- 2 Pi Productions - Jake Scott
Scott's instructional math rap videos include the original songs "Triangle Experts," "Special Right Triangles," "Graphing Trig Functions," "Quadratic Formula," and "The Best Pythagorean Rap Ever." Lyrics include "The cosine is sine with a phase shift
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- 5 Numbers - Simon Singh and Marcus du Sautoy, BBC Radio 4
Web pages and Real Audio Music downloads of fifteen minute-long radio broadcasts that take a "quirky look" at zero, pi, the golden ratio, i, and infinity. "Hear about the stark reality behind the imaginary number, try a slice of pi, find out about the
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- Activities & Information Supporting Pi Day Celebration - Carolyn M. Morehouse
Lesson plan, songs, trivia quiz, and refreshments sign-up sheet for a Pi Day celebration. Hosted by the Math Forum's Teacher Exchange.
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- Aesthetics of the Prime Sequence - Turpel Armand
A brief introduction to prime numbers, with a primality testing applet, a page on primes and music, primes and nucleotide bases, primes graphics, idiot savants and primes, primes-related software, related links, favorite books, and a special page of Lyapunov
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- Akustische Täuschungen/Acoustic illusions - Stefan Scheller
Endlos ansteigende Melodien: Der Shepard-Effekt. Endlessly rising melodies: The Shepard effect. (Illustration: M. C. Escher: Treppauf, treppab - ascending, descending.) Besides the well-known optical illusions there are acoustic ones, too. Perhaps the
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- All Star Review
A review site designed to help teachers and parents find out about software, audio, video and other educational products before purchasing them. Search for software and other materials alphabetically, by level, or by subject (see Math Audio and Software.)
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- Amara's Wavelet Page - Amara Graps
Read a brief overview of wavelets, or listen to sounds compressed using wavelets. Page also includes an extensive list of wavelet resources.
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- AsTeR Demonstration - T.V. Raman
Mathematics for Computer Generated Spoken Documents. AsTeR is an Audio System For Technical Readings: a computing system for rendering technical documents in audio, developed by Raman for his Ph.D.; an audio formatted version of his thesis, (approximately
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- ASTER: Mathematics For Computer Generated Spoken Documents - T. V. Raman
AsTeR, an Audio System For Technical Readings: a computing system for rendering technical documents in audio, dedicated to the author's guide-dog. Demo. Audio LaTeX postscript. Examples cover simple fractions and expressions; superscripts and subscripts;
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- Chain Rule Calculus Song - North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM)
Real Audio file of an original song, accompanied by piano, that teaches the chain rule, with example derivatives. Also listen to a tune about the product rule.
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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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- Conversation about A Beautiful Mind, with Sylvia Nasar and Dave Bayer - archived by the Commonwealth Club of California
A conversation with Sylvia Nasar (biographer of John Nash) and
Dave Bayer (math consultant on A Beautiful Mind). Streaming audio
of event sponsored by MSRI that took place May 2002.
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- DapJ Music
Rap music for adolescents struggling to learn and retain math concepts: "Fractions Are Division Problems"; "Keep, Change, Change"; "Properties"; "First, Outer, Inner Last"; and more. The educationally based music production company provides Common Core
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- The Digit Connection - Lizzie
A tribute to the number pi through music, poetry, and fiction. (Meet Sailor Pi!) Also includes a brief history of pi with some ways to calculate it, a quote collection, and ways to celebrate the number - even if it's not Pi Day.
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- DSP First: A Multimedia Approach - McClellan, Schafter, & Yoder
The CD-ROM portion of the book, containing, for each chapter: Demos - quicktime movies, sound files, etc. that help reinforce the concepts introduced in the text; Labs - MATLAB based laboratory exercises for in-depth study of certain concepts and ideas
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- e Teaching Assistance Program - eTAP, Inc.
