- Using Sketchpad: Conics - Peter Andrews, Eastern Illinois University
Two sketches illustrating techniques for constructing general conic sections, one on Isaac Newton's Organic Construction and one on the MacLaurin/Braikenridge construction of a general conic. Notes on Peter Andrews' presentation at the Sketchpad User's
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- Using Sketchpad in Calculus - Doris Schattschneider, Moravian College
Three sketches about parametric equations of curves and a sketch about a (then) unsolved problem about perpendicular bisectors of quadrilaterals. Notes on Doris Schattschneider's presentation at the Sketchpad User's Group Meeting in Cincinatti in January
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- Using Sketchpad: Triangles - Mel Thornton, University of Nebraska
A sketch about relations between the areas of certain triangles, and another about how to perform translations using only a compass. Notes on Mel Thornton's presentation at the Sketchpad User's Group Meeting in Cincinatti in January 1994.
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- Using Symmetry to Create A Community Quilt (SMILE) - Beverly Brown, Hedges West
A lesson for grades 4-12 designed to teach students about line and reflectional symmetry through cooperative work on a quilt with four lines of symmetry. From the Patterns and Logic section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science
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- Using Technology to Enhance Engaged Learning for At-Risk Students (NCREL) - Barbara Means; Pathways to School Improvement
A "critical issue": An increasing number of educators are calling for high standards and challenging learning activities for at-risk students. New technologies can provide meaningful learning experiences for all children, especially those at risk of educational
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- Using Technology to Support Education Reform - Means, Blando, Olson, Middleton, Morocco, Remz, & Zorfass
1993 publication of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U. S. Department of Education. Includes sections on educational technologies, support for student learning activities, support for teacher functions, effects on student achievement,
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- Using Technology to Transform Mathematics Teacher Education: An Example from Graphing Instruction - Lisa Denise Murphy
An examination of how an example of a use of technology in mathematics education - microcomputer-based laboratory (MBL) work used to teach students about line graphs - fits Pea's framework (the effects of transformation are less predictable than those
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- Using the Balance (SMILE) - Marie Davis, Marconi Community Academy
A lesson designed to teach students to use an equal arm balance to determine the mass of an object by comparing it with the mass of objects whose mass in grams
is known; and to use graph paper to construct a bar graph. From the Algebra and Trigonometry
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- Using the Fibonacci numbers to represent integers - Ron Knott
We use base 10 for written numbers, and computers use base 2, but what about using the Fibonacci numbers as the column headers? or base Phi (1.618034...) instead of base 10? There are some interesting infinite series that relate to these - each with a
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- Using the Geometer's Sketchpad - Jeremy Bartusch, revised by Tony Peressini and Tom Anderson
An interactive tutorial on how to use the Geometer's SketchPad software, and an introduction to how this application can be used to teach geometry and to produce classroom resources with plane geometry components. Sponsored by the University of Illinois
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- Using the Internet: Mathematics - Douglas Butler; Pearson Publishing (U.K.)
A 55-page looseleaf book compiled to save teachers time finding excellent resources on the WWW and to provide a curriculum-based bank of ideas. Support activities do not demand that students have free access to the Web. The pack is divided into ten main
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- Using Variables And Ratios To Get You In The Right Gear (SMILE) - George K. Smith, Dunbar Vocational High School
A lesson designed to teach students to apply the concepts of variable and ratio in everyday situations; determine the gear ratios and gears for a 12-speed bicycle; and write a computer program that will determine gears using the bubble sort technique.
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- Using Virtual Manipulatives on the Web to Develop Number Sense - Margo Lynn Mankus
Java applets, activities, hand-made manipulatives, and links related to the topic.
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- US Math Recovery® - US Math Recovery® Council
Publishers of Math Recovery®, Intervention Specialist, Add+VantageMR®, and SNAP. US Math Recovery®'s early intervention teaching programs offer constructivist-based approaches to developing numerical competence.
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- U.S. Metric Association (USMA), Inc. - Don Hillger; Colorado State University
A national non-profit organization that advocates U.S. conversion to the International System of Units, which goes by the abbreviation SI, also called the modern metric system. The process of changing our system of units to the metric system is called
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- USolv-IT - Paul Igodt and Frank De Clerck
In Dutch or English: USolv-IT is a database containing thousands of mathematics/physics/statistics problems as an assessment tool. Part of the content is freely accessible via the web. A major part is for use by teachers in course contexts.
