- Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching - University of Plymouth
A focus for research and curriculum development in mathematics teaching and learning with the unifying aim of enhancing mathematical progress in schools and colleges. The site includes: The Mathematics Enhancement Programme; Resources: worksheets in HTML
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- CEO Forum on Education & Technology
By regularly highlighting the importance of education technology and monitoring its deployment in the schools, CEOs seek to accelerate the country's progress in preparing our children for the next century. The site contains a description and overview
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- Challenge by Choice - David Suarez and others
A classroom mathematics program that lets students choose their own level of challenge within the structure of the curriculum. His blog offers details of the program, the theoretical and practical basis of differentiated instruction, and the results he's
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- The Challenge of Detracking: Finding the Balance between Excellence and Equity - Lockwood, Cleveland; UEWeb
Download this PDF for an introduction to and background of tracking; terminology, issues, and data showing prevalence and impact; and bibliography.
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- Challenges: Mathematics and Statistics - InnoCentive, Inc.
"Seekers" submit challenges to InnoCentive's online marketplace for innovation, where scientists, engineers, professionals and entrepreneurs collaborate to solve them. The most innovative solutions receive financial awards ranging up to US$1,000,000.
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- Chameleon Graphing: Plane History - Ursula Whitcher
A Web unit for middle and high school students. Sam the Chameleon investigates the history of the coordinate plane. Was it invented? Who named it? The unit includes a glossary and brief biographical information about the historical figures involved. See
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- Chameleon Graphing: The Coordinate Plane - Ursula Whitcher
A Web unit that introduces the coordinate plane, for elementary and middle school students. With the help of Sam the Chameleon, learn to find points on a number line and graph points in the coordinate plane. See also Whitcher's companion units on Lines
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- Change the Equation
This non-profit, non-partisan CEO-led initiative aims to "solve America's innovation problem. It answers the call of President Obama's Educate to Innovate Campaign to move the U.S. to the top of the pack in science and math education," with science, technology,
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- Changing the Way We Teach Math - Kate Nonesuch
This document is a manual for teaching basic math to adults. It sets out some "best practices" from the literature, then outlines some difficulties instructors may face in implementing them, and makes suggestions for overcoming those difficulties. There
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- Chaos, Dynamic Systems, and Fractal Geometry - Tyeler Quentmeyer, ThinkQuest 1996
An educational Web page whose purpose is to make learning many of the complicated theories and ideas behind the theory of chaos, dynamic systems, and fractal geometry easier and more fun. It approaches problems from many different angles and gives users
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- The Chaos Game - Robert L. Devaney; Dept. of Mathematics, Boston University
One of the most interesting fractals arises from what Michael Barnsley has dubbed "The Chaos Game," which is played as follows. First pick three points at the vertices of a triangle. Color one of the vertices red, the second blue, and the third green.
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- Chaos in the Classroom - Robert L. Devaney; Dept. of Mathematics, Boston University
One of the most interesting applications of technology in the mathematics classroom is the fact that it allows teachers to bring many new and exciting topics into the curriculum. In particular, technology lets teachers bring some topics of contemporary
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- The Chaos Metalink - Industrial Street Productions
A site designed as an ongoing resource for all those interested in Chaos science and things fractal. This site is sponsored by Images of Chaos, an Artwork for Television and Industrial Street Productions as a service to the Chaos community. Featured Sites;
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- Characteristics of Gifted Children: Articles and Research - Carolyn K., Hoagies' Gifted Education Page
Articles and reports on characteristics of gifted children: perfectionism, sensitivity, social skills and emotional skills, underachievement, and visual-spatial learning.
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- Charles Babbage Institute of Computer History (CBI) - University of Minnesota
CBI is a research center at the University of Minnesota dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of information processing. As part of its mission, CBI maintains an archival collection available for use by the public that includes
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- Charlie's World - Buildcontent.Com
A searchable database of hundreds of links to educational content. Math resources include interactive movies, slide shows, Java applets and more. Topics include numbers, statistics, geometry, fractions and so on.
