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Canku
Ota
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(Many
Paths)
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An
Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America
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November
29, 2003 - Issue
101
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Favorite
Sites
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collected
by Paul and Vicki
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Practice
makes perfect, and that's why math worksheets are an educational
staple in the classroom and at home. Today's collection of
math worksheets for grades one through nine, focuses on the
print-it-out-and-work-on-it-with-a-pencil variety, but some
of these sites also offer interactive worksheets for online
use.
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Aplusmath.com
Worksheets
Aplusmath offers both interactive and
printable worksheets customizable by operator and range of
operands. Unique offerings include Counting Money (complete
with color graphics), Basic Algebra, and my personal favorite,
a PDF Worksheet Generator. The problem with most customized
worksheets is printing them from your browser, because browser
windows do not format neatly into 8.5" x 11" pages,
and come with all sorts of unnecessary headers and footers.
All these problems are solved with the PDF Worksheet Generator.
Look for it in the bottom left-hand corner.
http://www.aplusmath.com/Worksheets/
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Math
Goodies Worksheets
The Math Goodies worksheets are organized
by grade-level. For grades four through nine, there are ten
pre-made printable worksheets that correspond to their thirty-eight
free math lessons in topics such as Pre-Algebra, Geometry
and Statistics. For grades one through four, enter the Math
Fact Cafe, where you'll find customizable printable worksheets,
and off-the-shelf worksheets, both printable (click on any
question icon) and interactive (look for the pencil icon.)
Don't miss the interactive flash cards (basic addition, subtraction,
multiplication and division drills) also found in the Math
Fact Cafe.
http://www.mathgoodies.com/worksheets/
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MathWork
MathWork, a tool for creating an unlimited
number of customized printable math-related worksheets and
answer keys, is a labor of love for homeschooling dad Scott
Byrce. In addition to the usual operators, MathWork includes
fractions, graphing, telling time, reading a tape measure,
and a one hundred chart. "A one hundred chart has a variety
of uses. A one hundred chart can be used to teach counting
or skip counting. A one hundred chart that starts at zero
is good for introducing the concept of place value. A one
hundred chart that starts at one can be used to teach about
the Sieve of Eratosthenes, and for finding prime numbers."
http://www.scottbryce.com/mathwork/
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The
Smithsonian Institution is not a single museum, but rather
the world's largest collection of museums (sixteen) and affiliate
museums (129), housing 143 million objects and hosting 45
million visitors a year. The following Smithsonian sites are
just a few of my favorites. Visit the museum's front page
(http://www.si.edu/) or the
Smithsonian Educational Gateway (http://smithsonianeducation.org/)
to find more.
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American
Art Museum
Treasures galore await at the American
Art Museum, home to the "largest collection of American
art in the world." Best sections are Education (especially
Kids' Corner, Learning with New Media, and Journey through
Art) and Collections & Exhibitions (don't miss Browse
the Collection, Helios, Director's Choice and Online Exhibitions.)
My personal favorites are Bottle Caps to Brushes (in Kids'
Corner) for elementary grades, and the curator's commentary
about Vegetable Dinner by Peter Blume (in Director's Choice)
for high-school students.
http://americanart.si.edu/
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National
Air and Space Museum
To enter the virtual exhibits at the
National Air and Space Museum, hover your mouse over Exhibitions
to select either Current, Past or Web Only. Best clicks for
classroom and home are the activities (some online, others
offline) peppered throughout the online exhibits such as Is
Air Really There (from How Things Fly) and Cyber-Center (found
in Exploring the Planets.) Another exciting gallery (that
is still being built) is a collection of 3-D virtual reality
photographs of 335 aircraft and spacecraft. To visit, click
on QuickTime Virtual Reality Project from the home page.
http://www.nasm.si.edu/
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National
Museum of American History
The National Museum of American History
was my favorite Smithsonian when the kids and I visited Washington
D.C. a few years ago. Its online counterpart not only lives
up to my high expectations, but exceeds them. History Wired
uses a rather unique Java interface to showcase some of the
curator's favorite objects. The museum houses more than three
million artifacts, so choosing a handful of favorites is no
small task. For more fun, click on over to any of thirty-two
virtual exhibits on topics as diverse as the history of tools
used to teach math, Julia Child's kitchen, and the 1950's
paint-by-numbers craze.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/
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STAR
Students And Teachers Against Racism
announces their new website that offers insight into the Native
American perspective to teachers and educators.
http://www.racismagainstindians.org/
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