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Math Resources

The resources below are almost exclusively about teaching mathematics. Find additional math resources within the links in Education Resources and more math activities and tasks in Mathematical Modeling Resource.

Page Contents

Left-Hand Column

• Popular Math Sites
• Families and Math Play
• Data Science and Using Data
Right-Hand Column
• Links to Links
• More Organizations
• More People
• Curricula
• Resources
• Assessment
• Articles and Books

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Popular Math Sites

Desmos
https://www.desmos.com/.  Graphing calculator and more. Creative math curriculum for grades 6 - 8.
https://teacher.desmos.com/ Free activities with outstanding teacher tools to monitor and regulate engaging activities for students. Every middle school and high school teacher of mathematics should use Desmos graphing calculator and Desmos activities with their students. Now retired, I regret that I was not able to use many of the awesome activities and capabilities with my own students.

Youcubed
https://www.youcubed.org/
Support through articles and activities for teachers who want students to collaborate and welcome mistakes as opportunities to learn. Growth mindset messages to create a more inclusive and encouraging mathematics classroom environment. Journal articles and posters available for download. Resources on the emerging field of Data Science.

Citizen Math - Karim Ani
https://www.citizenmath.com/
Formerly Mathalicious. There is a cost for this resource but well-worth taking a look. You can try out for free a selection of some of their activities. Well-researched, organized and developed problems relevant to the world around us.

Three-Act Mathematics - Dan Meyer
https://whenmathhappens.com/3-act-math/
Utilize visual media and curiosity to engage students in interesting activities. Dan provides a spreadsheet connecting activities/tasks to grade level and standards.
Also recommended: https://www.101qs.com

Would You Rather? - John Stevens
https://www.wouldyourathermath.com/
John shares a wealth of WYR math tasks you can use as a lesson opener or develop into entire lessons with discourse.

Table Top Math - John Stevens
https://www.tabletalkmath.com/
Get free activities sent to your email or check out John's book.
Check out the page of links to additional valuable resources:
Also check out: http://www.fishing4tech.com/

Which One Doesn't Belong? - Christopher Danielson/Mary Bourassa
https://wodb.ca/
Enjoy using these great opener activities to promote discourse. You have to try these with your students then create some of your own.

Open Middle Mathematics - Robert Kaplinsky
https://www.openmiddle.com/
Great for lesson openers or build entire lessons around open middle tasks. Challenging and engaging tasks that invite multiple solutions, multiple pathways and justification.

Robert Kaplinsky
https://robertkaplinsky.com/
For a wealth of resources involving problem solving, mathematical modeling, Depth of Knowledge and more you have to visit this site.

Math Projects Journal - Chris Shore
https://mathprojects.com/
Abundance of resources, blog entries, articles, lessons, presentations, and links to other useful sites.

Clothesline Math - Chris Shore
https://clotheslinemath.com/
Great hands-on sense making activities using an interactive number line for number, algebra and statistics.

Graham Fletcher
https://gfletchy.com

Excellent resource for younger grades. Progressions Videos, Three-Act Tasks and ideas to engage your students.

Dan Meyer Mathworlds
https://danmeyer.substack.com/
Interesting collection of engaging math problems.

San Francisco Unified Math Department
http://www.sfusdmath.org/
http://www.sfusdmath.org/3-act-tasks.html
Abundance of relevant, thought-provoking articles along with engaging tasks and links to tasks. Includes links to Math/Number Talks.

Inside Mathematics (Dana Center UTexas)
https://www.insidemathematics.org/
Videos, resources, assessments, math problems and tools for teachers. Now affiliated with the Dana Center.

Shell Center
https://www.map.mathshell.org/
Lessons and tasks for grades 6-12 around Number, Quantity, Algebra, Functions, Geometry, Statistics and Probability. Home of the Math Assessment Project (MAP and MARS) with links to the TRU Math Framework.

Estimation 180 - Andrew Stadel
https://estimation180.com/
Great lesson starters that can be developed into full lessons. Be inspired and create some of these yourself.

Find more resources and links on the Bookmarks page and on the Mathematical Modeling Resources page.


Families and Math Play

Math Festivals - Paul Giganti
School and family K-8 math events. Cost involved.
https://mathfestival.com/

Mathathome
https://mathathome.mathlearningcenter.org/

Table Talk Math - John Stevens
https://www.tabletalkmath.com/

Chapman's Math at Play Activity Series - Chapman University
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCAQtS-Je35vZEaCqn7-wxw

Math Games for Kids
https://www.gamesforyoungminds.com/blog

Math for Love
https://mathforlove.com/lessons/

Play With Your Math
https://playwithyourmath.com/

Stella's Math Stunners
https://www.mathstunners.org/

DREME Early Math Resources
http://prek-math-te.stanford.edu

Multiplicity Lab
https://multiplicitylab.northwestern.edu/


Data Science and Using Data
Excellent sources of graphs to promote discussion and sense-making.