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- Charlotte and the World Wide Web - Santrach, Carpenter, Young, Young; The Geometry Center
An introduction to the World Wide Web, its potentials, and links to some geometry software (The Geometer's Sketchpad, Tesselmania, Geometric Golfer, Kali, Kaleidotile), for secondary school educators. A final project created for Math 5337, Technology
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- Charlotte Tutor: Tutoring, Learning, Results - Charlotte Tutor
Test preparation and tutoring in Charlotte, NC and surrounding areas, for a wide array of academic subjects such as mathematics (math), statistics, physics, chemistry, engineering, AP & IB courses and much more. K-12 and College (undergraduate & graduate)
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- Chasing Arrows (MatheMUSEments!) - Ivars Peterson (Math Muse for Kids)
The reycling symbol looks like three bent arrows chasing each other around a triangular loop. You often find it printed on cardboard cartons, envelopes, greeting cards, packages, and trash containers. It's also an intriguing mathematical object. Imagine
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- Chess Math (SMILE) - Louis C. Jackson, Lincoln Elementary School
A lesson designed to reinforce students' knowledge of angles as they become chess
pieces on a floor chess board. From the Patterns and Logic section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning
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- Chess'n Math Association / Association Échecs et Maths - Canada's National Scholastic Chess Organization
In Canada, a growing number of elementary schools have incorporated chess into the regular school curriculum, through Challenging Mathematics. This math program is approved by the Ministry of Education and has led to the creation of the Chess'n Math Association
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- Children First: website of the National PTA - National Parent-Teacher Association
News and information from the PTA, including its educational programs and materials, conferences, on-line subscriptions and discussion groups, legislative activities, and links to other child-oriented sites.
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- Children's Shareware, Java Applets, Nature Wallpaper, and more - Lawrence Goetz
Shareware programs for kids, for Windows 3.1 and 95, including: Paddle Battle (a pong clone), Larry's Learning Math Machine (unregistered version has addition and subtraction; registered includes multiplication and division practice), Larry's Learning
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- Children's Software Revue
A magazine that features reviews of educational software. The website has a database of children's software that may be searched by title, rating, grade level, copyright date, publisher, platform, or the subject that it teaches. Reviews can be submitted
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- ChiliMATH - Michael Estela
Lessons and tutorials with worked examples, some handwritten: equations, inequalities, radicals, matrices, polynomials, functions, and more.
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- Chinese Mathematics - MacTutor Math History Archives
Articles on mathematics in Chinese culture: An Overview of Chinese Mathematics; Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art; The Ten Mathematical Classics; Chinese Numerals; and Chinese Problems. Also an alphabetical list of Chinese mathematicians, linked to
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- Chinese Numbers - Erik E. Peterson
Convert arabic numerals up to 1 billion into Chinese numbers, or show the value of a Chinese number (type or paste in a number in Chinese and click "Show English." With, in addition, A Brief Description of the Chinese Number System, and links to related
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- Chinook (champion checkers computer program) - Jonathan Schaeffer, Dept. of Computing Science, Univ. of Alberta
Chinook is the World Man-Machine Checkers Champion, a title it earned by competing in human tournaments and defeating the best players in the world.
Chinook is the by-product of a research effort started in 1989 into game-playing strategies. The long-term
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- Chips A Tally - Bayonne, NJ Board of Education - 5th Grade Teachers
A collaborative math project to determine whether the number of chocolate chips in Chips Ahoy cookies is the same everywhere. Classes may submit data, and results will be posted November 30, 2000. Site includes: lesson plans that use statistics to analyze
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- ChisenBop (or Chisanbop) - Andrew Harris, Computer Science, Indiana & Purdue Universities
An ancient technique from Korea, similar to the abacus or soroban: using your fingers as an analog computer, illustrated and with Real streaming media lessons. Background; simple counting; simple adding and subtracting; adding "around the corner"; subtraction
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- Christianity and the Mathematical Sciences - the Heliocentric Hypothesis - MacTutor Math History Archives
Linked essay on Christianity's influence on the mathematical sciences. With references and other related web sites.
