- School-To-Work & Certificate of Initial Mastery
- Beauregard Parish (Louisiana) Public Library
Links to sites with information about changing the mission of the public schools from teaching children knowledge and skills to training them to serve the global economy in jobs selected by workforce boards.
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- School-to-Work (STW) - National STW Learning and Information Center
A system to prepare youth for the high wage, high skill careers of today's and tomorrow's global economy. Using federal seed money, States and their partnerships design the school-to-work system that makes the most sense for them. There is no single model.
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- SchoolTrainer.com - SchoolTrainer.com Ltd.
SchoolTrainer.com provides a wide range of academic coaching services including online tutoring for Math, Algebra, Geometry, Calculus, Trigonometry for all grades. Free homework help and online study materials are provided as well. Flexible rate plans.
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- School Wise Press
California publishers of school profiles for use in choosing schools for your children. The site also provides: education-oriented news, articles, and books; online school comparisons; an ask-an-expert service with a parent advocate; and editorial responses
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- School Wiz Tutoring - School Wiz
Australian computer-based maths & English tutoring with live support.
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- SchoolWorld Internet Education
A global Internet classroom from Australia for K-12 students and teachers, designed to allow schools to participate in a wide range of varied programs and projects (see The Math Decathlon by teacher Mike McGee), to interact with other schools from around
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- Schroedinger's Cash Register - Oliver Baker - Science News Online
A discussion of the application of physics (particle physics, quantum theory, and statistical mechanics) to finance theory, with econophysicists attempting to break ground in Wall Street, and the possible underlying mathematical structure of market behavior.
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- Science Access Project - Oregon State University
A group dedicated to developing methods for making science, math, and engineering information accessible to people with print disabilities. Includes braille representations of mathematical notation, and other resources for blind students.
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- Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge - Science and the National Science Foundation (NSF)
The annual Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge encourages cutting-edge efforts to visualize scientific data.
Co-sponsors Science Magazine and the National Science Foundation (NSF) select winners in each of five categories: photographs, illustrations,
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- Science and Mathematics Education: Similarities and Differences - Lynn Arthur Steen; St. Olaf College
Lynn Steen writes on the similarities and differences between the NCTM Standards and those of the National Research Council. Intellectually, the two communities agree on virtually all comparable aspects of their respective standards. But the nature of
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- Science and Mathematics: Using TI Calculators - ThinkQuest 1997
Covering TI-81, -82, -83, -85, and -92, links to TI's lists of programs available with each calculator, and a buyer's guide for each machine with comparisons between models. The site includes Internet links and contact information for its authors.
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- Science and Math Initiatives (SAMI)
A database/clearinghouse of resources, funding, and curriculum for rural math and science teachers. List, search by title or description, or browse math resources by category. Originally a project of the Boulder Valley School District, Boulder, Colorado,
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- Science and More - PublicLiterature.org
This site has a section on applied mathematics educational resources. Topics include projectile motion, differential equation solving, collisions, unit conversion, and prime number generation. Most software is
open source.
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- Science Animations - Peet van Schalkwyk
Science and Maths animations done in Macromedia Flash. These animations are free, interactive, 3D and dynamic.
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- Science & Arts Gateway for Education (SAGE) - The Cornell Center for Advanced Computing
The Cornell Science & Arts Gateway for Education (SAGE) is a math,
science, and arts gateway for secondary school students and educators that
provides an easy starting point for locating science and mathematics resources
on the Web. It is tailored
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- Science Buddies - Kenneth Lafferty Hess Family Charitable Foundation
Science Buddies supports hands-on scientific investigations by providing free science fair project ideas, answers, and tools to teachers, parents, and students. Programs focus on involving science and technology professionals to interact directly and
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- Science Daily: Research Shows Homework Does Boost Academic Achievement; but Overemphasizing Grades and Performance May Lead to Cheating - American Psychological Association
This article, from the ScienceDaily Magazine site, describes an investigation into the effect of homework and grade emphasis on academic achievement of students and self-reported rates of cheating.
