Puffins and Fractions

Last fall Planet Nutshell started a new series of math videos for elementary school students . The latest installment in the series combines...

Fun and Learning With Peep and the Big Wide World

Peep and the Big Wide World , produced by WGBH, offers a great collection of online games, videos, and offline activities designed to help p...

Wolfram Alpha Examples for Students and Teachers

Colleen Young's Mathematics, Learning and Web 2.0 is a good blog to subscribe to for practical, do-now mathematics instruction ideas. W...

The Math of the Horizon

Most of us have probably stood on a beach or stood on the edge of a large flat field (I did this in Nebraska last week) and wondered just ho...

Space Math - Math Lessons from NASA

Space Math is a NASA website containing space-themed math lessons for students in elementary school through high school. You can search for...

PBS Math Club - Short Interactive Math Videos

PBS Math Club is a new YouTube channel in which students can watch and interact with math videos. Each of the videos contains a series of m...

Five Mathematics Glossaries for Kids

A glossary of mathematics terms can be a helpful aid to students who struggle with the vocabulary of mathematics. When I was a middle school...

Animated Math Lessons for Kids

Math Live is a neat mathematics website hosted by Learn Alberta . Math Live presents students with animated stories that teach mathematics ...

Is Denali Shrinking? - A Mountain Math Lesson

Thanks to The Adventure Blog over the weekend I learned that Denali - AKA Mt. McKinley - has been re-measured. The mountain is now listed 8...

Bedtime Math - Fun Math Activities for Parents To Do With Their Kids

Bedtime Math is a great site on which you can locate fun mathematics activities for elementary school and middle school students. The activ...

ULearniversity - Online Math Lessons and Practice Activities

ULearniversity is a free site featuring arithmetic and algebra lessons. On ULearniversity you can watch tutorial videos and practice the co...

Saylor Foundation Launches Independent "Courses" for K-12

The Saylor Foundation recently announced the launch of one of their new initiatives, independent courses . In the title of this post I put q...

Calculating Pi With Real Pies

Tomorrow is Pi Day ! To celebrate Pi Day, Numberphile has released a fun video about calculating Pi with real pies . The three minute and fo...

Graphing Stories - The Math in Short Videos

Graphing Stories is a new website that was developed by Dan Meyer and Buzz Math . Graphing Stories features 24 short videos that tell a st...

Useful New Features Added to Desmos Online Graphing Calculator

Desmos , the free online graphing calculator, recently announced some useful new features that mathematics teachers will like. Under the su...

Math Fun with Mudd Math Facts

The math department of Harvey Mudd College has a website full of fun math facts. Mudd Math Fun Facts has an easy to search database of mat...

Math Landing - K-6 Math Resources

Math Landing is a database of mathematics lessons and interactive resources for use in elementary school. You can search for lessons and in...

Seven YouTube Channels Not Named Khan Offering Math Lessons

Over the weekend I received an email from a reader asking me if I had a list of YouTube channels not named Khan Academy that offer mathemati...