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TERM TILES & TOKENS (ALGEBRA MANIPULATIVES)
at TermTiles.Com
DIGITAL MANIPULATIVES at MathTokens.Com
Manipulative Masters & Graph papers
Web Stuff
Extracurricular
Who Has Games
Mostly Math Math-Education
Mostly Ed Math-Education
Some Great People & Other Good Stuff
Coordinate Geometry Pictures

LISTS OF RESOURCE MATERIALS

These are links I use every day in teaching regular math classes supported by this internet site.

$[MSH! Home]$ - Home PageMATH SPOKEN HERE! 460+ arithmetic, algebra, and precalc dictionary

$[Words]$ - All Words
$Classes$ - Lessons, Tutorials -- Signed Numbers, Trig, etc.
$[MSH! Grouped Words]$ - Words Grouped by Topic
$[Dictionary Table of Contents]$ - Table of Contents
$[Dictionary Essays]$ - Essays

- Algebra Notes & Lessons

- Term Tiles & Tokens, manipulatives for algebra

WWW School Home Page & Index -- Create & Edit Web pages for personal, professional, student use

MathTokens.Com, digital manipulative spreadsheets on all sorts of math stuff

Computer's Spreadsheet Notes & Index for completeing tasks on a spreadsheet

Excel Spreadsheets which automatically download and work

Function Library, Precalc Notes, More Precalc Notes
$library$

The Questionbooks -- Writing-to-Learn, "Critical Thinking Skills" Assignments

Algebra
$QB$

Precalc

Calc
$QB, graded assignments$

EXTRA-CURRICULAR MATH MATERIALS

"Hexaflexagon Construction
"Take a chain of congruent triangles on strip of paper, fold it, and the fun begins.

"Hexaflexagon From Plain Paper Construction
"Take a sheet of paper and determine the width of the paper to create the required chain of congruent triangles.

"Hexaflexagons & Kaleidocycles"The guided tour map to the very scientific though aparently magical entities listed in this section.

"Moebius Strip Construction"Take a strip of paper, twist it, and the fun begins.

"Ernest Ranucci's Tetra-tetra Flexagon" Take a sheet of paper, fold it, and the fun begins. Directions for folding and the front and back of an illustrated tetra-tetra flexagon.

"Kaleidocycles" Take a sheet of paper, make a chain of pyramids, and ...

Pre-Kindergarden

The Books on the Shelf - A Math Read Aloud Story Introduce math words and idea in story form. Ideal for 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds, prereaders.

Hands to Head, Head to Hands, Pre-K to 2,

: NCTM, Baltimore, MD 10/04

LOWER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MATERIALS

"Game for Two, Three, or Four" A rummy card game for first or second graders provides work with different number families, addition, and subtraction.

"Who Has" - Whole Numbers Group Game One of a family of mental computation math games for a group. Ideal for first or second grade classes.

"The Decimal Bakery - A Math Fairy Tale" This is a fairy tale and a 32-page coloring book. Red can bake but not do math. The Baker has the ideal recipe.

The Hundreds Board is the MOST VALUABLE manipulatives in elementary mathmatics. This page will introduce you to this concrete mathematics language!! You should not pass up this opportunity. Just the Boards:

traditional 100s board

0 to 99 board (0 on left)

negative-positve board (0 on right)

negative-positve board (0 on left)

The Three Times Tables to the Tune of Frere Jacques has both words and music suggested by Grace Burton.

The Nine Times Tables on Your Fingers: number your digits, bend one digit, count digits to left & right to determine product.

How Big Is A Million, Billion, Trillion, ... ? This page attempts to answer the question by illustrating how one may rename a number in many ways & by thinking of the number of seconds you have lived.

Multiple Strips & Fraction Bars This page concretely presents multiples of a number and equivalent fractions.

MIDDLE SCHOOL MATERIALS

"A Game for Two Players" Using words such as multiple, multiply, divisible, divide, prime, composite, add, and subtract, reinforce math vocabulary skills and provide practice with mental computation [5 kb].

Primes to 101 Ideal for middle school introduction or remedial review.

The Hundreds Board is the MOST VALUABLE manipulatives in elementary mathmatics. This page will introduce you to this concrete mathematics language!! AND, IT IS AN IDEA RESOURCE FOR INTEGER COMPUTATION. You should not pass up this opportunity.

SIGNED NUMBER 100s Board is the MOST VALUABLE manipulatives in middle school integer computation.

