- Using Computers to Produce Spreadsheets and Bar Graphs - Dwayne Palasek; SCORE Mathematics
Using data from the Glencoe Math book, from Internet sources or data of your own choice, learn what information and formulas to use to create a spreadsheet and the bar graphs to show the data pictorially. Aligned to the California State Standards. From
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- U.S. Olympic PBS Cyber School - IBM
Built around the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, the PBS Cyber School uses downhill skiing, snowboarding, and figure-skating to offer problem-solving challenges for middle school students, who are invited to build their own site using the IBM HomePage
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- Variance and Covariance: How Much Money Do Baseball Players Really Make? (MSTE) - Ed Malczewski; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
An exploration of idea of variance and how it is used in statistics. The average (mean) salary of a ballplayer in the majors leagues is $1.2 million dollars. Given only this fact, it is easy to see how the perception of the overpaid baseball player was
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- Varsity Tutors - Chuck Cohn, founder and CEO
Varsity Tutors is a private tutoring service in Chicago (with tutors there and in Houston, New York City, Phoenix, St. Louis, and Tucson) that provides premium at-home (or mutually agreed location) academic assistance in math-related subjects. Varsity
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- VassarStats Statistical Computation - Vassar College
Online Javascript programs on topics such as statistical tests, simulation, correlation and regression: procedures applicable to categorical frequency data; procedures applicable to proportions; procedures applicable to ordinal data; correlation and regression;
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- VeryPrime - Mathematical Search Engine - Marian Olejar, Jr.
Search engine based on text analysis and focused on mathematics and math terms. Includes a dictionary.
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- Video Lectures in Mathematics - Jerry Farlow
An online pinboard gathering thousands of visual links to a broad range of math videos. Categories include applications of math; famous mathematicians; math education; math humor; math on TV, movies; STEM math initiatives; and "instructional: K-12." Farlow
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- Views of the Solar System - Calvin J. Hamilton
A multimedia exploration of the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, meteorites, and more. Study the latest scientific information or the history of space exploration, rocketry, early astronauts, space missions, and spacecraft through an archive of
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- Villainy, Inc.: Thwarting World Supremacy through Mathematics - Maryland Public Television
To thwart the evil Dr. Wick, ID, middle grade students take on the role of an advisor to his company, Villainy, Inc. -- while secretly using their math skills to make sure Wick never succeeds. As undercover double agents for the Anti-Villainy Unit (the
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- The Virtual High School
The Virtual High School project is a collaborative of high schools from around the country. In exchange for contributing a small amount of teaching time, a school in the collaborative can offer its students web-based courses ranging from advanced academic
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- The Virtual Mathematics Center - Martindale's Graduate & Undergraduate Center
Preprints and online journals from a wide variety of math and science organizations; Online math dictionaries and encylopedias; mathematics courses, tutorials and databases; courses by subject; related mathematics information and databases.
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- ViSta: the Visual Statistics System - Forrest W. Young
ViSta features visual tools for revealing structure in data; for showing the results of statistical analyses; for guiding the analyst through an analysis; and for structuring the analyst's data analysis process. ViSta is designed for a wide range of users,
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- VisualMath - G. Fonthal, VisualPhysics
Math shareware programs that feature visual and interactive techniques under Windows 95 may be downloaded from this site: for numbers (real, complex, binary); set theory (Venn diagrams); geometry (shapes and areas, 3D Geometry); algebra (equations, polynomials,
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- Waldomaths - Ron Barrow
Original applets on number, algebra and graphs; shape, space and measure; probability and data handling, including histograms; investigative tools (quadratic and cubic sequences); core (pure) mathematics; decision mathematics (network graphs and linear
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- WASL Math Prompts - Port Angeles School District, Washington state
Sample questions for the WASL, Washington State Assessment of Student Learning. Most questions have answers printed above the questions. Sample questions are offered for kindergarten through high school levels, organized by mathematical content, and accompanied
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- WAVE: Web Access Virtual Education - University Laboratory High School; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Illinois WAVE Project provides Mathematica Tutorial notebooks categorized as pertaining to Algebra, Applications, Calculus, Conics, Geometry, Pre-calculus, Statistics, or Trigonometry, for use in the high school mathematics curriculum. From the University
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- Weather Math - Jan Rottner; SCORE Mathematics
Collect data about weather statistics in your own location and another geographical location to use in calculating averages and comparing your results using less than, greater than or equal to skills. Skills of calculating the differences between highs
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- Weather Plots (MSTE) - John Meseke; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Students use current weather data to observe and answer questions about the relation between temperature and humidity.
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- WebCab XL - WebCab Components
Range of math and finance techniques implemented within a free Excel add-in for Windows. Techniques include: interpolation, probability and statistics, optimization, portfolio theory, options and futures pricing theory. Menu driven application development,
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- Web Chi Square Calculator - Catherine N. Ball and Jeffrey Connor-Linton, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University
Perform the chi square test for statistical significance. First, enter the number of rows and columns; then, enter your data. Also, take a tutorial or run demos.
