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Math Skills 3-5
Internet Resources

Teacher Street Classroom Software Collections include curriculum Project Cards. To integrate the Internet with these projects using our carefully selected, educational site links, click on the curriculum Project Card that you are using.

Project Card Internet Resources

Ice Cream Truck
A Trail of Sales
Hot Sales

The Cruncher™
Pizza Party
Just Desserts

Math Shop® Deluxe
Giant Graph
The Key to Measurement

Mighty Math Calculating Crew
         Alien Exchange
         3-D Fiction

Ice Cream Truck
A Trail of Sales

Internet Sites:
http://www.cowtunes.com/
Songs about ice cream with printable lyrics.

http://euphoria.benjerry.com/fun/checkers/checkers.html
Play a game of ice cream checkers on line.

International Society for Technology in Education
National Educational Technology Standards for Students
http://cnets.iste.org/

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Ice Cream Truck
Hot Sales

Internet Sites:
http://batbox.org/
A beautiful graph showing the effect of temperature on bats.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/onlineprod/ghcnmcdwmonth/form.html
Create a graph of temperature anomalies. Also creates contour maps.

International Society for Technology in Education
National Educational Technology Standards for Students
http://cnets.iste.org/

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The Cruncher^™
Pizza Party

Related Internet Sites:
http://www.educate.org.uk/teacher_zone/classroom/numeracy/
downloads/ma_coin_fractions.pdf
A coin game involving fractions. You need Acrobat Reader to view this page.

http://www.lsus.edu/dbible/sales1.htm
A site with many different kinds graphs. Use the graphs to create spreadsheets.

International Society for Technology in Education
National Educational Technology Standards for Students
http://cnets.iste.org/

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The Cruncher^™Just Desserts

Related Internet Sites:
http://www.schoolsite.edex.net.uk/500/party.htm
This site provides great tips for planning a party, such as don't eat birthday cake as child's germs are spread over it from blowing out the candles. Survive your pizza party in tact! Also has some good links, like to party games.

http://www.turkeyhill.com/kitchen/recipes.htm
Ice cream and ice cream cake recipes. Create a spreadsheet to calculate the amount of ingredients for number of guests and the price of ingredients.

Sources for Education Standards Correlations
Principles and Standards for School Mathematics
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc. 1906 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191-9988 http://www.nctm.org

International Society for Technology in Education
National Educational Technology Standards for Students
http://cnets.iste.org/

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Math Shop
Giant Graph

Related Internet Sites:
http://www.thuban.com/census/graphs/incedu1.gif
A nice, clear graph showing the effect of education on income. Provides good practice reading a graph and a good reason to stay in school! Also compares different races; great for a social studies lesson.

http://www.kotev.co.il/opr.htm
Downloadable software that converts spread sheets and tables into graphs. The program is a bit intense, but if you're on winter break, check it out.

International Society for Technology in Education
National Educational Technology Standards for Students
http://cnets.iste.org/

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Math Shop
The Key to Measurement

Related Internet Sites:
http://www.admiralmetals.com/metric_conv.htm
A calculator that converts from metric to U.S. measurements. Fast and easy to use.

http://www.geocities.com/bodyconverter/
This site converts students' height and weight into metric units. Fun and easy.

http://web.mit.edu/museum/fun/smoots.html
Measuring the Harvard Bridge in "Smoots"

http://www.ur.ru/~sg/transl/length.html
Measurement Converter: Enter in a length in one unit and see its value in other units.

http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm
A summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world today (and a few of historical interest), together with the appropriate conversion factors.

International Society for Technology in Education
National Educational Technology Standards for Students
http://cnets.iste.org/

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Mighty Math™ Calculating Crew
Alien Exchange

Related Internet Sites:
www.x-rates.com
Site with current world currency exchange rates; displays in a table or graph.

www.seti-inst.edu/
Join the search for extra terrestrials! The SETI web site shows you how to join and there's also a whole education section.

International Society for Technology in Education
National Educational Technology Standards for Students
http://cnets.iste.org/

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Mighty Math™ Calculating Crew
3-D Fiction

Related Internet Sites: TK
http://www.best.com/~dna/fol/
This site has some awesome geometric shapes (some 3 dimensional) for coloring. The site has some religious overtones, so it might not be appropriate for all students. It would be worth it, however, to go there yourself and print the shapes out for your students.

http://hometown.aol.com/origami451/diagrams.html
Clear instructions for making origami (3 dimensional) shapes of Star Wars and Star Trek ships, including the Millennium Falcon.

National Standards for the English Language Arts
National Council of Teachers of English
http://www.ncte.org/standards/thelist.html

International Society for Technology in Education
National Educational Technology Standards for Students
http://cnets.iste.org/

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