- Futility Closet - Greg Ross
"An idler's miscellany of compendious amusements." Math posts, which date back to January, 2005, have included puzzles, curios, and trivia from the lives of famous mathematicians -- all "self-contained and written as concisely as possible" -- such as
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- Future School
Developer of educational software, online tutoring, and home schooling courses. Video tutorials. Sample lessons and ordering information available.
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- The Game of Go - Jean-Claude Chetrit
A page for Go players interested in mathematics or abstract reasoning. How many static positions exist and how many are legal? This is purely an exercise in counting (combinatorics). See also Chetrit's conjectures about playing Go on a 2 by 2 board and
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- Game Theory in the News - Mike Shor
A regularly updated archive of news articles about game theory or probability. Hundreds of articles currently archived are indexed by mathematical theme or by area of application, including evolutionary biology, computer science, politics, and economics.
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- Gary Haynes - Gary Haynes
Course syllabi, lesson plans, homework, and objectives. Visit "Tangrams and Other Games" for an interactive tangram story and a Flash presentation on how to develop an understanding of functions through the use of the motion sensor.
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- GEM: Gateway to Educational Materials - National Library of Education (NLE)
A database for education links, intended to be more useful for teachers than a search engine. It records the resources of its consortium members (information on joining the consortium is available onsite). Users are able to: browse through lists organized
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- The Genome Multimedia Site - Brandeis University
An interactive course that introduces how some concepts of probability theory (combinatorics, mutation), information theory (bit definition, entropy), alignment theory (programming, scoring, matrices), and statistics (populations and samples, histograms,
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- Geometry.Net
An online learning center offering extensive lists of links to sites with material in Basic Math; Pure and Applied Math; Computer & Internet; Technology; Biographers; Physics; Biology; and Sports.
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- The Geometry Pages - Cathi Sanders
Illustrated essays designed to intrigue and inspire you to learn more about geometry and its many applications in art, engineering, science, and more. Includes the following topics: Lines (History, Elements of Geometry, Polygons, Tessellations); Numbers
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- Get Help With Your Math Homework - Cramster.com
Find homework solutions from text books, lecture notes, and solved exams written by college professors for their courses. Subscription fees required. Ask questions and answer other members' questions "for self practice, karma points and goodwill" on the
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- Getsmarter.org - Council on Competitiveness
A free web site designed to help improve math and science education. Interactive quizzes, games, and tutorials allow students to learn more about specific topics and improve their skills. MSTV, a series of interactive modules, shows how math and science
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- Giacomo Lorenzoni
Download the author's programs, which include ThermalWall, for calculating fundamental dynamic thermal characteristics of walls composed of multiple homogeneous layers; and PEEI, for the numerical solution of systems of partial differential equations.
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- Go Directly to JAIL! - Andrew Pinzler
The long-term probabilities in the Parker Brothers game Monopoly: an exploration into which Monopoly game board properties are occupied more frequently than others. Developed from a high school science project, this site is organized as a lab write-up.
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- The Great Probability Challenge - Daniela Cupples
In this hands-on probability and statistics learning experience, students perform a coin toss experiment, then predict, analyze, and present their experimental findings with visual graphing representations. Throughout the 2010-2011 school year, students
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- The Grey Labyrinth - Kevin Lin
A collection of mind-benders in math and logic. When a solution to one puzzle is posted, another solution-less puzzle is added. With an archive of past puzzles, links to other puzzle-related sites, and a bibliography of works that inspired this site.
