Resources
STANDARDIZED TEST MATERIALS
WebsitesPrinceton Review Guides supply excellent test-taking strategies and topic coverage.
Use the books put out by the actual test publishers to find the most realistic examples of questions:
Massachusetts Department of Education has resources about the MCAS, including former tests and examples of well-solved open response questions.
Books
With any test prep guide, even by well-known publishers, be aware that there are very often glaring mistakes - typographical and mathematical!
MATH RESOURCES FOR THE HOME
WebsitesAsk Dr. Math is the place to go when you have a question and can’t find anyone to ask. You can submit new questions, but I recommend first searching the archives for similar questions that have already been answered
Figure This! Math Challenges for Families provides middleschoolers and their families with fun and interesting math problems they can work on together.
The NASCO Math Catalog has everything from manipulatives to books to computer games about math. I find the in-print catalog much easier to use than the website.
Snopes helps you determine if an email is a hoax.
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) links you to the library and many other interesting collections.
Satellite Maps
US Treasury Department
World Population Information
MathWorld
Books
Algebra to Go and Geometry to Go, both by the Great Source Education Group, are great at-home guides to the topics. They contain succinct and well-indexed explanations for most key topics, including warnings about most commonly made mistakes.
RESOURCES ABOUT ADHD, LEARNING DISABILITIES, & LEARNING STYLES
WebsitesThe VARK website has a short quiz to help you find out what your best learning style is, with recommendations about how to use this knowledge when studying. The first time you take the test, pick your top choices only, to get the clearest score.
Books & Videos
Answers to Distraction. Edward Hallowell has written quite a few books about ADD, but this one, entirely in question and answer format, is the best.
Learning Outside the Lines. Jonathan Mooney and David Cole are two Ivy-League students with LD and ADHD who explain their approach to college.
Understanding Learning Disabilities: How Difficult Can This Be? is a wonderful video about what it feels like to be learning disabled. (The F.A.T. City Workshop. Presented by Richard D. Lavoie.)
RESOURCES ABOUT MATH ANXIETY
Conquering Math Anxiety (Cynthia Arem) has helped many of my math- and test-anxious students.Where Do I Put the Decimal Point? by Elisabeth Ruedy and Sue Nirenberg is good for answering more specific questions about topics in math.
FOR FUN AND INTEREST
Books
Fantasia Mathematica and The Mathematical MagPi (Clifton Fadiman), while sometimes hard to find, are excellent collections of short stories and poems - many of them classics - about math.
Flatland, by Edwin A. Abott, has now been “broadened” by the semi-sequals Sphereland (Dionys Burger) and Flatterland (Ian Stewart). All explore imagined worlds with different dimensions.
The Number Devil, by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, is a great book to share with kids interested in math.
Books about mathematicians (and their friends):
In Code, A Mathematical Journey, Sarah Flannery - A teenager investigates theories of coding.
Letters to a Young Mathematician, Ian Stewart - Describes what it means to be a mathematician in the academic world.
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, Paul Hoffman - The biography of Paul Erdos, a brilliant but odd mathematician.
Uncle Tungsten, Oliver Sacks - An autobiography of Sacks’ early life, when he originally wanted to be a chemist.
Amusing Websites - Math
Acme Klein Bottle - buy your own!
The Geometry Junkyard
Bathsheba Sculpture: Sculpting Geometry