- Awesome Library - R. Jerry Adams
Browse or search this carefully reviewed collection of math lesson plans, standards, and other classroom resources, organized by topic and grade level. With support from the Evaluation and Development Institute, the Awesome Library screens third-party
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- AwesomeTutors.com
Las Vegas-based one-on-one tutoring service, with email, webcam and phone tutoring available for most tutoring subjects. Prepayment required.
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- Axiom (Encarta Encyclopedia 2000) - Robert M. Baird; Microsoft Encarta Online
Axiom, in logic and mathematics, a basic principle that is assumed to be true without proof. The use of axioms in mathematics stems from the ancient Greeks, most probably during the 5th century BC, and represents the beginnings of pure mathematics as
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- The Axiom of Choice (AC) - Eric Schechter; Vanderbilt University
An introduction to and some implications of perhaps the last great controversy of mathematics, the Axiom of Choice, now a basic assumption used in many parts of mathematics. With a collection of annotated links to relevant sites: Introductory/elementary;
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- The Aztec Calendar: Math, Geometry, and Design - Charles William Johnson
A site that explores the relation between the mathematics of ancient reckoning systems, expressed in historically significant numbers (cited in the historical record), and designs within the geometry of ancient artwork. The complexity of design within
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- The Aztec Calendar - René Voorburg
Historical information and illustrations of the two more or less independent systems comprising the Aztec calendar, one having 365 days and based on the agricultural or solar year, the other with 260 days. A Calculator allows you to enter a date in the
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- Babylonian and Egyptian Mathematics - MacTutor Math History Archives
Linked essay describing the character and accomplishments of these two early mathematical systems, with references and other related web sites.
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- Babylonian numerals - MacTutor Math History Archives
Linked essay exploring the development of the Babylonians' number system, with ideas inherited from the Sumerians and the Akkadians. From them came base 60, or the sexagesimal system, but neither the Sumerian nor the Akkadian system was a positional system
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- Backpack Project - Germantown Academy
Spurred by an orthopedic surgeon's report recommending how much weight a person should carry, teams of fifth and twelfth graders examined student backpack weights in relation to body weights in all three divisions of their school, weighing over 800 students
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- Bagatrix Mathematical Software - Bagatrix Solutions, Ltd.
Commercial software that features step-by-step solutions to user-entered problems, with prompting. Titles include: Solved! Studio (comprises Basic Math, Pre-Algebra, and Algebra titles), Algebra Solved!, Pre-Algebra Solved!, Basic Math Solved!, Graphing
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- Baker's Choice - Key Curriculum Press
An Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP) unit for replacing about three weeks of student practice with graphs and equations in a traditional algebra, advanced algebra, or even geometry or pre-calculus class. Purchase teacher's guide and student materials.
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- The Bakhshali manuscript - MacTutor Math History Archives
Linked essay on the discovery and history of an early mathematical manuscript. The Bakhshali Manuscript is a mathematical work written on birch bark, found in the summer of 1881 near the village Bakhshali in Mardan tahsil, 50 miles from the city of Peshawar
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- Balanced Assessment in Mathematics - The Concord Consortium
From 1993 to 2003, the Balanced Assessment in Mathematics Program existed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The project group developed a large collection of innovative mathematics assessment tasks for grades K to 12, and trained teachers to
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- Balducci's Actuarial Home Page - David P.M. Scollnik; Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of Calgary
Links to popular actuarial resources: Balducci's List of Actuarial, Risk, and Insurance Links; Actuaries ( with Home Pages ) on the Web; Actuarial Programs in Academia; Actuarial ( Statistical ) Research Papers. Also information relating to actuarial
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- Balducci's Actuarial Home Page - D. Scollnik, Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Calgary
From the Division of Statistics and Actuarial Science. Actuarial announcements; Preprints; Researchers; Faculty; Undergraduate offerings.
