- A Brief History of Cosmology - MacTutor Math History Archives
A hypertext essay describing the course of cosmology from its beginnings in early Babylonian society through the present, with References.
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- Brighten's Fractals Page - Brighten Godfrey
Investigate "Just Another Fractal Generator," a Java applet to make Iterated Function System (IFS) fractals based on triangles, or view a gallery of images created using the program.
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- Bring The Internet Into Your Classroom - NASA Quest Project
Links to an Internet Video Series designed to help teachers, administrators and community members introduce the Internet into K-12 classrooms; grant information; which schools are online; and the universe of other NASA and Education Online Resources.
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- British Weights and Measures Association - Mr. Vivian Linacre, Edinburgh, UK
Views and aims; press releases; the association's publications and some articles from them; a list of patrons and officers; subscription details; an invitation to help; and contact information. "The British Weights and Measures Association opposes wanton
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- BrokenAirplane.com - Phil Wagner
Blog of "tips and ideas that you can use in your classroom immediately, and suggestions to help you, no matter your teaching or technology experience." Posts, which date back to June, 2010, have included "Math Project - Slope Art," "SAM Animation Is the
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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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- Budgeting Money (SMILE) - Yolanda Smith, Douglass Math and Science Academy
A lesson for grades 6-8 designed to teach students how to budget a monthly income; basic math techniques integrated with reading and social studies skills; how to search for employment in the want ad section of a newspaper; and the difference between
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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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- Build Your Own Blocks - Mönig, Jens; Harvey, Brian
Turn, move, animate, and iterate figures with this visual programming language, which also lets you draw simple and complex fractals through recursion. Download Build Your Own Blocks (BYOB); watch tutorials; report bugs; and more. Originally designed
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- By the Numbers - Kinder Magic Software
Practice basic consumer math skills with Java applets that pace you though arithmetic problems, step by step: addition or subtraction of whole numbers or of decimals, percent mark-up, multiplication by one- and two-digit numbers, multiplying decimals,
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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 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 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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- 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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- CalculateHours - Molly Parker
This online time card calculator calculates hours worked. Add the widget to your site by copying the code provided. Training sessions teach how to use Excel to add up hours, average hours, and convert decimal hours or military time into conventional hours.
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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 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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- CalculationRankings - Youri Lieberton
Arithmetic problems to solve or number sequences to complete as a stopwatch counts down. Play the games to compare high scores against other speedy problem solvers; take the timed tests to see correct answers after submission.
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- Calculations and Formulas for Gemstones - Dendritics Incorporated
Calculate the carat weight or specific gravity of a gemstone or the value of precious metals in various currencies, or convert weights among grams, carats, pennyweights, and ounces.
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- calculator.com - Athera Corporation
Free access to online calculators to help you solve problems and answer questions in the home, office, and school. There are calculators for finance, business, and science, cooking, hobbies, and health. Some solve problems, some satisfy curiosity, and
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- Calculator Directory - ArsRef LLC
Commercial calculating software arranged by category. One page of free online calculators.
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- A Calculator - Eric Fuller
This JavaScript calculator supports the four basic arithmetic operations, and features simple memory, square root, and percent functions.
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- Calculators By Ken - Ken Prentice
Calculators for Windows that convert between different units, create calendars, perform basic physical computations, and more. Read descriptions, or download sample programs.
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- Calculators By Ken - Ken Prentice
Dozens of point-and-click (mouse-only) calculators available for purchase: acceleration, air flow, ANSI codes, area, atomic mass, BTU, calendars, calories, capacitance reactance, circles, circular angles, circular mils, cone, conveyor speeds, current
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- Calculators for Multiplying Vectors - William C. Corwin
Special purpose calculators: determine crown molding, find the bearing for a sundial (sun compass), face towards mecca, predict shadows, solve triangles (given angles or sides or ratios), apply Cramer's Rule, solve three equations with three unknowns
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- Calculators On-Line Center - Martindale's Reference Desk
Online software and Java applets that calculate quantities for a number of general and specific uses. Numerous "calculators" available for Code Translators, Distance/How Far is it?, Finance, Taxes, Grade Point Average, Logic & Syllogism, Navigation/GPS,
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- Calculators On-Line Center: Part II - Mathematics - Martindale's Reference Desk
Over 7,420 calculators for: Unit Conversion (Time, Distance, Length, Speed, Weight, etc.); Abacus; Basic Math; Complex Mathematics; Complex Math Education; Complex Math Calculators by Specialty: Algebra and Linear Algebra; Algorithms; Calculus; Central
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- Calculus in Motion - Audrey Weeks
Geometer's Sketchpad animations of mathematical concepts from middle school through high school. Three products are offered: Calculus in Motion (161 animations Including animations of 2009-1997 AP Exam AB & BC Free Response Questions); Algebra in Motion
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- Calculus Made Easy - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
There's something about calculus that can evoke a mixture of both wonder and dread. I was recently reminded of my first encounter with calculus by the announcement of the publication later this year of a new edition of the book Calculus Made Easy (Sylvanus
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- The Calendar and the Days of the Week - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math FAQ
What years are leap years? What day of the week will it be a year from today? How do I find the day of the week for any date? How do I find a calendar for any year? How common are Friday the 13ths?
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- Calendar Quirks - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
Calendars represent our efforts to create frameworks that allow us to reckon time over extended periods. We normally count the day - the time it takes Earth to rotate once on its axis - as the smallest unit of calendrical time. The measurement of fractions
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- Calendars and Astronomy (Math and the Heavens) - Dave Rusin, The Mathematical Atlas
More-or-less mathematical posts related to calendars and astronomy: background information on calendar traditions and a discussion of the mathematical aspects of the calendar, with a pointer to the Calendar FAQ; the related questions, on which day of
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- Calendars - L. E. Doggett
An introduction to calendars: what they are; astronomical bases of calendars; calendar reform and accuracy; historical eras and chronology; the Gregorian Calendar - ecclesiastical rules, history; the Hebrew Calendar - rules, Determining Tishri 1, Reasons
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- Calendopaedia - The Encyclopaedia of Calendars - Michael Astbury
A Comparison of Calendars, including Julian, Gregorian, Mayan, and Hebrew, details about these calendars and their history, and brief notes on different ways we measure time.
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- The California Learning Resource Network - California Department of Education
An educator's guide to instructional technology resources that support California's curriculum frameworks and standards: if an instructional program marketed to schools uses a computer, a VCR or laserdisc player, a network or the Internet or any combination
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- California Mathematics Council (CMC)
A professional organization of educators dedicated to improving classroom instruction in mathematics at all levels. Goals: to foster excellence in school mathematics curricula and instructional programs, including assessment and evaluation; to promote
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- California Online Mathematics Education Times (COMET) - Carol Fry Bohlin
A weekly news journal designed for mathematics educators and educational leaders, COMET features information on current educational issues, web resources, professional events and opportunities, and news articles from California and across the nation.
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- CalmPlex: 3D Geometric Wooden Puzzles - R&A Media Inc. and Andy Snowie
A manufacturer of wood puzzles based on simple geometric shapes. Learn about the CalmPlex wooden puzzle, a twelve piece, mechanical put-together manipulative that makes an 8x8 checkerboard, a 4x4x4 cube and over 50 other tessellated shapes: details, solution
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