- 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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- Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers: Maths
Math activities for ages 5-11 include a puzzle display, shapes worksheets, ideas for making a maths dictionary, a questioning technique, and many more games, worksheets, and activities for the classroom.
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- TeAch-nology - Teachnology, Inc.
A portal for information about current and past practice in the field of education. Read math teaching "Ideas That Worked"; and tutorials ranging from teacher retirement planning and "What to Consider When Writing a Lesson Plan" to "How to Deal With Disruptive
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- Team Umizoomi - Viacom International Inc.
Milli, Geo, and Bot solve everyday math problems with their "Umifriend" preschoolers. Get Mighty Math crafts, games, printables, and recipes. Download episodes of this animated live-action series broadcast on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. television show.
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- Technologies: Past and Future - Cut the Knot!, Alexander Bogomolny, with Don Greenwell
A discussion of the similarities in browsing through books and surfing the Internet, the serendipitous discoveries that can be made, fallacious geometric and other puzzles, and an interesting integer matrix, with recommendations of books to read and sites
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- TestTubeGames - Andy Hall
Apps, Flash games, and simulations by "an escaped physics grad turned educator.... following his dream to make abstract physics concrete. And draw dinosaurs." Explore special relativity with Velocity Raptor, orbits and chaos with Gravity Sim, particle
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- themathlab.com
Playful, interactive student-made problems, games, drills, lesson ideas, tools, "magic," and more. Lessons include practice problems which, when solved correctly, generate passwords that grant access to "treasure rooms." Lesson ideas include Algebachee
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- Theoretical Learning - Peter Moxhay
Information about a pilot project in Portland, Maine, public schools to adapt an approach developed in Russia for early math education (grades 1-3). Includes contact forms and request forms for Portland area parents to download trial math applets for
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- ThinkFun - ThinkFun, Inc.
The makers of Spin Out and Rush Hour seek to "push [you] farther, probe deeper and think more creatively through game play." Brainteaser games include Math Dice, which challenges you to use addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponents
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- Thinking Fountain Shape Cluster - Science Museum of Minnesota
Activities, images, and experiments relating science, math, and language arts. The shapes and math cluster features shape walk, I C shapes (finding circles, squares, and triangles in everyday objects), soap bubble geometry, pyramids and cubes (building
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- Through the Glass Wall: Computer Games for Mathematical Empowerment (TERC) - Testbed for Collaboration, Eisenhower Regional Consortia
An NSF-funded research project that has spent two years looking at how girls and boys play mathematical computer games in order to consider and describe what makes a good mathematical and equitable computer game. The site provides descriptions of over
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- TI-83 / TI-84 Games and Programs - Bill Paetzke
Bill Paetzke offers TI-83/TI-84 Plus programs to help students and teachers be more efficient in using their calculators. The programs are organized under these categories: Algebra, Finance, Geometry, Physics, Programs, Statistics, Trigonometry, and Tutorials.
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- Time Math - Education 4 Kids, Inc.
Time, at different levels of complexity (clock and calendar). You are presented with two times (in one of the formats selected) and asked to determine the difference between the two.
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- Toads And Frogs Puzzle in 2D - Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Alexander Bogomolny
A 2-dimensional Frogs and Toads puzzle that is not much more complicated than its 1-dimensional analogue, provided, of course, the latter is fully understood. Java applet.
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- Topology and Geometry Software: Fun and Games - Jeff Weeks
Fun math toys for all ages, from the author of Exploring the Shape of Space (grades 6-10) and The Shape of Space (grades 12-16). Applets and software for various platforms. Play with tic-tac-toe, mazes, and the like, on a torus or Klein bottle. Draw
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- Toupty.com: Jeux Éducatifs en Ligne
In French or English: free educational children's games, some involving simple mathematical concepts.