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- Web-Enabled Scientific Services & Applications (Online Calculators) - Patrick Wessa
Equation Plotter (Plot mathematical equations, statistical distributions,
numerical integration). Scientific Forecasting (Box-Jenkins ARIMA modeling, forecasting, and bootstrap simulation of financial profit density functions). Descriptive Statistics
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- Web Interface for Statistics Education - Claremont Graduate University
Interactive statistics tutorials, answers to questions, and other resources for teaching introductory statistics. Tutorials, with exercises and Java applets, address sampling distributions of the mean; an introduction to statistical power; investigating
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- WebStat - R. Webster West, Todd Ogden; Dept. of Statistics, Univ. of South Carolina
A statistical computing environment for the World Wide Web, written in the form of a Java applet. WebStat should run on any of the three major platforms (Mac, PC, Unix). It is currently equipped to do almost everything you need for an introductory statistics
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- Weighing the Evidence - Keith Devlin (Devlin's Angle)
Hundreds of thousands of years of evolution have equipped us with many useful mental abilities - our instinct to avoid many dangerous situations and our use of language are two obvious examples. However, evolution has not equipped us to handle statistical
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- Weighted Averages - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question
A selection of answers to questions about weighted averages, where some data have greater value than others, such as determining a final grade from three tests worth a total of 45% of the final grade, a final exam worth 25%, a project worth 15%, and three
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- What's the City Mileage of a Typical American Car? (MSTE) - Ed Malczewski; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Analyze the data and find an average for the mileages of American cars. A
problem like this can sometimes involve difficult and time-consuming statistical analyses, but in this lesson you will explore a method of analysis called the bootstrap that will
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- Who's Counting - John Allen Paulos
Columns by Prof. John Allen Paulos, the author of Innumeracy, Mathematician Reads a Newspaper, and other popular books. Humorous and enjoyable articles by a keen observer of the world around him whose mind has been sharpened by mathematical practice.
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- Who's Really Ahead? - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
The winding down of the current baseball season seems an appropriate time to take a look at a curious inconsistency that sometimes appears in team standings... Once in a while the team with the higher winning percentage may be at least one-half a game
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- The Why Files - University of Wisconsin
An electronic exploration of the issues of science, math, and technology that lurk behind the headlines of the day, presenting those topics in a clear, entertaining and accessible manner. Provides a bimonthly feature on the science of everyday life, archived
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- WINKS & KWIKSTAT Statistics Software - TexaSoft
Statistical data analysis software for Windows (WINKS) and DOS (KWIKSTAT). Programs in zipped format to download; free evaluation copy of any program you are interested in seeing. Courses on Statistical Data Analysis and QS-9000 Statistical Techniques
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- WisWeb - Freudenthal Institute
The Freudenthal Institute, a Dutch organization for secondary education, provides applets to support/extend the math instruction of students 12 years and older. For this site, WisWeb recommends versions 5 or higher of Internet Explorer, Netscape or Opera.
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- wNetSchool
A resource for K-12 teachers, with some information for adult education teachers (i.e., the GED exam). Subscribing to the site is free, but one may also enter without subscribing. wNetSchool provides lesson plans centered around the Internet or educational
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- Word Problems for Kids - St. Francis Xavier University; Canada's SchoolNet
Word problems by level for students in grades 5-12, which can help improve problem-solving skills. A hints link is available for difficult problems. Complete solutions are available upon request to teachers with e-mail addresses. From students, principals,
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- www.MonteCarloSimulations.org - The Monitor Group, Inc.
A resource library for planners interested in learning more about Monte Carlo and other tools to deal with uncertainty. Read "What is Monte Carlo?" and "Why Monte Carlo?" Find events, literature, software, and more.
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- WWW Resources for Teaching Statistics - Robin Lock; Mathematics Dept., St. Lawrence Univ., Canton, NY
A paper presented at Technology in Statistics Education, a 1998 conference for teachers sponsored by the Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association. Its purpose is to direct readers to typical statistics instruction support sites on the WWW.
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- Yahoo! Science: Mathematics - Yahoo! Inc.
All the best on the Web in math including Indices, alphabetically listed by category: Academic Papers; Algebra; Applied Mathematics; Books; Calculus; Chaos; Combinatorics; Complex Systems; Conferences; Education; Employment; Entropy; Equations; Ethnomathematics;
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- YoeServ Math Help - Yoe Corporation
Pages that include solutions to problems one might encounter when trying to write a computer program or solve some other problem: Finding out how many digits are in a number; Calculating Z-scores by integration; The rules of logarithms; Explicit formula
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- Your Mathematics Society - ChatArea.com
A chat area/forum for all mathematics questions. General mathematics, algebra, calculus, geometry/trigonometry, statistics, calculators, and history of mathematics are covered.
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- Zimaths - University of Zimbabwe
An electronic maths magazine with clever, amusing articles written to supplement the resources available to Zimbabwean students, most of whom do not have access to extra-syllabus information. Features include: How number plates and ISBNs work; Statistical
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