Integer Hundreds Board -- negative-positve board (0 on left)

Term Tiles Masters -
x², x, 1: front (required)

-x², -x, -1: back (optional)

"Who Has" - Signed Numbers Group Game One of a family of mental computation math games for a group. Ideal for prealgebra or algebra classes.

"Prime Factorization Puzzle/Practice" This is a prime recognition and prime factorization board. Come play.

Height at adulthood based on birth length and percentiles on logistic curve -- Use the data the medical doctors use and the heights and ages of your students to estimate their heights at adulthood.

"Who Has" Games

Read the directions. Select the version of "Who Has" you wish to use, make the jump, print the page.

Whole Numbers -- One of a family of mental computation math games for a group. Ideal for first or second grade classes.

Primes to 101 Ideal for middle school introduction or remedial review.

Sets-- universe, union, intersection, complement, difference in 20 cards.

Geometry -- Area & Percent

HARD! Signed Numbers-- added, subtracted, multiplied, divided, and one cube root.

EASIER Signed Numbers-- added, subtracted, multiplied, divided

Simple Trinomial Expressions with one, two, or three of the terms, addition, subtraction, opposite emphasized."

Linear Expressions Mental computation of monomials and binomials emphasizing "increased by" and "decreased by."

Monomials Mental computation of monomials emphasizing "multiplied by" and "divided by" w/negative & positive exponents.

Lines Of All Kinds Uses instructions which include vertical, horizonal, perpendicular, parallel, slope, intercept.

Exponential Terms Mental computation of monomials containing e^x, multiplication, dividion, negative & positive exponents and coefficients.

Function Curve Shifting (Translations, Rotations, Reflections, Dilations)

Polynomial Functions -- Includes single roots, double roots, concavity, end behavior, reflection about y = 0.

Rational Functions -- Add a discontinuity, remove a root, change the horizontal asymptote.

Calc -- Derivatives & Anitderivatives

10-question, Whole Numbers, AMTNJ 4/47/99 Rowan Meeting

Write your own "Who Has" Game

HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE MATERIALS

"Take An Inverse In 4 Language Families" -- use written symbol, pictorial /graphic, concrete / manipulative, and spoken / "spoken word" to take the inverse of a square root function.
"Adult Height" - Use a piece of the logistics curve to predict adult height based on birth & current heights.
"Who Has" - Linear Expressions Group Game One of a family of mental computation math games for a group. Ideal for an algebra I class.

EXPLORING FUNCTION THROUGH THE USE OF MANIPULATIVES and the
Graphing w/Manipulatives Product Line

They are the MOST VALUABLE manipulatives in secondary mathmatics. Function manipulatives may be used in:

representing or graphing expressions,
presenting translantions, reflections, and dilations of functions,
finding "inverses",
solving equations,
explaining the composition of functions,
introducing and developing the concept of slope, domain and range.

The materials listed below come from the publication EXPLORING FUNCTION THROUGH THE USE OF MANIPULATIVES, � 1994, Agnes Azzolino, ISBN: 0-9623593-3-5. It, as other material at mathnstuff.com is provided for not-for-profit at no cost to the user. Please remember to site the source.

Intro
Animations on Representing Expressions Kinesthetic
Animation on the Slopemeter -- see it measure slope
"Math Exercises" -- whole body graphing
Presentation notes -- algebra thru precalc in 1 hour
coordinate plane -- with radians marked
coordinate plane -- without radians

"Slope Song on the HP48"
"Slope in Sound & Picture" Take sound produced on the Hewlett-Packard 48S and 48G and add animation and place it on an interactive web page.
A Lecture/Tutorial on Polynomial Functions appropriate for precalc.
A Lecture/Tutorial on Rational Functions appropriate for precalc.
Operations with Exponents-- a tutorial for algebera I, a review for precalc.
asymptote -- dictionary definition w/examples.
end behavior -- dictionary definition w/examples.
The Questionbooks -- Writing-to-Learn, "Critical Thinking Skills" Assignments

Algebra
$QB$

Precalc

Calc
$QB, graded assignments$

"Precalculus Questionbook" A collection of writing assignments intended to emphasize important point in a precalulus course.
"Algebra I Questionbook" A collection of writing assignments intended to emphasize important point in an algebra I course.
"Use of log-log plane and semi-log plane" -- Used for graphing extreme ranges of y or x and y values and to examine possible exponential functions.

