- BestWebQuests.com/ - Tom March
Tom March has designed and assessed WebQuests since 1995. He presents these top ten choices on the subject of mathematics: For the Love of the Game; Franchise; A Creative Encounter of the Numerical Kind; The Dilemma of the Dangerous Meat Loaf; The King
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- BetaMaths Software - Anthony Healey
Free Windows Vista or XP times table software, also available in French. The author writes: Software to learn the times tables. You can set addition, subtraction, number bonds, multiplication and division exercises at home, with no worksheets to print
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- BetterExplained - Kalid Azad
Discover and share the "intuitive insights that make complicated ideas simple. Our 'ah-ha!' moments are different, and that's ok. There's no single way to explain an idea...." Preferring the construction of maps over the memorization of directions, the
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- The Better File Cabinet - Eric Hsu
A database of non-routine calculus problems used in college workshops for Uri Treisman's Emerging Scholars Programs. It was originally a highly searchable database of calculus problems, comments and solutions. It will eventually will be a database cross-referencing
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- A Better Mathematics Curriculum - Tom Davis; Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math FAQ
What should we be teaching students today? Dr. Tom provides his take on what would make a better math curriculum.
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- Between Arithmetic and Algebra - Cut the Knot!, Alexander Bogomolny
What is the difference between the arithmetic 3+5 = 5+3 and the algebraic a+b = b+c? One is a specific fact, another is a pattern valid in a multitude of situations. While arithmetic may hint at some regularities, algebra, as a language, gives expression
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- Between the Folds - Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Exploring the science, art, creativity, and ingenuity of origami, Between the Folds chronicles the stories of ten leading paperfolders and their works of art. The game "Match the Folds" presents three finished works of origami alongside the fold pattern
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- Beyond Crossroads - The American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC)
Mathematics education standards for the first two years of college. This site provides access to the individual chapters of the standards in HTML or PDF format. In addition there are links to resources that illustrate the ideas in the document.
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- Beyond Extra Large (and Ultra Small) - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
Metric prefixes come in handy for expressing both large and small quantities. So we have megawatt power systems and gigabyte hard drives at the high end, and we have nanoscale electronics and femtosecond lasers at the low end. Advances in scientific research
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- Beyond TERC - Linda Moran
Share constructive ideas with other parents and seek advice from Linda Moran, a licensed math teacher and author of the Beyond TERC lens and the Beyond TERC blog.
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- Beyond the Block: Tessellating Patterns - Linda Hampton Schiffer
An article about using tessellations in quilt design.
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- Beyond the Ellipse - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
There's a simple trick one can use to draw an ellipse. Tie the ends of a length of string to two pins (or thumbtacks) stuck in a sheet of paper on a drawing board. Then, keeping the string taut with the point of a pencil, allow the pencil to trace a path
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- Beyond the Individual-Social Antimony in Discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky - Cole, Wertsch
A discussion of the ongoing debate about the relation between the ideas of Vygotsky and Piaget, emphasizing a cardinal difference between them: their views concerning the importance of culture, in particular, the role of mediation of action through artifacts,
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- BHOSLIB: Benchmarks with Hidden Optimum Solutions for Graph Problems - Ke Xu
Benchmark graphs for testing several NP-hard graph algorithms: maximum clique, maximum independent set, minimum vertex cover and vertex coloring. All instances are expressed in DIMACS format and are planted with hidden optimum solutions.
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- Biased Rectangles? - Carol Hattan et al., Park City Mathematics Institute
This classroom activity, a PCMI Resource for
Teachers, is an adaptation of a lesson from the NCTM Navigating through Data
Analysis in Grades 9-12, chapter 1, to be used with Fathom© rather than a
graphing calculator. The original "100 rectangles"
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- The Bible Code That Wasn't - Keith Devlin (Devlin's Angle)
Just over a year ago, journalist Michael Dronin's book The Bible Code hit the bookstores - and soon after that the television screens and review pages of national newspapers - and quickly became an international bestseller. Both author and publisher made
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- Bibliographies on Typesetting - Alf-Christian Achilles
Searchable bibliographies of scientific literature on typesetting (SGML, TeX, fonts, PostScript, electronic publishing, typography, font readability, etc.). The bibliographies are updated monthly from their original locations.
