- The Basic Math Quick Reference Handbook - Pete Mitas
This handbook, written by an experienced math teacher, lets you quickly look up definitions, facts, and problem solving steps. It includes over 700 detailed examples and tips to help someone improve
their mathematical problem solving skills. The web
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- Basic Math - SPEED Software, Inc.
Download PC shareware demos of arithmetic drill programs. With Math Flash Cards, customize your own deck of flash cards to practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing. With Fraction Flash Card, design your own deck of flash cards to practice
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- Basic Skills Resources - National Institute for Literacy
The Basic Skills Resource Collection focuses on reading, writing, mathematics and numeracy resources that can improve instruction in basic skills. Each resource listing features an abstract and a review by an expert in the field. Resources in this Collection
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- Basics of Business Math Online Training - Webucator, Inc.
Commercial online courses covering the following topics as they are used in business: calculator use, decimals, equations, fractions, percents, and reports (statistics and graphs).
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- Basic Terms - Mark Motyka, Math League Multimedia
Definitions and illustrations of basic geometric terms: lines, points, intersection, line setments, rays, endpoints, and parallel lines.
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- BasketMath Interactive - Robert Cummings, Science Academy Software
Science Academy Software's BasketMath online interactive application drill and practice site offers auto-scoring questions in arithmetic, rounding and writing numbers, order of operations, factoring, adding or multiplying signed numbers, calculating perimeter
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- Battleship Puzzles - Erich's Puzzle Palace; Erich Friedman
There are five 3 x 1 ships hidden in each puzzle grid, each ship with a different number from 1 to 5. The numbers at the sides of the grid give the sum of the numbers on all the ships in that row or column. Ten puzzles, with answers provided.
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- Beacon Learning Center - Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center is an online educational resource and professional development center funded through a grant from the U. S. Department of Education, 2000-2005. The resources posted in the Beacon database are products of professional development
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- Be a Math Teacher - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
The NCTM's answers to "Why Be a Math Teacher?" and other frequently asked questions from prospective math teachers. "How to Become a Math Teacher" explains what it takes to complete a teacher education program and gain a state license. "Why Certified
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- BEAM: Be A Mathematician
A mathematics curriculum development project for nursery, primary, special and lower secondary teachers. It publishes resource materials for teachers' use in the classroom, offers training courses for teachers, and provides consultancy in the area of
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- BEATCALC Archive - Math Forum
An archive of B. Clay's BEATCALC weekly mailing list. Amaze your friends by memorizing a few simple rules and doing mental math tricks faster than they can do them on a calculator. Squaring, multiplying, dividing, adding, and subtracting numbers; finding
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- The Beauty of Chaos - Uwe Krüger
A database of over 500 pictures of the Mandelbrot set. Also links to a CD-ROM and other fractal image sites.
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- Bee Alert - University of Montana
Bees and portable computers can now be used to assess environmental hazards through the development of electronic hives, toxicological models, extensive databases, and pattern-recognizing software that help assess risks posed by metals, radiation, carcinogenic
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- Beestar.org - Beestar Educations, Inc.
Providers of curriculum-based online programs for students, such as Beestar Progressive Exercise (BPE), a "systematic knowledge application and skill-practice program." See, in particular, the weekly math program; and dozens of freely downloadable sample
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- Before Pythagoras: The Culture of Old Babylonian Mathematics - New York University Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
This archaeological exhibit explored the world of Old Babylonian mathematics through cuneiform tablets, and illustrates how the ancient civilization performed arithmetic on numbers based entirely on two symbols. Online highlights include images of a multiplication
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- Behind the Numbers - Jonathan Sills; ESPN SportsZone
A monthly column that explores the gray area between math and sports and what happens when exact calculations meet the human, unpredictable factors that make sports so entertaining. A combinatoric and probabilistic analysis of changes in World Cup soccer
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- Beiup-Maths-Bac-Brevet - Davy Rigaux
Maths, exercises, lessons, forum, chat... all in French.
