What's Your Math IQ? (By grade level)

http://www.mathnasium.com/mathiq.htm

Engineers as Role Models (besides athletes and entertainers)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/science/24educ.html?_r=1&hpw

The White House is starting a campaign to promote Math and Science ed...maybe this will help STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) 's PR ;)

Warning from Free Rice

WARNING: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, job performance...
www.freerice.com

Checking Homework and Metacognition (Thinking about Thinking)

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/nurtureshock/archive/2009/11/18/at-what-age-do-you-no-longer-have-to-check-your-children-s-homework.aspx

This Newsweek article by Po Bronson, author of Nurture Shock, is titled "At What Age Do You No Longer Have to Check Your Children's Homework?". This is a complex question as many middle schoolers are still developing metacognitive skills for self-evaluation (do I get it?) and the maturity for self-advocacy (I should see the teacher).

Free Rice Has Math and Vocab and More!

http://www.freerice.com/subjects.php?t=27627787492

The United Nations World Food Program's Freerice.com raises awareness of world hunger by donating 10 grains of rice for every correct answer. Besides Math, there's Art, Chemistry, English, Geography and Language Learning.

Coolmath's Math Survival Guide

Very witty and funny ;)

Might think of the wording from a different perspective -- like Thrive with Math. or Math Enjoyment Guide!

Her very terrific web site is www.coolmath.com

Algebra II Regents Sampler

http://www.jmap.org/JMAP/RegentsExamsandQuestions/3-AdobePDFs/CompactExams/Algebra2Trigonometry/fall09ExamA2_EV.pdf

The sampler for Alg II includes trig, abs value inequalities, function definition, logs in non-Base 10, trig identities, imaginary numbers, negative exponents, stats, inverse functions, domain of a fucntion, binomial expansion, compounded interest, sequences, Law of Cosines.

As far as informing SAT prep, abs value inequalities, function notation, summation, negative exponents, equation of a circle, and solving algebraic equations.

US Coalition for World Class Math

http://usworldclassmath.webs.com/

Habits of Mind from Studying Math

From The Opportunity Equation:
"Math and science embody habits of mind and methods for discerning meaning that enable students to learn deeply and critically in all areas."

Goal; Much Higher Level of Math and Science Learning

http://www.opportunityequation.org/

"The Opportunity Equation: Transforming Mathematics and Science Education for Citizenship and the Global Economy"

The Carnegie Foundation and IAS at Princeton have published a report entitled "The Opportunity Equation" about the importance of Math and Science education. An interesting fact is that most of the authors and advisors are college and corporate level -- classroom teachers and educational administrators may contribute ideas and perspective.

The Lessons of the Good Teacher

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/opinion/l04teach.html

Bedtime is Book Time, Math in the Morning

This blogger who has a 7 year old and 5 year old muses on the popularity of bedtime stories and would like Math to get its fair share of time ;)
This might also fall into the category of beforeschooling (working on homework with your kids in the morning before school) !! (as opposed to afterschooling -- working on homework with your kids in the evening/afternoon)

Math Learn It Live It Love It

SAT Scores

Math up 40 points since 19XX.
Verbal average up 250 points.
Overall, Critical Reading bested Math by 30 points and Math bested Writing by 60 points.

Math 750 (97th percentile)
Critical Reading 780 (99th percentile)
Writing 690 (95th percentile)

Before the test, when I walked into the room,a teen asked "Are you the proctor?". My response "No...I'm on the other side!". The test is long...the snacks and breaks really helped. Did not get a Math section until the 5th section! The essay will be up on line on 11/3 -- mine included "Little House on the Prairie", M*A*S*H, World War II and The Pink Panther II to answer if humor helps people through rough times.

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/scores/understanding/percentiles.html

Now, when is the SAT II given? The ACT?

Confusion vs Information

http://thisisindexed.com/2009/10/needles-and-haystacks-and-such/

Do you see a connection between Math and peak performance?

Posted on Linked In by Math Confidence:
Do you see a connection between Math and peak performance?


Responses to Math and peak performance question:

Math is one of several activities that build confidence. Math is unique, however, in stimulating the ability to take a creative initiative in thinking. This ability carries over into many facets of personal and professional life.


Math has giving me so more confidence in other areas as well. This is why I am trying very hard on getting my son to love math for what it is. It makes you think in many differenct directions.

Farm Questions on State Tests

Can downstaters relate to corn stalks and farm animals?
;)

The Numbers Game

This is a brain training exercise

http://books.google.com/books?id=Me5yLtWRamcC&pg=PA79&lpg=PA79&dq=the+numbers+game+kroehnert&source=bl&ots=k7w_Lt0AaB&sig=LzcCEPqFipiETeZxBhiA6W-Al3o&hl=en&ei=Hi3fSpLaEs_clAe-puSnAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Marvin Gardner Math Puzzler Extraordinaire

The last line says it all, it's the EUREKA!!!

"When you figure out the answer, you know you’ve found something that is indisputably true anywhere, anytime. For a brief moment, the universe makes perfect sense. "

International Test Math Problems

Click on the link to see Washington Post's Jay Mathews education column containing (PISA Programme for International Student Assessment) questions.