- Moment of Truth - Keith Devlin (Devlin's Angle)
"Just what do we mean by a 'proof'? It seems that mathematicians - and to avoid generating too many letters of complaint, let me hasten to rephrase that as 'we mathematicians' - are somewhat schizophrenic when it comes to answering this question. When
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- Money as You Grow - United States Department of Treasury
Twenty age-appropriate financial activity prompts for parents to promote financial literacy in their children. Companion site to Money as You Learn, another initiative -- for teachers -- of the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability.
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- Money as You Learn - United States Department of Treasury
Lessons, activities, and other teacher tools to integrate personal finance into the teaching of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in Mathematics. "Personal finance big ideas" include cost/benefit analysis, delayed gratification, inflation, opportunity
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- Money Cents - MoneyCents, Inc.
Cartoon characters introduce the basics of saving and spending money. Interactive calculators to investigate sales and car loans, history quizzes, and Shockwave games.
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- The Money Game: World School Investment Challenge - Von Kaay Capital Network Inc., Ontario, Canada
A contest for schools (with a separate contest for high school seniors) that allows you to manage an investment portfolio. Classes or schools whose portfolios make the most money win some real money for their school. Find out the details and read the
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- Money Instructor
Teach and learn money, personal finance, money management. Free limited trial version, or pay for the full version. Includes money worksheets, lessons, lesson plans, counting money, spending and saving, checking, budgeting, investing, and more money topics.
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- Money - Lesson Ideas: Math; Teachnet.Com
293 Ways to Make Change for $1; Place Value Made Fun (dice games, counting money); Order Out (applying multiplication, planning, and calculator skills
by using an order out bill).
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- The Money Smith Cyberport - Money Smith Systems Inc.
Money Smith is a double entry accounting system, financial calculator, and investment tracking system offered as shareware. Money Smith tracks finances in one place, and generates graphs and reports. Reviews; ordering information; User Exchange; Year
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- MoneyWise: Parents & Educators - Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
Resources for teaching kids and teens money basics: articles; hands-on activities; life lessons; families & money surveys; questions and answers from Schwab's "Ask Carrie" service on everyday financial challenges; workshops, curricula, and more.
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- Monica Neagoy: Mathematics and Mathematics Education Consulting Services
Monica Neagoy is a mathematics consultant, public speaker, tutor, and teacher. She offers keynote addresses, Math Magic shows, teacher professional development, creative/technical writing, and other activities at the intersection of arts, education, and
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- Monkey Pod Games - Monkey Pod Games
Monkey Pod Games specializes in puzzles that can be used in the math classroom in order to help students understand mathematical concepts more easily.
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- Monkeys Dividing Coconuts - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question
A selection of answers to questions about monkeys dividing coconuts, such as "A monkey divides a pile of coconuts into three, tosses the extra one, and takes his share...."
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- The Monkey Shakespeare Simulator - AardAsNails Software
Simulating monkeys typing randomly on typewriters, this Java applet displays output that matches text from any of Shakespeare's plays in real-time. To raise the chances of "interesting results within our lifetimes," this simulation runs at an accelerated
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- Monopoly Dollars and Sense - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
The same rules underlie all of the varied editions of Monopoly, which feature themes ranging from golf to your favorite city. It's possible to describe the game in terms of a mathematical construction called a Markov chain, named for the Russian mathematician
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- Monthly Themes - NRICH Maths, Univ. of Cambridge
Past problems from the NRICH Online Maths Club, archived by month. Each problem has a symbol indicating the stage, which tells you how little or how much mathematics you need to know to solve the problem but is no indication of its difficulty. The five
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- Montpelier Portfolio Program (Mathematics) - Montpelier Public Schools
A site that invites students to use creative strategies to solve story questions. Students choose a problem to solve and send in the solution, showing how they found it; assessments of their efforts are returned via e-mail. Questions to help guide students
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- Monty Hall Dilemma - Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Alexander Bogomolny
A full discussion (including simulation) of the famous "three doors" problem, also known as the Game Show problem.