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- The Benefits of Mixed-Age Grouping (ERIC Digest) - Lilian G. Katz
"Goodlad and Anderson, who introduced the modern notion of the non-graded elementary school in 1959, raised our awareness of the fact that age is a crude indicator of what learning experiences children are ready for... The terms 'ungraded' and 'nongraded'
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- The Benezet Centre - Richard Hake & Sanjoy Mahajan
In 1929, Louis Benezet tried an experiment, "abandoning all formal instruction in arithmetic below the seventh grade and concentrating on teaching the children to read, to reason, and to recite." The experiment was successful; this site includes Benezet's
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- ÜberFan - UberFan, LLC
"The fan's electronic baseball card," UberFan.com gives each fan ownership of Major League Baseball statistics by collecting them from the games he or she watches. Satisfy your curiosity for how many home runs you've seen your favorite batter hit, for
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- Bernhard Kutzler's Collection: Technology in Mathematics Education - Bernhard Kutzler
Read or download the author's articles: "Algebraic Calculators as Pedagogical Tools for Teaching Mathematics"; "Indispensable Manual Calculation Skills in a CAS Environment"; "Two-Tier Exams as a Way to Let Technology in"; and "Interconnectivity - Derive
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- Best Evidence Encyclopedia - Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education
What mathematics programs have been proven to help students to succeed? The Best Evidence Encyclopedia (BEE) provides summaries of scientific reviews produced by many authors and organizations, as well as links to the full texts of each review. See ratings
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- Best Graphing Calculators - Dan Agostinelli
Reviews of TI's current graphing calculator models. The guide "TI Graphing Calculators in Exams" provides a tabular overview of the calculators allowed at the SAT, ACT, Advanced Placement (AP), PSAT/NMSQT, International Baccalaureate (IB), and Praxis
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- Best of the Web - Math
A directory listing of math sites on the web.
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- BestWebQuests.com/ - Tom March
Tom March has designed and assessed WebQuests since 1995. He presents these top ten choices on the subject of mathematics: For the Love of the Game; Franchise; A Creative Encounter of the Numerical Kind; The Dilemma of the Dangerous Meat Loaf; The King
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- BetterExplained - Kalid Azad
Discover and share the "intuitive insights that make complicated ideas simple. Our 'ah-ha!' moments are different, and that's ok. There's no single way to explain an idea...." Preferring the construction of maps over the memorization of directions, the
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- A Better Mathematics Curriculum - Tom Davis; Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math FAQ
What should we be teaching students today? Dr. Tom provides his take on what would make a better math curriculum.
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- Between the Folds - Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Exploring the science, art, creativity, and ingenuity of origami, Between the Folds chronicles the stories of ten leading paperfolders and their works of art. The game "Match the Folds" presents three finished works of origami alongside the fold pattern
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- Beyond Extra Large (and Ultra Small) - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
Metric prefixes come in handy for expressing both large and small quantities. So we have megawatt power systems and gigabyte hard drives at the high end, and we have nanoscale electronics and femtosecond lasers at the low end. Advances in scientific research
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- Beyond TERC - Linda Moran
Share constructive ideas with other parents and seek advice from Linda Moran, a licensed math teacher and author of the Beyond TERC lens and the Beyond TERC blog.
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- Beyond the Block: Tessellating Patterns - Linda Hampton Schiffer
An article about using tessellations in quilt design.
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- Beyond the Ellipse - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
There's a simple trick one can use to draw an ellipse. Tie the ends of a length of string to two pins (or thumbtacks) stuck in a sheet of paper on a drawing board. Then, keeping the string taut with the point of a pencil, allow the pencil to trace a path
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- Bibliography Index - MacTutor Math History Archives
About 700 books/articles on the History of Mathematics, some general works and some more specialised, intended to supplement the list of references attached to each biography or History topic in the MacTutor Math History archives. The items in the bibliography
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- Bicycle Tracks (Geometry and the Imagination) - Conway, Doyle, Gilman, Thurston; The Geometry Center
Students are to discuss passage from a Sherlock Holmes story, The Adventure of the Priory School (by Arthur Conan Doyle): 'This track, as you perceive, was made by a rider who was going from the direction of the school.'...