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- Tower of Hanoi - Math Forum, a Classic Problem from the Ask Dr. Math FAQ
There are three posts. Disks of different sizes are placed on the lefthand post, arranged by size with the smallest on top. You are to transfer all the disks to the righthand post in the fewest possible moves, without ever placing a larger disk on a smaller
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- Toying with Reality: Java Applets and VRML - Paul Flavin
Virtual Reality: Modeling with Math, and a little Java. Applets to manipulate: The Pythagorean Theorem; Equation Grapher: "You type, I Graph"; Graphing Vector Calculator; Java 3d Visualizer; Virtual Rubik's Cube; Raytracing applet; Java Calculator; Play
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- Traffic Jam - Math Forum
Equal numbers of people face each other with one open slot between them. Everybody faces the open slot. If there are 6 people there will be 7 slots, 6 of
which must always have people in them. People must attempt to exchange places without turning around.
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- The Treb Challenge - GlobalSpec, Inc.
Custom build a trebuchet for three challenges: distance, accuracy, and power. Between launches, continue modifying the catapult-like seige engine's projectile weight, launch angle, gravity, wind, counterweight mass and height. After each challenge, the
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- Tricky Dice - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
The game involves four specially numbered dice. You let your opponent pick any one of the four dice. You choose one of the remaining three dice. Each player tosses his or her die, and the higher number wins the throw. Amazingly, in a game involving 10
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- Trouble with Wild-Card Poker - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
Poker originated in the Louisiana territory around the year 1800. Ever since, this addictive card game has occupied the time and teased the minds of generations of gamblers. It has also attracted the attention of mathematicians and statisticians. The
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- Tumblehome Learning
Makers of educational products such as Lost in Tangrams and -- through a partnership with TERC, with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) -- Mixing in Math (MiM) cards, gameboards, and books.
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- tutpup
Basic arithmetic questions for children to solve while racing against each other, anonymously, as a clock counts down. The site shows what you got right and wrong, and how your performance compares with your opponent's on each question. The games run
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- Two Trains - Math Forum, a Classic Problem from the Ask Dr. Math FAQ
Two trains leave different cities heading toward each other at different speeds. When and where do they meet?
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- The UK National Lottery - MerseyWorld
Using real data allows due emphasis to be given to the context and so may encourage cross-curricular links. The UK lottery site has links to many pages with varied statistical information about winning ticket numbers and prizes (see Lottery Links).
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- Untangled - Mehta, Gayatri; Luo, Xiaozhong; et al.
Map and place logic blocks in this game to make more compact circuit layouts on a grid -- and more efficient computer chips. Visually appealing graphs bring nodes closer to parents or children and untangle knots in graphs; behind the scenes, the accumulated
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- USA Map Jigsaw Puzzle - Jill Britton
Students are challenged to move each of the contiguous 48 states into the correct position on the map. Note the number of colors necessary for separation of the states.
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- Villainy, Inc.: Thwarting World Supremacy through Mathematics - Maryland Public Television
To thwart the evil Dr. Wick, ID, middle grade students take on the role of an advisor to his company, Villainy, Inc. -- while secretly using their math skills to make sure Wick never succeeds. As undercover double agents for the Anti-Villainy Unit (the
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- Visual Structure of Postulates and Axioms in Algebraic Operations
(SMILE) - Sanford Olshan, Roosevelt High School
A lesson designed to reinforce and retain the use of axioms and postulates in various proofs and linear transformations of equations; and to have student build a physical model of the game of "PRUFF" either as a card game or as a board game. From the
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- Web-Based Mathematics Activities for the Early Years - Instituto de Informática Educativa (IIE), Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile
These materials are a translation of the Spanish materials created by the Instituto de Informática Educativa (IIE), Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile. The first and second units have been translated into English, and the third unit is available
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- What2Learn - John Rutherford
For free, a range of fun, interactive games and puzzles. Math topics covered include algebra, times tables, fractions, decimals, percentages, ratios and probability. Fee-based service includes more activities, the option for teachers to add their own
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- What is Go? - Mindy McAdams
An introducation to the 4,000 year old Chinese board game called Go in Japan, Baduk in Korea, and Wei-chi in China. Teaching materials and links to many of the most popular Go websites are included. Contents: brief history of the game; professional players,
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- Who's Really Ahead? - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
The winding down of the current baseball season seems an appropriate time to take a look at a curious inconsistency that sometimes appears in team standings... Once in a while the team with the higher winning percentage may be at least one-half a game
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- Who Wants to Be a Mathematician - American Mathematical Society
In the game show "Who Wants to Be a Mathematician," high school students compete for cash and prizes by answering multiple choice mathematics questions. Read about past performances of the game; view videos of games played in Danvers, MA, at Danvers High
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- WIMS (WWW Interactive Mathematics Server) - Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis
Interactive mathematical applications, also available in French, with documentation. The server's exercises and programs are designed to find a polynomial with given values; find the Taylor expansion of a function; find a polynomial from its curve; given
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- Wired Math - Dean Murray, Soo Go, Jamie Pearson; University of Waterloo (Canada)
A free website created for students and teachers by a teacher for the University of Waterloo. The online games, drills, "follow up exercises," and answers
address topics common to middle grades on every continent. Also availalble from http://www.wiredmath.ca/
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- The Wizard of Odds - Michael Shackleford
As a rule of thumb, the harder a game is to understand the better your odds of winning if you do understand it. By understanding the more complicated games such as blackjack, baccarat, and craps you can have an expected return of at about 99 cents per
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- Woodlands Math Zone - Woodlands Junior School, Kent, U.K.