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- U.S. Olympic PBS Cyber School - IBM
Built around the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, the PBS Cyber School uses downhill skiing, snowboarding, and figure-skating to offer problem-solving challenges for middle school students, who are invited to build their own site using the IBM HomePage
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- The U.S. Shirts Problem (PUMP Algebra Project) - Bill Hadley
When PAT-E-OH Furniture Inc. went out of business, you were able to get another job at U. S. Shirts, a custom Tee shirt shop that prints shirts for customers. You job is to calculate costs for the various orders. For each order, U.S. Shirts charges $8
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- US Third in Math Olympiad (Math Chat) - Frank Morgan, MAA Online
Answer to the Challenge: a small creature needs to find its way from a random point on an mile-wide strip of land to the sea on either side, by going distance r in a random direction and then (if it has not yet found the water), turning once t degrees
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- U Substitution - Technical Tutoring
The site describes the substitution method for solving integral problems by means of numerous examples and exercises.
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- U.S. Universities & Community Colleges - University of Texas at Austin
Universities and community colleges with Web sites in the United States, alphabetically or by state. A form is available for you to add an item.
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- Utah Elementary Mathematics - David A. Smith
Blog of conceptual frameworks and other classroom resources for Utah educators implementing the Utah Core State Standards. Smith, the Elementary Mathematics Specialist at the Utah State Office of Education (USOE), has posted since October, 2013; and also
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- Utilizing the Graphing Calculator in the Secondary Math and Science Classroom - Region IV Education Service Center, Houston, Texas
Step-by-step Flash illustrations on the use of Texas Instruments' TI-83+ graphing calculators and data collection devices such as the calculator based ranger (CBR), Graphlink, and calculator based laboratory (CBL).
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- UVM High School Math Contest - Larry Kost, University of Vermont College of Engineering & Mathematics
Tests, with solutions, from contests dating back to the forty-fifth annual high school prize examination, of 2002. The tests consist of about forty questions encompassing number theory, algebra, and geometry. Also, lists of statewide and regional winners,
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- Vagn Lundsgaard Hansen
A personal home page with links to: a mathematical story "I am the greatest," solving and proving/explaining the isoperimetric problem for quadrilaterals; Mathematics and the Public - some experiences with the popularization of mathematics; and Mathematics
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- Valgetal (Falling Numbers) - Rinze Joustra
A PC (Windows 3.x/95/98/NT/Msdos) game that challenges players to complete basic math equations by controlling the placement of numbers falling into a container. (To make a column of 3 blocks, the number above must be the sum of the 2 numbers beneath.)
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- The Valuation Theory Home Page - Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann
A forum for all mathematicians who work in valuation theory or apply valuation theoretical results in their own field of research. The home page offers: information about conferences and special events; names and email addresses of mathematicians working
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- Valuing as the Key to Unsilencing - Suzanne Alejandre
"At the heart of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Initiative is the valued learner, a learner with an active voice in his/her own learning. Under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) practices and assessment many students' voices have fallen silent.... Valuing
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- VA Mathematics Standards of Learning - Virginia Department of Education
Standards for Virginia Public Schools, adopted 2009. The Standards of Learning for Mathematics identify the mathematics content that teachers in Virginia are expected to teach and students are expected to learn. Standards are identified for kindergarten
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- Vancouver Math Tutor - Vlad
Tutoring services for the Vancouver, B.C. (Canada) area; articles on tutoring; and algebra and probability materials used in tutoring.
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- Van der Waerden's Theorem - Nikolaos Konstantopoulos
The first steps of a computational approach, in multiple PDF documents.
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- Variable Force and Mass: Rocket Liftoff - Boyd Gatlin, Mississippi State University
The liftoff and flight of a rocket is a physical phenomenon. But in order to analyze the process, or to predict future rocket flights, we need to be able to model the process - or at least some simplified version of it - with mathematics. Actually, the
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- Variance and Covariance: How Much Money Do Baseball Players Really Make? (MSTE) - Ed Malczewski; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
An exploration of idea of variance and how it is used in statistics. The average (mean) salary of a ballplayer in the majors leagues is $1.2 million dollars. Given only this fact, it is easy to see how the perception of the overpaid baseball player was
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- Various Calendars - Jim Loy
An elementary introduction to the different calendars used throughout Western history (Julian, Gregorian), Ancient Egypt, and by the Mayans.