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- The Big List of Puzzle and Riddle Pages - MindBreakers Associates Inc.
An annotated list of links to sites with collections of math and word puzzles; also the best puzzles (the files), ranked for coolness and difficulty, with solutions and discussion: Gold for free; Just draw a line...; Turn on a lightbulb; the Wizard and
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- Big Math Attack! - Educational Software
For PCs, this game includes math solving and metric conversion as well as spelling and typing skills practice. (Spelling section is customizable.) Downloadable evaluation copy available in several versions.
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- BigPictures Index - MacTutor Math History Archives
An alphabetical list of pictures of mathematicians accompanying the archives.
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- Big Picture: What Does 'Numeracy' Mean? - Iddo Gal
Numeracy is a term increasingly used in publications aimed at adult educators, yet its meaning and purpose may be unclear. This article briefly examines the importance of numeracy and the implications for those working with the GED Tests.
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- BigPrimes.net - BigPrimes.net
An archive of primes, plus information on each prime, and on prime numbers in general, number systems, types of numbers, and universal constants. The number cruncher will tell you facts about numbers you submit.
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- The Big Six Skills: Information Skills Instruction - Eisenberg, Berkowitz
Information and technology literacy programs. Big6 is a systematic approach to information problem-solving, useful whenever an individual has an information-oriented problem. Six skills are listed, with examples for potential uses, a store, a bibliography,
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- Bilingual Mathematics Dictionary / Diccionario Bilingüe de Matemáticas - Norman Koch and Denise Meeks
An alphabetical list of terms in English with their corresponding Spanish translations, from abacus (el ábaco) to zone (la zona). The purpose of this glossary of math terms is to make readily available in one convenient document a list of terms
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- Bill Cutler Puzzles - Bill Cutler Puzzles, Inc.
Wooden puzzles for sale: six piece burr puzzles, rectilinear burr puzzles, non-rectilinear burr puzzles, box-filling puzzles, and miscellaneous puzzles. The computer program BCPBOX solves box-packing problems such as pentominoes; GENDA determines how
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- Binomial Coefficients - Jay's Corner
A binomial is an algebraic expression with two terms, like x + y. When we multiply out the powers of a binomial we can call the result a binomial expansion. Multiplying out an expression is just a matter of using the distributive laws of arithmetic, a(b+c)
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- The Binomial Expansion and Infinite Series - Don Cohen (The Mathman)
Pascal's triangle of numbers, although named after Pascal, was known much before his time. If there is one piece of mathematics that exhibits many patterns, this is it. There are triangular numbers and tetrahedral numbers, and even the Fibonacci numbers
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- Biografias y Vidas - Biografias y Vidas, S. C. P.
Biographies in Spanish, including those of mathematicians. Using the advanced search (Buscador Avanzado), search for matematicas in the description.
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- A biographical sketch of Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace - Dr. Betty Toole
A brief biography and book reference of Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, one of the most picturesque characters in computer history, who suggested to Babbage a plan that is now regarded as the first "computer program." Also Ada Lovelace's Notes on her translation
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- Biographies Index - MacTutor Math History Archives
An index of pages on famous mathematicians throughout history, arranged alphabetically or chronologically and searchable by keyword. There is also an index of female mathematicians, and a full alphabetical index.
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- Biographies of Women Mathematicians - Agnes Scott College
Biographies in alphabetical and chronological order, and related resources on the Web. An ongoing project by students in math classes at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate the numerous contributions by women to the field of mathematics.
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- Biography of M. C. Escher - Thames and Hudson's Escher Interactive
A biography of the well-known, early 20th century artist. Escher's work is famous today for the imaginary worlds he created. He combined bizarre creatures and spatial illusions with craftsmanship and love of detail. Born in Holland in 1898, the son of
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- The Birthday Problem - Math Forum, a Classic Problem from the Ask Dr. Math FAQ
What if somebody offered to bet that at least two people in your math class had the same birthday? Would you take the bet? How large must a class be to make the probability of finding two people with the same birthday at least 50%?
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