ClassTools.net

The website featured: http://classtools.net./

Designed by Russel Tarr, who published http://www.activehistory.co.uk/, this website has thousands of free templates that are really helpful to teachers for lessons. There templates are specific towards educational games, activities, and diagrams. It allows you to chose a school subject, and type of template, which includes: Jigsaw, Game Generator, Timeline, Post It, Countdown Timer, etc..

The site provides a lot of easy to make templates and support for its users. It provides tutorials for how to create games and activities with the templates, and instruction on how to save and publish a template. It is a very good resource for teachers who want to incorporate games and other virtual activities into their classroom.

Wolfram MathWorld: The Web's Most Extensive Math Resource

The website featured: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/


Created by Wolfram Research and Eric Weisstein, this resource is a very well constructed tutorial on mathematic concepts and applications. This is site very useful to look up concepts or sections of any mathematic course to review or learn how to do or teach any application.

This website will be beneficial to any secondary
math teacher. The mathematical research and applications contain algebra, calculus, geometry, probably, topology, and several other mathetmatical topics.


Their tutorial on each application covers every detail, and many even include visual aids such as graphs.


I recommend this website to any secondary math teacher who is unsure of a specific concept; for it gives its own tutorial that will guide you on how to teach it in your classroom.

Illuminations

The website featured: http://www.illuminations.nctm.org/

Designed by the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics, is the best website I have found for math education resources. The site includes activities and lesson plans for math classes K-12.

My FAVORITE tool on Illuminations is the lesson plans they have available. The way the site organizes this tool makes it so easy to find any specific lesson plan. You can search for a specific lesson plan by the grade level, the specified math course, and the standards you want to include. It will narrow the search to include all of these specifics.

The activities page on the site includes so many tools that can enhance any lesson. For secondary ed, which is what I search for, there are several visual tools that can help a student grasp harder concepts of visualizations for any geometric function or graph. Also for elementary math ed, there are several fun activities that young students will really enjoy. This website has concrete lessons and activities that can benefit any mathematics classroom!