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Economic and Game Theory - David K. Levine, Department of Economics, UCLA A site that uses the tools of modern economic theory and game theory to explore how the interaction of intelligent goal-seeking individuals determines social outcomes. The site offers general interest material, undergraduate and graduate course material, and original research. Play interactive games; download papers in PDF format; or post questions and answers to the moderated Economic and Game Theory Forum. more>>

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The Bad Maths Pool - Danny Nicholson A UK teacher trainer's Flickr photo group "for all those images of crazy special offers and examples of things that just don't add up." Pictures, which date back to August, 2010, primarily consist of retail advertisements gone wrong with bulk discounting, ...more>> Balducci's Actuarial Home Page - David P.M. Scollnik; Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of Calgary Links to popular actuarial resources: Balducci's List of Actuarial, Risk, and Insurance Links; Actuaries ( with Home Pages ) on the Web; Actuarial Programs in Academia; Actuarial ( Statistical ) Research Papers. Also information relating to actuarial ...more>> Bartlett Corrections - F. Cribari-Neto Introduction to and compilation of resources on Bartlett corrections: scalar transformations "applied to the likelihood ratio (LR) statistic that yields a new, improved test statistic which has a chi-squared null distribution to order O(1/n). This represents ...more>> Car Budget Activity - Lawrence Klepinger A handout from The Internet TESL Journal, Vol. III, No. 7, July 1997 (English as a second language). The activity can easily be adapted for different countries and is designed to show the importance of good budgeting and basic common sense when planning ...more>> Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science (CMS-EMS) - Northwestern University A research center affiliated with the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, bringing together economists, managerial economists, mathematicians, and social scientists at Northwestern University who use ...more>> Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF) - University of Aarhus and Aarhus Business School, Denmark CAF is based on a grant from the Danish Social Science Foundation. Its main purpose is to strengthen research in theoretical and applied finance in Denmark. It has members from the Department of Management and Department of Economics , University of ...more>> Chaos, Fractals and Attractors in Economics - Ben Tamari Dynamical system in economics, fractals and chaos in nature. ...more>> Chicago Financial Mathematics Seminar - Alexander Adamchuk, Organizer A seminar that is not a formal part of any academic program, open to those who might be interested in professional development and quantitative research in Financial Engineering and Risk Management, bringing together professionals and students from industry ...more>> class.com - Class.com, Inc Class.com provides distance education over the Internet, and offers a complete high school diploma from a fully accredited, university-based independent study high school. Math course listings include a math skill review, basic mathematics, beginning ...more>> The Classical & Keynesian AD-AS Model of the Canadian Economy - Elmer G. Wiens; Egwald Web Services Ltd. Macroeconomics model of the Canadian economy considering both the aggregate supply and aggregate demand for products. Illustrated article with interactive supplemental page. ...more>> Cost-Of-Living Calculator, Percent Change Calculator - NewsEngin Inc. The cost of living utility converts dollar values, adjusting for inflation. Find the buying power of dollar amounts dating back to 1957, according to a national U.S. city average, urban regions, or metropolitan areas, as based on the historical Consumer ...more>> Econometrics and Statistics e-Journal - Istanbul University Istanbul University Econometrics and Statistics e-Journal is a refereed semi-annual electronic journal which is published by Istanbul University Faculty of Economics, Department of Econometrics. The journal welcomes original Turkish and English scientific ...more>> Family Economics & Financial Education - Take Charge America Institute, University of Arizona Free, ready-to-teach classroom materials, teacher training, newsletters, grants and other activities for teachers to expand knowledge of family economics and to incorporate money management related lessons into their grade 7 through 12 classrooms. Family ...more>> Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia The Federal Reserve Bank has nine billion dollars in its vaults, and on an average day it destroys $20 million in unfit currency. At the Money in Motion exhibit you can explore the theoretical and mathematical realms of interest rates, inflation, and ...more>> Freakonometrics - Arthur Charpentier Blog by a Montreal professor of actuarial science "addicted to R." Posts, which date back to March, 2007, have included "Dynamic dependence ordering for Archimedean copulas and distorted copulas," "Pricing catastrophe options in incomplete markets," "Estimation ...more>> High School Financial Planning Program - National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) A six-unit program that provides teens with a greater understanding of and ability to manage their personal finances in the areas of goal setting, budgeting, and saving. With games, simulations, case studies, and interactive exercises, the site provides ...more>> Homepage & Papers - Dr. Peter Singer Dr. Singer is associated with the MeVis-Center for Diagnostic Systems and Medical Visualization at the Univ. of Bremen, Germany. His interests and publications include: mathematics of finance; Fourier analysis; fractals; medical image processing; stochastic ...more>> InCharge Education Foundation - InCharge Education Foundation, Inc. The non-profit InCharge Education Foundation promotes financial wellness by offering data, information, research, and education on the behaviors and issues facing average individuals and families on consumer credit, money management, and financial well-being ...more>> The Inflation Calculator - S. Morgan Friedman A web form that adjusts any given amount of money for inflation, according to the Consumer Price Index, from 1800 to 2005. Pre-1975 data are the Consumer Price Index statistics from Historical Statistics of the United States (USGPO, 1975). All data since ...more>> IXL Learning IXL provides free online practice, organized by grade levels K-8 and aligned to state standards. Choose one math skill from among the hundreds offered, and submit your answer. Respond incorrectly, and click on the "explanation" button to learn more; get ...more>> Keynesian IS-LM Model of the Canadian Economy - Elmer G. Wiens; Egwald Web Services Ltd. Macroeconomics model of