- Columbus State University Math Contest - David Rock and Doug Brumbaugh, College of Education, Columbus State University
Problem of the Week, Algebra in Action, Middle School Madness and Elementary Brain Teaser -- all available in "challenge" mode. Past problems are archived, with solutions available upon request.
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- Combinatorial Geometry (The Geometry Junkyard) - David Eppstein, Theory Group, ICS, UC Irvine
An extensive annotated list of links to material consisting of problems in which one starts with a geometric figure (say a polytope) but then considers abstract incidence properties of it rather than its metric properties. Most tiling and coloring problems
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- Cone Formulas (Ask Dr. Math FAQ) - Math Forum
Formulas for finding the height, surface area, and volume of a cone, right circular cone, or frustum of a cone.
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- Cone Layout - Jock Dempsey, Dempsey's Forge
A flat layout showing that the ratio or percentage of the layout circle is also the sine of half the angle of the top of the cone. If you want a cone with a 90-degree point, the ratio is the sine of half the angle of the point.
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- Coniques interactives en CabriJava (Interactive conics with CabriJava) - Yves Martin
Conics in the Euclidean and projective planes; also in algebra (group),
bilinear geometry, and arithmetic (Pell-Fermat): 123 interactive files
using the CabriJava technology. The site is in French.
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- Connected Curriculum Project: Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Equations - Frank Wattenberg, Department of Mathematics, Montana State University
Materials (TI-92, Maple, Mathematica 2, Mathematica 3, MathCad) organized around the interplay between mathematics and its applications, written together with the textbook Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Equations in a Real and
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- CopyCat - Jim Morey
A Java game that revolves around replicating a picture created by several patterned faces of a solid object (like a cube), challenging the mind to understand complex geometrical structures and symmetry. To do well at the game, the player must first become
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- Corner for Interactive Geometry Software (CIGS) - The Math Forum
The main Math Forum page for resources devoted to the support of teaching with geometry software, especially dynamic, interactive software such as Cabri Geometry and the Geometer's Sketchpad. Instructional activities and lessons to read on the Web or
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- Counting to Calculus: Mathematics - William K. Bradford Publishing Co.
Math software, printed supplements, workbooks, textbooks, posters, and teacher tools available for Elementary, Middle and Secondary math curriculum.
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- Count Us In! - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Fifteen colorful counting and math games designed to help young children understand basic number concepts. Each game has directions and some have levels of difficulty to choose from. Number concepts include: Comparing and Classifying; Patterning; Counting;
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- CourseServer - Jud Cornish; Fairbanks Country Day School, San Diego, CA
A Web-hosted math problem generator that allows you to select from thousands of different problem types and automatically generate problem-and-answer worksheets in your browser that can be printed out. Choose from a list of courses from Grade 1 (beginning
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- Covering and Packing (The Geometry Junkyard) - David Eppstein, Theory Group, ICS, UC Irvine
An extensive annotated list of links to material on covering and packing problems.
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- Cracking Kepler's sphere-packing problem - Ivars Peterson; Science News Online
The familiar piles of neatly stacked oranges at a supermarket represent a practical solution to the problem of packing spheres as tightly as possible. Now, a mathematician has proved that no other arrangement of identical spheres fills space more efficiently.
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- Crafty Puzzles - James Cole, The Crafty Puzzles Company
A U.K. establishment selling wooden puzzles of all sorts: jigsaw puzzles, puzzle boxes, brain teasers, models, and functional pieces.
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- Crashing Waves, Awesome Explosions, Turbulent Smoke and Beyond: Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing in the Visual Effects Industry [PDF document] - Aleka McAdams, Stanley Osher, and Joseph Teran
The May 2010 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society includes a PDF article (1.3M) entitled "Crashing Waves, Awesome Explosions, Turbulent Smoke, and Beyond: Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing in the Visual Effects Industry."
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- Create 2D and 3D gnuplot Graphs
Input a function, vary parameters, plot 2D, 3D Surface, or 3D Contour, vary range displayed, and plot multiple functions at once. With help on various features, and links to graphing animated plots and varying the parameters. Part of the Shodor Educational
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- Creating N-Cubes - Dennis Clark
Web and PowerPoint files for learning how to make tesseracts, draw n-space cubes, and chase snakes, or certain closed paths (loops), in n-space cubes. Also, download Ncubes.exe, a Visual Basic program to draw N-cubes.
