- Achievement Technologies
Educational software for learning math at all levels - primary education; GED; community college; adult basic education; correctional, vocational, and special education; mainstream instruction; or home schooling. K-12 lessons are aligned to the NCTM Standards.
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- Active Elementary Number Theory: n2 + 1 and coprime increasing pairs of different parity - H. B. Meyer
An interactive study of coprime increasing number-pairs of different parity and their relations to divisors of n2 + 1. Requires JavaScript.
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- Advanced Algebra Through Data Exploration: A Graphing Calculator Approach - Key Curriculum Press
An all-new text that combines data exploration, hands-on activities, and the power of graphing calculators to enhance the content of advanced algebra.
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- Algebra Through Problem Solving - Hillman, Alexanderson
A non-traditional Algebra text (high school and early college levels) placed on the Web by the Science Education Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Browse it on the Web or download a PDF version. Chapter headings include: The Pascal Triangle; The
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- American Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges (AMATYC)
A service for members and other interested professionals to review and receive current information on AMATYC's programs and activities and the activities of affiliates. Conference information, Job listings, list of available publications, how to join
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- Apuntes - Andrés Coda; Universidad Nacional de Luján, Argentina
Calculus and applications, in Spanish. Maestría en Demografía Social - Matemática; Licenciatura en Educación Física - Introducción a la Matemática; Profesorado en Geografía - Elementos de Técnicas
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- Articulation in Mathematics Education - EXTEND - Perspectives in Mathematics Education
Links to articles on creating smoother transitions between education and work, between school and college and within sectors of higher education, and about preparing teachers to facilitate these transitions and students to respond to new environments.
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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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- 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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- Boy's Surface (Student Sculpture) - Pau Atela, Smith College
A mathematical sculpture constructed by students at Smith College for an undergraduate course in the spring 2000 semester. The students worked with formulas and computer calculations to construct and weld a 6'7" x 6'7" metal sculpture reproducing Boy’s
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- Byzantine Basketball - Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Alexander Bogomolny
A problem (with solution) sent by Prof. W. McWorter's: Byzantine Basketball is like regular basketball except that foul shots are worth a points instead of two points and field shots are worth b points instead of three points. Moreover, in Byzantine Basketball
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- CalculusABC.com - Chris Watson
A site for calculus teachers to share questions they've written and discuss
issues relating to the field. Sort multiple choice questions according to calculator use and representation type (verbal, numerical, analytical, or graphical). With web forums
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- Calculus Made Easier: A Calculus Tutorial - Angela Olson
An introduction to the concepts of calculus. Basic limits, derivatives and integrals are defined. Includes a short resource list.
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- Center for Innovative Learning Technologies (CILT)
Joining forces and leveraging resources to improve K-14 education. Four theme areas have been defined as initial opportunities, with a "theme team" for each. Teams meet annually with the best minds in their fields from Industry, Research, and Schools
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- Central Office of Statistics, Malta
The COS collects statistics for the Maltese government. List of publications, tables of key data, and press releases.
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- Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia - Republic of Latvia
The statistics collection department of the government of Latvia. Key socioeconomic figures, press releases, list of publications, legal basis and history of the bureau. A version of the site is also available in Latvian.
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- Chain Rule Calculus Song - North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM)
Real Audio file of an original song, accompanied by piano, that teaches the chain rule, with example derivatives. Also listen to a tune about the product rule.
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- Cálculo para la Ingeniería - Salvador Vera Ballesteros
Temas, Problemas, Exámenes, Enlaces.
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- College Algebra - Marsha Austin, Oklahoma City Community College
A college algebra course to provide students with an understanding of the general concepts of relation and function and specifically of polynomial, exponential, and logarithmic functions; with the ability to solve system of equations by utilizing matrices
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- College Algebra PowerPoint Presentations - George Mathew
Free PowerPoint presentations on topics in early college algebra.
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- Community Colleges Home Page - Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction
Community colleges are two-year post-secondary educational institutions that offer certificate programs and Associate of Arts (A.A.) degrees. This site contains a searchable index to the web sites for more than 800 community colleges in the United States,
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- Complex Numbers and Trigonometry - Hillman, Alexanderson, Newton
A text that presents an innovative introduction to trigonometry through the use of complex numbers. It is based on a high school text now out of print, but is most useful as a supplement for early college students not quite ready for calculus because
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- Complex number to a complex power may be real - Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Alexander Bogomolny
A proof using Euler's formula.
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- Conics (Manipula Math) - International Education Software (IES)
Java applets to investigate the conic sections, including different ways to draw them, their reflective properties, and the shapes traced by shadows at different latitudes.
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- Convergence - Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
An online magazine encouraging the use of mathematics history as a learning and teaching tool. Convergence will include: math history articles that have a special pedagogical or learning appeal; sharing of classroom experiences; animated mathematical
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- Co-op City - Peter Barricelli
A classroom project involving the construction of scale models of buildings and towns. In addition to teaching ratio and proportion, the process introduces the students to blueprint and CAD (Computer Aided Design) programs.
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- Department of Statistics and Research (Cyprus) - Republic of Cyprus
The statistical office of the Republic of Cyprus. Includes key socioeconomic figures, press releases, a list of publications (some also available in Greek), and information about the structure and goals of the department.
