Online Resources for Teachers

by rrusczyk, Feb 21, 2009, 2:06 AM

I'm writing a chapter for a book on education for teachers of gifted middle school math students. One small section of it is devoted to online resources. I can't just say AoPS! What else should I include? I have included Cut-the-Knot, and I have to mention MathForum. What else? (Wolfram isn't really appropriate for middle school, but is there something else that would be useful for *teachers*?)

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http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ is one resource with plenty of stuff at that level.

I learned almost all the math I used to make MOP the first time from freely available online sources (sorry, no AOPS classes, though I did use the forum a bit), so this question would feel pertinent to me if it weren't for the middle school level.

The method I drifted into was browsing the forum for problems above my level, running into concepts and words and theorems I had never seen before in the discussions, and then running off to google them (wikipedia, mathworld, planetmath were the sites I usually got) and read up on them.

But the topics on those sites are not geared for middle school, and the decline in quality of problems posted here means doing that probably doesn't work as well anymore. (I hate to sound like a total bigot, but the number of foreigners posting inappropriately hard problems in interm/pre-oly is the reason; leave the friggin inequalities in the inequalities forum, for example)

by MellowMelon, Feb 21, 2009, 2:41 AM

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AgMath

Coach Jeff Boyd said, AgMath is by far the best single resource he has found outside of AoPs.

by shtsxc12, Feb 21, 2009, 3:03 AM

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Ah, of course I should include AGMath.

Mellow -- we fight with this problem in all the high school forums (inappropriately difficult problems). Have any suggestions for fixing it?

by rrusczyk, Feb 21, 2009, 1:23 PM

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Doesn't seem like a much better way than close monitoring, though I'll try to think of other things. :( Will try to step on that as best I can. (thanks, by the way)

by MellowMelon, Feb 21, 2009, 6:36 PM

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What about this one ?

http://mathcountsnotes.blogspot.com/

I never used myself, but I have heard this site from many other mathcounts kids/parents.

by shtsxc12, Mar 4, 2009, 2:42 PM

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