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This page contains related links for 6th grade projects across the curriculum.  If you find that any of these links are no longer valid, please contact me at roxie_huffaker@corvallis.k12.or.us.  Thank you!

Helpful sites:

"Ask Jeeves" search engine: http://www.askjeeves.com/index.asp

 Cheldelin Web Page: http://www2.corvallis.k12.or.us/cheldelin/index.htm

 Clip Art: http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/teachingtools.html

"Yahoo" search engine:  http://www.yahoo.com 

Mathematics: 

Middle School Problem of the Week: http://forum.swarthmore.edu/midpow/ 

On-line Textbook! - http://www.classzone.com

• Algebra Tiles: http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_189_g_2_t_2.html?open=activities
• Base 10 Builder: http://www.arcytech.org/java/b10blocks/b10blocks.html
• Box and Whisker Plotter: http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_200_g_3_t_5.html?open=instructions
• Decimal multiplication game: http://www.decimalsquares.com/dsGames/games/speedway.html
• Decimals simulation: http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_264_g_2_t_1.html
• Decimal/Whole Number Jeopardy: http://www.quia.com/cb/8142.html
• Elementary and Middle School Companion Website: http://wps.ablongman.com/ab_vandewalle_math_5/0,7959,796751-,00.html
• Engineering program for high school girls - Iowa State:   http://www.pwse.iastate.edu/  
• Famous Mathematicians: http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/MathFolks.html  http://www.scottlan.edu/lriddle/women/alpha.htm http://users.rcn.com/mwhitney.massed/mathematicians.html  http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Search/Suggestions.html (this link is sorted by topic, country of origin, and name)
• Flexagons:

  http://hexaflexagon.sourceforge.net/ and        http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/fotothf/fotothf.htm and http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/trihexa1.pdf and http://www.outsideconnection.com/gallant/hexaflexagon/ and http://www.drking.plus.com/hexagons/flexagons/simul.html and http://www.kathrynhuxtable.org/flexagon/ and http://home.xnet.com/~aak/hexahexa.html and http://www.enarsson.nu/Flexagon/

• Fractals: http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/frac/inpr.html
• Fractal Tool:  http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=17
• GCF/LCM Applet: http://www.gomath.com/exercises/gcflcm.php
• Hundreds board: http://www.pixelpump.co.nz/flashmedia/hundreds3.swf
• Illuminations: http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivitySearch.aspx
• Math Facts Practice Games:  http://home.indy.rr.com/lrobinson/mathfacts/mathfacts.html http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Mathmagician/maths1.html
• Monty's Dilemma: http://math.ucsd.edu/~crypto/Monty/monty.html
• Prime Factorization Applet: http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/jbprimefactor.htm
• Prime Number Applet:  http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/jbprimelist.htm
• Puzzles: http://www.aimsedu.org/puzzle/puzzlelist.html 
• Seive of Eratosthenes Applet:  http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/sieve/jberatosapplet.htm
• On-line tutoring: Algebra Solutions http://www.gomath.com/algebra.html
• Tan Grams:  http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_290_g_3_t_3.html?open=activities&from=category_g_3_t_3.html
• Tetra-flexagon:  http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/tetraflex/jbtetraflex.htm
• Tower of Hanoi game: http://www.article19.com/shockwave/toh.htm   
• Tutorials and puzzles: http://www.mathpower.com   and  http://www.algebasics.com/
• Virtual Manipulatives: http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
• Yahtzee:  http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/yahtzee/index.html

Bridges:

Comprehensive Site on the Portland Bridges: http://www.bizave.com/portland/bridges/ 

Truss Bridge Laboratory: http://www.ce.ufl.edu/activities/cdrom/civil/samplemain.html  

Oregon Assessment Information:

Oregon Department of Education: http://www.ode.state.or.us/ 

Practice Scoring: http://www.openc.k12.or.us/scoring// 

Off Grade Tasks: http://www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/testing/scoring/offgrade.aspx 

Sample Tasks and Scored Papers:

http://www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/subjects/mathematics/resources/pssupport/

Scoring Guide: http://www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/testing/scoring/guides/2005-06/asmtmathscorguide0006eng.pdf

Smart Board Links

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