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- Bibliographies on Wavelets - Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies, University of Karlsruhe
Search interface for an extensive collection of bibliographies on wavelets.
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- Bibliography by Topic of the Mathematical Sciences in the Medieval Islamic World - Jeff Oaks
An online bibliography of medieval Islamic mathematics--over 1000 articles and books listed by topic. Restricted to works published since 1950 in western European languages. Reviews are also included. Mathematics in medieval times included more or less
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- Bibliography for Automorphic and Modular Forms, L-Functions, Representations, and Number Theory - Paul Garrett
A 1996 bibliography compiled for the author's Ph.D. students at the University of Minnesota.
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- Bibliography Index - MacTutor Math History Archives
About 700 books/articles on the History of Mathematics, some general works and some more specialised, intended to supplement the list of references attached to each biography or History topic in the MacTutor Math History archives. The items in the bibliography
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- A Bibliography of Bernoulli Numbers - Karl Dilcher
A bibliography of Bernoulli numbers by Karl Dilcher and Ilja Sh. Slavutskii. The Bernoulli numbers are among the most interesting and important number sequences in mathematics. They are particularly important in number theory, especially in
connection
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- A Bibliography of Mathematics Education - Paul Ernest, University of Exeter, U.K.
A 1994 electronic bibliography prepared for students at the University of Exeter, U.K. Contents: Society, Diversity And Mathematics Education; The Learning Of Mathematical Topics; The Psychology Of Learning Mathematics; Teaching Approaches And Resources
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- Bibliography on Hilbert's Tenth Problem - Alf-Christian Achilles; Computer Science Bibliography Collection
Browse or search almost 400 references in this bibliography by Maxim Vsemirnov and Yuri Matiyasevich. Its ultimate goal is to contain references to all publications connected with the undecidability of Hilbert's Tenth Problem.
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- Bicycle Tracks (Geometry and the Imagination) - Conway, Doyle, Gilman, Thurston; The Geometry Center
Students are to discuss passage from a Sherlock Holmes story, The Adventure of the Priory School (by Arthur Conan Doyle): 'This track, as you perceive, was made by a rider who was going from the direction of the school.'...
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- Bifurcations, Equilibria, and Phase Lines: Modern Topics in Differential Equations Courses - Robert L. Devaney; Dept. of Mathematics, Boston University
Elementary bifurcation theory is topic is rarely included in traditional
differential equations courses, yet it is of crucial importance in many engineering applications. In the Boston University Differential Equations project (a joint effort with Paul
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- The Big_Number Page - Jerome Delcourt
Libraries written in the Ada programming language for computing large numbers (mainly large integers) greater than the predefined numerical types.
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- Big Daddy's Freeware - Vincent DiCarlo
Small, simple DOS programs to download for effective drilling of basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
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- The Bigger They Are... - Jared Sliger; SCORE Mathematics
"Man, he really put his weight into that one!" "The only reason he gets more rebounds is because he is so tall!" "They don't cover him any more because he is so old, that is why he catches so many passes!" Are any of these statements legitimate? Students
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- Big-Integer Arithmetic in BASIC - Sjoerd J. Schaper
A small but complete, free, open source, large integer/big number library in Basic code. Developed under QuickBasic for speed, but just as easily used with Visual
Basic for Win. Some QB number theory sample modules are added, as well as a VBwin cryptographic
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- Big Integers in JavaScript - Leemon Baird
A JavaScript library for arbitrary-precision integers. This page performs RSA in any base: binary, decimal, hexadecimal, base 64, and base 95 (whole keyboard), in which the message can be ordinary text. The library allows addition, subtraction, multiplication,
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- The Big List of Puzzle and Riddle Pages - MindBreakers Associates Inc.
An annotated list of links to sites with collections of math and word puzzles; also the best puzzles (the files), ranked for coolness and difficulty, with solutions and discussion: Gold for free; Just draw a line...; Turn on a lightbulb; the Wizard and
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- Big Math Attack! - Educational Software
For PCs, this game includes math solving and metric conversion as well as spelling and typing skills practice. (Spelling section is customizable.) Downloadable evaluation copy available in several versions.
