Peter Alfeld, --- Department of Mathematics, --- College of Science --- University of Utah

www Links for Elementary School Teachers.

The TIMSS Report

On-line K-6 Resources

There is a vast amount of information available on the internet about teaching elementary school.

Below are some links related to K-6 teaching most of which I found with Alta Vista. Some links are to my own pages. The selection of links is quite eclectic, The list illustrates what's available and the scope of activities that you can have your students do. I emphasized

• School Districts, particularly local ones, since you'll be dealing with them,
• Space, since it's fascinating,
• Mathematics, since it's even more fascinating, and this is a math class.
• Women, since something happens to them between elementary school and University. Girls are just as interested and capable in mathematics and science as boys, and yet women are underrepresented in the University classes and in the professions. We need to change this!

• Utah Link, "...education's connection to excellence", run by the State of Utah.
• This is Mega-Mathematics, run by Los Alamos National Lab.
• Ask Dr. Math. (Of course you can ask me too.)
• Some School District Home pages (there are many more).
  • Salt Lake City School District.
  • Davis County School District.
  • Granite School District
  • District of Columbia School District.
• Utah Internet K-12 School Sites
• National Internet K-12 School Sites
• Hildegard von Bingen, 1098-1179, a first in many fields.
• Amelia Earhart
• Women and Mathematics, a list of on-line resources.
• Women mathematicians, some historic ones, and some alive and active ones.
  • Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton University.
  • Hypatia of Alexandria, the first noted woman mathematician.
  • Emmy Noether, a pioneer. She was not allowed to take classes at the University of Erlangen since she was a woman.
  • Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, a largely forgotten genius.
  • Karen Uhlenbeck, University of Texas at Austin.
  • Mary Wheeler, Rice University.
  • Margaret Wright, President of SIAM
• Women in Mathematics home page at the University of Maryland.
• Women of Computing.
  • Present Women of Computing.
  • Past Women of Computing.
    • Grace Murray Hopper
    • Lady Ada Byron Lovelace, the author of the first computer program.
• Women of NASA.
  • Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.
    • Sally Ride's own home page.
  • Judith Resnik
  • Christa McAuliffe

• Sky Online
  • Sky Online Comet Page
• Hansen Planetarium, Salt Lake City
• NASA home page
  • Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page
  • Astronomic Images
  • NASA List of on-line educational resources.
  • NASA's guide to the internet for teachers.
  • Today@NASA
  • NASA Observatorium.
• The nine planets, a tour of the solar system.
• The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
  • The SETI Institute.
  • The Drake Equation.
  • The Seti League.
• The Challenger Accident.
  • The Challenger Crew.
• SumFun , a large well organized site with many mathematics resources.
• Prime Numbers.
  • Extensive information about large prime numbers.
  • An explicit listing of the largest prime number.
  • The Sieve of Eratosthenes.
  • The Prime Machine, an applet to explore prime numbers.
• Sea World Animal information page.
• Kid Source
• Yahoo K-12 Resources
• IBM Success Stories (Commercial)
• A list of Links.
• Physical Sciences Links.
• Nerd World Media K-12 links.
• International K-12 Connections.
• Cyberport's Kids page.
• Carlos' interactive coloring book.
• An intriguing list of resources.
• Mathmagic home page.
• K-12 Sources - Curriculum - Lesson Plans
• The N Queens Problem.

• Media
  • Scientific American.
  • Sky and Telescope.
  • The Salt Lake Tribune.
  • The Deseret News.
  • The New York Times
  • Time Magazine.
  • USA TODAY.
  • CNN.
• Government
  • The State of Utah.
  • The White House.
• Geometry
  • Math Forum - K-12 Geometry
  • Pythagorean Triples.
  • Interactive Applets
    • Archimedes' computation of pi.
    • The Platonic Solids.
  • The World of Escher. A commercial site. Listed here because it's worth visiting.

Use the form below to search yourself for whatever you like. (For example, entering "K-12" found about 100,000 links.) Have fun!

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