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Title: Centre for the Study of Mathematics Education
URL: www.nottingham.ac.uk/csme/.
Description:  The Center is located in the School of Education at Nottingham University.

Title: Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching
URL: www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/.
Description:  The Centre, established in 1986, is a focus for research and curriculum development in Mathematics teaching and learning, with the aim of unifying and enhancing mathematical progress in schools and colleges.

Title: Florida State University Vitual Mathematics Library
URL: www.math.fsu.edu/Science/. Extensive links, categorized in broad categories especially interesting link to math education This collection of Mathematics-related resources is maintained by the Florida State University Department of Mathematics as a free service to the online community.

Title: Investigations In Number, Data, And Space
URL: investigations.terc.edu/
Description: This website is intended to support teachers who are implementing the text Investigations in Number, Data and Space in their classrooms. K-5 Math Curriculum materials.

Title: The K-12 Mathematics Curriculum Center
URL: www.edc.org/mcc/
Description: Site is "funded by the National Science Foundation to inform and assist schools and school districts as they select and implement standards-based mathematics curricula."

Title: Math Teacher Link - Professional Development
URL: mtl.math.uiuc.edu/
Description: "Math Teacher Link is a web-based professional development program for mathematics teachers at the 9 - 14 grade levels. It provides short courses and online tutorials about the use of technology in teaching mathematics." Maintained by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Title: Mega Mathematics
URL: www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/
Description: (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Mathematics is a live science with new discoveries being made every day. The frontier of mathematics is an exciting place, where mathematicians experiment and play with creative and imaginative ideas. Many of these ideas are accessible to young children. Others (infinity is a good example) are ideas that have already piqued many children's curiosity, but their profound mathematical importance is not widely known or understood. The MegaMath project is intended to bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to elementary school classrooms so that young people and their teachers can think about them together.

Title: Spiral
URL: www.tec.iup.edu/spiral
Description: SPIRAL is an Eisenhower-funded professional development program for K-12 pre-service and in-service teachers, administrators, and special needs instructors. The goal is to provide training in interdisciplinary content and technology and provide SPIRAL activities that integrate innovative technologies with inquiry and collaborative-based teaching strategies to strengthen science and mathematics instruction across gender, ethnic, age, and ability groups.

Title: TIMSS
URL: nces.ed.gov/timss/
Description: The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Third International Mathematics and Science Study-Repeat (TIMSS-R) are the result of the need in the American education community for reliable and timely data on the mathematics and science achievement of our students compared to that of students in other countries.

Title: World Wide Web Resources for Mathematics Education
URL: mathforum.org/mathed/index.html
Description: This is one many topic areas from the Math Forum @ Drexel.

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2009/06/16