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- Science Education at Jefferson Lab - Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab)
Educational resources for students (homework help links; programs and events; games and puzzles; internships) and teachers (summer programs; reference links; distance learning programs; activities, worksheets, and games). See, in particular, Jefferson
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- Science Fairs - Chris Gould; World-Wide Web Virtual Library
An attempt to provide a single comprehensive list of every science fair
accessible through the World Wide Web, whether of global or local scope. Many of the links on this page lead to descriptions/abstracts of math projects entered in such fairs. Categories
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- ScienceMakers Video Archive - The HistoryMakers®
Thousands of stories from life oral history interviews of dozens of contemporary African Americans at the forefront of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM): Shirley Ann Jackson, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and president
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- Science, Math, and Technology Tutorial (SMATT) - ThinkQuest 1996
Topics: Math History (biography of Descartes); Logic (how to construct logical arguments and put them into proofs); Math Tutorial (Basic Algebra with problems and solutions); Environmental Science (ozone in the atmosphere); Astronomy (implications of
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- Science Museum Math Exhibit - The Geometry Center
A museum exhibit on triangle tilings that contains sophisticated concepts such as tilings of the sphere and the relation between tilings and the Platonic and Archimedean solids: the sum of the angles of a planar triangle is always 180 degrees. Repeated
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- Science Museum of Minnesota
Natural history and technology. See the world's largest Camptosaurus dinosaur skeleton, touch a tornado, play the congas, do some serious Internet surfing, or test the waters of the Mississippi River. The museum is Minnesota's most popular indoor cultural
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- Science News Online
The weekly newsmagazine of science. Headlines; selected full-text articles 1995-; references and people to contact (for additional information on current articles); previous issues of Science News 1996-. Features: Ivars Peterson's MathTrek (formerly MathLand);
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- The Science of NFL Football - National Science Foundation (NSF)
This 10-part series explores the science behind football. Running about four to five minutes in length, each video features an NSF-supported scientist explaining a selected scientific principle, while athletes from the National Football League (NFL) describe
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- The Science of NHL Hockey - National Science Foundation (NSF)
This 10-part series explores the science behind hockey. Running about four to five minutes in length, each video features an NSF-supported scientist explaining a selected scientific principle, while athletes from the National Hockey League (NHL) describe
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- Science Online - American Association for the Advancement of Science
Searchable Web version of the global weekly research publication, with searchable full text, daily news, Science's Next Wave (Free access: News, forums, columns on career development in science), Science Careers, Electronic Marketplace, and administrative
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- Sciences exactes / Mathématiques - Encyclopédie Hachette Multimédia En Ligne
Recherche Mathématiques par thème: Mathématiciens et logiciens; Mathématiques générales; Logique; Algèbre; Topologie; Analyse; Géométrie; Cinématique; Statistiques; Probabilités;
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- Science & Technology Curriculum Framework - Massachusetts
Core concept: Owning the Questions. The Science and Technology content section contains four strands that are broad learning standard statements about what students should know and be able to do as learners of science and technology. Each strand reflects
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- science-to-touch - Jürgen Richter-Gebert
Projects for interactively visualizing science, from one of the co-authors of the Cinderella geometry software package: iOrnament, a drawing and explanation app for the 17 crystallographic wallpaper groups; ix-quadrat, a museum exhibit of symmetry, Escher,
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- Scientific American
The online version of the technology magazine, with interlinked articles, interviews with scientists, Ask the Experts, and Explorations, guided tours across the Web of recent technological developments. An archive of past articles is included.
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- Scientific Applications of Linux - Herng-Jeng Jou and Kachina Technologies, Inc.
SAL (Scientific Applications on Linux) is a collection of information and links to software for scientists and engineers. Math categories include computer algebra systems, array-oriented and linear algebra systems, statistics, and number theory. Numerical
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- Scientific Letter - mailer with formulas - Scientific Networks Software
Mail software that allows users to create messages with complex mathematical formulas. The equation editor used in the mailer allows users to create complex equations swiftly and to see formulas in their usual form. Addressees of letters from Scientific
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- Scientific Notebook - MacKichan Software, Inc.