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- Varsity Tutors - Chuck Cohn, founder and CEO
Varsity Tutors is a private tutoring service in Chicago (with tutors there and in Houston, New York City, Phoenix, St. Louis, and Tucson) that provides premium at-home (or mutually agreed location) academic assistance in math-related subjects. Varsity
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- Vasiliu Lucilius Homepage - Vasiliu Lucilius
Lucilius offers books of his research work in mathematics and mathematical physics.
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- VassarStats Statistical Computation - Vassar College
Online Javascript programs on topics such as statistical tests, simulation, correlation and regression: procedures applicable to categorical frequency data; procedures applicable to proportions; procedures applicable to ordinal data; correlation and regression;
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- Vector Arithmetic Java Visualization - Vladimir Sorokin; University of Kentucky
An applet with which to visualize addition, substraction and scalar multiplication of vectors on the XY plane. This demonstration was created as part of the PHY211 Undergraduate Physics Laboratory Educational Page at the Department of Physics and Astronomy
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- Vector Calculator - Julio Gea-Banacloche
A Java applet intended to give students a "feel" for vectors in two dimensions. It covers components, magnitude and direction, and vector addition.
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- Vector Calculus - Carlen, Herod, Harrell; Georgia Tech
Maple- and Mathematica-based lecture notes; also class notes covering material throughout the course, including interactive Java applets. Mathematics addressed includes: iterated integrals; Theorem of Pappus; integration of polar coordinates; tangent
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- Vector Calculus - Michael Corral
This is a text on elementary multivariable calculus, designed for students who have completed courses in single-variable calculus. The traditional topics are covered: basic vector algebra; lines, planes and surfaces; vector-valued functions; functions
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- vector.calculus.net (calculus@internet) - Christopher A. Barker
Core topic and course syllabi and menus for Vector/Multivariable calculus dealing with the calculus of many dimensions, specializing in computer visualization and interaction. Three-dimensional space geometry; Vector arithmetic and geometry; Derivatives
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- The Vector Cross Product: A JAVA Interactive Tutorial - McNamara, Middleton, Schiff; Dept. of Physics, Syracuse University
You will see a drawing in which the vector labeled c is calculated according to your specifications for the vectors a and b. You move these by clicking on their tips and dragging them around the plane with the mouse. You can also "spin the plane" by clicking
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- Vector field analyzer II - Matthias Kawski; Arizona State University
An applet for visualization of, and experimentation with, many aspects of vector calculus. These include zooming to see the derivative of a vector field (including divergence and scalar curl), visualizing the action of the (nonlinear and linearized) flow(s)
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- vectorkids: math flashards and learning tools - Rick Larson, vectorkids.com
This site is dedicated to providing learning tools for elementary and middle school students. Enjoy math flashcards to strengthen basic skills, increase proficiency, and increase test scores. Subjects include geometry, fractions, divisibility rules,
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- Vector Land: An Introduction to 3D Vector Analysis - Paul Kirby
An online course offering Java applets and 3D graphics to teach 3D vectors and related topics such as 3D graphics programming and Newtonian mechanics. Contents: 3D Vectors; The Dot Product; The Cross Product; the Vector Equation of a Line; The Vector
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- Vector (Manipula Math) - International Education Software (IES)
Java applets demonstrate vector geometry concepts: unit vector, area of a parallelogram, inner products, adding and scaling vectors, Ceva's theorem, Menelaus's Theorem, Cramer's rule, the circle of Apollonius, and more.
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- Vectormind.com
A resource library for various subjects ranging from mathematics, to science, to software programming, to Web page development. Each category is updated frequently; existing topics are also improved and updated.
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- Vectors in Projective Geometry (Question Corner and Discussion Area) - University of Toronto Mathematics Network
A short, basic description of the use of vectors in projective geometry.
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- Vectors - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question
A selection of answers to questions about vectors, sums of vectors, angles between vectors, and vector spaces, such as "A river flows westward at 8 m/s. A person wants to go directly across the river so that the resultant velocity is 12 m/s northward...."
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