Math Apprentice is a new free website, meant to show students how math is used in real world. In the game, you are like an apprentice at various companies, applying your math skills to challenges similar to those encountered in the real world and real...

(This is an older post that I have revised plus added a video to it.) In this article I want to explore some ideas for using MENTAL math in calculating percents or percentages. I have made this video of percent & mental math strategies as well: And...

Just a neat link my hubby found this morning... http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ You can zoom in to see these various things starting from a coffee bean and down to a skin cell, human egg, red blood cell, bacteria, viruses,...

The American Math Challenge is an online math challenge or "competition" where students aged 9-14 from across America can compete in a safe, multiplayer game environment. This is from the same folks as the World Math Day, if you happen to remember...

Today October 21st is a Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day. I am not quite sure myself what all this entails, but it is a LIVE interactive event on the web, revolving around what can be done with Wolfram|Alpha search engine. Here are some highlights (from the...