- Rich Maths Tasks to Engage - East Midlands Maths Network
These teacher-made rich maths tasks in number, algebra, shape, and data handling emerged from a collaborative project run by Jon Stratford, Lead Practitioner for the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT): arrangements, clock face, chocolate dilemma,
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- RiskLab Toronto
One of an international network of math laboratories in the field of risk
modelling. Originally intended to model financial risk, the field has grown
to encompass a number of other areas. Site provides summaries of the lab's
research (including
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- Robert's Online Applications - Robert Lum
Java applets to assist with financial investments: commissions pricer, derivatives pricer, loan pricer, option pricer, option strategy visualizer, portfolio pricer, quote sheet, stock volatility charts, and tax pricer (1999, 1998, 1997, 1996 or 1995).
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- Rockin' the Standards
Musical recordings by a rock band led by a veteran elementary school teacher who takes the lyrics from common tunes and changes them to help kids remember what they've been taught in school. Each of the fourteen songs on the album "Rockin' the Standards
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- Rodney Carr's Home Page - Deakin University, Australia
Books and software on statistics and advanced spreadsheet design. Contact the author for passwords to access downloadable documents and executable Microsoft Excel workbooks such as XLStatistics, for statistical analysis of data; XLGenetics, for illustrating
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- Rossman/Chance Applet Collection - Franciso Garcia, Carlos Lima, and Beth Chance
Applets for simulating confidence intervals for population parameter, t-intervals for different population shapes, behavior of regression line, histogram bin width, sampling Reeses Pieces, sampling 2002 U.S. Senators, sampling pennies, sampling words
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- ROSSMANCHANCE.COM - Allan J. Rossman & Beth L. Chance
Workshops and presentations, publications, and current projects by the authors of the Workshop Mathematics Project textbooks. See tables of contents, instructor guides, sample syllabi and exams, and answers to activities from books in the Workshop Statistics
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- R. S. Schaeffer - Randy S. Schaeffer, Math & Computer Science, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Schaeffer teaches a course called "Methods of Teaching Secondary Mathematics." Download the lessons created by his students that call on Geometer's Sketchpad, graphing calculators, and Microsoft Excel. Lesson topics address parallel lines, box and whisker
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- Sabermetrics - The Baseball Archive
"The search for objective knowledge about baseball." Read a primer of Bill James' findings, or David Grabiner's manifesto on Sabermetrics. Studies address minor league equivalencies ("Are minor league stats a good precictor of major league performance?"),
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- Sabernomics: Economic Thinking about Baseball - John-Charles Bradbury
A blog on the economics in, and of, the game of baseball. Original tools and studies includes salary estimators, research on age and hitting and pitching, anti-trust and Major League Baseball, attendance and winning, Barry Bonds and walks, competition
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- Salt Creek Investigation - Lacey-Anderson, Provus; Carl Sandburg Jr. H.S., Rolling Meadows, IL
This interdisciplinary study of Salt Creek involves junior high students in the examination of authentic community problems. Through the use of technology and other community resources, students are introduced to water quality issues and develop proposals
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- Samuel Arbesman
Research and writings by the author of The Half-Life of Facts. As an applied mathematician and network scientist, Arbesman's delves into the science of science, nature of productivity and prosocial behavior within cities, the structure and function of
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- Scientists in the City - The Franklin Institute Online
Public Science Day is an annual event, organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), when students visit informal science institutions in Philadelphia, PA. In 1998, ten schools visited The Franklin Institute for the day
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- Secrets of the Fathom Masters - Tim Erickson
"Get your Fathom questions answered here" by a member of Key Curriculum Press' design team that developed the software for data analysis and statistics education. When Erickson needs to write instructions for some procedure using Fathom, he posts them
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- Shedding Light on the Subject: Function Models of Light Decay (i-Math Investigations) - Illuminations; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
An online, interactive, multimedia math investigation in which students develop and analyze exponential models for the behavior of light passing through water. Accompanying video clips show the i-Math in action in real classrooms.