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- Guessing the Prime Number Theorem and Treacherous Logic (Math Chat) - Frank Morgan, MAA Online
The Prime Number theorem says that the probability P(x) that a large integer x is prime is about 1/log x. At about age 16 Gauss apparently conjectured this estimate after studying tables of primes. Greg Martin suggested to me a heuristic way to approach
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- HAKMEM - Beeler, Gosper, Schroeppel; Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
A list of math and computer-related problems, unsolved in 1972 when the list originated, compiled "with the hope that a record of the random things people do around here can save some duplication of effort - except for fun." Topics include: Geometry,
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- Hands-on Computer Activities For Teaching Math: Grades 3-8 - Beverly Burnley
Purchase or request an evaluation copy (if you're an educator) of this book. Publisher's description: "Featuring more than 100 step-by-step activities that use common computer programs, such as Microsoft Word and Paint, to model concepts in five basic
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- The Hermit's Epidemic (MSTE) - Jay Hill; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
A project that tracks the spread of a disease on a desert island populated by hermits, using the Internet and other student activities to explore the concept of expected value: How many hermits do we expect to get the disease? A model using dice and an
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- High School Mathematics - Cem Giray
Site contains lecture notes, exams, quizzes, assignments, challenging problems, curricula (in this case meaning topics of study), and olympiad materials of high school level for teachers and students. Some materials are web pages, some are in PDF format,
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- High School Projects (COMAP) - Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications
Products developed in print, video, and multimedia formats, supporting the NCTM Standards, to bring mathematical modeling into high schools around the country, and present mathematics in contexts that are relevant to students. Curriculum: Mathematics:
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- HipEstat: Hipertexto de Estadística - Juan y Ignacio Lejarza; Universidad de Valencia, España
A Spanish language tutorial in statistics. Contents include descriptive analysis, probability, inference, and an introduction to multivariate analysis, with text, software, bibliography, and related links.
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- HippoCampus - Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
Video lessons in arithmetic, algebra and geometry, statistics and probability, calculus and advanced math. The Monterey Institute for Technology and Education also runs the National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) and NROC math.
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- Home Page of Persi Diaconis - Persi Diaconis
Download PDF and PostScript papers, organized by co-author or by year of publication, such as Asymmetric one-dimensional constrained Ising model; Random walk on trees and matchings; and Mathematical developments from the analysis of Riffle-shuffling.
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- Homepage of Torsten Sillke - Torsten Sillke
A collection of puzzles statements, with references, on a variety of topics: operations research, such as crossing the bridge; logic, including liars and truth tellers, mastermind, and age problems; lateral thinking, also known as "situation puzzles";
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- Homework Help - Homeworkhelp.com, Inc.
Over 1000 tutorials, indexed for searching, for help with math, English, science, and ESL. Middle School math (grades 6-8) covers fractions, decimals, percents, graphing, functions, geometry, etc. High School math offers pre-algebra, algebra I and II,
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- HomeworkTV.com
Video lessons for grades 6-8 "presented by a live National Certified teacher who explains lessons in real motion." A topic list for each grade is available on the site.
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- HOT Math - Pauline Vos
Hands-on tasks in the mathematics classroom, a resource site for teachers of students around 14 years of age. Among the topics are angles, symmetry, scale drawing, balance algebra, tables, combinations, statistics, probability, reasoning, finding rules
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- How do I tell a real difference from random variation? - Max Janairo
This paper presents the concepts necessary to understand what the methodologies of hypothesis testing and confidence intervals accomplish, and provides an introduction to the use of these concepts to answer particular questions in medicine. Some problems
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- How to Play Fair With Loaded Dice (Math Chat) - Frank Morgan, MAA Online
Answer to the Challenge: For some reason you need a standard fair die (with the numbers from 1 to 6 on the six faces). All you have is an unfair "loaded" die. How can you use the loaded die to fairly choose random numbers from 1 to 6? ... Roll the die
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- Humanity's Life Span (Math Chat) - Frank Morgan, MAA Online
Challenge: Estimate the life span of the human race. Answer: Al Zimmermann says with 80% confidence that we have between 100,000 and 10 million years to go.
