- The Review Corner
Reviews of educational products for children, including software, books, music, videos and DVDs, toys, and games. Most of the math items are in the software section.
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- Rigol'Math: énigmes, problèmes et curiosités mathématiques - Jean-Marc Deleuze
Le calcul de Pi; le Jeu de Nim; Convertisseur base 10 --> base 2; Multiplier sur les doigts; Multiplication égyptienne; Le carré magique; TicTacToe; Coloriage; et beaucoup plus.
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- Rolling and Learning® with tri-square dice - Creative Enterprises, Inc.
A book describing math games to be played with 14-sided dice, suitable for grades K-6 or 8. Order form available on the web.
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- Rolocu: the Colour Twist Puzzle - Charles Edge
Use logic and planning to put the pieces into place so that all rows and columns have all the colours in them.
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- RU4Math
Games and events for elementary-aged students from Pulaski and Montgomery counties, and Radford City schools, who participated in the RU4Math Fest of March 22, 2003, held at Radford University. Shockwave games about logic and simple equations, currency
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- Rubik's Cube Information - Michael Reid
All about Rubik's Cube - even a mailing list. Site contents include: the Nederlandse Kubus Club; Rubik's cube pages on the Web; Cube books; Sources of cube-like puzzles; the author's notes, including an optimal cube solver; other Cube solutions on the
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- Rubik's Cube Java Applet - Michael Schubart
To twist the cube, press the mouse button over a cubelet face that belongs to the slice you want to move. Keeping the button pressed, drag the mouse in the desired direction; then release the button. Moving the whole cube is done in the same way - just
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- Rubik's Games - Androsoft
Dedicated to the first PC CD-ROM game from Erno Rubik, Rubik's Games contains 5 sub-games: Rubik's Classic, Cover Up, Paint War, Rubik's Playground and ZigThrough. Download the Rubik's Games Web Site Plugin plug-in or a demo of the Rubik's Game CD-ROM.
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- Rubik's Online - Rubik/Seven Towns
The official online site for the Rubik's cube. Play with the cube and other Rubik's games and puzzles online; find information on where to buy Rubik's products; use the forum to exchange views, opinions, comments, suggestions and anecdotes related to
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- Rubix Corner - Duane Cash
The site includes information regarding the Duane Cash Cube Collection now featured at Hessport's Rubikshop in their "collectibles" section. New puzzles include the Rubik's Triamese, Fusion, Fusion+, SpeedFusion, 5x3, and 4x3 Cubes, which give those interested
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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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- Second Grade (AAA Math) - John Banfill
Interactive math exercises, lessons, and games covering basic arithmetic
concepts and methods, for second grade.
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- Secret Millionaires Club - A Squared Entertainment LLC
Lessons, webisodes, and prime time specials that use real-life situations to teach young people how to succeed in life and in business. See, in particular, the free financial literacy classroom materials available through the Learn and Earn promotion.
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- Sense and Dollars - Maryland Public Television
The Sense and Dollars project helps middle and high school students learn about and practice effective ways of earning, spending, saving, and investing money in a safe, interactive environment. Activities include: Earning Money (All About the Benjamins,
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- Septangle - Paul Nahay
Play the game, Septangle, online! Septangle is copyrighted by Dr. Paul Nahay, (DMA, Stanford University 1983).
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- The Set Game Company - Set Enterprises Inc.
SetGame is a family game of visual perception. Take the Java tutorial; learn the math behind the game (create a 3x3 magic square with SET cards, learn why the largest possible "no set" contains 20 cards, explore set theory and set operations involved
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- The SET Home Page - Magliery, Weeks
A page "dedicated to the entertaining and highly addictive game of SET." The object of the game is to identify a 'Set' of three cards from 12 cards laid out on the table. Each card has a variation of the following four features: color, symbol, number
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- Shady Puzzles - LambdaMu Pte Ltd
A logic and elimination (disjunctive syllogism) puzzle: the column and row headers identify the number and spacing of shaded squares within a grid--place shaded squares where they belong according to those guides. The site includes a history of the puzzles,
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- Sheppard Software
Software for SAT, GRE, math, and more, including: Algebra - One On One (covers 21 functions), License Plate Math (puzzles for ages 9 and up), Brain Builder - Math Edition (over 500 million puzzles), Math Function Mania (a multimedia game for grades 7-12
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- Shmuzzle Puzzle - Sam Savage
Inspired by M.C. Escher's famous tessellation drawings, these salamanders interlock in multiple ways. Physical and online puzzles, a contest, history of the shmuzzle, resources for teachers, and other shmuzzle products.
