers numerous books from the history of mathematics,
problem solving, to hands on activities.
- Mathcounts: Mathcounts offers a Problem of the Week, a national
team competition in May each year, and club activities. It is hoped that local high school Mu Alpha Theta chapters will
provide coaches or team mentors to help your school compete.
EdHelper.com: puzzles and worksheets
(Some are available for free, for others you will need a logon.) Math Forum at Drexel University: Ask Dr. Math, student activities
and lists of other math site links. -
Awesome Mathematics Library: middle school mathematics activities
- The Funbrain Site: math activity resources
- A Learning Site for Middle School Students
- Florida Center for Instructional Technology: They offer lesson plans
and activities for classroom use, as well as links to other math websites.
- Math Moves U: Run by Raytheon, they offer a series of games, problems to work, and
facts about mathematics. Fun for middle school aged students. Students may register to keep track of their cumulative
point totals in the games they play.
- Mathematical games are a great way to make math interesting! You can do a Math Jeopardy or Quiz Bowl with equipment
purchased from Zee craft or Buzzer Systems..
E-mail Dr. Irina Lyublinskaya for sample jeopardy board problems.
- Educational Math Games may be purchased from Educational Learning Games.
These include Math Boardwalk, SET, Challenge 24, Tangrams, Shut the Box, Knock Out, and others.
- At this website ,you can set up a Virtual math club to run a Problem of Week Contest
for your club or for all the students at your school. After setting up a "class" or "math club" and have choices of
interactive exercises or recreational mathematics topics.
- Syvum: brain teasers and math puzzles.
- www.mathisfun.com
- Steve Miller's Math Riddles
- Jefferson Lab: Games & Puzzles
- neoK12: education videos, lessons, and games.
- Thinkfinity.org: education speaker series
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