Pages aimed at 7-11 year olds. Interactive games for math practice are organized under the following topics: Number Skills; Shape & Space Skills; Mental Maths; Preparing for Sats; Educational Games; Times Tables; Measures/Time; Worksheets; Understanding
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- The World of Geometric Toy - Akira Nishihara
Play with animations and applets of Buckminster Fuller's Tensegrity and the Indian Ball (also known as the flexi-sphere), as well as wire-frame renderings of the torus, the magic ring, the toroflux, the reversible polyhedron, and other objects. Nishihira
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- The World of Trotter Math - Terry Trotter, Escuela Americana, San Salvador, El Salvador
A page of problems, problem sheets, and investigations, with links to image files of an in-class math newsletter, Trotter Math News. Of particular interest to the author are numbers: happy and dizzy numbers; palindromes; super squares; perfect, amicable,
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- wrotniak.net - J. Andrzej Wrotniak
Includes shareware and freeware programs for Windows written by Wrotniak: scientific and regular calculators, a spherical geometry calculator, a logic and strategy game, a statistics graphing program, and a simple program to compute the area of a polygon.
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- www.GREGTANG.com - Greg Tang
Educational materials that combine problem-solving and arithmetic, and integrate math with language and art, from the author of The Grapes of Math, Math For All Seasons, The Best of Times, Math Appeal, Math-terpieces, Math Fables, and Math Potatoes. In
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- www.multiplication.com - Krimsten Publishing
Ideas and products to help students understand multiplication and learn their multiplication facts. In Krimsten's rhyming method, for example, visualize a product such as 3 × 4 = 12 as a story about a tree ("three"), door ("four"), and elf ("twelve").
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- XP Math - Tak L. Hui
Features include free materials designed to excite learners in mathematics and technology, a free eBooks
library, a collection of math sites, a database of mathematical careers, an interactive math games league and an active forum.
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- You Have Found The Prisoners' Dilemma (Serendip: Playground) - Bryn Mawr College
Play a non-zero-sum game where the best strategy for a given player is often one that increases the payoff to one's partner as well. The rules: on each turn of the game, you and your opponent must choose, without knowing the other's choice; following
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- yyGrams Books: Books, Games, Puzzles - David Zethmayr
Zethmayr presents boundary mathematics to young children, introducing the ideas of logic, proof, and algebra far earlier than is usually attempted. Books, games, and puzzles on this site reinforce these ideas, and Zethmayr presents a seminar and children's
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- Zoltan Dienes' Web Site - Zoltan Dienes
"Math through play" from a developer of psychomathematics, multi-base blocks, and the six-stage theory of learning mathematics. Freely download PDFs of Dienes' Ruritania stories and math games such as Strip Mathematics, Circular Villages, Six Stages with
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- Zome System - Zometool, Inc.
Available in kits of various sizes, Zometool is a 31-zone design tool and educational toy for kids, hobbyists, students, teachers and researchers. Precision-molded in ABS plastic, Zometool models spatial structures representing hyperspaces of up to 31
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