What's Going On In This Graph? - NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/column/whats-going-on-in-this-graph

Statista Infographics
https://www.statista.com/chartoftheday/

Our World in Data
https://ourworldindata.org/

Data Talks on Youcubed
https://www.youcubed.org/resource/data-talks/

Messy Data Coalition
https://messydata.org/?utm_source=Just+Equations&utm_campaign=74c821f409-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_03_08_59_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_472770b236-74c821f409-305253737&mc_cid=74c821f409&mc_eid=9ee8067b00


The Opportunity Atlas
https://www.opportunityatlas.org/


Office of Civil Rights Data on Schools
https://ocrdata.ed.gov/


Information is Beautiful
https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/



More links on the Bookmarks Page
The bookmarks are organized into the following categories:
• Social Justice
• Math Curriculum
• Math Activities
• Compilations of Math Resources (Multiple Links to Sites)
• Assessment
• Organizations
• Articles
• General Classroom Activities
• Miscellaneous








Links to Links

The websites listed below have links to resources and pages.(You will find much overlap in these lists.)
1) https://www.tabletalkmath.com/resources.html
2) https://robertkaplinsky.com/resources/
3) https://padlet.com/daoj/4mzpsqsqh92e
4) https://makemathnotsuck.com/
5) http://natbanting.com/links/
6) https://judylarsen.ca/resources/
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9)
http://realteachingmeansreallearning.blogspot.com/p/open-ended-math-projects-and-lessons.html?m=1

LACOE and SBCSS Resources

Find more resources and links on the Bookmarks page and on the Mathematical Modeling Resources page.

More Organizations

Fostering Math Practices
Grace Kelemanik and Amy Lucenta, co-authors of Routines for Reasoning, provide an abundance of resources for teaching math practices and supporting special populations.

Math Science Research Institute (MSRI)
Julia Aguirre
The Math Science Research Institute (MSRI) has many links to articles and resources. Julia is co-author of The Impact of Identity in K-8 Mathematics: Rethinking Equity-Based Practices

PLUS Maths
Activities and articles related to real-world applications of mathematics.

Multiplicity Lab
Big Ideas, "Mathematical Tasks Worth Doing"
Multiplicity Lab: Image of the Week

MDTP
The Mathematics Diagnostic Testing Program now has instructional modules along with diagnostic readiness assessment for middle and high school.

The Curtis Center at UCLA
Standards Mapper and links to presentations.

AIMS Center
CA Early Math Initiative

Dana Center - UTexas
Also home to Inside Mathematics

Early Math Project - 2020 Conference
Register for 2021 Conference, June 25, 2021
earlymathca.org

British Columbia Association of Math Teachers
Collection of Rich Tasks 4-12



More People

Frances Su
Writer of Mathematics for Human Flourishing

Cathy Seeley
Writer of Faster Isn't Smarter and Smarter Than We Think and dozens of articles.

Kristopher Childs
Videos, articles, presentations and more. Featured Black mathematicians.

Annie Fetter
Notice and Wonder with many blogs and presentations from conferences.

Rachel Lambert
Research articles and presentations with focus on students with disabilities.
13 Thoughts on Math Teaching and Intervention As We Enter the 2021 School Year

Fawn Nguyen • Visual Patterns
Creative activities and reflective writing.

Pierre Tranche - Number Talk Images
Visual ideas for Number Talks, string, includes photos, dots, student work, other resources.

Julie McGough
Biting Into The Core. Links to standards, trajectories, real-world math, lesson design and more. General focus is K-5 or K-8.

Steven Leinwand
Experience the energy and wisdom of Steve.

Haiwen Chu
Articles and presentations with focus on English learners. WestEd

Rochelle Gutierrez
Presentations and articles. Creative insubordination and rehumanizing mathematics.

Tracy Zager
Blogs. Author of How to Become the Math Teacher You Wish You Had.

Sunil Singh/Chris Brownell
Co-writers of Math Recess.

Chris Luzniak
DebateMath. Sample activities to inspire critical thinking and discourse in the math classroom.

Karen Mayfield-Ingram
Articles. Co-author of The Impact of Identity in K-12 Mathematics: Rethinking Equity-Based Practices.

Daniel Pearcy - Mathematical Beauty
Includes thought-provoking prompts from Twitter about the Beauty of Mathematics.

Vi Hart
Math doodles and more.

Berkeley Everett
K-5 Math Reasoning Routines, Math Talk images

Peter Liljedahl
Author of Building Thinking Classrooms

Marilyn Burns
Blogs, Podcasts, Activities



Curricula

Explorations in Data Science
Free high school. Developed by Youcubed.
Posted: 080221

Illustrative Mathematics Project
Curriculum and presentations.

Mathematics Vision Project
Secondary curricula open source.
Presentations and resources.
Utah Middle School Curricula

Launch Years
Report and pathway from Dana Center

(see more in Bookmarks page)


Resources

CoreStandards

Standards for Math Practice

Progressions Documents

Launch Years Resources
University of Texas Dana Center

Suite of Virtual Manipulatives

Learning Trajectories PK-3

Geogebra

UC Requirements Mathematics (c)

CSU Bridges Courses

ICAS
Mathematics expected of students entering college.

UC A-G Articulation Guide
UC High School Articulation Bulletin
Admissions requirements.

Standards Guidance for Mathematics (May 2021)
Boaler and Williams, Stanford University
Included connection web diagrams.

Find more resources and links on the Bookmarks page and on the Mathematical Modeling Resources page.

Assessment

RAMP Stanislaus Readiness Assessment
Grades 1-8

PISA 2012 Items

Articles and Books

Choosing to See - Seda and Brown
You would have to search through many resources to find all the great suggestions packed into this one book. Recommend!

Rehumanizing Mathematics for Black, Indigenous and Latinx Students - Gutierrez et. al.

Time for Reset - Alan Schoenfeld
Emphasize big ideas, not test prep memorizing

13 Thoughts on Math Teaching and Intervention As We Enter the 2021 School Year - Lambert

Mathematics for Human Flourishing - Francis Su

Building Thinking Classrooms - Peter Liljidahl
Fourteen practical suggestions to activate and increase student engagement in thinking.



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