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• Arcytech's Educational Java Programs - Jacobo Bulaevsky's website contains Java™ applets whose purpose is to be used as tools to help and enhance the education of children. This site continues to remain active after the author's death.
• Hispanic Math Project - is a computer tutorial on perimeter and area in English and Spanish, developed by Technology Based Learning & Research at Arizona State University
• Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles - Alex Bogomolny' website is a collection of puzzles, problems and paradoxes with some Java™ applets for exploration.
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Manipulatives - a NSF project by Utah State University; provides web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-8 emphasis)
• NCTM Illuminations' Interactive Math Tools - provides Java™ applets you can use to explore math and create interactive lessons. Illuminations is a partner with MarcoPolo Internet Content for the Classroom program.
• Shodor Education Foundation's Project Interactive - has interactive opportunities on its Activities page. These activities include Java™ applets and are arranged by National Council of Teachers of Mathmatics Principles and Standards for School Mathematics.
  

 

MC² 2008 Academy Resources

Number and Operations

• Computation, Complexity and Coding in Native American Knowledge Systems
  Rather than assuming that Native American mathematics must be restricted to simple counting systems or geometric forms, we should be open to any mathematical pattern that appears, including those which are embedded, emergent, or obscured by difficulties in translation to their western counterparts. Equally important, we should strive to show the interrelationships among such culturally embedded mathematical concepts. This essay will attempt to show how such an approach can open new possibilities through computation, complexity and coding in Native American knowledge systems.
  
  
• Mayan numbers - This lesson provides a brief introduction to the Mayan base twenty numeration system.

• Earth Math Projects - Developed by the NSF-funded Navajo Nation Rural Systemic Initiative, these technology-enriched earth math projects offer applications of algebra and trigonometry in the context of life on the Navajo Nation.

• Culturally-Situated Design Tools – Native American (software) - Many cultural designs are based on mathematical principles.   This software will help students learn standards-based mathematics as they simulate the original artifacts, and develop their own creations. Topics include: Virtual Bead Loom: Cartesian coordinates; Alaskan Basket Weaver: Cartesian coordinates; Navajo Rug Weaver: Cartesian coordinates; SimShoBan: geometry; Yupik Star Navigator: counting, modular math; Yupik Parka Patterns: transformational geometry.

• Learning about Native Americans through Math, Science and Art - My main goal for this unit is to introduce the students to a diverse population of Native Americans by presenting background information about them and learning about the math, science, and art of those cultures.
  
  
• Mathematics of Petroglyphs at the Three Rivers site - This web site, based on an academic paper, examines the application of the concept of intellectually and artistically well-developed writing to the beautiful petroglyph geometrics at the Three Rivers Petroglyph site in southern New Mexico.
  
  
• Native American Geometry
  Developed by archaeologist/educator Chris Hardaker of Window Rock, AZ, this site draws upon the art and architecture of Native Americans to teach math to students in Grades 4-12.
  
  
• Seminole Patchwork Designs - Vera Preston recounts stories told to her by elders and by others in various tribes in Oklahoma.

• Area Measure among the Aztec - Quahuitl - This lesson explores the Quahuitl that the Aztecs used to measure area.

• Alaska Native Knowledge Network - Resources for compiling and exchanging information related to Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing.