Math Practice #2

In addition to the usual street maps, Google maps can show traffic, satellite view, terrain (topography and elevation) and more.

Visual prompts (photos) engage students in estimating a number of attributes and quantities; teachers can use these as a routine for explaining/justifying thinking.

On this Pinterest page, Sherry Vore posts graphics and ads illustrating math errors that should prompt some robust discussion 

This New York Times resource provides graphs, maps and charts--and an invitation to students to discuss them live.

Teachers can filter for articles primarily on mathematics.

This resource from Achieve the Core provides tools to support educators in determining text complexity from both a quantitative and qualitative lens.

This free online magazine is for the mathematically curious.

This site includes online articles accessible to high school students (depending on the article) in a casual voice; the articles cover a range of mathematical topics.

Newsela provides access to current event articles at five reading levels as well as teacher-created text sets on a variety of topics.

This website from Stanford University supports the work of Jo Boaler and Cathy Humphries as they work with parents, students, and teachers to change mathematics learning for the better. Check out the "tasks and more" tab for TASKS, Week of Inspirational Math, and Data Talks.

Plus Magazine provides articles, news, podcasts, puzzles, videos, and more. This site is accessible to expert and non-expert audiences alike.

ReadWorks has a variety of texts available, and they can be searched/filtered. Search on "math" and find several articles about mathematics itself as well as persons in the practice of mathematics.  

This site provides an abundance of visually changing patterns to help students learn to read, recognize, analyze, and model.

This webpage includes monthly topical articles from British mathematician Kevin Devlin.

This University of Cambridge site includes a page devoted to math-related articles for middle school and high school students.

Alex Bellos is author of a number of books that mathematics lovers and recreational mathematicians enjoy.

The "heir" to Martin Gardner, Ian Stewart has authored a number of books enjoyed by mathematics lovers and recreational mathematicians.

Of "Devlin's Angle" fame, Keith Devlin has authored a number of books enjoyed by mathematics lovers and recreational mathematicans.

"How to Bake Pi" is Eugenia Chung's most known book,; in it, she approaches interesting and accessible topics in mathematics through a culinary storyline.

James D. Stein Stein explores the many ways math has led to revelations and discoveries. 

Author Ben Orlin takes readers on a broad tour of mathematics and its uses, using whimsical and accessible drawings. He addresses how to think like a mathematician, dips into geometry - particularly in design, probability ("the mathematics of maybe"), statistics ("the fine art of lying"), and more.

This conversational (and of course, illustrated) introduction to statistics is accessible to high school students.

This conversational (and of course, illustrated) introduction to calculus is accessible to high school students studying calculus.

Another popular mathematics writer, he has written several books, including "The Joy of x"; his website includes some of his New York Times articles, plus videos and a listing of his books.

Paul Lockhart is most famous for "A Mathematician's Lament," calling out how traditional mathematics teaching and learning works contrary to developing mathematical understanding, enthusiasm, and joy.  MAA has a version of this work on their website.  His books "Measurment" and "Arithmetic" take readers on a pleasant and thought-provoking journey through ideas they likely think they know, but have probably not thought about deeply nor through the questions he poses.

Another popular mathematics (and science) writer, Leonard Mlodinow's The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives should be accessible to high school students studying statistics as well as those who have taken algebra and early statistics/probability (grades 6-9).

This page includes a wide variety of maps that provide provocative views of our world and challenge what we thought we knew. It offers great opportunities to talk about how changes in visual perspective change what we see (and believe). It also offers chances to apply proportional reasoning (how do so few US counties drive national elections?) and more.

Another article by Janice Padula, she highlights fictional texts suitable for middle and high school mathematics students.

This site includes several recommended novels, two with support resources for use in class.

Jordan Ellenberg illustrates how mathematics touches everything in life that we do.

This article by Janice Padula highlights several fictional works appropriate for high school mathematics students, especially those with some advanced algebra/precalulus background.

This book shelf includes over 100 books with a short synopsis of each.

KQED explores how reading math-related novels can increase student engagement in mathematics class. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is highlighted.

This site includes award-winning books about math; users can filter by age or type of award won; award winners include fiction and nonfiction.  

Martin Gardner is the original popular mathematics and recreational mathematics author.

This searchable and filterable database of over 1000 works (including TV and film) provides users with the ways mathematics has had everything from a minor supporting role to a primary character role.

This page includes book suggestions (with links) for middle school students especially, with some texts still appropriate in the high school years. Select grades 6-12 in the filters options.

George Mason University provides a number of data sets for analysis; includes DASL and CORGIS and more.

From basic line graphs to artistic data visualizations, USA Today is famous for sharing data in innovative and engaging ways. The link takes the user to Google Images for USA Today graphs.

This University of Missouri resource includes the what, why, and how of multimodal STEM text sets as well as examples of text sets by topic.

This ScienceNewsExplores article is student-friendly and draws connections between mathematics and art.