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- The Monty Hall Problem - Math Forum, a Classic Problem from the Ask Dr. Math FAQ
Let's Make a Deal: If you're shown a goat behind the second of three doors, should you stay with your first choice or switch?
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- The Monty Hall Trap - Jim Loy
What's the right answer? A simple description of the problem and whether to stay with your first choice, or switch.
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- Moody's Mega Math Challenge - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
A partnership of The Moody's Foundation and SIAM, the M3 Challenge spotlights applied mathematics as a powerful problem-solving tool, as a viable and exciting profession, and as a vital contributor to advances in an increasingly technical society. Open
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- Moogie on the Net! - Joseph Emanuel, Emanuel Software
Commercial drill and diagnostic software where the numbers always change. Not meant to instruct students or to present them with new material, but rather, to help them learn the process of solving problems. Software aligned to national and numerous state
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- More Complicated Than It Seems - Kate Nonesuch
In this review of the literature of approaches to adult numeracy instruction, Kate Nonesuch asks the question, "How can ABE math instructors apply research findings to their own teaching practice?" Through an extensive literature review and ongoing discussions
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- More Fibbery - Gregory K. Pincus
"Fibs./ Terse./ Defined./ As your tools,/ Twenty syllables;/ How you use them is up to you." The author explains this form of poetry and its two most important rules: the syllable count of 1/1/2/3/5/8 -- the first six digits from the Fibonacci sequence
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- More Paper-cutting Patterns (Geometry and the Imagination) - Conway, Doyle, Gilman, Thurston; The Geometry Center
Conical, cylindrical patterns, Moebius, and other symmetrical patterns to experiment with.
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- More than Just a Plane Game - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
When topologists started to explore the world of geometric forms in higher dimensions, they found that neither the intuition nor the vocabulary of ordinary geometry was sufficient to describe and classify the new forms they discovered. They introduced
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- More than Magic Squares - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
Peterson writes about magic squares, quoting Benjamin Franklin's interest in them. In addition to giving a few examples, Peterson also mentions Victor E. Hill IV's musing about whether the discoverer of the magic square actually set out to find an example
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- Morley's Miracle - Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Alexander Bogomolny
Interactive demonstrations and a detailed proof of Morley's Miracle: that the three points of intersection of the adjacent trisectors of the angles of any triangle form an equilateral triangle. With linked references to other proofs.
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- Morley's Pursuit of Incidence - Cut the Knot!, Alexander Bogomolny
With all the geometric context of his theory (applets are provided for explorations), Morley's method is purely algebraic, founded on the theory of complex numbers. Curves are mappings x = f(t) from the unit circle. x = X + iY, where X and Y are the plane
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- Morley's Redux and More - Cut the Knot!, Alexander Bogomolny
In 1998 Alain Connes - a French Fields medalist - published a new proof of Morley's theorem (the three points of intersection of the adjacent trisectors of the angles of any triangle form an equilateral triangle).
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- Morphing Art (MatheMUSEments!) - Ivars Peterson (Math Muse for Kids)
When you're riding along on your bike or in a car, you sometimes see the word "ONLY" painted on the roadway just before an intersection. The white letters look normal from where you're sitting. But if you were standing beside the "ONLY" instead of riding
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- Mortgage Loan Calculator - John Saund
Free online calculators, with an emphasis on personal finance: mortgages (ARM vs. fixed rate mortgage, rent vs. buy), credit cards (debt management), auto loans (dealer financing vs. credit union financing), savings (CD ladders, inflation), investment
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- The Most Colorful Math of All (MegaMath) - Nancy Casey; Los Alamos National Laboratory
Coloring is a profound mathematical topic with multi-million-dollar industrial applications. The problem presented here has been of interest to mathematicians for over a hundred years. With a few crayons or markers and some hand-drawn maps, children can
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- The Most Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics - Eric Schechter
Errors in communication: teacher hostility, student shyness, bad handwriting, not reading directions, loss of invisible parentheses, terms lost inside an ellipsis; Algebra errors: sign errors, everything is additive, everything is commutative, undistributed
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- The Most Complex Machine: A Survey of Computers and Computing - David Eck
An introductory computer science textbook for anyone who wants to understand how computers work and what computer science is about. It is supplemented by free software available for Macintosh and in a Java version that can be used over the Web, and lab
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- Mostly Modular Origami - Valerie Vann
Modular Origami is a branch of the art of paperfolding. The earliest modular origami is probably Asian (Japanese, Chinese) in origin. Unlike regular origami, where a figure or sculpture such as a crane, frog or airplane is made from a single sheet of
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- Most-perfect Pandiagonal Magic Squares - Kathleen Ollerenshaw and David Brée
A companion site to the book, which gives a method of construction and enumeration of all pandiagonal magic squares of a class known as Most-perfect. Pandiagonal magic squares have the integers in all rows, all columns, and all diagonals (including the
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- Motion of Fluid Interfaces - J. A. Sethian
A paper and movie about a rising bubble. Imagine an air bubble rising in water, a thermal of hot air rising on a cold day, or smoke rising out of smokestack. In each case, the interface between the two fluids will change dramatically as the fluids move.