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- Shoe Size vs. Height - Statistical Analysis and Linear Regression with FATHOM - Jay Yohe; Susquehanna Township High School, Harrisburg, PA
A lesson plan in which students analyze one-variable distributions (histograms and box plots), determine measures of center (mean, median) and spread (standard deviation, range), analyze scatter plots, form lines of best fit, and explore least squares
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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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- Software for Graphics and Data Analysis - S. Baum; Dept. of Oceanography, Texas A&M University
Links to software with descriptions, features, and where to find it, in (mostly) the following categories (or check out the complete alphabetical list): mostly graphics; mostly numerical analysis and number crunching; mostly data formats; commercial packages;
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- So Much Data - William D. May
Based on the book So Much Data, So Little Math, tools for learning to do simple data analysis on data sets. Features the online calculation tools "Easy Correlation Calculations" and "Easy Trend Prediction," with explanations, as well as an example of
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- "So You Are Thinking About Dropping Out of School..." - U.S. Department of Labor
Get the facts first. High school dropouts are unemployed more often and earn less - graph and statistics. Poster may be downloaded in PDF format.
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- SPA Software
A U.K.-based software company, makers of educational software in several subjects including mathematics.
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- S-PLUS: Statistics and Data Mining Software - TIBCO Software Inc,
A suite of software products based on the "S" programming language created specifically for data visualization and exploration, statistical modeling and programming with data. It provides an object-oriented environment designed for interactive data discovery
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- State Internet Search: A Mathematical Introduction To State Reports - Laura Himmel; SCORE Mathematics
As a mathematical introduction to their state reports students complete a two-day assignment that involves critical thinking, reasoning, graphing, and locating information on Web sites. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California
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- StatiBot: Your expert system for inferential statistics - Dominik Heeb
An interactive tool for data analysis. Enter your data by hand or copy them from another program, then answer a series of questions. StatiBot will perform appropriate statistical tests, comment on test results, and create graphs. Site includes example
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- Statistical Consultants Ltd - Dion Walker
Data analytics and other consulting services. See, in particular, the New Zealand company's blog, which dates back to 2010 with posts such as "Battle of Britain Casualty Data," "Gretl: A free alternative to EViews," "Life expectancy at birth versus GDP
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- Statistical & Data Analysis Software - NCSS Statistical Software
Statistical analysis in a format that imports and exports all major spreadsheets, databases, and statistical file formats.
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- Statistical Thinking for Managerial Decision Making - Prof. Hossein Arsham; University of Baltimore
Course description: Statistical summary measures, probability, random variables and their distributions: estimation and hypothesis testing, correlation and regression analysis, ANOVA, and their applications to business problems will be presented, and
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- STATISTICS.COM
A source for information about statistics software (major packages like SAS, SPSS and S-PLUS, shareware, and smaller packages), as well as about statistics analysis, data analysis, and short courses in statistics - messy data, design and analysis of experiments,
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- Statistics Every Writer Should Know - Robert Niles; Niles Online
Numbers can't talk, but they can tell you as much as human sources can. Here, described in plain English, are some basic concepts in statistics that every writer and reader should know. For beginners: Mean, Median, Percent; the next step: Per capita and
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- Statistics lessons using data on the Internet - Mathematics Department, University of Wisconsin-La Crossse
Lesson plans for mathematics, science, and social studies secondary school teachers, which apply statistical analysis to data obtained from the Internet.
