


20 May 2002 Vol. 7, No. 20
THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS
App Development Contest - Texas Instruments | Learn.co.uk
Curriculum Resources - Mathematical Association of Victoria
2ND ANNUAL APP DEVELOPMENT CONTEST - Texas Instruments
http://education.ti.com/student/winstuff.html
Texas Instruments is holding a "Develop Handheld Software
Applications (Apps)" contest from May 20 through
August 20, 2002.
The contest is open to participants of ages 13 and up.
Participants ages 13 and up compete to win prizes by
developing applications for the TI-83 Plus, TI-83 Plus
Silver Edition, TI-89, TI-92 Plus, or TI-73.
The official rules and prizes will be announced starting
May 20. Read about some of last year's winners:
http://education.ti.com/student/appcontestwinners.html
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LEARN.CO.UK
http://learn.co.uk/
Interactive resources for learners are presented to support
Great Britain's national curriculum. There are self-guided
lessons, with glossaries and self-assessments in the following
areas:
- numbers
- shape, space, and measurement
- handling data
- algebra
- quadratics
- coordinate geometry
- circular measure
- trigonometry
- vectors
- differentiation
- integration
- arithmetic and geometric sequences
- exponential and logarithmic functions
- numerical solutions of equations
- basic probability
- representation of data
- measures of central tendency
- probability distributions
- dispersion
- binomial distribution
- normal distribution
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CURRICULUM RESOURCES
The Mathematical Association of Victoria, Australia
http://www.mav.vic.edu.au/curres/
The site hosts a collection of pages on Investigations in
Point Symmetry, and has available for purchase sets of support
materials, some of which can stand alone.
Investigations in Point Symmetry
http://www.mav.vic.edu.au/pointsym/
Problems of the month for lower primary, upper primary/lower
secondary and upper secondary students are included in this
section. All have archived solutions. An e-mail list helps
teachers and students communicate about problem solving.
Mathematics Problem Solving Task Centres
http://www.mav.vic.edu.au/PSTC/
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