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- BigPictures Index - MacTutor Math History Archives
An alphabetical list of pictures of mathematicians accompanying the archives.
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- Big Picture: What Does 'Numeracy' Mean? - Iddo Gal
Numeracy is a term increasingly used in publications aimed at adult educators, yet its meaning and purpose may be unclear. This article briefly examines the importance of numeracy and the implications for those working with the GED Tests.
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- BigPrimes.net - BigPrimes.net
An archive of primes, plus information on each prime, and on prime numbers in general, number systems, types of numbers, and universal constants. The number cruncher will tell you facts about numbers you submit.
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- The Big Six Skills: Information Skills Instruction - Eisenberg, Berkowitz
Information and technology literacy programs. Big6 is a systematic approach to information problem-solving, useful whenever an individual has an information-oriented problem. Six skills are listed, with examples for potential uses, a store, a bibliography,
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- Bilingual Mathematics Dictionary / Diccionario Bilingüe de Matemáticas - Norman Koch and Denise Meeks
An alphabetical list of terms in English with their corresponding Spanish translations, from abacus (el ábaco) to zone (la zona). The purpose of this glossary of math terms is to make readily available in one convenient document a list of terms
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- Bill Cutler Puzzles - Bill Cutler Puzzles, Inc.
Wooden puzzles for sale: six piece burr puzzles, rectilinear burr puzzles, non-rectilinear burr puzzles, box-filling puzzles, and miscellaneous puzzles. The computer program BCPBOX solves box-packing problems such as pentominoes; GENDA determines how
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- Billiards in the Round - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
On a level, rectangular table, a practiced billiard player can return the balls to their original positions, repeat a shot, and obtain an identical result. The geometry of the table, however, can greatly influence the types of motion possible in a game.
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- The Billion Prices Project - Roberto Rigobon and Alberto Cavallo, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Billion Prices Project monitors the daily price fluctuations of millions of items sold by hundreds of online retailers in more than 70 countries. The Billion Prices Project (BPP) then uses those data to conduct economic research into pricing and sales
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- Binary Cubic Forms and Cubic Number Fields (Organic Mathematics Proceedings) - Henri Cohen
A paper presenting a small part of the theory of binary cubic forms, in particular its application to cubic number fields. Most of the results are due to Davenport-Heilbronn, but the algorithmic applications seem to be new.
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- The Binary System - Norfleet, Singleton; Wayne State University, Detroit MI
A short history of the binary system; binary to decimal and decimal to binary conversion; binary addition and multiplication; logic gates, and a glossary.
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- BinaryTranslator.com
Translate text to binary and vice versa, and similarly convert between binary and decimal.
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- Binomial Coefficients - Bill Hammel
A collection of identities and formulas involving binomial coefficients: defined by factorials, appearing in Pascal's Triangle, derived with choose notation and summation formulas, approximated by Stirling's Formula, and more.
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- Binomial Coefficients - Jay's Corner
A binomial is an algebraic expression with two terms, like x + y. When we multiply out the powers of a binomial we can call the result a binomial expansion. Multiplying out an expression is just a matter of using the distributive laws of arithmetic, a(b+c)
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- The Binomial Expansion and Infinite Series - Don Cohen (The Mathman)
Pascal's triangle of numbers, although named after Pascal, was known much before his time. If there is one piece of mathematics that exhibits many patterns, this is it. There are triangular numbers and tetrahedral numbers, and even the Fibonacci numbers
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- A biographical sketch of Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace - Dr. Betty Toole
A brief biography and book reference of Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, one of the most picturesque characters in computer history, who suggested to Babbage a plan that is now regarded as the first "computer program." Also Ada Lovelace's Notes on her translation
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- Biographical Studies - Clark Kimberling; Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Evansville, Evansville, IN
Biographies of: Emmy Noether (1882-1935) mathematician; David Dale Owen (1807-1860) geologist; Joseph Granville Norwood (1807-1895) geologist; Margaret Chappellsmith (1806-1883) lecturer and writer; John Chappellsmith (1806-1895) artist and writer; Eduardo
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- Biographies Index - MacTutor Math History Archives
An index of pages on famous mathematicians throughout history, arranged alphabetically or chronologically and searchable by keyword. There is also an index of female mathematicians, and a full alphabetical index.
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