- Basic TI-82 Tutorial - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
An online interactive tutorial that starts from scratch with turning on the TI-82 calculator and takes you through the basic steps needed to do arithmetic and function evaluation and to enter, graph, and tabulate functions. You use a TI-82 as you view
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- Basic TI-92 Tutorial - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
An online interactive tutorial updated for the new TI-92 layouts and commands. It begins with turning on the TI-92 calculator and proceeds through the basic steps needed to do arithmetic and finally to entering, graphing and and tabulating functions.
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- BasketMath Interactive - Robert Cummings, Science Academy Software
Science Academy Software's BasketMath online interactive application drill and practice site offers auto-scoring questions in arithmetic, rounding and writing numbers, order of operations, factoring, adding or multiplying signed numbers, calculating perimeter
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- The Bath Wavelet Warehouse - Signal and Image Processing Group, Univ. of Bath, U.K.
A collection of wavelet filters available for download. Biorthogonal Wavelets; Orthonormal Wavelets; References.
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- The Battle of The Frog and The Mouse - John Hays
In the 1920s, Albert Einstein heard of a Foundational debate between Formalist
David Hilbert and Intuitionist L.E.J. Brouwer, and asked: "What is this frog and mouse battle between the mathematicians?" This fable presents Brouwer as the frog, Hilbert
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- Battleship Puzzles - Erich's Puzzle Palace; Erich Friedman
There are five 3 x 1 ships hidden in each puzzle grid, each ship with a different number from 1 to 5. The numbers at the sides of the grid give the sum of the numbers on all the ships in that row or column. Ten puzzles, with answers provided.
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- Bayesian Networks Tutorial - Santos, Benslay; University of Connecticut
Introductory material on Bayesian networks and the probabilities involved, with a Bayesian Networks Bibliography of resources for Computational Complexity; Fielded Systems; General References, Tutorials, and Surveys; Knowledge Engineering and Maintenance;
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- Bayesian Network tools in Java (BNJ) - William H. Hsu
BNJ is an open-source suite of software tools for research and development using graphical models of probability. It is implemented in 100% pure Java and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) by the Kansas State University Laboratory
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- Bayes Server - John Sandiford
Advanced Bayesian network software that supports time series analysis. Read about features; find documentation; see screenshots; purchase the Bayes Server or consulting or training services.
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- A B Cron Portal - Auston B. Cron
GeoGebra applets by a teacher who has taught high school and early college students since 1970, and uses his dynamic geometry animations and interactive sketches in his classes to teach angle sums; perimeters and areas of rectangles and squares; reference
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- Beacon Learning Center - Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center is an online educational resource and professional development center funded through a grant from the U. S. Department of Education, 2000-2005. The resources posted in the Beacon database are products of professional development
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- The Beal Conjecture
About Beal's conjecture and the prize offered for the proof or disproof of this important number theory relation.
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- The Beal Conjecture and Prize - R. Daniel Mauldin; Department of Mathematics, University of North Texas
An announcement of a prize for the solution to a problem pertaining to the Diophantine equation of the form A^x + B^y = C^z where A, B, C, x, y and z are positive integers and x, y and z are all greater than 2, then A, B and C must have a common factor.
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- Be a Math Teacher - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
The NCTM's answers to "Why Be a Math Teacher?" and other frequently asked questions from prospective math teachers. "How to Become a Math Teacher" explains what it takes to complete a teacher education program and gain a state license. "Why Certified
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- BEAM: Be A Mathematician
A mathematics curriculum development project for nursery, primary, special and lower secondary teachers. It publishes resource materials for teachers' use in the classroom, offers training courses for teachers, and provides consultancy in the area of
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- Be An Actuary - The Casualty Actuarial Society and the Society of Actuaries
A site on actuarial careers, created and maintained by the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and the Society of Actuaries (SOA). Information on skills and talents needed for an actuarial career; what classes will best prepare you; what to expect on the
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- BEATCALC Archive - Math Forum
An archive of B. Clay's BEATCALC weekly mailing list. Amaze your friends by memorizing a few simple rules and doing mental math tricks faster than they can do them on a calculator. Squaring, multiplying, dividing, adding, and subtracting numbers; finding
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- The Beauty of Chaos - Uwe Krüger
A database of over 500 pictures of the Mandelbrot set. Also links to a CD-ROM and other fractal image sites.