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- Motion under Curvature - J. A. Sethian
A paper and movie of a curvature collapse. A famous theorem in differential geometry, proved less than ten years ago, says that any simple closed curve moving under its curvature collapses nicely to a circle and then disappears. That is, no matter how
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- MOTIVATE - Univ. of Cambridge, UK
MOTIVATE is a project incorporating a series of videoconferences, run by the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge. The objectives of MOTIVATE are: to enrich the mathematical experience of school students, to broaden their mathematical horizons,
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- Motivating Math - Robert Bunge
A math help site focusing on basic math through introductory algebra. Suitable for secondary students and adult learners. Includes tutorials, Java-based tools, and pedagogical ideas behind the presentation.
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- Move Over Fermat, Now It's Time for Beal's Problem - Keith Devlin (Devlin's Angle)
Beal's Problem is like Fermat's, but instead of focusing on equations with one exponent, n, there are three: m, n, and r. Thus, Beal's equation looks like this:
x^m + y^n = z^r. The idea is to look for whole number solutions to this equation where the
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- MowMowMow'S Cabri Room
Cabri files for high-school-level geometry. In English and Japanese.
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- Mozart's Musikalisches Würfelspiel: A Musical Dice Game for Composing a Minuet - John Chuang
During his life, Mozart wrote the measures and instructions for a musical
composition dice game that cuts and pastes pre-written measures of music together to create a minuet. Compose a minuet online in one of three ways: CGI generates all random numbers,
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- M Puzzle: a Math Line Puzzle - Math Forum
Construct nine triangles by drawing three straight lines through a capital M. Questions, hint, solution.
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- MQS Search - Mathematical Quotations Server, Furman University
Search the Mathematical Quotations Server by keyword.
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- mrbartonmaths.com - Craig Barton
A free website for teachers, pupils and parents aimed to get everyone enjoying their maths a bit more. For teachers there are bucket loads of original resources, software tutorials and reviews; for students there are pupil-friendly notes, advice about
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- Mr. Brandenburg's List of Recommended Books on Math and Science - Guy Brandenburg
A list of over 140 math- and science-related books, mostly recent, for geometry students to choose from, read, and do a report on. This new list is organized by topic: astronomy; bad science; biography: mathematicians + scientists; biology/life science/evolution;
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- Mr. Bunker's Fathom Lessons - Mr. Bunker, Boston Latin School
Instructions, some illustrated, for using Fathom to graph and analyze data sets about the 1970 draft lottery, Major League Baseball batting leaders, Boston Latin School math teachers, and algebraic transformations. Also, see group projects from the class
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- Mr. Hoffman's Home Page - Jim Hoffman
Assignments, notes, exams and interactive vocabulary quizzes (with answer keys) from Hoffman's own math and two-dimensional computer animation high school classes. These materials are based on Saskatchewan Provincial Curriculum, and include Math 9, Math
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- Mr. Kelley's AP Calculus Home Page - Mike Kelley
A teacher-made site that allows students to answer middle and high school math questions from people all over the world. Also an archive of past problems of the week, rated by difficulty.
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