Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Illuminations



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!



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