Math Lesson Plans

There are many saving graces as they apply to the wonders of the worldwide web. One of these is for teachers looking for math lesson plans, for example. For the devoted teacher seeking any level (k-12, college, graduate, post-grad, home-schooling, etc.) math lesson plans that take on a new approach or those that suggest a different style, or even math lesson plans that appeal to the new or student teacher, the web and site masters and mistresses offer an abundance of brilliant options.

As an instructor and freelance writer, I have had the delightful opportunity to develop online courses. These included a Creative Writing course and two Advanced Placement (AP) English Composition and Literature courses, granted; but in my researchof which I did 1000s of hours worth (the net being such a labyrinth of tangential goodies one cannot resist exploring)I found numerous sites for lesson plans, ideas, and programs, among them some seemingly fine math lesson plans and programs.

Here are a few of the many sites and pages offering free math lesson plans:

The Educators Reference Desk (http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/ Lessons/index.shtml) contains math and many other discipline lesson plansover 2,000.

EDSITEment (http://edsitement.neh.gov/subject_categories_all.asp) is a site for humanities subjects, but once you drill down and check contributor bios and links and sites, you will find Math in there, I would bet.

Teachers.net Lesson Exchange (http://teachers.net/lessons/) This is as its title admitsa site where 1000s of lesson plans are free for the downloading. And you could show appreciation by uploading one or more of your own to the ample database (The Lesson Bank) of hundreds of plans for teachers at all levels and many disciplines.

Awesome Library Lesson Plans (http://www.awesomelibrary.org/ lesson.html) features a stout collection of lessons across the curriculum, including math lesson plans, language arts series, and targeting multicultural and multi-leveled student groups.

McRel (Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning: http://www.mcrel.org/lesson-plans/index.asp) provides a curriculum compendium that focuses on specific benchmark learning plans.

Of course, there are pay-to-view-or-use kinds of sites offering math lesson plans for a not-so-small fee. These sites, such as Teachit.co.uk, do include some free plans, quizzes, and activities (if ou dig deeply enough); there are also, however, the charitable efforts of teachers and teaching collectives who have developed sites where one offers his or her own math lesson plans and or where he or she can access the archives of mat lesson plans donated by generous, creative, and experienced instructors. Have fun!