Perhaps another million years is the best guess. (By comparison, the dinosaurs reigned for over
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- HyperStat Online - David M. Lane; Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
An introductory-level hypertext statistics book. In addition to search capabilities, a glossary, analysis tools, and instructional demos, the book provides chapters on: describing univariate and bivariate data; introduction to probability; normal and
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- IB Math Prep - Stan Rachelson; Distance Education Courses, Inc.; South Carolina Educational Communications
IB Math Prep contains video lessons designed for students to prepare for the IB Math Exam. The lessons address the topics found in the International Baccalaureate Math Standard Level (SL) curriculum including: Algebra/Functions, Circular Functions/Trigonometry,
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- iCoachMath.com - HighPoints Learning, Inc.
iCoachMath.com coaches students online; and provides teachers with student performance reports, customized test papers, and math resources such as lesson plans aligned to state and national standards. The site freely offers an illustrated dictionary of
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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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- The Infinitude Of Primes - Jim Loy
A prime number (such as 2 or 3 or 5) is a natural number (positive whole number) which is only divisible by itself and one (and no other natural number). This short essay explains Euclid's proof that there are infinitely many prime numbers.
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- innumeracy.com - Steve Head
A site devoted to the nature of chance and critical thinking, a result of a search of various sites that may be of use to others whose desire is to develop a more critical mind. Some articles are posted to the Probability and Critical Thinking pages;
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- Institute of Mathematical Statistics - Elyse Gustafson, Executive Director
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. IMS' main technical journals are the Annals of Statistics,
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- Intelligent Tutor Math Educational Software, Inc.
The programs in the Intelligent Tutor software series contain tutorials designed to help students learn and master Grades 7-12 math subjects. The programs are designed with school versions for use in schools, and home versions for individuals in self-study
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- Interactive Excel Spreadsheets - Scott A. Sinex, Prince George's Community College
"Excelets are interactive Excel spreadsheets or simulations of mathematical models. The user changes a variable and the spreadsheet changes in numerical, graphical, and/or even symbolic form (equations).... with no use of programming, no macros or Visual
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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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- Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles - Alexander Bogomolny
"The peculiar beauty of Mathematics lies in deduction, in the dependency of one fact upon another. The less expected a dependency is, the simpler the facts on which the deduction is based - the more beautiful is the result." This award-winning site offers
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- Internet Math Challenge - Dept. of Mathematics, University of Idaho
A weekly K-12 math challenge from the math department at the University of Idaho, discontinued in 2004. Past puzzles and solutions are available.
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- Internet Projects for Elementary Statistics - Weiss; Addison Wesley Longman
Projects designed to help students understand statistics by analyzing real data and interacting with graphical demonstrations of statistical concepts. Each Web chapter provides a set of simulations, demonstrations, and other activities to supplement Elementary
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- An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications - Li, Vigányi
2nd edition textbook on the subject, which can be ordered through the Web. A postscript file of contents is also available. The incompressibility method and Kolmogorov complexity is a versatile mathematical tool, a sharper relative of classical information
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- Introduction to Probability - Grinstead, Snell; American Mathematical Society
A text for a first course in probability that emphasizes the use of computing to simulate experiments and make computations. Read it on the Web or download it. A set of programs (Mathematica, Maple, TrueBASIC versions can be downloaded) goes with the
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- 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
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- James Franklin
Research activities, books, articles, opinions, and more from the author of What Science Knows and The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal. Franklin researches and teaches about the philosophy of mathematics in the School of
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- Java Applets for Statistics - Shangrong Deng, Kai Qian, and Xu-Yan Chen
A collection of applets that do calculations and provide illustrations for topics in elementary statistics: the sample space model, calculator (mean and deviation), multiplication rule for counting, permutations and combinations, tossing a balanced coin
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- Java Applets - STATLETS: NWP Associates, Inc.
Links to applets for Distributions (Histograms; Normal Approximation to Binomial; Normal Density; The T Distribution; Area Under Normal Curves; Z Scores & the Normal Distribution), Probability & Stochastic Processes (Binomial Probabilities; Brownian
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