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- Silicon Champions of the Game - Ivars Peterson - Science News Online
Deep Blue's triumph over Gary Kasparov in May of 1997 marked the first match victory by a chess-playing computer over a reigning world champion. Some of the world's top computer programs are also playing backgammon, bridge, checkers, chess, Go, Othello,
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- Simeon's World of Magic - Bob Fay
Interactive card tricks on the Web. Pick a card; whisper it out loud; Simeon will always remove it on the next page.
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- Skillswise - BBC Online
Factsheets, worksheets, quizzes, and Flash games on whole numbers; measures, shape and space; fractions, decimals and percentages; and handling data. Resources for tutors include lesson plans, printable tracking sheets, a newsletter, and an expert column
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- Slinky Science - National Engineers Week Committee
Classroom activities include Racing Slinkys, which describes how inertia, gravity, potential energy, kinetic energy, and longitudinal waves are demonstrated when the Slinky "walks" down stairs or an incline; Slinky Waves, which outlines how Slinkys exhibit
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- Só Matemática - Só Matemática
Material para ensino fundamental, médio e superior, além de provas online, biografias de matemáticos, trabalhos de alunos, um acervo de softwares matemáticos, artigos, jogos, curiosidades, histórias, fóruns de
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- Snap Math - John and Eva McKendrick; Teilhard
A version of the children's game, but to win the cards, you have to do the math. Click on the pack at the left to start; when your card matches the computer's card, you are set a series of math problems. If you answer correctly, you win the cards.
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- Software by Al Jarnow - ProtoZone Interactives
Web-based interactive software excerpted from pattern exhibits at the Long
Island Children's Museum, the National Museum of Science and Industry (London),
and the Brooklyn Childrens's Museum. Introductions to art and math with many pattern-making
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- Solitaire-y Sequences - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
Solitaire on the computer screen - called Klondike or Idiot's Delight, this form of solitaire has resisted mathematical analysis. Partly because Klondike involves player choice, no one has yet been able to construct a mathematical model of the game from
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- Solving the Rubik's Cube - Matthew Monroe
Instructions, popularized by Minh Thai, the National Champion cube solver, for solving a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube. Also, instructions for how to solve a cube when it has oriented pictures on each face. Directions for solving a 2x2x2 Rubik's mini cube, the professor
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- Sommer Cube - Michael Sommer
The faces of the modular Sommer Cube (S3) feed into twisted conduits that comprise a three-dimensional, tunnelling maze. The website provides example arrangements and construction questions such as "Given that a ball must exit at the lowest S3 level and
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- Sprouts for Spring - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
The game of sprouts has a way of growing on you. This two-person, pencil-and-paper game is simple enough that children can play it. Yet its intricacies provide much food for mathematical thought. The players start with a certain number of dots scattered
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- Starship Maths - BBC Learning
Six different interactive games, with accompanying resources for teachers and parents, designed for students ages 5-7: Place the Penguins - Cross the Swamp - Calamity's Quest - Park the Pods - Alien Cookbook - Number Jumbler. Print and Do, Teachers, Parents.