Lesson plans, examples and exercises, review checks, and other instructional materials, including audio downloads, on the language of mathematics; basic operations; order of operations and combining terms; fractions; multiplying and dividing fractions;
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- The Fibonacci Series - Matt Anderson, Jeffrey Frazier, and Kris Popendorf; ThinkQuest 1999
The Fibonacci Series is deceptively simple, but its ramifications and applications are many. Learn more about the Fibonacci Series itself: an introduction, the rabbit problem, Binet's formula, the successor formula (given only one term in the Fibonacci
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- Fractal Alhambra - Philip Northover
Galleries of fractal art, in an array of sizes and colors. Fractal prints for sale, and MP3s of fractal music.
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- Fractal Music - G. Forrest Cook
Audio excerpts from a compilation of fractal music put together by the author.
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- Fractal Music: Research, Publications, and Compositions by Harlan Brothers - Harlan J. Brothers
In 2003, Benoit Mandelbrot suggested to Harlan Brothers that he undertake a rigorous treatment of the subject of fractal music. Here is an overview of Brothers’ subsequent research, including papers, definitions, and examples.
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- Geometry Park: Songs for Teaching Children - Illumisware
Collection of children's songs using contemporary rhythms and sounds to introduce topics in math, science, grammar, and geography. American or Canadian versions each come with teachers' guide and karaoke version.
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- Hip Hop Times Tables - Pop Lock and Learn Pty Ltd
Pop, Lock and Learn hip hop times tables is meant to help kids learn multiplication through stories, using repetition with varied tempos, and explaining math tricks and clues over cleverly produced beats. The CD is accompanied with graphic learning aids
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- InCharge Education Foundation - InCharge Education Foundation, Inc.
The non-profit InCharge Education Foundation promotes financial wellness by offering data, information, research, and education on the behaviors and issues facing average individuals and families on consumer credit, money management, and financial well-being
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- Infinite Tangents - Ashli Black
This "secondary mathematics education podcast for teachers," begun in March, 2013, invites other high school math teachers to respond to prompts such as "How do you start your teaching day?" and "What would you like to get done in the times between classes?"
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- Java Set Theory Machine - Jay Tomlin
Musical set theory encompasses the notion of defining sets of pitches and organizing music around those sets and their various manipulations. The site offers a Java applet that allows you to manipulate pitch class sets: play them, rotate and invert them,
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- Learning Games and Activities for K-12 - Creative Teaching Associates
Over 200 non-electronic learning games and activities for ages 4 through adult. Math products include flash cards, activity cards, board games, math chips, cards, books, cassettes for basic math facts drill, and many more. Products are also listed by
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- Learning Math is Fun - Kevin Cornell
Learn the order of operations by watching a video of the PEMDAS song. Before becoming an elementary school principal, singer "Mister C" taught 5th grade science and served as a math coach. See also Cornell's science site at http://www.learningscienceisfun.com/.
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- Lectures - John Conway, Princeton University
Listen to audio of Conway's lectures: Calendar Conundrums; Archimedes and His World; Cantor's Infinities; Goedel and Undecidability; Geometry, Logic and Physics; Escher and Symmetry; Finally, Fun. Requires Real Player.
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- lo-fi paranoid ambient fractal music - Dave Sag
Self-similarity is the essence of fractal geometry: this is self-similar music, where each part has the same structure as the whole. Download an example in Real Audio, Shockwave, or aiff format. Another version of this page, What do I mean by 'fractal
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- MASSIVE: Math And Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere - Greg Crowther
A searchable database of over 1800 educational songs, including many about math. Part of the National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library (NSDL).
