The Advanced Funbook was developed for teachers in grades 4-6, who wanted math activities for children in the intermediate and upper elementary grades.  Middle school teachers also find the lessons useful.
   
Click here to see a list of books and math topics featured in Advanced Funbook 1.

Note: Websites are constantly changing. The websites on this list were current as of the printing of this Funbook, but we cannot be responsible for changes, inaccuracies, or links from these sites to others. We will attempt to keep this list up to date. 

All in a Day
http://www.worldtimezones.com 
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock 
What time is it? Look up the current time in cities around the world.
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html
"Before you think about time zones, test yourself about where each state is located on the map!"

Anno’s Magic Seeds
http://www.farmdisasters.org/disasters 
Read about disasters faced by farmers like Jack.

Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares
www.pasles.org/Franklin.html 
About Franklin’s magic squares.
www.pasles.org/magic.html 
About magic squares in general.
www.roma.unisa.edu.au/07305/magicsq.htm
About Chinese magic squares.

A Cloak for the Dreamer
http://www.mathcats.com/explore/tessellationtown.html 
An interactive and fun way to explore tessellations.
http://library.thinkquest.org/16661
“Totally Tessellated,” including tessellations by M. C Escher
http://www.mcescher.com
The “official” Escher site, his life and art.

Cut Down to Size at High Noon
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/bodymath/bodymath.html
Use scales to compare mama and baby creatures, then figure out their heights.

Esio Trot
http://exoticpets.about.com/cs/reptilesturtles/a/turtlestortoise.htm 
Information about turtles and tortoises as pets, including information about salmonella poisoning.
http://www.thunk.com/links.html  
Have fun with secret codes; link to other fun websites.
 

The King’s Chessboard
http://www.cdc.gov/foodborne/ecolispinach 
General information about E.coli O157:H7 bacteria and the spinach outbreak in Sept 2006; information about the infections that result from this strain of E.coli bacteria.

My Name is Jorge
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames
Most popular names for newborn children in the United States, by year.
http://www.counton.org/explorer/gridwarping/from-spirals-to-spirolaterals/
About spirolaterals and redrawing them on warped grids.
http://www.mathplayground.com/mathprogramming.html 
Teach yourself to program in LOGO language.  The turtle can walk fd or bk; he can turn rt or lt.  He takes teeny steps. Try making spirolaterals. This would be Jorge’s name (5-5-3-2-5):

On Beyond a Million
http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny 
What do a million pennies look like?  (Select “MegaMoo” to look at cows instead of pennies.)
http://g42.org/MiscInfo/numbers.html
A list of very big numbers and how to say them.  Type a number and learn how to say it.
http://www.mathcats.com/explore/balance/balance.html 
Select items for each side of the balance; then adjust the number of items on each side until the weights are equivalent. 

One Hundred Hungry Ants
http://www.faust.fr.bw.schule.de/mhb/eratclass.htm 
An animation showing how to find prime numbers to 400, using the “Sieve of Eratosthenes.”

Pigs at Odds
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/domath/dice.html
Investigate the odds of rolling a five using one die or two dice.  [Note: Eleven SUMS are possible, but there are 36 different rolls that are possible!]
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/chances
Further explore probability by directing the computer to roll a die at National Center for Education Statistics.  Increase the number of rolls and see how the experimental results start to approach the theoretical outcomes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_the_Pigs
Probabilities for rolling pigs in the commercially available game “Pass the Pigs”
http://members.tripod.com/~passpigs/prob.html 
A class project showing experimental results for rolling the pigs, with charts and graphs (scroll past the ad).

Roman Numerals I to MM
http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/numbers.html
Overview of Roman numerals and a converter from Roman to Arabic numerals, or Arabic to Roman numerals (Note there is an underscore between via_romana.)
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab34 
A quick overview of Egyptian and Babylonian counting systems, zero and the decimal system, the abacus, Roman numerals, and binary numbers.

Salt in His Shoes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jordan 
Biography of Michael Jordan, complete with statistics about his basketball career.
https://www.nutropin.com/patient/3_5_3_growth_charts.jsp
Charts showing normal growth patterns for boys and girls.

Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Stone
http://mathforum.org/alejandre/workshops/net.html  
Polyhedron nets to cut & fold.

The Story of Money
http://www.moneyfactory.gov/newmoney 
The Bureau of Printing and Engraving website, with interactive presentations about features of the redesigned dollar bills. Click on “Youth Education” to get a list of games (though the games can be fickle.)
http://www.xe.com/ucc 
Currency conversions using live, up-to-the-minute currency exchange rates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro 
Information about the new European currency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_denomination_bills_in_U.S._currency

 
Tiger Math
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/agarman/main_ns.htm     
Click on “SPECIES.”  Then click on the name of a continent to get information and pictures about all the big cats who live on that continent.