Current Hot Spot
July 2009:
The Math Dude - Mike DeGraba
As the Math Dude, Mike DeGraba engages students with his video explanations of Algebra I concepts. The 5- to 7-minute episodes are available via Flash on the web, podcast, RSS feed, and--if you live in Montgomery County, MD--cable TV. Episodes are produced to coordinate with Montgomery County's curriculum timetable, but are available on demand from the site.
Previous Hot Spots
June 2009:
Wolfram|Alpha - Wolfram Alpha LLC
A computational knowledge engine that "computes whatever can be computed about anything." Query Alpha about "essentially any kind of systematic factual knowledge," with particular strengths in "areas where computation or mathematics have traditionally had a more significant role, or where knowledge is more readily quantitative." Built with Wolfram Research's own Mathematica.
May 2009:
MERLOT Mathematics Portal - MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
Free higher-education online teaching materials, and a user community centered around those materials. Register to create, contribute, collect, and comment on resources, or become a peer reviewer or guest speaker. The site offers teaching tips for using the materials in the classroom, community tools, and links to partner projects and the wider world.
April 2009:
The Electronic Encyclopedia of Statistical Exercises and Examples (EESEE) - IBM Research
Supplementing introductory textbooks, the Electronic Encyclopedia of Statistical Exercises and Examples (EESEE) comprises over 80 "real-world" stories, or examples, about the uses and abuses of statistics and statistical inference, drawn from published and printed media encompassing a wide range of subject-matter areas. Each case study is accompanied by problems, graphics, and, in most cases, data sets portable to various statistical software packages. Some stories are also accompanied by video clips. A product of a National Science Foundation grant to Cornell University and The Ohio State University, currently developed with support at the latter by W.H. Freeman & Company.
March 2009:
Ponder This - IBM Research
Match wits with the minds at IBM Research, who post a new puzzle every month (some suggested by users at large), and welcome your solutions. Archives of previous challenges and their solutions reveal a mix of topics including discrete math, geometry, optimization, probability, combinatorics, and number theory.
February 2009:
The KnotPlot Site - Robert Scharein
A collection of knots and links, viewed from a mathematical perspective. Images on this site were (mostly) created with KnotPlot, a program designed to visualize and manipulate mathematical knots in three and four dimensions. A picture gallery, description of the features of the program, and links to other knotty sites on the Web are included.
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