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Useful Student Web Sites
I have done my best, through hours of research, to find web
sites that will be beneficial to my math students. I will continue to add
more sites for students and parents to get the most out of their educational
opportunities at Fairbury High School. I will also regularly edit this
page to be sure that links are working! Have fun as you deepen your
understanding of math!
External pages are not endorsed by Fairbury Public Schools.
Calculators
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Cartoons and Jokes
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Math Fun - Wow!
There are a lot of links to fun math sites here. |
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Cartoons -
Here are six cartoons relating to math. |
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Current Events
Download the current events assignment sheet by clicking
here.
It will open as a read-only file; then you can fill in your information and
print it out.
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Curriculum for Mrs. Stalling
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Mathematical Art
of MC Escher - MC Escher is thought of as an artist and a
mathematician. He is featured on our geometry textbook. |
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ACT test
review - You can do lots of interactive math review as you prepare for
the ACT test. |
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Central Tendency - This is a web quest to review mean, median and mode while
working with sports. |
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Chamber of Commerce -
Practical math students will use this site for class projects for
the best source of information on visiting a specific U.S. city. |
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Practical
Money Skills for Students - This site has a long list of web quest lessons on smart spending. |
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edHelper - This is a
great math site for web quests and extra practice worksheets. You
can also link to practicing other school subjects. |
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MapStats - This is a site
full of statistics about the United States. It is amazing all the
numbers that are reported here! |
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Create a Graph -
Students can enter their lab data and have the computer design their
graph. |
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Famous Mathematicians
- Everything you wanted to know about mathematicians. Biographies,
information, famous women, etc. |
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Geometry online - It
seems like the number of links on the page about geometry are endless! |
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Smart Money - This web site will help you compare credit cards.
It will be helpful with the practical math project. |
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Hexagon Cloud - NASA
took this picture of a hexagonal cloud around Saturn! |
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Games
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Steven is a master at the tower of
Hanoi! |
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Credit Card
Simulator - What will it be like to have a credit card some day?
Will you handle it properly? |
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Tower of Hanoi
- This is a popular game out of my game cupboard that students can now
play on the web. |
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Sense and Dollars -
This is a great site to play with money and learn more about your spending
habits. |
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Math Games - Here are seven
math games for your entertainment. |
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Brain Boosters -
Here are some reasoning puzzles to challenge your brain. |
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Glossaries
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Homework Help
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Math.com - This popular site has a never-ending number of
links to help you in any math class! |
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PurpleMath |
Study skills survey -
This is designed to review your study habits and perhaps develop new ones. |
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Study skills tips -
Students can read helpful hints about food,
sleep, notes and tests. (Be patient as it is slow to load.) |
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Study for a test - Studying for a math exam is different from
studying for other subjects.
Math is learned by DOING. |
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Extra Practice - This
site will help you create a worksheet to review your basic math skills. |
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Ask Dr.
Math - Browse questions and answers about high school math topics. |
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Webmath - This
site has over 100 instant-answer, self-help, math solvers, ready to help
you get your math problem solved. |
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Math Homework
Help - Sign up to get help online, or with an 877 number, in the
evening when you are doing homework. |
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Success
in Math - This site is useful to students who are looking for helpful
hints to succeed in a math class. |
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Math for morons like us -
Please don't be offended. That is the name of the site. It has
many helpful tutorials and message boards. |
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Interactive Practice
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Algebra Tutorials - This is an amazing site with a dictionary full of
algebra topics to help you review! |
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Stem and Leaf Plot - Practice representing data with a stem-and-leaf
plot. |
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Box and Whisker Plot - Practice representing data with a
box-and-whisker plot. |
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Fractions - You can practice writing equivalent fractions and adding
fractions. |
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More Fractions - FunBrain.com
has great interactive practice for equivalent fractions. |
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Graphing functions - Practice graphing your algebra equations. |
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Basic Math Review
- This is a fun site that uses basketball to review your basic math
skills. |
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Interactive quizzes
- Review for your high school math class by taking these multiple choice
quizzes. |
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Measurement Practice
- Practice measuring segments to the nearest fraction of an inch.
This is the only site I have found to help you practice this valuable
skill! |
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Practice your geometry
conjectures - This site has lots of practice problems to review what
you learned in geometry class. |
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Algebra Practice - This
site has lots of practice problems to review what you learned in algebra
class. |
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AAA Math |
AAA Math - This site helps you to
review almost any high school math topic. |
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Are there other educational web sites that have been
helpful to you as a student or parent that you think I should include on this
page? Make your suggestions in the box below.
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