Beth E. Klingher
www.shodor.org/interactivate/lessons /
The Shodor site has a number of on-line interactive activities which can be used as excellent resources for both teachers and students. There are also a number of prepared lessons which teachers might find extremely useful.
http://illuminations.nctm.org
Illuminations is the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics site specifically designed for teachers and students. It contains activities, lessons and national standards.
http://nlvm.usu.edu
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives has a number of on-line resources which provide excellent statistical and graphical activities.
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/
This New York Times blog is written by the authors of the book
Freakonomics,
which uses economic theory in new and creative ways to debunk many common misconceptions.
http://stockcharts.com/charts/historical/
This site has historical financial prices (stocks, bonds, indices) and provides on-line graphing and analysis capabilities.
http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/Gasoline_Inflation.asp
This web site provides historical inflation rates and graphs of some common commodity prices adjusted for inflation.
www.kidsmoney.org
Kids Money has a number of articles and activities designed to teach kids how to manage money wisely.
http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/allowance/allowance_101.html
This site from CNN has an on-line calculator to calculate inflation adjusted allowance rates. The larger site also provides advice and information on managing money and credit.
Books & Periodicals
Anscombe, Francis J. (2003). Graphs in Statistical Analysis.
American Statistician
27,17-21.
Aspinwall, Leslie, & Tarr, J. E. (2002). The number of trials does matter.
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
.
8
, 106-108.
Bailey, R. et al. (Ed.). (2006).
Mathematics applications and concepts course 2
. New York, NY: Glencoe McGraw-Hill.
Bremigan, Elizabeth George. (2003) Developing a meaningful understanding of the mean.
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School,
9, 22-26
Burns, Marilyn (2007).
About teaching mathematics
. Sausalito, CA: Math Solutions Publications.
Collier, Patrick. (2002) Media clips.
Mathematics Teacher,
95, 132-135
Collins, W. et al. (Ed.). (2001).
Mathematics applications and connections course 3
. New York, NY: Glencoe McGraw-Hill.
Dillon, Sam (2008, March 20). States’ data obscure how few finish high school.
The New York Times
, Education.
Harper, Suzanne R. (2004) Students’ interpretations of misleading graphs.
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School,
9, 340-343
Huff, Darell (1954).
How to lie with statistics
. New York, NY: Norton.
Revkin, Andrew (2008, March 2). Skeptics on human climate impact seize on cold spell.
The New York Times
, Science.
Revkin, Andrew (2007, October 7). Arctic melt unnerves the experts .
The New York Times
, Science.
Tufte, Edward (2006).
Beautiful evidence
. Cheshire, CT: Graphics press.
Tufte, Edward (1983).
The visual display of quantitative information
. Cheshire, CT: Graphics press.
Zawojewski, Judith S. & Shaughnessy, J. M. (2000) Mean and median are they really so easy.
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School,
5, 436-440
Web Sites
Riebeek, H 2005, December 19. Retrieved April 5, 2008, from Earth observatory Web site: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study//Paleoclimatology_IceCores/
McMahon, Timothy (2007, May 15). Gasoline prices 1918-2006 adjusted for inflation. Retrieved April 5, 2008, from Inflation Data Web site: http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/images/charts/Oil/Gasoline_inflation_chart.htm
Author Unknown (2004, December 7). Math: misleading graphs. Retrieved April 5, 2008, from emints Web site: http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001344.shtml
Author Unknown (2007). Misleading graphs. Retrieved April 5, 2008, from Shodor Web site: http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/lessons/MisleadingGraphs/