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- Bedtime Math - Appropriate Challenge for Every Student Foundation
"A nightly math problem to get kids fired up about math in their everyday lives." Each story puzzle has three variations: one for "big kids," one for "little kids," and one for "wee kids." Posts, which date back to February, 2012, have included "X-Ray
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- Bee Alert - University of Montana
Bees and portable computers can now be used to assess environmental hazards through the development of electronic hives, toxicological models, extensive databases, and pattern-recognizing software that help assess risks posed by metals, radiation, carcinogenic
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- Beeneet Kothari Wins First $1000 National High School Calculus Student Award (Math Chat) - Frank Morgan, MAA Online
Beeneet Kothari of Half Hollow Hills High School West, Long Island, has been awarded the first $1000 National High School Calculus Student Award by ecalculus.org, based at the University of California at Davis and Williams College. In ninth grade he wrote
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- Beestar - Beestar Educations, Inc.
Beestar offers curriculum-based online programs for school kids. They include Math, English Language Arts (ELA), Science, and GT (Gifted & Talented) Math exercises. After the initial sign-up, every semester you can register your child to a weekly math
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- Beestar.org - Beestar Educations, Inc.
Providers of curriculum-based online programs for students, such as Beestar Progressive Exercise (BPE), a "systematic knowledge application and skill-practice program." See, in particular, the weekly math program; and dozens of freely downloadable sample
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- Before Pythagoras: The Culture of Old Babylonian Mathematics - New York University Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
This archaeological exhibit explored the world of Old Babylonian mathematics through cuneiform tablets, and illustrates how the ancient civilization performed arithmetic on numbers based entirely on two symbols. Online highlights include images of a multiplication
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- ... Before This Decade Is Out ... - Keith Devlin (Devlin's Angle)
With four thousand professionally active mathematicians gathered together, the January Joint Meeting provides an opportunity to check the pulse of the US mathematical community and to look for any significant new trends... "Make the preparation of K-12
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- The Beginnings of Set Theory - MacTutor Math History Archives
Linked essay describing the rise of set theory from Cantor (with discussion of earlier contributions) through the first half of the 20th century, with another web site and 25 references (books/articles).
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- Behavioural Calculus - Orfeo Bernardo
Behavioural Calculus with Analytical and Visual 3-Space, designed for Windows 98 or better. Site also includes promotional freeware; registration required. If site does not load, try using Internet Explorer.
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- Behind the Numbers - Jonathan Sills; ESPN SportsZone
A monthly column that explores the gray area between math and sports and what happens when exact calculations meet the human, unpredictable factors that make sports so entertaining. A combinatoric and probabilistic analysis of changes in World Cup soccer
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- Belgian Mathematical Society (BMS) - Société Mathématique de Belgique - Belgisch Wiskundig Genootschap
The Belgian national mathematics society. Includes staff, conference details, preprint servers, archived newsletters, positions vacant in Belgium, and links to other mathematical servers in Europe.
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- Bell Package - Jacek Kisynski
This package provides functions which are useful while dealing with set
partitions. We provide (hopefully) fast methods for sets of size up to 15
and methods with no set size restrictions which use BigInteger objects. The
later ones are constrained
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- Benchmarks for Optimization Software - Mittelmann, Spellucci
I: Several codes, one computer - linear and quadratic programming; quadratically constrained quadratic programming; geometric programming; bound-constrained nonlinear programming; nonlinear programming; large-scale nonlinear system benchmark; benchmarks
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- Bending a Soccer Ball--Mathematically - Michael Trott
With the World Cup under way, Michael Trott was asked by American Scientist magazine to help with some graphics to illustrate their feature article, "The Topology and Combinatorics of Soccer Balls," by Dieter Kotschick. Michael explains, "Using various
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- The Benefits of Mixed-Age Grouping (ERIC Digest) - Lilian G. Katz
"Goodlad and Anderson, who introduced the modern notion of the non-graded elementary school in 1959, raised our awareness of the fact that age is a crude indicator of what learning experiences children are ready for... The terms 'ungraded' and 'nongraded'
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- The Benezet Centre - Richard Hake & Sanjoy Mahajan
In 1929, Louis Benezet tried an experiment, "abandoning all formal instruction in arithmetic below the seventh grade and concentrating on teaching the children to read, to reason, and to recite." The experiment was successful; this site includes Benezet's
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- Benford's Law and Zipf's Law - Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Alexander Bogomolny
With the eerie but uniform distribution of digits of randomly selected numbers, if the numbers under investigation are not entirely random but somehow socially or naturally related, the distribution of the first digit is not uniform. One may expect 1
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- BenfordWiz
Software that produces Benford numbers that obey Benford's Law. Hexagonal and octagonal numbers are also included in the data sets.