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- Crystallographic Topology - Johnson, Burnett, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Topology of Crystallographic Groups and Simple Crystal Structures. A tutorial on some applications of Geometric Topology to Crystallography. The topology of crystallographic groups is approached using orbifolds, and that of simple crystal structures
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- CrystalMaker
A Macintosh program to display and manipulate all kinds of crystal structures. Using the free companion program, CrystalDiffract, CrystalMaker files can be used to generate x-ray and neutron powder diffraction patterns. Main features: In "Photo-Colour"
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- Cubeworld - Hank Gross
Cubeworld: an adventure in solid geometry. This book, with 21 illustrations by the author, is in the tradition of Edwin Abbott's classic Flatland and explores what might happen if the Earth were transformed into a cube. Gravity is different, rain falls
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- Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM Standards, 1989) - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
Log in to access the original 1989 NCTM Standards for grades K-4, 5-8, and 9-12, one facet of the mathematics education community's response to the call for reform in the teaching and learning of mathematics, reflecting a consensus that all students need
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- Curriculum IT Support (CITS) - Department for Education and Employment, UK
Materials, publications, and activities encouraging the use of information technology in secondary schools (11-18 years). Information includes: a database about the use of IT in mathematics lessons in secondary schools; a booklet describing how some departments
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- Curry K. Software - Curry Kenworthy
Shareware for Education and Productivity: Pillbug Golf (Mac - learn about points, slopes, and angles while you putt); Snakey Math (Mac - the basic operations, arcade style); Galactic Geometry 3D (Windows - calculate volume and surface area of 3D objects
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- Curves on Baseballs - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
It's that time of year again (at least in North America), when the thoughts of many sports fans turn to baseball. Over the years, the game has also attracted the attention of mathematicians and statisticians intrigued by the rules, geometric considerations,
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- Cylinder Formulas (Ask Dr. Math FAQ) - Math Forum
Formulas for finding the surface area and volume of a general cylinder and a right circular cylinder.
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- David Royster's Home Page - Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of North Carolina-Charlotte
Research and Scholarly Interests - Papers: Algebraic and Differential Topology; Use of Computer Algebra Systems in Mathematics Education. See also MAED 3103, a course for Secondary School mathematics teachers covering material drawn from Algebra I and
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- Desafios Matemáticos - Paulo Ferro
Cinco desafios novos cada mês. Ferro, um professor de matemática licenciado pela Universidade de Coimbra, tambem oferece demonstracões de geometria dinâmica, jogos matemáticos, biografias de matemáticos, exames
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- The Diamond Theorem - Steven H. Cullinane
Finite projective geometry explains the surprising symmetry properties of some simple graphic designs -- found, for instance, in quilts. Links are provided for applications to sporadic simple groups (via the "Miracle Octad Generator" of R. T. Curtis),
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- Disfruta Las Matemáticas - Rod Pierce, mathsisfun.com
Spanish language version of Maths is Fun.
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- Donald Coxeter, Mathematician and Geometer - Great Canadian Scientists (GCS)
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Professor Emeritus, Math Dept., Univ. of Toronto, is best known for his work in hyperdimensional geometries and regular polytopes - geometric shapes that extend into the 4th dimension and beyond. In 1926 he discovered a
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- Don Hatch's Home Page - Don Hatch
Hyperbolic tessellations shown in various stages of truncation, and represented by their Schlafli symbols. Java applets explore hyperbolic tessellations, a magic Rubik's-like cube in four dimensions, polygon reciprocation (dual), modern portfolio theory
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- Double Bubble Conjecture Proved (Math Chat) - Frank Morgan, MAA Online
Four mathematicians have announced a mathematical proof of the Double Bubble Conjecture: that the familiar double soap bubble is the optimal shape for enclosing and separating two chambers of air. In an address to the Undergraduate Mathematics Conference
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- Doubling the Cube - MacTutor Math History Archives
Linked essay covering the history of and some solutions to the classical
problem in Greek mathematics of doubling or duplicating the cube, also called the
Delian problem; and on proving the impossibility of constructing a solution using only ruler
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- DPGraph (Dynamic Photorealistic Graphing) - David Parker
Software that allows you to: display multiple simultaneous dynamic photorealistic 3D implicit equalities and inequalities, and intersections of their volumes; spin, slice, and view time-dependent (moving) photorealistic surfaces in real time; and construct
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- Dr. Math Books - the Math Forum @ Drexel
Featuring Internet references, glossaries, indexes, illustrations, and questions written by actual kids, each can be purchased from Amazon.com via links on this page. The page details the contents of each book: Dr. Math Gets You Ready for Algebra, Dr.
