- Brownian Motion - Charlie Geyer
An applet that draws one-dimensional Brownian motion, with source code and a link to statistical Java applets by others.
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- b's law - Brian Lawler
Blog begun March, 2011, by a professor of math education at California State University San Marcos. Posts, which "try to disrupt," have included "continued reaction to tracking," "The Problem of the Skateboarder Problem in IMP," "A Deconstruction of Learning
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- BUBL Link: Libraries of Networked Knowledge
A searchable national information service for the UK higher education community. Directory of UK organisations and institutions; Archive of LIS, journals, Internet development; abstracts, full text, hundreds of titles of journals; news: jobs, events,
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- Buffon's Needle - Michael J. Hurben
A Java applet that simulates a Monte Carlo method for the estimation of the value of pi, 3.14159265... The user controls the speed of simulating the dropping of up to 100,000 needles or pins on equally spaced parallel lines, while a bar graph displays
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- Buffon's Needle (MSTE) - George Reese; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Buffon's Needle, first stated in 1777, is one of the oldest problems in the field of geometrical probability. It involves dropping a needle on a lined sheet of paper and determining the probability of the needle crossing one of the lines on the page.
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- Buffon's Needle - Paul Kunkel
An investigation of the problem: Consider a plane, ruled with equidistant parallel lines, where the distance between the lines is D. A needle of length L is tossed onto the plane. What is the probability that the needle intersects one or more lines?
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- Buffon's Needling Ants - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
The idea of estimating pi by randomly casting a needle onto an infinite plane ruled with parallel lines was first proposed by the naturalist and mathematician Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon (1707-1788). In recent years, computer
simulations have
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- Build a Recreation Center Using Geometry - Gwen Neuberger, Community High School, West Chicago, IL
"Our geometry class is being asked to design a recreation center for the children of West Chicago. Money is no object. The class will be divided into groups of approximately four students." The site includes a lesson plan and scenario, as well as pages
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- Building an Icosahedron as a Class Project - Frederick J. Wicklin
A Teacher's Guide. This document describes how to build an icosahedron as a class project. The size is up to you. Step-by-step instructions are provided, as well as figures, diagrams, and templates.
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- Building a Virtual Museum Community - Jamie McKenzie
Virtual museums provide an excellent opportunity for museums to partner with schools. The Bellingham (WA) public schools recognized the potential of a partnership with the Whatcom County Museum of History and Art in Fall of 1995. This article describes
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- Building Big - WGBH Educational Foundation
Explore great feats of engineering and the ingenuity of the engineers, architects, and builders who designed and built them. Learn about bridges, domes, skyscrapers, dams, and tunnels; use Flash interactive engineering labs to experiment with forces,
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- Building Homes of Our Own - National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)
An interactive teaching tool for the middle and high school classrooms. The simulation presents a macro view of the entire home building process, from site selection to final sale. Students collect information, solve problems and make choices as they
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- Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) - U.S. Department of Commerce
The nation's economic accountant, preparing estimates that illuminate key national, international, and regional aspects of the U.S. economy. Regional, national, and international data, articles, and products.
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- Bureau of Justice Statistics - U.S. Department of Justice
The BJS collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. Key statistics by topic; list of publications, with abstracts, many of
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- Bureau of Labor Statistics - Jo-Ann L. Yu
The BLS collects information on the U.S. labor force, the economy, etc. Includes "The Economy at a Glance," press releases with relevant statistics, timeseries of various data, regional data, various publications, and information about jobs in the bureau.
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- Burning 1-Hour Fuses in 45 Minutes (Math Chat) - Frank Morgan, MAA Online
You have two one-hour fuses: lighting one end of a fuse will cause it to burn down to the other end in exactly one hour's time. You know nothing else about the fuses; in particular you don't know how long any segment of a fuse will burn, only that an
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- Burnt Toast Publishing - Bran McMillin
Burnt Toast Publishing offers the math puzzles for free use.
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- The Burr Puzzles Site - IBM
A Burr Puzzle consists of at least three rods intersecting each other at right angles. The most well-known type is the six piece burr where three sets of two rods intersect each other. This site lets you explore six piece burrs by selecting from a list
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- Buses on Quantum Schedules - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
Anyone who has waited for a bus in the city has probably casually observed that, after an inordinately long wait, two or three buses often come along at the same time. Mathematical models that simulate traffic flow confirm that bus bunching is a real
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- Business-Higher Education Forum - Business-Higher Education Forum
BHEF is an organization of Fortune 500 CEOs, prominent college and university presidents, and foundation leaders working to advance innovative solutions to education challenges in order to enhance U.S. competitiveness. BHEF addresses education issues
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- Butler-Cooley Excellence in Teaching Awards - Turnaround Management Association (TMA)
This program, made possible through the John William Butler Foundation, honors elementary and secondary grade teachers who have demonstrated exceptional dedication and skill in shaping the lives of students and the communities in which they live. It awards
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- Butterfly Station - Manfred Ullman
Applets for exploring spirographs, pendula, the Mandelbrot set, and Lorenz attractors.
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- The Butterfly Theorem - Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Alexander Bogomolny
Ten proofs (and a few variations) of the beautiful Butterfly theorem, with illustrations and remarks. Links to some generalizations: A Better Butterfly theorem, 2N-Winged Butterfly theorem, several pages on the Two Butterflies theorem. Several of these
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- The Butterfly Website Picture Galleries - Mikula Web Solutions, Inc.
Symmetry in nature: butterfly and moth images from a variety of sources. In most cases, a small picture is included for speed of transmission, and a larger picture is available by clicking on the small picture.
