Teaching Resources

Here are some cool things I’ve come across.  I’ll try to post them here so I can keep track of them.

Web Resources

• CIESE – interdisciplinary collaborative/real data projects
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence – a wide variety of resources provided by government agencies
  
• The Futures Channel – videos and activities relating math the the real world
• Interactivate – interactive activities
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives – online manipulatives
• NCTM Illuminations - lessons and activity resources
• PBS Teachers - a variety of resources
• XP Math – games and resources
• Video Math Tutor – tutoring videos
  

eBooks

• Math Open Reference
• WikiBooks

Software (free!)

• GeoGebra – similar to Geometer’s Sketchpad
• Octave – similar to MatLab
• Maxima – comparable to Mathematica
• R – comparable to SPSS
• OpenOffice – the alternative to Microsoft Office
• LyX – like LaTeX but with a graphical interface to make it easy