Links+to+useful+Math+websites

www.nlvm.usu.edu The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is easy to use and is broken down into grade level and subject. Highlights include a scale balance for equation solving, geoboards, and a tower of hanoi simulator.

www.wolframalpha.com "The Wolf" allows anyone to type in any mathematical expression, equation, or practically anything else and get answers. It can solve and graph equations, factor, simplify, and much more.

@http://my.hrw.com/math06_07/nsmedia/tools/Algebra_Tiles/Algebra_Tiles.html This site comes from Dan and can be used to show how algebra tiles can be used to solve equations.

@http://staff.argyll.epsb.ca/jreed/math7/strand1/ This site has many different pre-algebra topics. It has a nice section on adding integers and subtracting integerswith an applet that essentially shows how to add and subtract integers with the two-sided red and white chips that we have in our manipulative kits.