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- Balkan Journal of Geometry and Its Applications (BJGA) - Balan, Udriste, Editors
An international biannual journal covering a wide spectrum of pure and applied
mathematics, ranging from synthetic to computational geometry and
applications in physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, and architecture, and promoting especially papers
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- Banach Journal of Mathematical Analysis - Mohammad Sal Moslehian, Founder and Editor-in-Chief
The Banach Journal of Mathematical Analysis (BJMA) is an international and peer-reviewed electronic journal presenting papers on functional analysis, operator theory and related topics.
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- Banach Spaces Bulletin Board - Mathematics Dept., Oklahoma State University
Links to preprints of papers in Banach space theory and related fields and archives of messages that have been sent to all subscribers to the associated list. In addition, the Recent section lists the most recent papers that have been added to the archive.
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- Banxia Software
Software for professional decision making. Frontier Analyst provides Data Envelopment Analysis to measure an organization's efficiency. Decision Explorer lets you create maps to model a situation and develop a strategy.
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- Bar Chart Applet - Robert Scott Mitchell
Enter values for the ten bars; control their orientation, and the scale of the chart at runtime.
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- Barcode Encoding - Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Alexander Bogomolny
Barcodes are used with various encodings all over the world to simplify product identification, especially in retail. The site explains the most popular encodings, like UPC (Universal Product Code), ISBN (Intenational Standard Book Number), and EAN-13
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- Barry G. Adams
Barry Adams is a professor of mathematics and computer science at Laurentian University in Ontario, Canada. His website includes many Java applets, including elementary numerical methods (i.e. Newton's Method), various examples of chaotic attractors,
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- Bartlett Corrections - F. Cribari-Neto
Introduction to and compilation of resources on Bartlett corrections: scalar transformations "applied to the likelihood ratio (LR) statistic that yields a new, improved test statistic which has a chi-squared null distribution to order O(1/n). This represents
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- Base 10, Base 2, and Base 16 - Walter Davis
Examples of different bases. There are several ways to represent a value using symbols. Roman numerals are an example. Position valued representation (PVR) is another example, the one with which we are the most familiar. With PVR, a limited number of
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- Baseball TIVY
Commercial site for an educational math strategy board game for students in roughly grades 3-8. Competitive involvement with two or more players individually or on teams; local, regional and national tournaments. "A proven winner for increasing test scores."
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- Base Considerations - Keith Devlin (Devlin's Angle)
A discussion of base systems, including negative bases, used in computers. "We are so used to computers nowadays that it seems obvious that computer arithmetic should be performed in a binary fashion. After all, this is the most natural form for a computer,
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- Base Conversion Routine - David Cronin
This is a Javascript base conversion program for bases 2 through 36. The author writes: "Feel free to make use of it. It's limited only by the precision of enviroment runtime."
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- Base Converter -
Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Alexander Bogomolny
A fairly high-level introduction to binary and other base systems, with a Java converter and links to related pages including: arithmetic operations in various bases, algorithmic conversion procedure, linguistic fun with base 36, Napier bones, abacus,
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- BaseGroup Labs - data analysis, forecasting, free analytical components
A commercial software company that creates systems for information analysis and forecasting, and develops custom integrated circuits. The site offers scientific articles concerning data analysis--neural nets, self-organizing maps, filtration, decision
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- Base Ten and Fraction Activities - Mike Gralish
Online math manipulatives for understanding fractional parts and
base ten operations
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- Base Ten Block Activities - Margo Lynn Mankus
Manipulate a Base 10 Block Applet developed by Jacobo Bulaevsky to explore whole decimal numbers with blocks. There are printable examples of pattern blocks, graph paper, rods, and color tiles, and activities designed to make connections between the use
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- Basically Math - Joan Sveen
The Basically Math Study Guide is designed to help students learn the basic facts. There is a Manual that coordinates with the Study Guide. The Basically Math Manual contains tests and graphs for student use. Basically Math is being used in schools
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- Basic Books on Rings and Modules - E. Lee Lady, University of Hawaii
An annotated list (about 15 books) in the following categories: General Theory of Rings and Modules; Classical Theory of Artinian Rings; and Commutative Rings.
