Possible Math Web Applications

04/17/2001

Web Mentor

• Have a mathematician available to answer complex questions.
• Pair students with professionals who use math at work (for interesting applied math problems from a real-world context).

Web Resource

• Access interesting data for students to use in statistics problem sets.
• Find problem sets for all age levels.

Web Collaboration

• Collaborate with other classrooms on a polling project
• Collaboratively problem solve across age levels (the younger students will learn from the older, the older will find teaching a concept reinforces it).

Web Survey

• Survey schools for any quantitative research project.
• Teach basic statistics through polling.

Cooperative Challenge

• Have your students design and then moderate a Problem of the Week collaboration..
• Create a cooperative game at your Web site around a math concept. (For example, using IRC, have students from all over join in teams to solve math problems. Offer progressively more difficult questions.)
• Have your AP students create a site where students can practice taking a sample AP test.
• Create a simple Internet math scavenger hunt for younger students. (Count the number of dinosaurs you can find on the Net.)

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