Math Resources  

• Algebra

  • Absurd Math -- An interactive problem-solving game series where the ultimate power depends on mathematical skill and knowledge. Many pages have hidden clues and areas.
  • Algebra and Calculus Sketches -- Sketchpad drawings of algebra concepts.
  • Algebra Homework Help
  • Chameleon Graphing -- graphing lines and slopes.
  • Purplemath -- your algebra resource.
  • Visual Math: Functions -- The Centre for Educational Technology (CET), an Israeli research and development center for math education, offers activities, tools, and tasks for students to learn linear and quadratic functions.

  

• Calculus

  • Algebra and Calculus Sketches -- Sketchpad drawings of calculus concepts.
  • AP Calculus AB Course Homepage
  • AP Calculus BC Course Homepage
  • Ask Mr. Calculus -- Mr. Calculus is a teacher at Diamond Bar High School in Diamond Bar, California. This site offers many resources for AP calculus including the most recent solutions to the AP exam free response questions.
  • Calculus and Mathematica -- contains general information about the course and some excellent student resources including lessons and literacy sheets.
  • Calculus-Help.com -- a teacher-made site that includes a problem of the week, interactive cheat sheets, and other calculus links.
  • Calculus Integration Project -- Using an ellipse of revolution, students design the envelope of a traditionally shaped blimp.
  • calculus@internet -- takes the standard core calculus curriculum and puts it in the context of a variety of computer math platforms.
  • Calculus Java Applets
  • Curve Bank - Calculus with interactive Java Applets.
  • Graphics for the Calculus Classroom
  • The Integrator -- The history of integral calculus began with Archimedes and ends with the computer program Mathematica. That's part of the self-promotional History of Integration you'll find as background material at Wolfram Research's website The Integrator. The site lets users enter an integral of their choice, then uses Mathematica to determine the answer.
  • Karl's Calculus Tutor -- friend to the first-year calculus student.
  • Mathematics Animated -- animations of conic sections, volume of revolution, surfaces, and more.
  • UBC Calculus Online -- an online supplement to Math 101 being taught within the University of British Columbia Department of Mathematics.
  • Visual Calculus -- a collection of notes that give some ideas on how to integrate technology and the teaching of calculus. You'll find equations with graphs and tables that use a variety of public domain, shareware, and commercial software packages. An appendix provides a series of tables showing the software programs used with each topic.
  • Volumes of Revolution Using Shells

  

• Consumer Math

  • Buying a Car Webquest
  • Math in Daily Life -- from the Annenberg CPB Exhibits Collection, presents interactive articles about how mathematics affects daily decision making.
  • Moneyopolis -- a budgeting game.
  • MoneySKILL -- a highly interactive, reality-based Internet personal finance course.
  • mymoney.gov -- the Federal Government's website dedicated to helping Americans understand more about their money.
  • Personal Finance -- projects for a high school Personal Finance course.

  

• Fractals

  • Chaos in the Classroom
  • Cynthia Lanius' Making a Fractal
  • The Dynamical Systems and Technology Project at Boston University
  • Encyclopedia of Fractal Tilings
  • Fractal Landscapes
  • Fractal Postcards and Fractal Music
  • Fractal Roots and Artful Math
  • Fractals: Exploring Its Simplicity, Beauty, and Mathematics -- Jacobo Bulaevsky, an electrical engineer and math hobbyist, maintains this web site of information and interactive Java Applets on 11 types of fractals and the mathematics behind them.
  • The Game of Chaos
  • Mandelbrot Exhibition -- includes an introduction to Mandelbrot and Julia sets, links to many fractal pictures and animations, and the Mandelbrot and Julia Set Explorer, an interactive utility.
  • Paper Folding Fractals -- the user learns what fractals are, how they are created, and then can explore the fractal results of folding patterns.
  • The Spanky Fractal Database
  • Sprott's Fractal Gallery -- look at the animated fractals set to music.

  

