Welcome to the video page for The Calculus Lifesaver. Here you can access streaming and downloadable videos of lectures given by the author, Adrian Banner. Most of the examples come from The Calculus Lifesaver.
When you buy a car, follow a recipe, or decorate your home, you're using math principles. People have been using these same principles for thousands of years, across countries and continents. Whether you're sailing a boat off the coast of Japan or building a house in Peru, you're using math to get things done.
As our children go about their daily lives exploring and discovering things around them, they are exposed to the world of mathematics. And since mathematics has become increasingly important in this technological age, it is even more important for our children to learn math at home, as well as in school.
This second edition of Helping Your Child Learn Math is for parents of children in kindergart
This is a great math project based on purchasing a home.

Welcome! We hope you'll find The Democracy Project site to be a useful, fun addition to your classroom during the election year and beyond. The activities and lesson plans you see on the site have been designed with the following goals in mind:
* introducing the structure and duties of local, state and federal government;
* understanding how government affects our everyday lives, through laws, institutions and services provided in the community;
* identifying the duties of the U.S. president and thinking critically about the skills necessary to be a good president;
* understanding the history of voting rights in America, and articulating how voting and other forms of civic involvement are essential to a healthy democracy.
The online activities are designed for students in grades three to six, with accompanying lesson plans for language arts (LA), social studies (SS), and math (M) teachers. Below you will find more information about the educational goals for each online activity; lesson plans for each activity; curriculum standards related to this content; and the teachers who wrote the lesson plans.
This site has a bunch of excellent real-world math problems linked to both CA state standards and NCTM standards.
There's a lot of stuff in here. Join our community! You can get a nice tour in the Getting Started section and also by viewing Navigating Math Tools by Bethany Hudnutt.