Video and Blogging Sites

·         You Tube (search for topic): http://www.youtube.com/

·          Teacher Tube: http://www.teachertube.com/  (have a channel for math, and other channels for other topics)

·          MathVIDS!: http://coe.jmu.edu/mathvids2/videos/videos.html

·         Math Blogs:  http://www.blogged.com/directory/education/math rates a variety of math blogs (had 100 math blogs in early June, 2008).  http://www.blogged.com/directory/education is a directory of other education sites.

·         http://www.squidoo.com/ is a place where people can post on whatever topic they think they know.  You can search for math related posts.

·         http://www.learner.org/ videos from Annenberg.

Math and Literature Sites

·         http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L202  

·         http://sci.tamucc.edu/~eyoung/literature.html

·         http://www.maa.org/mathdl/minarchive.html is a Math in the News feature of the Mathematical Association of America.  Some topics may be advanced, but it can give a feel that math does appear in everyday life.

·         Math often appears in movies.  Here are three sites with discussions of how math appears in movies.  http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/, http://world.std.com/~reinhold/mathmovies.html, and http://mathbits.com/mathbits/mathmovies/ResourceList.htm.

 This page prepared August 2008 by Dr. Kevin Hopkins as part of the Connect 9 Grant through Three Rivers Community College.