Activities and Links

NCTM: The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics offers numerous resources for mathematics teachers. These include http://nctm.org/resources/middle.aspx with 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 at http://nctm.org/resources/content.aspx?id=8778.
NCTM’s bookstore offers numerous volumes of interest to you and your students.
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 has puzzles and worksheets. Some are available for free, for others you will need a logon.

The Math Forum at Drexel University has Ask Dr. Math, student activities and lists of other math site links.
See middle school mathematics activities at the Awesome Mathematics Library..
Other Math activity resources are at The Funbrain site.
A Learning Site for Middle School Students

The Florida Center for Instructional Technology offers lesson plans and activities for classroom use, as well as links to other math websites.
Math Moves U, Run by Raytheon, offers 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.

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