- 19th Century Schoolbooks - University of Pittsburgh
Search the full text of dozens of antique books used to learn and practice arithmetic and other mathematical subjects in the schools of 1800's America. Browse scanned images (gif or PDF) of centuries-old pages, or search for text within primers, readers,
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- Advanced CSS Rendering: Embedding Mathematical Content in HTML - George Chavchanidze
Discussion of a cross-browser method of rendering mathematical content using HTML and cascading style sheets (CSS). A set of CSS style sheets for online scientific publishing is available.
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- Analysis & Knowledge - Sanford Aranoff
Download data analysis software, such as Patterns, which analyzes and charts trends in stock market using Andrews concepts. See also this former Rutgers University physics professor and current high school educator's thoughts on teaching and help file
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- The Art of Asking Thought Provoking Questions in the Mathematics Classroom - Carmen Bellido, Uroyoan Walker, Keith Wayland
A position paper in PDF format: a "How To" guide for developing higher-level conceptual questions that provoke students to think. Several techniques for modifying traditional questions are illustrated with examples ranging from elementary to high school
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- BasketMath Interactive - Robert Cummings, Science Academy Software
Science Academy Software's BasketMath online interactive application drill and practice site offers auto-scoring questions in arithmetic, rounding and writing numbers, order of operations, factoring, adding or multiplying signed numbers, calculating perimeter
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- BEAM: Be A Mathematician
A mathematics curriculum development project for nursery, primary, special and lower secondary teachers. It publishes resource materials for teachers' use in the classroom, offers training courses for teachers, and provides consultancy in the area of
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- A Better Mathematics Curriculum - Tom Davis; Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math FAQ
What should we be teaching students today? Dr. Tom provides his take on what would make a better math curriculum.
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- Bicycle Tracks (Geometry and the Imagination) - Conway, Doyle, Gilman, Thurston; The Geometry Center
Students are to discuss passage from a Sherlock Holmes story, The Adventure of the Priory School (by Arthur Conan Doyle): 'This track, as you perceive, was made by a rider who was going from the direction of the school.'...
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- Bilingual Mathematics Dictionary / Diccionario Bilingüe de Matemáticas - Norman Koch and Denise Meeks
An alphabetical list of terms in English with their corresponding Spanish translations, from abacus (el ábaco) to zone (la zona). The purpose of this glossary of math terms is to make readily available in one convenient document a list of terms
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- Book of Odds - Book of Odds, Inc.
A dictionary "filled not with words, but with numbers -– the odds of everyday life." The Book of Odds "contains hundreds of thousands of Odds Statements, from the odds of being the only one to survive a plane crash, to the odds of having a heart attack,
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- Bowland Maths - Bowland Charitable Trust
Case study problems and lessons designed to develop thinking, reasoning and problem solving skills in UK math pupils ages 11-14. In particular, download series of stand-alone assessment items that challenge students to estimate the number of descendants
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- Colors of Math - Ekaterina Eremenko Films
Credits, still images, and trailer of a documentary film that features six mathematicians discussing math "in the context of the five senses" of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
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- Department of Science & Mathematics Education: Research and Development - Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
Read faculty research and learn about their projects and interests: children's understanding of statistical and probabilistic concepts; the negotiation of meaning in mathematics & science classrooms (The Classroom Project); the expression of algorithms
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- Dictionary of Number Words - Intergalactic Power & Light
A dictionary of English language words, phrases, prefixes, suffixes, and
symbols that describe numbers. Cardinal Numbers, Ordinal Numbers, very large numbers, Noninteger Real Numbers, Numeric Ranges.
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- Doron Zeilberger's Electronic Headquarters
Doron Zeilberger researches combinatorics using computer programs. The site is notable for his Opinions page; these opinions are wide-ranging but touch upon mathematics education, the use of computers, and the value of incomplete proofs. All of Zeilberger's
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- EASYpEXPR: Writing Expressions in Pure HTML - Giovanni Artico
Enter an expression in the textbox, and the page will return the HTML code that would show the expression in standard visual form.
