- Visual Math for Java - Dr. Weiguang Huang
The Java applet Visual Math is an online symbolic math and computer algebra system powered by SymbMath. SymbMath (an abbreviation for Symbolic Mathematics) is a symbolic, numeric and graphic computing environment that performs exact numeric, symbolic
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- Walking Randomly - Michael Croucher
Croucher's blog, which dates back to August of 2007, has included posts such as "Logo Programming on the pocket PC," "Christmas gifts for math geeks (like me!)," "Martial Mathematics," "R Compared to MATLAB (or 'learning a thing or two from your students'),"
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- Walpha Wiki - Derek Bruff and others
As collaborative site to record how secondary and undergraduate math educators use Wolfram|Alpha, or Walpha as it's called here, in the classroom. In particular, the authors are interested in how students might use Walpha themselves, as well as how teachers
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- WatsonMath.com - Elaine Watson
A repository for ideas and links that support Watson's work as a K-12 mathematics consultant, such as spreading the word about the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics and how they can be implemented by classroom teachers. Posts, which date back
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- Wavelet Forum - Daniel Lemire, Ondelette.com
A friendly posting board on wavelets, spectral analysis, and signal processing.
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- The Web Page Dedicated to Pi - Paul Johns
Information on pi, 120,000 digits of pi, pi jokes and poems, a pi club, message board, facts and records, links to other pi sites, and more.
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- What's New - Terence Tao, UCLA
Updates on Tao's research and expository papers, discussion of open problems, and other maths-related topics. Blog posts, which date to February, 2007, have included "Riemannian manifolds and curvature" and "Sailing into the wind, or faster than the wind"
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- The Why Files - University of Wisconsin
An electronic exploration of the issues of science, math, and technology that lurk behind the headlines of the day, presenting those topics in a clear, entertaining and accessible manner. Provides a bimonthly feature on the science of everyday life, archived
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- Wild About Math! - Sol Lederman
Math posts, which date back to October, 2007, have included "10 ways to get wild about Math," "How to square large numbers quickly (part 1)," "26 tips for using learning styles to help your kids with Math," "The algebra of cross-multiplication," "Flexagon
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- Wilder's Fourth Grade Math and Science - Jim Wilder
Wilder's blog, which dates back to July of 2008, has included posts such as "Pumpkin Investigation/Family Math Night," "Spuds, Velocity, & Central Tendency," "predict the pattern," "codes and the tricky elevens," and "thinking about patterns." Wilder
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- Without Geometry, Life Is Pointless - Avery Pickford
"Musings on math, education, teaching, and research" by a teacher. Blog posts, which date back to May, 2010, have included "What Makes a Problem Great," "Habits of Mind," "My 6th Grade Version of Algebra," "Technology in School: Where's My Hovercraft?
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- wNetSchool
A resource for K-12 teachers, with some information for adult education teachers (i.e., the GED exam). Subscribing to the site is free, but one may also enter without subscribing. wNetSchool provides lesson plans centered around the Internet or educational
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- Wolfram|Alpha - Wolfram Alpha LLC
A computational knowledge engine that "computes whatever can be computed about anything." Query Alpha about "essentially any kind of systematic factual knowledge," with particular strengths in "areas where computation or mathematics have traditionally
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- Wright Flyer Teachers' Lounge - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Lesson plans include Wind Tunnel Data (lift and drag); Know all the Angles (does pitch affect lift?); Watch Your Altitude (the three axes of rotation and the movements of roll, pitch, and yaw); Getting the Wright Pitch; and Up, Up and Away (compare the
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- X-Number World - James Redin
With the Extended Numerical Keyboards with Structured Data-Entry Capability method, enter a number in the same way as you think on the number; for example, input one million and fifty-seven with the four keystrokes 1, million, 5, and 7, in that order.
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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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- YERME: Young European society for Research in Mathematics Education
A forum where people who are new to research in mathematics education can communicate with each other, offering support as well as practical advice. Summer schools, contacts, a forum, and conferences and meetings.
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- Yo: A Math Teacher's Blog - Nico Rowinsky
Blog by the Toronto math teacher who wrote Sally Strange: And How She Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Grade 7 Math. Posts, which date back to September, 2012, have included "Teaching an Old Word Problem New Tricks: PART II," "What happens when you've
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- Young Mathematicians' Network
A loose organization of mathematicians in the junior part of their careers. The site includes the newsletter Concerns of Young Mathematicians, with back issues and an interactive newspaper version online; and links to employment, grant, organizational,
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- YourMathsTutor: Maths Help for Students of All Abilities - Ian David Wild
Articles, practice problems, a bookshop, links and a free forum where maths problems can be discussed. Created primarily to help students studying the for the UK's Key Stage 3, GCSE, AS and A Level mathematics exams.
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- Zero-Knowledge Proofs - John Scammell
"Random thoughts about teaching math" from a high school math consultant who taught math for 18 years prior. Scammell's blog posts, which date back to May, 2010, have included "Lecture Method vs. Peer Instruction," "Mozart’s Dice Game," "Let the Kids
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- Zombie Cat - Diego Fonstad
Zombie Cat shares learning catalysts -- those "perfect stories, explanations, or methods to teach complex mathematical and scientific concepts." Insightful math learning catalysts date back to January, 2011, with categories such as "Videos worth watching"
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