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- Statistics Norway
The agency that collects Norwegian statistics. Includes articles about data, tables of recent economic and population statistics, and list of publications; many publications and research papers may be read or downloaded in PDF format. The site also
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- Statistics of Mars (candy) (SMILE) - Wilhelm L. Lilly, Kenwood Academy
A lesson for designed to use a realistic situation as a means of collecting data (on M&Ms or other candy); to teach students to group, display, and interpret information by sorting and arranging data to construct frequency graphs; and to display and interpret
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- Statistics Resources - Econometrics - Forecasting - Resa Corporation
Concepts, formulas, and online software of descriptive statistics, continuous distributions, econometrics, and time series analysis (forecasting). Descriptive statistics covered include central tendency, concentration; box plots; density trace; moments;
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- Statpics.com - Robert W. Jernigan
This blog, "devoted to images that illustrate statistical ideas," has included posts such as "Quincunx: A Designer's View," "A Skewed Runway," "Joint and Marginal Distributions in Legos," "Microbes Illustrate Simpson's Paradox," "How Mariano Rivera Dominates
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- Storeys Spreadsheet - Dan Pedersen, Henrik Kjaer; Profunda
A 3D spreadsheet for Macintosh that gives you new opportunities when working in the third dimension, created by placing a block of three-dimensional cells on top of a spreadsheet, making for a new interaction between the 2D and 3D areas. Copy data from
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- Study of Place - TERC
Two online science modules made especially for middle-school students: one about the Shackleton Antarctic exploration, the other about ocean currents. Students will read, experiment, analyze images, and work with maps and graphs. Teachers will find goals
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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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- SUMS Online Mathematics - SUMS ONLINE Limited
Eighty core activities in handling data, shape and space, calculations, and numbers. Trial sample activities in the playground: Fraction Monkeys, Bracket Basics, Fruit Picker (angle rotation), Place Value Darts, Hidden Craft (grid positioning), Division
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- A Taste for M&Ms - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
The package of M&M's chocolate candies (plain) I had just opened contained 56 colorful, little oblate spheroids. It was obvious from a quick glance that certain colors were more common than others in this sample of M&M's. I counted up each color
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- Teacher Exchange - the Math Forum
Web units, lessons, and activities organized by NCTM Standards and grade band level. Created by Math Forum staff members, educators, and collaborations between the two. Teachers may contribute their own lessons and ideas as well.
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- Teaching Contemporary Mathematics Conference - North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM)
Papers and talks presented at the conference. Download PDF files of Geometry and Programming: The Forgotten and the Avoided; Student Investigations in Algebra 2 and Precalculus; The Mantid: An Extended Data Problem; Errors and Power in Significance Tests;
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- Teaching Pets - Andy Davis
See the math resources section of this collection of worksheets and related resources for the primary and middle grades teachers.
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- Tela the TEnsor Language - Geophysical Research/Finnish Meteorological Institute
A numerical computing environment mainly targeted for numerical simulation pre- and postprocessing work. Properties: supports arbitrary dimensional arrays (currently the rank must be less than five though); is generally 2-4 times faster than Matlab, the
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- TERC (Testbed for Collaboration)
TERC, funded by the National Science Foundation, is a project that involves science classrooms around the world working together to design experiments, gather and share their data, and analyze the results. TERC's mission to improve math and science education
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- TheXorb - Jagan Deb
Online calculators for the slope and y-intercept of linear equations; standard deviations; mean, mode, and range; the Pythagorean Theorem; and properties of geometric figures such as triangles, squares, circles (circumference given area; area given diameter;
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- ThinkNum - Gregory Ugwi
A web-based financial data analysis engine. Use regression, curve trades, and other quantitative trading algorithms from scipy, numpy, and similar open source libraries to analyze economic information from hundreds of sources ranging from the ADO National
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- Tides of Change - Mark Schneider; SCORE Mathematics
This lessons deals with collecting data, charting data, and interpreting data, based on the changing ocean tide. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators SCORE Mathematics Lessons.
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- Time-Critical Decision Making for Economics and Finance - Prof. Hossein Arsham; University of Baltimore
This site is intended to help students learn and manage the uncertainty by
using effective forecasting techniques.
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- THE TITANIC: What Can Numbers Tell Us About Her Fatal Voyage? - Todd Atkins, Barbara McManus; Louisiana State University
What do you know about the Titanic, its passengers, and its crew? This Webquest, designed for students who have some familiarity with the use of spreadsheets for creating tables and graphs and with the use of databases for gathering information, explores
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- Tools for Understanding - John Woodward; University of Puget Sound
A resource guide for extending mathematical understanding in secondary schools, for educators who teach mathematics and are interested in integrating common
technologies into their daily instruction. Onsite strands (Math Concepts with lessons related
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