Geometry:  Beyond Pencil and Paper
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Eleven lessons that cover many aspects of geometry.

Planning a School Garden
Students will use their understanding of perimeter and area to plan a school garden.

Adventures in Statistics
A mathematics project involving students and the area of classrooms, which incorporates measurement, graphing, computation, data analysis, and presentation of results.

Exploring Area
The focus of this ten-day unit is to introduce the geometric concept of area by combining literature with the use of two different manipulatives:  square tiles and tangrams.

Perimeter and Area of Polygons
Online activity for area and perimeter.

A Maths Dictionary for Kids by Jenny Eather 
The Maths Dictionary is animated, interactive, and allows students to practice their math skills. Over 500 terms are explained in simple language. Click on "billion" and discover that you have 10 billion brain cells working for you right now. Roll your mouse over the world time zone chart and you instantly know the time for that part of the world. Every math teacher should bookmark this Web site.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Virtual manipulatives related to NCTM standards in the areas of Number & Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement,  and Data Analysis & Probability.  To access tools, click inside the grid on the cell that matches the grade level and standards area desired.

Figure This!
From NCTM:  Three to four math challenges using real world examples are posted here each month. For those who need help solving the challenge, there are hints and complete solutions, along with related problems.

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