MOSTLY MATHEMATICS

MATYCNJ 2010
"30+ Centuries of Computation in a 21st-Century Format"
From names, to digits and body parts, to tally sticks, to tokens and coins, to numerals, to calculi/sand tables/abacuses, to Napier's bones and slide rules, but no Pascal's adding machine, no Jacquard loom, and no computers, examine math history digitally from the Sumerians to the Egyptian, through the Middle Ages, to the Renaissance, in a format that is not just appropriate, but one which enhances the 21st-century classroom.
See how one might extend the typical liberal arts math book content to enrich the professor�s presentation format and a student's lab assignment. Digitally dust off museum pieces and little-used manipulatives, and a few new tokens, and consider passing these treasures on to the next generation.
AMATYC '09 "Make Excel part of your daily class work" to

* create accurate class records (saving time and material),
* permit quick review of prior work,
* model the creative process for student to emulate,
* easily work and save DIGITAL MANIPULATIVE work,
* include labs and graphics (Alt+PrintScreen) and hot computational cells in every class.
AMTNJ09, 10.2009 & 12.2009 - "Digital Manipulative -- Ancient & Modern"
Les manipulatives num�riques, 7.2009 - ICTMT09, Metz, France
Term Tiles & Tokens in Algebra I & II, 3.20.2009 - Rutgers Precalc Meeting
MEC09, 3.09.2008 - "Math Stuff"
Term Tiles & Tokens, 12.03.2008 - "The Visual / Auditory / Symbolic / Kinesthetic Approach to Algebra"
"Math Assessment Inventory: A Journey with Self-Assessment as a Compass" is an interactive tool for a teacher-initiated self-evaluation of assessment strategies.
"Semi Equation/Semi Expression"- This transition stage between the written word and the written symbol facilitates translation the coding of word problems/expressions into algebraic equiations/expressions.
A Model for Distance
Rutgers Precalc, March 17, 2008 - "Precalc & Algebra w/Spreadsheet"

MOSTLY EDUCATION

One Teacher's View Point

"The Languages of the Math Classroom"
Presented in October 1998, this perspective on learning / teaching / communicating grow as new pieces of the communication puzzle become clear to me.
It presents the justificiation, the rational, for the way I daily determine how to organize a class and present material."
"Test Results"
A spreadsheet way of looking at how students have performed on a given test.
"A Teacher's Opinion"
Suggestions to the university prof, school superintendent, novice teacher, department chair, and experienced teacher on HOW TO HELP TEACHERS REMAIN IN TEACHING.
"Quizzes: Lessons for Students, Lessons for Teachers"
What's a quiz? Testing at its best!
It is a student, challenged by material, with unpenalized multiple chances for documentation of complete mastery of material, with a teacher acting as a coach and evaluator, with no outside party having an interest in the tesing process.
Teaching, Not Professing
Notes from MCC 8/26/03 Faculty Inservice & Other Thoughts
10% Graduation Rate -

Students' Words

Tutors: The Best and The Worst
Students' comments on tutors
How I Learn
Students' comments on how they learn precollege algebra

OTHER GOOD STUFF

"Administrator Brain - An Application of Fuzzy Logic" Did you every wonder at the brainlessness of your boss, your administrator, your employee? This essay explains how fuzzy logic might apply in a human situation.
"In Class Writing in the Content Areas"- Short writing assignments enhance student performance and maximize class time. Debriefing, warmups, completion, lead sentence, and word banks are examine and examples are provided. This short work follows that done in the text HOW TO USE WRITING TO TEACH MATHEMATICS. Found at: http://www.mathnstuff.com/papers/inclass.htm.
Dina West, Hero Among Heros, and My Name is Dina Taylor West.
"Ands"- Complete the phrase: Adam & ___. If your answer was Eve, you may be ready for Chuck Oxman's 200 other And phrases. Answers are also listed.
"Agnus Dei" - a mythology paper/writing assignment written in E Prime about the name Agnes or Agnus.
"Keyport - Reflections on the Bay" Includes large photographs and thought of Keyport Harbor, Raritan Bay, New Jersey, USA. It will take a while to load. Stop, rest, "smell the flowers," and enjoy the view.
"Keyport's Casmerodius Convocation - Our Egret Gathering" This takes even longer to load! For the author, the experience was spiritual. Perhaps you'll share the moment.
Michael Vinik, Captain and Owner of the Dorothy Elizabeth.
Charles Oxman, The Finest Man I Ever Met.
"Meet the Company President, Agnes Azzolino " Mother, author, daughter, teacher, and president, Aggie wears many hats. Also read her resume.

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"Good Stuff" - Math Games, Materials, & Other Stuff

"Good Stuff" -
Math Games, Materials, & Other Stuff