• Geometry and Art

  • Art and Geometry of Tantra
  • Bubble Geometry -- an excellent introduction to the mathematics of shapes using the making of bubbles.
  • Building an Icosahedron
  • The California Math Show -- a portable, interactive math exhibit based on the idea of symmetry.
  • Cayley Quilt Maker: Math Art Posters
  • Computational Geometry
  • Escher and the Droste Effect -- visualizes the mathematical structure behind Escher's Print Gallery.
  • Euclid's Geometry: History and Practice
  • Nineteen proofs of Euler's Formula
  • Geometer's Sketchpad labs
  • The Geometry Center -- a mathematics research and education center at the University of Minnesota. The Center supports math and computer science research, mathematical visualization, software development, application development, video animation production, and K-16 math education.
  • Geometry In Action -- a collection of real world applications from discrete and computational geometry.
  • Geometry Java Applets for Euclid's Elements -- a set of dynamic interactions with the geometric renditions of Euclid's propositions. The author is setting up all the propositions in Book 1 of Euclid's Elements via Java script!
  • The Geometry Junkyard -- contains usenet clippings, web pointers, lecture notes, research excerpts, papers, abstracts, programs, and problems related to discrete and computational geometry.
  • Geometry Online -- geometry activities from Cynthia Lanius's geometry class at Milby High School.
  • The Geometry Page -- a ThinkQuest course in geometry including definitions, postulates, theorems, and problems.
  • George W. Hart's math pages -- includes geometric sculpture, Encyclopedia of Polyhedra, and Zome Geometry.
  • Jim Plank's Origami Page
  • Light sculpture and computer art
  • The Magic Sierpinski Triangle -- an exploration into how vertex choice affects the Chaos Game.
  • Mathematics Graphics Gallery
  • Millefiori -- geometric artwork.
  • Naming Polygons and Polyhedra -- Latin derivation for names of polygons.
  • Native American Geometry
  • The Origami Page
  • Oriland -- a ThinkQuest project in origami.
  • Paperfolding.com
  • Pavilion of Polyhedreality
  • Polyhedra in the Classroom -- introduces the concepts of surface area and volume while focusing on the importance of measurement.
  • Pythagoras' Playground -- investigations using the Pythagorean Theorem.
  • Pythagorean Theorem -- an interactive lesson that helps students discover this important geometry theorem.
  • Pythagorean Triples
  • Tantalizing Tessellations -- this unit integrates mathematics with language arts and art.
  • Teaching Mathematical Thinking Through Origami
  • Trapezoidal Window -- Sometimes things are not as they appear. Check out this exhibit from the Exploratorium which uses QuickTime VR technology.
  • Virtual Reality Polyhedra -- 850 virtual reality polyhedra to explore. This site is a self-contained easy-to-explore elementary tutorial, reference work, and object library for people interested in polyhedra.

  

• Graphing Calculators

  • The Casio Classroom -- dedicated to the enhancement of mathematics education and the use of technology to improve the learning and teaching of mathematics.
  • education.ti.com -- find what you're looking for whether you're an educator, student, parent, or developer.

  

• History of Mathematics

  • The Abacus
  • Albert Einstein Exhibit
  • Ancient Geometry and Insights into the History of Mathematics
  • Archimedes
  • Biographies of Contemporary Women in Mathematics
  • Biographies of Women Mathematicians
  • The British Society for the History of Mathematics
  • Earliest Uses of Various Mathematical Symbols -- shows the names of the individuals who first used various common mathematical symbols, and the dates the symbols first appeared.
  • Famous Problems in the History of Mathematics -- includes the Bridges of Konigsberg, the value of pi, puzzling primes, famous paradoxes, and others.
  • The Galileo Project -- a hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei.
  • Greek Mathematics and its Modern Heirs -- from the Vatican collection.
  • History of Mathematics
  • History of Pi
  • MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
  • Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • Trinity College: History of Math
  • The Virtual Museum of Computing

  

• Precalculus

  • Amusement Park Physics
  • Dave's Short Trig Course
  • National Curve Bank
  • Trigonometric Functions
  • Trigonometry Realms -- java applets illustrating the relationship between the unit circle and the trigonometric functions.
  • Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves

  

• Problem Solving, Puzzles and Logic

  • AIMS Puzzle Corner
  • Critical Thinking Puzzles -- a selection of brain teasers from Michael DiSpezio's book, Critical Thinking Puzzles. Five puzzles are available, with solutions: Pyramid Passage, Spare My Brain, Putting It Together, Fractured Farmland, Kitchen Cups.
  • Magic Squares -- find out what magic squares are and how to make them.
  • Magic Stars -- Prof. Mutsumi Suzuki's pages on MAGIC STARS - what they are, and what transformations and rotations can be applied to make more of these interesting and little-known math puzzles.
  • Word Problems for Kids -- a set of carefully selected problems which can help students in grades 5 through 12 improve their problem solving skills.

  

• Statistics

  • BB&N: AP Statistics - A Measure of Excellence -- Buckingham Browne & Nichols School's course emphasizes projects that require hands-on gathering and analysis of real world data. The site provides homework assignments and makes use of the popular "Workshop Statistics" text.
  • Chance -- database of materials designed to assist the instruction of an introductory probability and statistics course.
  • Flash Demos for Understanding Statistics -- Demonstations to help students foster an understanding of the variance for data sets. Click the desired button.
  • Seeing Statistics -- This site uses over 150 Java applets and text to create a web book that is a first course in statistics.
  • Statistics: A Curiosity Factor -- a Webquest that analyzes Gallop data.
  • Statistics Faculty Lounge -- use Statistics reference tools on the web, flip though a few popular statistics journals, relax and read today's newspaper, or download sample chapters of Wiley's latest college texts.
  • StatLib -- a system for distributing statistical software, datasets, and information by electronic mail, FTP and WWW.

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Last update: 23 September 2007