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- Education by Design
Publishers of educational software, focusing on special needs software for Windows and Macintosh that can be accessed with keyboard, mouse, and especially with IntelliKeys, Touch Windows or with switches. Math titles include MathPad, an arithmetic tutorial
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- Elementary Thoughts: A Collection of Gail's Responses - Gail Englert
A collection of Gail Englert's responses to questions from elementary and middle school teachers, parents, and students, in the Teacher2Teacher service. Covers a wide range of elementary mathematics topics, as well as teaching points.
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- E-Mail Math - Elizabeth Murphy
Using the Internet for a global exchange of student-written math story problems. Grade 4 students participated in an enrichment project entitled Cross Cultural Story Problems in Math from December '94 to May '95. Students received story problems from
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- English-Spanish Numbers - EnchantedLearning.com
Read words and pronunciation guides for the numbers zero (cero) through twelve (doce). Link to a number matching quiz printout or a number writing printout.
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- EnVision: A tool for live web-based communication in the mathematical sciences - Marco Pollanen
EnVision is a Web-based whiteboard-chat program that assists in the live communication of mathematical content. It has been used to conduct online office hours in introductory courses. It allows students to log in anonymously and thus reduce anxieties
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- EquPlus - Maria Chernenko
An index of math and science equations, rendered in TeX, MathML, png image files, and MathType. Browse categories such as algebra, calculus, geometry, signal processing, trigonometry, and statistics. See also EquPlus's unit conversions, constants, and
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- The Erdös Number Project - Jerry Grossman
Paul Erdos wrote hundreds of mathematical research papers in many different areas, many in collaboration with others. His Erdos number is 0. Erdos's co-authors have Erdos number 1. People other than Erdos who have written a joint paper with someone with
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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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- Every Day Counts with PFK Consultants - Pasty F. Kanter
An elementary math education company offering staff development workshops based on author Patsy F. Kanter's "Every Day Counts" family of products (published by Great Source Education Group). The workshops focus on making math a daily activity, encouraging
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- Everyday Mathematics: A Parent's Handbook K-5 - Oswego School District
Classroom routines, standards by grade level, examples, glossary, and other resources. Learn about number families, number stories, games such as factor captor, and algorithms such as addition by partial-sums, subtraction by counting-up, left-to-right,
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- Fermi Off-the-Wall Math League - Karen Newell, Intermediate District 287, Plymouth, Minnesota
A Fermi question is posed with limited information given, and requires that students ask many more questions; for example, "How many water balloons would it take fill the school gymnasium?" ("What are the approximate dimensions of the gym?") Register
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- Fermi Questions - Sheila Talamo
Fermi questions emphasize estimation, numerical reasoning, communicating in mathematics, and questioning skills. Students often believe that "word problems" have one exact answer and that the answer is derived in a unique manner. Fermi questions encourage
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- First Day of School - Math Forum, Teacher2Teacher FAQ
Answers to a frequently asked question: What do you do on the first day of school?