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- Buying My First Car - Bruce Hills, Jennifer Mendes; SCORE Mathematics
You will soon be in the position of getting your driver's license and looking for a car. In all of the excitement, you are faced with a number of decisions which need to be made before you actually purchase your car. Through this unit you will research
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- Buy or Lease an Automobile - Bill Cross; SCORE Mathematics
Comparing which is better - to buy or to lease an automobile. Students research the different prices of the cars they may be interested in purchasing, graph the comparisons, and work on the computer to compare their monthly payments based on the available
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- Byte Works, Inc.
Developers of the apps iPhone Calculator, a scientific/logic/conversion calculator; and techBASIC, which takes advantage of the iPod's, iPhone's, and iPad's built-in accelerometers, gyroscopes, or magnetometers to collect information, process it with
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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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- Cable's Leaders in Learning Awards
Cable's Leaders in Learning Awards recognizes outstanding educators, administrators, policymakers, and other community leaders at the forefront of innovation in education. Award categories include: Cable Partnerships for Learning, Pushing the Envelope
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- Cabri Conic Macros - Jim King, University of Washington
Nine Cabri Geometry II macros for constructing conics from various givens and for constructing certain features of given conics. Contains a documentation file.
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- Cabri en Physique - Yves Cortial
Cabri en Physique propose près de 140 figures créées avec le logiciel de géométrie dynamique Cabri Géomètre dont une centaine d'animations en version CabriJava: d'illustrations de phénomènes
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- Cabri Geometry: Classroom Resources - The Math Forum
The Math Forum's page of links at the Forum and on the Web to dynamic interactive geometry classroom resources for Cabri Geometry. Books and Web sites; Frequently Asked Questions; exploring the basics; workshops; excerpts from the journal abraCAdaBRI;
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- Cabri-géomètre - Jean-Marie Laborde
The French site for Cabri Geometry, the geometry software program. The site includes a brief history of the program, a list of new things on the site (see also Cabri-Java), Cabri product information, book and website references, and contact information.
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- CabriJava - Jean-Marie Laugier; L'Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille I)
Optique, électicité, mécanique. CabriHop: Une série de constructions d'optique géométrique et physique, niveau lycée et un peu +, à visiter en premier pour les paramétrages de votre navigateur,
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- Cabri Java Project/Projet Cabri-Java
Cabri-Java allows you to create dynamic geometric figures using Cabri and publish them as Java applets. In English and French.
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- Cabri Jr. - Texas Instruments Incorporated
Interactive geometry for the calculator: construct, analyze, and transform mathematical models and geometric diagrams. Cabri Jr. imports and exports figures from Windows computers. Take a tutorial, preview and download weekly activities, or browse the
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- Cabriology - Fréderic Louis
In Dutch: a website about the software Cabri Geometry, with tutorials, videos, pictures and more.
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- calc_reform - e-MATH/AMS, Math Forum
A discussion around reform of the curriculum and the teaching of calculus and linear algebra, including differential equations, a mix of theoretical issues and concrete practices. Read and search archived messages; and register to post to the discussions.
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- Calc 360 - Numerant, LLC
Calc 360 is a free, simple, and powerful calculator for your PC. Some of its main features include: adjustable precision, calculation history window, custom variables, loading and saving of calculations and more...
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- Calc3D - Andreas Greuer
Calc 3D is a free program for calculating 3-dimensional vectors, matrices and
complex numbers with Windows 95/98/NT. Cartesian coordinates, spherical coordinates und cylindrical coordinates can be transformed into each other.
Distances, intersections,
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- Calchemy Live! - Calchemy Software Inc.
Express the parameters of an equation in any convenient units of measure. Calchemy then checks the equation and parameters for dimensional consistency and makes all the necessary units conversions automatically. Categories include acceleration, angle,
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- Calc.Matthen.com - Matt Henderson
A webpage which allows users to manipulate their formula or plot it.
Supports differentiation and integration among other things.
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- Calcugator - Moscazul Software Llc
Licensed software that "... works like a calculator, a plotting engine, and a programming environment." Calcugator creates bar, pie, pareto and xy charts; 2D plots of functions as well as polar and parametric displays; and 3D plots of functions, contour
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- Calculate the Distance Between Two Places - infoplease.com
How far is it from one place in the U.S. to another? As you type, this form automatically completes the names of populated places, schools, "locales," parks, islands, bars, lakes, reservoirs, bays, gaps, dams, glaciers, streams, wells, mines, bends, valleys,
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- CalculateWhat - Colin Fagras
Free online calculators. In addition to covering math topics such as algebra, geometry, and statistics, CalculateWhat crunches numbers on topics financial, scientific, and -- under a category called "miscellaneous" -- more whimsical and topical in nature.
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- Calculating Car Payments - Barbara Christopher
Lesson plan with the objectives of using a formula containing complex fractions and large exponents to calculate a monthly car payment, using the order of operations while putting such a formula into a scientific calculator, and seeing a very practical
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- Calculating Cones - Monika Schwarze and Bianca Gonterney
A complete lesson plan including all materials, emphasizing a challenging and motivating method for self-guided and co-operative learning.
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- Calculating Free-throw Percentages - Robin Roberts; SCORE Mathematics
Time has run out in the big basketball game, and the score is tied. However, Up-State College has the ball with time out. You're the coach. Which players should you put into the game to give you the best chance of winning? One in a series of online interactive
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- Calculating the Volume of a Vase
- Web Feats Workshop II
Determine the volume of the vase pictured. The photograph shows the construction of the vase and that its height is 50 cm. Use the applet to find the coordinate values for the edge of the vase, and use the regression features of a graphing calculator
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- Calculation and the Chess Master - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
In 1912, J. B. Shaw wrote in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society: "The game of chess has always fascinated mathematicians, and there is reason to suppose that the possession of great powers of playing that game is in many features very much
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