the Canadian Economy based on the Keynesian IS-LM model. Illustrated article with interactive supplemental page. ...more>> Khan Academy - Salman Khan Salman Khan has recorded over 1400 YouTube videos on a variety of topics, largely math and finance. The Khan Academy, which Khan founded, is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere. To keep ...more>> Lernen Experimental - Lernen Experimental GmbH "When blackboard images learned to move ..." Products include software that takes static blackboard images produced during conventional mathematics lessons, and converts them into dynamic, interactive screen experiments. The learning software for the ...more>> Money Cents - MoneyCents, Inc. Cartoon characters introduce the basics of saving and spending money. Interactive calculators to investigate sales and car loans, history quizzes, and Shockwave games. ...more>> The Money Game: World School Investment Challenge - Von Kaay Capital Network Inc., Ontario, Canada A contest for schools (with a separate contest for high school seniors) that allows you to manage an investment portfolio. Classes or schools whose portfolios make the most money win some real money for their school. Find out the details and read the ...more>> Monthly Cost of Living - Food - Ric Cooley; SCORE Mathematics Students determine how much they would need to feed a family for a month, plan meals, and use Internet grocery stores to find the cost of individual food items. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources ...more>> The National Budget Simulation - Schneiderman, Newman; Center for Community Economic Research, U.C. Berkeley This simulation asks students to cut the 1995 fiscal deficit in order to achieve a balanced budget. Made to give students a better feel for the trade-offs which citizens and policymakers need to make to balance the budget. Choose between a short and long ...more>> NewsHour Extra: Math and Economics - MacNeil-Lehrer Productions; PBS Lesson plans, stories written for students, and reports from the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the nightly news broadcast on PBS. See also the articles written for students based on NewsHour stories. ...more>> Oligopoly/Public Firm Model - Elmer G. Wiens; Egwald Web Services Ltd. An economic model of an oligopolistic industry with a government firm, oligopoly, interactive and online model, with bonus systems for managers of a public firm. Application of numerical analysis (Gradient and Newton's methods to solve systems of ...more>> Original Lesson Plans - Mathematics - Thirteen/WNET New York Original Web-based activities developed by Thirteen Ed Online Master Teachers. Each lesson consists of an overview with learning objectives, procedures for teachers, and "organizers" for students -- hand-outs, bibliographies, and other materials. Math ...more>> Planning a Trip - Richard Shiers; SCORE Mathematics Students plan a trip to from 3 to 5 cities of their choice, making a brochure to travel to the chosen cities that include fares for planes, trains, rental cars etc., cost of housing and meals, and points of interest to visit in the cities. Aligned to ...more>> Production Functions and Cost Schedules - Elmer G. Wiens; Egwald Web Services Ltd. Production functions, such as the Cobb-Douglas and CES, underly cost schedules used to model firms in micro-economics. The models illustrate this link and show the relation between long and short run cost schedules. Uses calculus (Langrangians) ...more>> Project Based Learning Pathways - David Graser A blog about real life projects suitable for college math courses such as algebra, finite math, and business calculus. Most of these applied math projects include handouts, videos, and other resources for students, as well as a project letter. Graser, ...more>> Quantum Games - Ivars Peterson - Science News Online Scientists studying quantum computation offer new perspectives on coin tossing, chess, and game theory. Theorists intend to apply the peculiarities of quantum behavior to game theory, two previously unrelated fields. These researchers propose that the ...more>> reflectivemaths - Dave Gale Blog of "ideas as well as the odd resource" by an Advanced Skills Teacher (AST), SSAT Lead Practitioner and member of the TES Maths panel. Posts, which date back to December, 2010, have included "Mereside yr6 Daily Maths Challenge," "When Mathematicians ...more>> 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). ...more>> Schroedinger's Cash Register - Oliver Baker - Science News Online A discussion of the application of physics (particle physics, quantum theory, and statistical mechanics) to finance theory, with econophysicists attempting to break ground in Wall Street, and the possible underlying mathematical structure of market behavior. ...more>> Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics - Bruce Mizrach The Society seeks to promote the use of nonlinear methods in economics and finance from both a theoretical and empirical perspective. Call for papers; programs of past symposia; Journal (Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics - abstracts and bibliographies ...more>> STAT-USA/Internet - U.S. Department of Commerce Part of the Economics and Statistics Administration of the the U.S. Department of Commerce. An information service providing economic, business, social, and environmental program data produced by more than 50 Federal sources; hundreds of thousands of ...more>> Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics - MIT Press, Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics Contents of the journal, 1996-present: abstracts and bibliographies are on the Web; full text of articles (PDF format) is available to subscribers. ...more>> Study Economics Online copies of N. Gregory Mankiw's books Principles of Macroeconomics and Principles of Microeconomics and a tutorial by Daniel Christiansen on calculus and economics. ...more>> The Two-Headed Quarter by Joseph Ganem - Chartley Publishing, LLC A companion site to The Two-Headed Quarter, written by a physicist scrutinizing day-to-day financial decisions, such as "How far should you drive to buy cheaper gas?" and "Is money saved when you buy on sale?" and "How far should you drive to save money?" ...more>> Ultimate Calculators - Graham Lancaster Free online loan calculators, mortgage calculators (comparison calculator, basement suite calculator), investment property calculators, tax calculators, investing calculators (retirement income calculator, 401k calculator), capital budget calculators ...more>> The Universal Currency Converter - Xenon Laboratories Incorporated An interactive currency table. Versions are available in English, Spanish, and Swedish. The Universal Currency Converter™ allows you to perform interactive foreign exchange rate conversion on the Internet. Type the amount of source currency in the input ...more>>

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