Notable Collections of Virtual Manipulatives
Shodor Interactivate Activities
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/
Shodor is a national resource for computational science education. They have offered online education tools such as Interactivate and the Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) since 1994. The activities are sorted from Grade 3 through Undergraduate.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
http://nlvm.usu.edu/
Utah State University has offered this collection of internet-based manipulatives since 1999. The activities are sorted from Pre-Kindergarten through High School.
Illuminations: Activities
http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivitySearch.aspx
Illuminations has been found on a section of the website for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics since 2000. Students and teachers from Pre-Kindergarten through High School can use these interactivities.
MSTE at the University of Illinois
- The Office for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (MSTE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has two good resources. The MSTE Online Resource Catalog has existed since 1994. Also, M2T2 includes an extensive List of Mathematics Applets.
According to their website, "Mathematics Materials for Tomorrow's Teachers (M2T2) are a set of mathematics modules created in the spring of 2000 by a team consisting of teachers, administrators, university researchers, mathematicians, graduate students, and members of the Illinois State Board of Education." They are five modules. Each module is connected to one of the goals for mathematics in the Illinois Learning Standards. The content is at a middle school level.
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