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- Flip Flop Fly Ball - Craig Robinson
"A love of baseball plus a love of visual representations equals Flip Flop Fly Ball." Robinson's infographics include Diamonds in Manhattan, a map of every baseball or softball diamond on the island of Manhattan; Baserunning, which puts into perspective
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- FlowingData - Nathan Yau
FlowingData explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists use data to understand ourselves better -- mainly through data visualization. This blog, by a PhD candidate in statistics with a background in computer science and design, dates
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- Focus on Student Practice - Suzanne Alejandre
Article about how students worked on the Problem of the Week (PoW) "Wooden Legs" in a way that developed the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Mathematical Practice of "making sense of problems and persevering in solving them." This article, originally
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- Foundation for Advancements in Science and Education
Since its inception, the mission of this independent non-profit public charity has "evolved continuously, encompassing challenging new issues and exploring innovative applications of information technology." In particular, FASE sells The Eddie Files,
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- From Counting to Writing - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
Abstract numbers are the product of a long cultural evolution. They also apparently played a crucial role in the development of writing in the Middle East. Indeed, numbers came before letters, contends archaeologist Denise Schmandt-Besserat of the University
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- gealgerobophysiculus - Evan Weinberg
Thoughts on teaching, learning, and "the crazy process of having fun doing both with students." Posts, which date back to September, 2011, have included "How China Keeps Me Learning: Part I," "Lens Ray Tracing in Geogebra," "Take Time to Tech – Perspectives
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- General Tables of Units of Measurement - Office of Information Services, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Tables of metric units of measurement; tables of U.S. units of measurement; notes on British units of measurement; tables of units of length (international and survey), area (international and survey), capacity (dry and liquid volume measure), mass not
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- Geometry Everywhere - Betty R. Allen; Kodak
An activity intended to make students more aware of geometric shapes and lines in objects around them. Students were divided into five groups, four to photograph geometric shapes and concepts at home, on the farm, in town, and at the lake, and one group
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- Harnessing Technology to Serve Adult Literacy: Math - David J. Rosen
Frequently Asked Questions on how to help adult literacy education (ABE/GED/ESL/ESOL) teachers and learners use computers, television, audio and video cassettes, and other electronic technology to solve learning and instructional problems: "Our students
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- How To Get Into the Newspapers - Keith Devlin (Devlin's Angle)
A lecture to Devlin's readers with good advice on how to write math clearly enough and other important things to do to get an article published in the newspapers.
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- How to Succeed in College Mathematics - Richard Dahlke
A study and reference book based on the notion that "learning is best achieved when student and instructor roles are mutually supportive and based on sound learning principles." Drawing on educational psychology, pedagogical research, learning technologies,
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- HTML with LaTeX - Alan Selby
Given HTML input that includes LaTeX encoded equations, the LaTeX2HotEqn applet generates webpages with typeset quality mathematics. With examples and documentation.
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- iMath
A free math-enhanced Web browser/editor supported by a net service to enable
the sending, receiving, storing, publishing, and discussion of pages with
math notation.
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- IMSA Math Journal - Michele Micetich; Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
A journal published annually since 1993; each issue contains articles, problems, and activities spanning a wide variety of topics of interest to high school mathematics teachers and students. Articles are available in both on-line and downloadable versions.
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- Information is Beautiful - David McCandless
Compelling graphic presentations on health supplements, plane accidents by final destination, government spending, time travel in popular film and TV, and many other "facts, data, ideas, subjects, issues, statistics, and questions" -- all with the minimum
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- Inquiry maths - Blair, Andrew; and Martin, Caitriona
Inquiry prompts for topics related to number, algebra, and shape to use in secondary school mathematics. Accompanying notes support teachers who "want to make their lessons more open and, thereby, encourage student independence and leadership."
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- Integer Jim's Math Squad - Jim Bennett
Creative ways to use art, writing, research, and Internet projects to make math more exciting for students. The Math Squad art projects are year-long projects; rather than "lesson oriented," they create an "adventure theme" that facilitates math instruction.
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- The Interactive Mathematics Classroom - Rex Boggs
A digital library of third-party technology resources for teaching mathematics, from kindergarten to calculus. Register to comment on interactive whiteboard files, Powerpoints, TI-Nspire documents, Excel spreadsheets, and other digital resources. RSS
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- Is Mathematical Teaching a Function of Time? - Andrej and Elena Cherkaev, eds.
A page of math humor, including definitions, anecdotes, math education jokes, theorems, puns, limerics, and links.
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- Job Interview - Math Forum, Teacher2Teacher FAQ
Answers to a frequently asked question: What issues should a teacher think about before a job interview?
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- John Allen Paulos
John Allen Paulos is a mathematician and author of the books Mathematics and Humor, I Think, Therefore I Laugh, Innumeracy - Mathematical Illiteracy and Its
Consequences, Beyond Numeracy - Ruminations of a Numbers Man, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper,and
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