Use Scientific Notebook to create documents with text, mathematics, and graphics. Do free-form, natural editing of mathematics within expressions and text. Solve problems with the built-in version of the Maple computer algebra system. Import expressions
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- Scientific Surfing for Children - Mike May, American Scientist
An early article about the World Wide Web by Mike May in the November-December issue of American Scientist, pp. 568-571, discusses the world of scientific information and activities on the Internet, and forums in which professional scientists are waiting
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- Scientist Cards - All Too Flat
Trading cards, humorously based on Topps and Fleer baseball cards, list the writing preference, dominant cortex, university, and key contributions of Richard Feynman, James Clerk Maxwell, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Claude Shannon, Leonhard Euler,
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- Scientopica - Dr. Ken Milligan
A science portal that aims to make the acquisition of scientific information more efficient. Services include a science-specific search engine and directory, 8 categories of constantly updated science news, a science events calendar, forums, reviews,
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- sci.fractals FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) - Shirriff, Stepp
A archived FAQ from sci.fractals, a Usenet newsgroup about fractals; mathematics, and software, aimed at being a reference about fractals, including answers to commonly asked questions, archive listings of fractal software, images, papers that can be
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- sci.fractals FAQ - Taylor, Louvet
A FAQ posted monthly to sci.fractals, a Usenet newsgroup about fractals, mathematics, and software, aimed at being a reference about fractals, including answers to commonly asked questions, archive listings of fractal software, images, and papers that
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- sci.math - Math Forum
A very active unmoderated discussion group focused on general and advanced mathematics. Read and search archived messages; and register to post to the discussions.
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- sci.math.symbolic - Math Forum
An unmoderated discussion group for symbolic mathematics packages. Read and search archived messages; and register to post to the discussions. Conversations in this group overlap to some extent with the Matlab and Mathematica discussion groups, but it
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- Sci-Philately: A Selective History of Science on Stamps - Maiken Naylor; Science and Engineering Library, Univ. at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Stamps from the personal collection of the author, Maiken Naylor, in the following categories: Astronomy and Cosmology; Instruments and Measurements; Mathematics and Computation; Chemistry; Evolution and the Fossil Record; Biology; Heredity and the Genetic
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- sci.stat.edu - Math Forum
An unmoderated newsgroup focused on statistics education. Read and search archived messages; and register to post to the discussions. Also available at http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=edstat-l&A=1.
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- SCORE Mathematics Lessons - Jim Shaver, Schools of California
Lessons by teachers that reflect California's Mathematics Framework and the NCTM Standards, organized by their main strands with links to descriptions of the strands: Functions, Algebra, Geometry, Statistics and Probability, Discrete Mathematics, Measurement,
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- ScottBeall.com - Scott Beall
Professional development programs for mathematics teaching and interdisciplinary curricula, emphasizing the integration of music and mathematics. With examples from his recent publication Functional Melodies - Finding Mathematical Relationships in Music
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- Scott Kim, Puzzle Master
A puzzle and graphic design creator, Scott Kim offers links to his online puzzles, a gallery of inversions (or ambigrams, words or names written so they read in more than one way--some read upside down, some flip in a mirror, some read as two different
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- Scout Report Signpost: QA - Mathematics - Internet Scout Project
A selected set of math-related Internet resources chosen by the editorial staff of the Scout Report. Resources are cataloged, classified, and arranged using existing taxonomies such as the Library of Congress Classification Scheme and the Library of Congress
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- Scrambled Grids - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
The so-called baker's map, or transformation, in dynamical systems theory. One special case: Start with a square. Stretch it to twice its original length
while making it half as wide. Cut the result in half, and stack one half on top of the other to
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- Sculpture Generator - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
"Judging what a sculpture will look like after it is finished can present many difficulties for an artist just beginning a piece... Computer scientist Carlo Séquin of the University of California, Berkeley, specializes in the
computer-assisted
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- The Seaborg Center - C. Wozniak, Northern Michigan University
The Glenn T. Seaborg Center for Teaching & Learning Science and Mathematics reflects Seaborg's belief that, in today's world, each citizen must have a solid base in the understanding of and appreciation for scientific concepts and the technology to
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