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Hey Math Teachers!
Happy end of summer. I'm not quite ready to think about it, but 5 minutes ago Phil Dituri showed me something and now I can't wait to spread the word.
Check out this resource. Take 5 minutes to try out something under each tab just so you know what it does. If you don't have 5 minutes take 60 seconds. Make this a priority. It'll be fun, I promise.
August loves you but September loves you more. Be sure of it.

The Learning Network, Teaching with the NYTimes

I was honored to be a part of a meeting with the lovely and tremendous women (both former teachers) who are writing the The Learning Network, the education blog for the New York Times. They "curate" the Times for educational purposes, encouraging readership, literacy and global awareness for anyone who can go online.
We (I, 5 other math teachers, two awesome folks from MfA and the writers of the blog) were there to talk about how they can develop the math education portion of what they do. Apparently the most searched phrase on the entire blog is test prep, and so the remarkable Patrick Honner wrote some. Check out his "quiz" on financial literacy. Give comments if you have feedback.
I also recommend just generally checking out the website. They put up all kinds of cool stuff for teachers and kids, daily lesson plans, comments from kids, cool questions and interactive surveys and stuff. It's a great resource.
I'll keep you posted as we (hopefully) contribute some more mathy stuff too.

The Math Worksheet Site

My coach showed me this website which has good basic resources. For free, you can get blank graphs, number lines, and worksheets on integer arithmetic or telling clock time. You can also subscribe and get access to a whole bunch more stuff that I can't tell you about.
The site is designed for early ed, but I use everything I listed above in my 9th and 10th grade classes as well when kids are struggling with their basics. You can choose (to some extent) what kinds of features you want included in your worksheet. So it's a little DYO but still very simple and straightforward.

Hyperbolic Space, Global Warming & Crochet

If you're thinking to do something with hyperbolic space or global warming, you might want to check this out:
http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_wertheim_crochets_the_coral_reef.html

Khan Academy

My stepmother sent me this today:
http://www.khanacademy.org/
I've only looked at half of one video, but I've already got ants in my pants to share it with you. The one I watched on linear equations was anti-climactic: procedural, superficial, kind of the opposite of what I want to do with my students. But I bet it's helping somebody, maybe lots of somebodies, and maybe it's of interest to you.

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My friend Amy just clued me in to this:
"this dude was on NPR recently. i think it's pretty awesome, especially considering the whole thing was borne out of his distance-tutoring for his cousin."
for the NPR story:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121978193

Sites of the Day

Arbitrary digits of pi in base 16
http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc98/2_28_98/mathland.htm

Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/Seis.html