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- The Benjamin Banneker Association, Inc.
The Benjamin Banneker Association, Inc. is a non-profit organization of individuals and groups concerned about the mathematics education of African-American children. The goals of The Benjamin Banneker Association, Inc. are to serve as advocates for the
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- Benoit B. Mandelbrot - Computer Science Dept., Yale University
From the Yale University Computer Science Department's listing of Research and Academic Faculty. Prof. Mandelbrot joined the Yale faculty in 1987.
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- Benoit Fractal Analysis System - TriSoft International, Inc.
Windows fractal analysis software that enables you to measure the fractal dimension and/or Hurst exponent of data sets using a choice of method(s) for analysis of self-similar patterns and self-affine traces. A white noise filter (Fourier or Wavelet)
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- ÜberFan - UberFan, LLC
"The fan's electronic baseball card," UberFan.com gives each fan ownership of Major League Baseball statistics by collecting them from the games he or she watches. Satisfy your curiosity for how many home runs you've seen your favorite batter hit, for
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- Bernhard Kutzler's Collection: Technology in Mathematics Education - Bernhard Kutzler
Read or download the author's articles: "Algebraic Calculators as Pedagogical Tools for Teaching Mathematics"; "Indispensable Manual Calculation Skills in a CAS Environment"; "Two-Tier Exams as a Way to Let Technology in"; and "Interconnectivity - Derive
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- Bernoulli Society - Wilfrid Kendall
An autonomous section of the International Statistical Institute, based at Warwick University in England. Its object is the advancement of the sciences of probability (including the theory of stochastic processes) and mathematical statistics, and of their
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- Berrie's Statistics Page - Berrie Zielman
Statistical concepts illustrated using small QuickTime movies. Topics include: Interactive graph of the central limit theorem; normal approximation of the binomial distribution; Poisson distribution; Mean and Variance in the Normal Distribution; Graph
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- The Bertrand Russell Editorial Project - McMaster University
These archives, at McMaster University, house the complete papers of Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British Philosopher, logician, essayist and renowned peace advocate. His Collected Papers include logical and philosophical works, Toward the "Principles
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- Bertrand: Symbolic Logic Problem-Solving Software - Larry Herzberg
Using a decomposition/instantiation algorithm inspired by the 'consistency tree' method found in Leblanc and Wisdom's textbook Deductive Logic, Bertrand solves sets of first-order symbolic logic statements (subject-equality supported) for satisfiability
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- Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm (Funk & Wagnalls Multimedia Encyclopedia) - Lycos Zone: Mathematics
A short biography of Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846), the German astronomer and mathematician, best known for making the first accurate measurement of the distance to a star.
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- Best Evidence Encyclopedia - Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education
What mathematics programs have been proven to help students to succeed? The Best Evidence Encyclopedia (BEE) provides summaries of scientific reviews produced by many authors and organizations, as well as links to the full texts of each review. See ratings
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- Best Graphing Calculators - Dan Agostinelli
Reviews of TI's current graphing calculator models. The guide "TI Graphing Calculators in Exams" provides a tabular overview of the calculators allowed at the SAT, ACT, Advanced Placement (AP), PSAT/NMSQT, International Baccalaureate (IB), and Praxis
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- Best of the Web - Math
A directory listing of math sites on the web.
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- The Best Two Points in a Square (Math Chat) - Frank Morgan, MAA Online
Solution to the challenge: Where do you think you should you place two points in a unit square to minimize the average distance in the square to the nearest of the two points? Computer calculations by Al Zimmermann yield configurations of 2-11 points
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