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- A Dice Game - Doug Ensley, Shippensburg University
In this game, two players roll dice repeatedly taking note of who has the higher roll each time. The original number of dice for each person and the number of rolls are set by the user. At the end, the percentage of wins for each player is displayed.
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- Divide! - Andrew Starr
A web page used to demonstrate that if you divide any two integers, eventually the decimals will repeat.
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- Education Resources - Errol Hedges, moderator
A Yahoo Group devoted to totally free academic resources (> 2,500 links)--all subjects, all grades (pre-school to early university), basically an encyclopedia of education resources (excellent for home
schooling, etc.).
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- Elementary Probability and Statistics - Brian Jean; Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA
Syllabus, course notes in PDF format, and TI-83 programs (require a link cable) with MPEG movie demonstrations for an online course.
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- Excel For Introductory Statistical Analysis - Prof. Hossein Arsham; University of Baltimore
An introduction to the basics of Excel and how to use it for statistical analysis.
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- Exploring Gravity - Becky Magan
A week-long lesson plan for high school students and above, involving an experiment with dropped balls of different weights. Includes video, worksheets, grading rubric, experiment instructions, regression analysis, etc. Sample test data is supplied for
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- Federal Statistical Office Germany
The statistics department of the German government. Press releases; socio-economic data, with brief articles and key statistics; tables of recent economic figures; population data for other countries; the purchasing power of the deutschemark. Methodological
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- Fractal Explorer - Fabio Cesari
An introduction to fractals: about complex numbers, how to generate the Mandelbrot and Julia sets, gallery of images, and a Java applet to explore the Mandelbrot set (may not work with older browsers; applet is available for download, but documentation
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- Fractal Expressionism - Richard Taylor, Adam P. Micolich and David Jonas
Can science further our understanding of art? An article discussing the connection between fractals and Jackson Pollock's paintings.
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- Fractal Of The Day (FOTD)
An archive of James Albert Muth's Fractal of the Day images, with formulas and related discussion. (Images originally posted on the Fractal Art Discussion List.)
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- Fractals - Brad Johnson
A collection of fractal images created using Fractint software, with brief descriptions of the routines employed.
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- Fractals: Not by the Numbers - Gary Kerbaugh
Java applets to draw fractals: build your own based on copies of parallelograms, or view various examples. Includes directions and a brief technical description of the program.
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- Frequently Asked Questions About Trigonometry - J. David Eisenberg
An interactive site that explains the ideas behind trigonometry. With Java applets for experimenting with triangles and audio files for hearing the pronunciation of trigonometric terms.
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- Fundamental Theorem of Algebra - Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Alexander Bogomolny
Some of the history of complex numbers, perfect numbers, irrational numbers, imaginary numbers, and the first proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (statement and significance), given by Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) in his Ph.D. Thesis (1799).
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- Gaussian Primes - Jim Loy
This is an introduction to Gaussian primes, complex numbers with integers for real and imaginary parts that are divisible by themselves and 1, but no other complex numbers with integer coefficients. This shows calculations of the first few Gaussian primes.
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- Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem - William Denton
Excerpts/quotes explaining Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem: any logical system contains a true statement that cannot be proven using that system's rules.
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- Graphe Easy - Olivier Ansquer
Feature-rich yet easy-to-use 2d graph-plotting Windows software. Demo version available. It allows users to draw many graph types (Cartesian, polar, parametric coordinates) and many other graphs such as conics, integrals, inequalities, or sequences. It
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- The Grid Game - Doug Ensley, Shippensburg University
A two-player game where the players alternate marking squares in a grid until there are none left. The first player chooses any single row or column and marks as many squares (at least one) as desired. The second player (the computer in this case) responds
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- Guide to the Mandelbrot Set - Paul Derbyshire
Explore the Mandelbrot set with a fractal-drawing program: images of well-known portions of the set, their locations, comments on miniature images of the Mandelbrot set that arise from different formulas, and Julia sets.
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- The Hank and Ted Game - Doug Ensley, Shippensburg University
Also known as "The Gambler's Ruin," this is a simple gambling game in which two parties flip a coin at a wager of one "marker" over and over until one of the parties is out of markers. The player who benefits from a toss of "heads" is Hank, and the other
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- Heavenly Mathematics: Highlights of Cultural Astronomy - Helmer Aslaksen
An interdisciplinary course that begins by discussing the relative motion of the Sun, Earth, and Moon, and follows with other fundamental concepts of astronomy.
Course content includes astronomy, astrology, calendars (Gregorian, Chinese, Islamic, Indian),
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- The High School Student's Guide to AP Statistics on the TI83 Plus Calculator - Jim Bowen
25 calculator programs designed to help support an AP Statistics course, with a tutorial example for each program demonstrating its use. This is a companion site to the previously published High School Student's Guide to Programming the TI86 Graphics
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- Honors Seminar in Cryptography - Jeremy Teitelbaum
Use a frequency count to solve a cryptogram online, or investigate course materials from an undergraduate course in cryptography. The site also includes some brief papers and book reviews on cryptography, and C source code for a Morse code translator.
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