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- The STEM Collaborative - Maryland Public Television, Arkansas Educational Television Network, Alabama Public Television, and Kentucky Educational Television
The four online adventures Scale City, ProportionLand, Math by Design (architecture), and Rock 'n Roll Road Trip (music) engage students to use geometry, algebra, and proportional reasoning for skateboard ramps, cooking, amusement park roller coasters
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- The Stock Market Game (SMG2000) - Securities Industry Foundation for Economic Education (SIFEE)
The Stock Market Game (SMG2000) is an electronic simulation of Wall Street
trading, designed to help students and adults understand the stock market, the
costs and benefits involved in decision-making, the sources and uses of capital
and other related
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- Strawberry Macaw's Puzzle Page
Although simple, this collection of four logic puzzles provides a challenge for students of any age. The interactive puzzles are: The Fox, the Duck, and the Bag of Corn; The Three Gallon and Five Gallon Cans; The Twenty-Three Matches Game; and The Game
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- Strings on Your Fingers - Michael P. Garofalo, Red Bluff, California
Links to a host of Web sites, including Web and print bibliographies, with suggestions for where to learn more about string figures and Internet links.
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- Student Activities from Jefferson Lab's BEAMS Program - Steve Gagnon
Middle school science and math activities from Jefferson Lab. Each activity includes a teacher overview, student and teacher materials which may be viewed online or downloaded in PDF format, and a list of the relevant Virginia State Standards of Learning.
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- subtangent.com - Duncan Keith
With Flash, explore interactive investigations such as Number Stairs and Diagonal Differences. Play Mathionaire, based on the popular TV game, but with maths questions. Quizzes include Function Machines, Number Properties, Pythagoras, and Quadratics 1.
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- Sudoku
Flash-based game: enter a 9x9 grid so that every column, every row and each of the nine 3x3 segement contains the numbers 1 to 9. The game provides hints when you are stuck and has different levels.
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- Sudoku - Pappocom, aka Wayne Gould
Finish filling in the 9x9 grid so that every row, every column, and each of the nine 3x3 boxes contains the digits 1 through 9. Different from a magic square, this puzzle requires no arithmetic, only reasoning and logic to deduce which digit to put where.
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- Sudoku - PedagoNet
Sudoku online. New puzzles generated regularly; archive of past puzzles.
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- Sudoku Shuffle - ridiculopathy.com
Play a Flash version of Sudoku online or print out one of these logic puzzles. Choose a level of difficulty and whether to play with number tiles or letter tiles.
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- A Su Doku solver
Solvers for sudoku puzzles, with documentation, source code, and binaries. Frequently asked questions about this numeric puzzle include "Su Doku" or "Sudoku"? How does the solver work? How do I compose a Su Doku problem? How few cells could appear on
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- Sudoku Widget - Brian DeBoer
Macintosh OS X users familiar with Dashboard use its mini-applications to perform common tasks and get fast access to information. The Sudoku Widget by Brian DeBoer generates random puzzles with four different levels of difficulty, has the option to show
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- Suffolkmaths.co.uk - Mark Greenaway
Greenaway hosts a select collection of third-party resources in the public domain, many drawn from the UK's Department for Education (DfEs): teaching materials for Great Britain's different grade levels; problem solving documents on problem-solving strategies,
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- Sumdog - Peter Beckham, Crocodile Clips Ltd.
Free multi-player maths games designed to improve numeracy for students aged
9-13. Players compete either against the computer or other students around the world. The one hundred available games, which adapt to the skill level of each student, range
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- Suntex First in Math - Suntex International Inc.
Play sample games of 24 online for free, or purchase a site subscription and register for access to a full range of interactive 24 games. Learn more about First in Math classroom kits, school kits, and the McDonald's restaurants First in Math League.
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- Surfin' Sinefeld: Flash Animations for Precalculus, Calculus and Statistics - Ralph Irons
Animated graphing calculators for exponential, logarithmic, sinusoidal and
power functions and their derivatives; animated histogram for 5 data sets;
quizzes; Derivative Pong.
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- Taking Games Seriously - Cut the Knot!, Alexander Bogomolny
In the twenty years since it first appeared, Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays had become a classic and a rarity. So did its companion book, On Numbers And Games, which was written in just about a week by one of the WW's authors and saw the light
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- Tangoes - Rex Games, Inc.
Based on the ancient Chinese Tangram puzzle, Tangoes is a learning tool that combines artistic and mathematical elements to enhance visual perception ability, develop problem solving skills, and encourage creative thinking capacity and teamwork. Tangoes
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