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[] - Lots of useful links to games, and online manipulatives! [|Math Forum] provides high-quality math education content. The site features a problem of the week for students in grades 3-12, collections of math resources grouped by subject and grade level, web-based discussion areas, and ask-an-expert services. Math Forum also offers links to resources on key issues in mathematics. Questions about teaching and math education may be sent to the Teacher2Teacher service. (Drexel University, National Science Foundation) [|Helping Your Child Learn Math] features dozens of fun activities parents can use to help children (K-5th grade) have fun learning geometry, algebra, measurement, statistics, probability and other important mathematical concepts. Activities relate math to everyday life and can be done at home, at the grocery store, or while traveling. It includes sections for parents on what math is like in schools today and a parents' booklist for helping children learn math. (Department of Education) [|Math Tools] offers hundreds of online tools, lesson plans, and learning activities for teaching and learning math—currently for grades 2 and 7 and precalculus. Tools are offered for studying estimation, fractions, factors, patterns, percents, functions, fractals, tessellations, platonic solids, area, geometric shapes, probability, and other topics. (MathForum, National Science Foundation) [|Mathematics Across the Curriculum] features an "electronic bookshelf" of materials for teaching math in art, history, literature, and music, as well as science, engineering, and other disciplines traditionally associated with math. Topics include misleading averages, bar codes, crime statistics, DNA, data analysis, expert systems, gasoline, information theory, medical testing, music and computers, nutrition, polls, population growth, probability, remote sensing, SIDS, and vaccines. (MATC Dartmouth College, National Science Foundation) [|National Library of Virtual Manipulatives] provides interactive online math lessons, activities, and assessments. Topics include fractions, functions, geometric transformations, integer arithmetic, patterns and sequences, probability, right triangle trigonometry, slope, triangle geometry, and writing equations of lines. Calculate what an excavation company should charge for digging a hole. Analyze three pollution reduction plans. Determine the best rate for repaying a loan. (Utah State University, National Science Foundation) [|Mixing in Math] offers 40 activities that can be used to "slip a little math" into kids' everyday routines. Activities include using clocks and calendars, figuring lengths and widths, gathering and organizing fun facts about everyday things, and adding shapes and numbers to stories and skits. Activities are designed for use in after school programs and other programs for kids ages 5-13. (TERC, National Science Foundation) [|Balanced Assessment] offers over 300 mathematics assessment tasks for grades K-12. Topics and activities include averages, addition, area, batting orders, bicycle rides, chance of rain, chance of survival, cheetah's lunch, classroom groups, cost of living, dart boards, detective stories, Fermi estimates, genetic codes, gestation and longevity, graphing, gravity, intersections, logarithms, oil consumption, rectangles, rising prices, squares and circles, stock market, triangles, volume, and more. (The Concord Consortium, National Science Foundation)