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- Christmas With The Polyiamonds Puzzle Family - Jos H. Hindriks
Polyiamonds share their general principles with Pentominoes, except that their basic 'cell' is the sixty-degree triangle instead of the square. The term 'Polyiamonds', derived from the word 'diamond', was introduced in 1961 by T.H. O'Beirne. Hexiamonds,
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- Chron Me! Online Stopwatch
Easily record time in increments, whenever you have a multi-part task to time. Press start; press stop; add a label for that segment; repeat as needed; download the resulting comma- or semicolon-separated file to your computer, or open it with Excel.
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- Chronological Age Calculator - AGS Publishing
Click the "Age Calculator" button, then enter two calendar dates to compute elapsed years, months, and days. Available for download.
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- A Chronology of Mathematicians - MacTutor Math History Archives
A chronology of mathematicians between the dates stated, showing how the lives of
the mathematicians overlap: 700 BC-700 AD; 700-1650; 1625-1775; 1750-1850; 1825-1900; 1875-1957. Where either the birth or death of a mathematician is unknown (mostly for
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- A chronology of pi - MacTutor Math History Archives
Pre-computer calculations of pi, from the Rhind papyrus through Ferguson (1946); computer calculations from Ferguson (1947) through Kanada, Takahashi (Sept 1999). With references and other related web sites.
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- CIESEmath Project - Stevens Institute for Technology Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education
Outlines of ten units of Everyday Math and thirteen chapters of Transition Math, some with links to relevant Java applets and Geometer's Sketchpad sketches. The list of activities links to more interactive math tools, instructions, and handouts. A joint
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- CIESE Online Classroom Projects - Stevens Institute of Technology
Projects that use realtime data available from the Internet, and collaborative projects that use the Internet's potential to reach peers and experts around the world. The site lists currently sponsored projects by level, with an archive of past sponsored
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- Circle Drawing Experiment - Thomas Denney
Draw a figure on the grid by clicking and dragging. Upon release of the mouse button, this JavaScript calculates a "perfect circle" accuracy score by using the sketch's perimeter as the circumference of a perfect circle, and comparing its area to the
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- Circle Formulas (Ask Dr. Math FAQ) - Math Forum
Formulas for finding the area, perimeter, arc, segment, or sector of a circle.
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- Circle Formulas - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question
A selection of answers to questions about circle formulas, including how to find their circumferences and areas.
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- Circle Graph - What Percent? - NASA Lewis Learning Technologies Project
This circle graph shows how Jimmy spent his time during the last 24 hours. What percent of time did he spend watching television? A detailed answer is provided. From NASA's 9th Grade Math Proficiency Test.
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- Circles - 360 Degrees - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question
A selection of answers to questions about why a circle has 360 degrees, and the origin of that degree measurement.
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- Circle Scribe Disk Compass - Bill Harper
A new instrument for manually exploring shape and space, used to draw diagrams on paper, from cartoon characters to limacons, as well as standard geometric constructions. Unlike toys like spirograph, the Circle Scribe Disk Compass requires some geometrical
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- Circles in Geometry - Lesson Ideas: Math: Geometry; Teachnet.Com
Whole-class and group activities for teaching circle concepts, pi, circumference, etc.
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- Circles of Dissonance - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
Much of today's music rests upon ancient tradition going back thousands of years to the time of the Greek mathematician and mystic Pythagoras. The Pythagoreans observed that tones an octave apart are pleasing to the ear. In modern terms,
one can say
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- Circles of Light: The Mathematics of Rainbows - Steven Janke; The Geometry Center
How are rainbows formed? Why do they only occur when the sun is behind the observer? If the sun is low on the horizon, at what angle in the sky should we expect to see a rainbow? This lab helps to answer these and other questions by examining a mathematical
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- Circle Zap - Michael Bulmer
A Java applet that gathers data on your ability to use a mouse rapidly and accurately, with suggested questions for classroom activities.
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- Circumferences, Diameters, and Radii (SMILE) - Dwayne Belle, Fuller School
A lesson designed to teach students to measure circumferences in inches, and compute radii and diameters, given different circumferences. From the Geometry and Measurement section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science and
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- The Civilization of the Mayans - ThinkQuest 1997
Essentially a school paper in web format, covering, briefly, Mayan art, astronomy, ball-game, books and hieroglyphics, class system, and number system, with rated related Mayan links and references, and an about-the-authors section.
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