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- Basic Concepts in Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos - Keith Clayton
An introduction to chaos, dynamic systems, and fractals, with a glossary of important terms.
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- Basic Concepts of Mathematics - Elias Zakon
This electronic text helps the student complete the transition from purely manipulative to rigorous mathematics. Chapters cover basic set theory, induction, quantifiers, functions and relations, equivalence relations, the real numbers (including consequences
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- Basic Geometry of Voting - Donald G. Saari
A book that offers a large number of new results about voting theory, its emphasis purposely placed on three candidate settings so that the book can be read by almost everyone. (With four or more candidates, the results need more advanced mathematical
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- Basic Ideas in Greek Mathematics - Michael Fowler; University of Virginia
Lecture notes from a course entitled "Galileo and Einstein." Nailing down the square root of 2. Zeno's paradoxes: Achilles and the tortoise. Proving an arrow can never move - analyzing motion, the beginning of calculus. How Archimedes calculated Pi to
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- Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines (BLAS)
Routines that provide standard building blocks for performing basic vector and matrix operations. The Level 1 BLAS perform scalar, vector and vector-vector operations, the Level 2 BLAS perform matrix-vector operations, and the Level 3 BLAS perform matrix-matrix
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- Basic Math Concepts and Fundamentals - R. H. Logan
A series of readings and practice problem activities designed to alleviate "math anxiety," for those planning to take a science course but uncertain about the math preparation. Includes lessons and practice problems. The topics covered are especially
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- Basic Mathematical Operations Using Mathtiles (SMILE) - Claudia R. Jones, Farragut Career Academy
A lesson that uses manipulatives to teach students addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. From the Arithmetic section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement.
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- Basic Mathematics - Jetser Carasco
Short, instructive articles that explain fractions, ratio and proportion, number theory, basic geometry, graphs, decimals, percents, and some algebra. This site, created by a math major who has taught high school math since 2008, also offers free math
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- The Basic Math Quick Reference Handbook - Pete Mitas
This handbook, written by an experienced math teacher, lets you quickly look up definitions, facts, and problem solving steps. It includes over 700 detailed examples and tips to help someone improve
their mathematical problem solving skills. The web
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- Basic Math - SPEED Software, Inc.
Download PC shareware demos of arithmetic drill programs. With Math Flash Cards, customize your own deck of flash cards to practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing. With Fraction Flash Card, design your own deck of flash cards to practice
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- Basic Math - tutorspree
Brief math explanations from the tutor matching referral service: numbers; equalities and inequalities; operations on numbers; properties of numbers; factors, multiples and divisibility; fractions; units of measurement.
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- Basic Skills Resources - National Institute for Literacy
The Basic Skills Resource Collection focuses on reading, writing, mathematics and numeracy resources that can improve instruction in basic skills. Each resource listing features an abstract and a review by an expert in the field. Resources in this Collection
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- Basics of Business Math Online Training - Webucator, Inc.
Commercial online courses covering the following topics as they are used in business: calculator use, decimals, equations, fractions, percents, and reports (statistics and graphs).
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- Basics of Business Math - Sebastien Letellier; Seletel Informatique
This online course is designed for users who want to improve their basic math skills. It covers basic mathematical calculations commonly used in business settings, including computing fractions and decimals, the order of operations for combined computations,
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- Basics of Computational Number Theory - Robert Campbell
An introduction to computational number theory, beginning with a quick overview of arithmetic in the modular integers. Throughout, the paper emphasizes computation and practical results rather than delving into the why. Simple programs, generally in JavaScript,
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- The Basics of MRI - Joseph P. Hornak; Rochester Institute of Technology
An introduction to magnetic resonance imagining, which is based on the principles of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), a spectroscopic technique used by scientists to obtain microscopic chemical and physical information about molecules. See, in particular,
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- Basic Terms - Mark Motyka, Math League Multimedia
Definitions and illustrations of basic geometric terms: lines, points, intersection, line setments, rays, endpoints, and parallel lines.
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