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1. Buying My First Car
   Students working in groups are given a sum of money to buy a car. With this money they will have to make the best choice in financing and answer all of the other questions that occur when a major purchase is made.
2. Games on Graphs
3. Lessons from the New York Times
   An annotated set of lesson plans from the New York Times posted on a daily basis dealing with current topics. Extremely well written lessons. For instance during the 2000 World Series the following was posted "Math on the Mound (Grades 6 to 12) Using the World Series to Teach Math In this lesson, students will explore mathematical applications of the current intra-city World Series. After learning how one school district is incorporating the World Series in its classrooms, students will consider possible applications of the Series in their math curriculum and then create World Series math projects. (October 26, 2000)"
4. Lesson Plan Library from McREL: 
   McREL, located in Aurora, Colorado, is a private, nonprofit organization whose purpose is to improve education through applied research and development. McREL provides products and services, primarily for K-12 educators, to promote the best instructional practices in the classroom.
5. Lesson plans for the Graphing Calculator
6. Sites For Teachers
   This site has 290 links to various math lesson plans listed in alphabetical order
7. Mathematics Archives 
   This site of internet sites, links to sites that contain significant collections of materials which can be used in the teaching of mathematics at the K-12 level. Material at this site is organized into the following categories: Lesson Plans , Software . Topics in Mathematics , Contests and Competitions and Other
8. Math Lessons That are Fun 
   Series of lessons that cover everything from "calendar fun to visualizing infinite series to palominos to slope as rate of change
9. Perfect Number Journey  
   Lessons on number patterns and properties of numbers.
10. Solving Polynomial Equations w Excel
    This site is part of the Microsoft Classroom Teacher Network and uses Excel spreadsheets in mathematics.