MegaMath is a site from the Lawrence Livermore Lab that presents real-life math problems to elementary students. Among problems on the Web site are Games on Graphs , Untangling the Mathematics of Knots , and Algorithms and Ice Cream for All . Investing for Kids is a Web site that middle and high school students created for elementary students. It guides young students through the concepts of investing and setting financial goals and includes a stock market game for kids. The Internet Pizza Server Lesson Plan lets students practice math skills by calculating things such as the area of a pizza or the price per slice.
Students can order a picture of their pizza over the Internet.
U.S. Olympic PBS Cyberschool uses winter sports to create interesting online math challenges. SkyMath is a middle school mathematics module incorporating real-time weather data. The Rainbow Lab , from the University of Minnesota, teaches students about reflection and refraction by simulating what happens when rays of light enter a water droplet. The Real Time Traffic Report Lesson involves students in collecting and then doing calculations with traffic data from an Internet site. The Largest Known Primes explores prime numbers in great depth.