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- Dunham's Math Dictionary - Charlene Dunham
More than 300 Algebra and Geometry math terms, to accompany Charlene Dunham's other pages of course activities (advanced and honors geometry) for Lee Freshman High School.
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- Dynagraph - Rouben Rostamian, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Dynagraph is a 3D plotting utility for the X Window System. It draws 3D curves and surfaces representing mathematical expressions and numerical data, and allows for interactive rotation, zooming, and other manipulations of the displayed images. Read the
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- Dynamic Mathematics Visualization for Young Learners
Sketchpad in Grades 3-8 - a working conference, held at the University of Illinois at Chicago in February, 2003. Researchers, curriculum developers, and educators began developing a curriculum and software structure around The Geometer's Sketchpad technology
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- EdPlace Maths - EdPlace
EdPlace Maths is a is a registered Curriculum Online subscription website that offers over 2000 interactive and printable maths worksheets for KS1 through KS4. Free samples available; paid subscriptions allow users to generate new problems for each worksheet
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- Education: Mathematics - The Mining Company
Web resource lists of sites: see sciences - physical/computer and, beneath, mathematics by Kristin Matherly, with links to sites "in the spotlight" and topics: Algebra; Applied Math; Books; Business Math; Careers; Calculus; Communities; Competitions;
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- education.ti.com - Texas Instruments, Inc.
Texas Instruments calculator resources and educational solutions: product information; free program downloads; classroom activities, including both a test prep section and a free, collaborative forum for sharing favorite activities that use TI technology,
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- EduWare - EduWare, Inc.
Eduware Software lets teachers create exams for any subject or from test banks of Regents questions for Science, Social Studies, Foreign Languages, and Math, using the Wizard Test Maker program. Math subjects include logic, algebra, geometry, the coordinate
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- E-G Models (Electronic Geometry Models) - Michael Joswig, Konrad Polthier
A refereed archive of interesting geometric examples and visualizations, open for any geometer to publish new geometric models, or to browse the models for material to be used in education and research. The geometry models cover a broad range of mathematical
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- Eighth Grade (AAA Math) - John Banfill
Interactive math exercises, lessons, and games covering basic arithmetic concepts and methods, for eighth grade.
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- Elementary Math Enrichment - Beth Schaubroeck
Free mathematics enrichment materials for accelerated 4th and 5th graders. The 70 lessons, grouped into 12 different units, include solutions and teacher guides: Ancient Mathematics (Mayan math, in base 20; and Egyptian math, which lacks zero), Baseball
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- Elements Research
Software developers of EleGeodesic, for geodesic computation, which finds minimum-length straightest-possible path between points on a curved multidimensional manifold; EleNTorus, for n-sphere, n-ellipsoid, and n-torus computation, which provides generic
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- Ellipsoid, Torus, Spherical Polygon Formulas (Ask Dr. Math FAQ) - Math Forum
Formulas for finding the surface area and/or volume of an ellipsoid, a prolate spheroid, an oblate spheroid, a circular or ring torus, and a spherical polygon.
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- Encouraging Mathematical Thinking, Discourse around a Rich Problem - Math Forum: Bridging Research and Practice Group (BRAP)
This videopaper by the Math Forum's Bridging Research and Practice Group (BRAP) of teacher practitioners and Math Forum Staff opens a conversation around the use of discourse as a basis for encouraging students' mathematical thinking and supporting teachers'
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- Equation Search - Octahedron, LLC
Browse common equations in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, probability, and finance; or perform keyword searches by equation name, variable name, constant name, and category.
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- Erich's Packing Center - Erich Friedman
A huge collection of packing problems, each explained with graphics. 2D examples include Triangles in Squares, Circles in Squares, Squares in Squares, Triangles in Triangles, Circles in Triangles, Squares in Triangles, Triangles in Circles, Circles in
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