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- Matheatre - Sadie Bowman and Marc Gutman
Blog of the performers starring in "Calculus: The Musical!" This comic "review" blend of sketch comedy, musical theatre, and lecture about the concepts and history of calculus emerged as a teaching tool from the classroom of Gutman, who "... found that
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- The Mathematical Brain - Brian Butterworth
From his book The Mathematical Brain, Butterworth freely offers chapter ten, titled "From fear of fractions to the joy of maths." The sample chapter also includes a test to assess whether you think like a mathematician, and Butterworth's "three-step programme
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- Mathematical Concepts, Inc. - Agnes Azzolino
Games, calculators, jokes, books, and tools to help the student, teacher, parent, and the public to see the world mathematically. Read Math Spoken Here, featuring the essays "Most Operations Are Not Distributive," "So, What's A Fraction?" "A Graph Is
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- Mathematical Moments (AMS) - American Mathematical Society
A series of illustrated "snapshots" in the form of posters or flyers in PDF format, or audio podcasts, designed to promote appreciation and understanding of the role mathematics plays in science, nature, technology, and human culture. Freely downloadable;
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- Mathematics and Music - Dave Rusin; The Mathematical Atlas
A short article documenting the interplay between music and mathematics, with a bibliography. Explorations into tunings include why there are twelve tones in an octave, tuning problems that lead to the Riemann zeta function or to logarithms, nineteen-tone
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- Mathematics and Physical Science - Terri Lynn Easter, Bishop Ready High School
Audio lectures with notes for Algebra I, Algebra 2/Trig, Calculus,
Chemistry/Physics for 9th grade.
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- The Math Factor - Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Kyle Kellams
Brief, weekly math conversations and puzzles, airing on KUAF 91.3 FM, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Listen to podcasts of this Ozarks at Large radio show; subscribe to the RSS feed.
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- Mathgrad Podcast - Christopher Frederick
One of the goals of Mathgrad Podcast is to provide a place "...to discuss the mathematics behind many real life topics in a way that even the worst mathphobe will gain some insight." Topics range from the math underlying voting schemes to the mathematics
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- Math Medley - Pat Kenschaft; WebCT
A weekly call-in talk radio show, hosted by Pat Kenschaft from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Montclair State University. Each show features an interview with an exciting guest discussing a topic with an underlying theme of mathematics such
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- Math Unplugged - Sara Jordan
A series of cassettes, CDs, and books offering a musical call-and-response approach to learning math. Multiplicaton and Division Unplugged drills students' counting skills by 2's, 3's 4's, etc. during the choruses, to strengthen their knowledge of the
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- Medium.Stanford.edu
A free worldwide exchange server archiving scientific talks and presentations in RealAudio format. You may submit an audio cassette and transparencies with your talk or presentation, and it will be heard by other scientists on the Internet. Also message
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- Millennium Education Company of America - Charles Herring, Jr.
A curriculum development company that specializes in the education of children in kindergarten through 8th grade, in which music, creative arts and interactive teaching guides are used to strengthen grammar and math skills, and heighten the awareness
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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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- Museums in the Classroom - Illinois State Museum and Brookfield Zoo
Students from 25 partner schools throughout Illinois are developing online curriculum projects that explore the diversity of Illinois and world ecosystems, integrating collections, data, images, video, audio, text, and exhibitions and using skills from
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- Musical Multiples - MusicWorks 4 Learning
A multi-sensory approach to the times tables using manipulatives and music. Purchase the Musical Multiples CD, which contains 11 songs for the multiples of 2-12.
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- Musical Multiplication - Pat Stevens
Original songs help young students learn the multiplication facts.
Classroom tested method.
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- Music and Probability - Lorraine Fielding
A middle school's music project based on the Mozart Musical Dice Game, invented by Mozart around 1770, in which dice rolls generate twelve-tone or diatonic minuets. Links to a web version of Mozart's game, using MIDI technology; and movie, audio files
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- Music by John Greschak - John Greschak
Platonic Dice: Dodecahedron, Platonic Dice: Hexahedron, Pentominoes, The Tower of Hanoi, and other music compositions based upon the mathematical properties of various objects. Listen with RealAudio or Midi.
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- The Music of José Oscar Marques
Listen to fractal music compositions in General MIDI file format, designed to show that recursive algorithms can be employed to create music of the same strange beauty as the richly decorated fractal picture on the site.
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- The Music of the Primes - Marcus du Sautoy
An article on the Riemann Hypothesis, "the greatest unsolved problem of mathematics."
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