Interactive Websites:
Grade 6  Grade 9  Grade 10

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Microsoft Office Templates: For Microsoft Office users, free downloadable templates are available online at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates. Under BROWSE TEMPLATES (about half-way down, center), check out the Education link. Under "For Teachers" + "Classroom Management," you’ll find two user-friendly PowerPoint "seating charts", feedback and instruction forms for substitutes, and PowerPoint presentations for both elementary and secondary classroom rules/expectations. "Lesson Materials" includes graph paper, multiplication tables, and a great factor maze. You can also investigate the administrator's tab, which has a multitude of academic calendars and a detention log that could easily be modified into a tutoring or tardy sign in.

Fun School: http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/index.html Interactive games to teach math.

MATHCOUNTS: http://www.mathcounts.org Middle school coaching, enrichment, and competition program- site has a “problem of the week”.

Math League Contests: http://www.mathleague.com Contest for grades 4-8, Alg 1, HS – written tests to do on your own campus.

Continental Mathematics League, Inc. Grades 2-9, Calculus http://www.continentalmathleague.hostrack.com/cmlover.htm

High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling HiMCM – Open-ended math problem for a high school team of 4 students to solve http://www.comap.com/highschool/contests/himcm/index.html

Destination Imagination: http://www.idodi.org

Mathematical Association of America - AMERICAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITIONS – Middle and High School Students http://www.unl.edu/amc/

Did you know that Region 10 offers free training for employees of Dallas Independent School District? Log on to http://www2.ednet10.net for information.

Interactive Manipulatives contains excellent activities for all grade levels. Curriculum Central contains a link to this site or logon directly at http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

Connected Mathematics: The Project Home Page http://www.math.msu.edu/cmp/index.html has tips for using the program, as well as background information.

Texas Web Tutor is Web-based TAKS mathematics preparation for grades 9-12 and functions as a one-on-one TAKS tutor. Texas Web Tutor provides educators with tools to track and profile the progress of their students with real-time reporting. The program is free for all Dallas ISD high school mathematics teachers! To try it out, visit http://www.TexasWebTutor.com

Texas Parks and Wildlife has many workshops that teach kids about wildlife in Texas. Visit http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/newsmedia/calendar/?calpage=a0181 to learn more.

Achieve.org is dedicated to the movement to raise standards, improve teaching and learning, and hold schools more accountable for student success.

Education Week has news and commentaries on current educational issues.

Teacher Magazine has news and commentaries on current educational issues.

Graph is an open source application used to draw mathematical graphs in a coordinate system. Anyone who wants to draw graphs of functions will find this program useful. The program makes it very easy to visualize a function and paste it into another program.

SketchPad activites: http://www.keypress.com/coasttocoast

Pi Across America, a national celebration with the goal of improving math and science literacy among America’s school children. Pi Across America encourages students of all ages to explore the wonders of pi with particular focus on the month of April, "Math Awareness Month."