MATH GRANTS
posted 08/09/07

 

Toshiba America Foundation Grants Program for K-6 Science and Math Education
Eligibility: K-6 teachers
Value: Up to $1,000 per award
Deadline: October 1, 2007

The mission of Toshiba America Foundation is to promote quality science and mathematics education in U.S. schools. Grants are made for programs and activities that improve teaching and learning in science and mathematics. The foundation focuses its grant making on inquiry-based projects designed by individual teachers, and small teams of teachers, for use in their own classrooms.

Funds To Use Music In Math Lessons
Grant Title: Using Music to Teach Mathematics
Organization: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Eligibility: Grades K-2 teachers
Value: Up to $3,000
Deadline: November 2, 2007

The purpose of this grant is to incorporate music into the elementary school classroom to help young students learn mathematics. The applicant must be a current NCTM member or teach in a school with a current NCTM membership, and currently teach mathematics or collaborate with teachers of mathematics in grades K–2. Activities are to be completed between June 1, 2008, and May 31, 2009.

Grants to Help Students Understand Geometry
Grant Title: Improving Students' Understanding of Geometry Grants
Organization: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Eligibility: Grades K-8
Value: Grants up to $3,000
Deadline: November 2, 2007

The purpose of this grant is to develop activities that will enable students to better appreciate and understand some aspect of geometry that is consistent with the Principles and Standards for School Mathematics of NCTM. For 2008–2009, grants with a maximum of $3,000 each will be awarded to persons currently teaching full time at the grades K–8 level. The project should include applications of geometry to, for example, art, literature, music, architecture, nature, or some other relevant area and may integrate the use of technology into the teaching of geometry. The activities may use published materials. Any published sources must be documented. Proposals must address the following: geometry content, the appropriateness of the application, the link between the Geometry Standard and the project's activities, and the anticipated impact on students' learning. The applicant must be a current NCTM member or teach at a school with a current NCTM membership. Project activities are to be completed between June 1, 2008, and May 31, 2009.

Website for Virtual Manipulatives

AlgebraHelp.com (worksheet generator…only average)

Exploring Data

Interactive Muti-Purpose Server (cool brain activities etc.)

Law of Large Numbers Expected Value, Dice (mean)

Math Plotter (Free..awesome for plotting, very easy to cut and paste into a test)

Math Words (A must see! For example, click on “s” and look for slope)

Math.com (worksheet generator…only average)

Mathematics Help Central (Good online graph paper and other goodies)

Mathematics Education Page (interesting activites:geometry, algebra, and trig)

Mr. P's Math Page

One Variable Statistics Calculator

Purple Math.com (One of my favorites for students who are absent…great explanations of material and examples!)

Simple Random Sample SRS lotto balls

Spherical Sketchpad (sketchpad for spherical geometry)

The Let's Make a Deal Applet (Door #1,2, or 3?)

Wikipedia Mathematics

Calculus on the Web Offers an interactive environment for learning, practicing, and experimenting with the ideas and techniques of calculus. It is organized in seven parts: Precalculus; Calculus I, II, and III; Linear Algebra; Number Theory; and Abstract Algebra. (NSF)

Collected Learning Units in Mathematics provides more than 200 instructional units in arithmetic, algebra, calculus, data analysis, fractions, geometry, number theory, pre-algebra, pre-calculus, probability, statistics, and trigonometry.  The units were developed by teachers attending summer institutes sponsored by the National Security Agency. (NSA)

Mathematics: Research Overview Looks at topics of major research in mathematics: image creation, statistics, inverse problems, CPU testing, materials and nanotechnology, proteins, random graphs, prime numbers, optimization, design, financial mathematics, weather and climate simulation, rare events, and high-dimensional data sets. (NSF)

Mathematics Across the Community College Curriculum provides course descriptions and student projects in anthropology, art, biology, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, English, environmental science, health, marketing, mathematics, nursing, physics, policy studies, political science, social services, and urban planning.

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, supported by National Science Foundation.