Foundations, Institutes and Think Tanks
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching aims to build a field around the use of improvement science and networked improvement communities to solve longstanding inequities in educational outcomes. We hone in on “high leverage problems” – those that affect large numbers of students.
Recognizing the grave consequences for both individual opportunity and the nation’s social and economic well being, Carnegie has engaged networks of faculty members, researchers, designers, students, and content experts in the creation of two new pathways, one in statistics and the other in quantitative reasoning.
Inside Mathematics
Inside Mathematics provides a resource for educators around the world who struggle to provide the best mathematics instruction they can for their students. Too often, teachers who excel at reaching students have few ways of sharing these strong practices with others – and teachers who struggle, struggle alone. Our classroom doors have remained closed too often and for too long.
Inside Mathematics opens those doors:
- to tested Public Lessons presented to children and groups of observing teachers;
- to guided tours of reflective mathematics practice, identifying what makes teaching, learning, and improving instruction in mathematics a difficult enterprise and providing resources for teachers to improve their practice;
- to mathematics teaching and learning tools and resources to support classroom teachers’, math coaches’, and administrators’ daily practices;
- and to a professional learning community in which you are invited to open your own classroom door and engage in conversation about your own mathematics teaching and learning.
National math and Science Initiative
NMSI works to expand access to challenging coursework and improve student achievement through proven programs that consistently produce measurable and lasting results. We partner with schools and districts nationwide to provide extraordinary training and support for teachers and to give students the resources they need to develop and demonstrate knowledge and skills that will propel them throughout their lives.
Museums
National Museum of Mathematics
The National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) is an award-winning museum that highlights the role of mathematics in illuminating the patterns and structures all around us. Its dynamic exhibits, gallery, and programs are designed to stimulate inquiry, spark curiosity, and reveal the wonders of mathematics. The Museum’s innovative exhibits will engage folks from 105- to 5-years-old — and even younger!
Math Moves! Exhibit
The Math Moves! exhibit stimulates mathematical imaginations and builds the mathematical abilities – interest, confidence, and skills – of children and their caregivers and makes it easier and fun for these children to succeed in middle school and high school mathematics.
Online Learning
Khan Academy
The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational website that supplies a free online collection of more than 4,000 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, computer science, history, healthcare, medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, cosmology, organic chemistry, American civics, art history, macroeconomics, and microeconomics. Khan Academy also offers a wealth of interactive resources for students, teachers, and coaches. According to their mission statement, Khan Academy is "a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better..."
Mathcracker
Free high school and college level math tutorials, online calculators and other resources.
Professional Associations
American Mathematical Society
A professional society since 1888, the AMS advances research and connects the diverse global mathematical community through publications, meetings and conferences, MathSciNet, professional services, advocacy, and awareness programs.
Mathematical Association of America
The Mathematical Association of America is the world’s largest community of mathematicians, students, and enthusiasts. We further the understanding of our world through mathematics because mathematics drives society and shapes our lives.
The mission of the MAA is to advance the understanding of mathematics and its impact on our world.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Founded in 1920, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) is the world's largest mathematics education organization throughout the United States and Canada.
Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes
Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes are national resources that aim to advance research in the mathematical sciences through programs supporting discovery and dissemination of knowledge in mathematics and statistics and enhancing connections to related fields in which the mathematical sciences can play important roles.
Portals
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
The IMS mission is that of fostering the development and dissemination of the theory and applications of statistics and probability.
British Society for the History of Mathematics
The British Society for the History of Mathematics:
- promotes and encourages research into the history of mathematics and the dissemination of the results of that research;
- develops awareness of the history of mathematics for the public benefit; and
- supports teachers and lecturers at all levels of mathematics education to incorporate the history of mathematics into their teaching, enriching their students' experience.
Awesome Library - Mathematics
Links to educational websites curated by Awesome Library. Includes links to curriculum materials, games and more.
EduRef - Mathematics Lesson Plans
The Educator's Reference Desk (EduRef) includes freely available mathematics lesson plans for grades K-12.
Wolfram|Alpha
Wolfram|Alpha has broad knowledge and deep computational power when it comes to math. Whether it be arithmetic, algebra, calculus, differential equations or anything in between, Wolfram|Alpha is up to the challenge. Get help with math homework, solve specific math problems or find information on mathematical subjects and topics.