A Homepage for New Math Teachers "What is often forgotten in math education is what is most important: You, the teacher." This site is geared toward new math teachers--but has information that all new teachers can use, including how to connect with your students, tips on classroom management, and other professional suggestions. Whether for class ideas or just for fun, be sure to check out the monthly math problem and the archive of "Most Loved Problems."
Glossary of Mathematical Mistakes: Conspiratorial Coincidences, Number Numbness, Percentage Pumping and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies are among the many topics at this mainly text-based site. A humourous discussion of the mathematical mistakes that are made with all-too-much regularity by the media, reporters, advertisers, politicians, and others (perhaps even by students), this site opens the door to discussions about whether or not some 'mistakes' might be intentional efforts at deception. There are enough topics here to generate a new weekly theme in your math class over the course of the full school year. Magazine and newspaper clippings could be collected to demonstrate that the errors described are really out there -- and they're out to get us. What better motivation to learn the 'correct' math?
Algebra TutorThis math site is award-winning web site suitable for classwork or homework/extra credit. My thanks to Neil Heffernan for suggesting it.
Patterns in Mathematics In this interactive Lab you can explore logic patterns, number patterns, and word patterns.
The Math Activities for K-12 Teachers is developed by the California Polytechnic State University and funded by NASA and is suitable for math students/teachers in grades K-12. It is a collection of about 30 ideas for activities for math. It is organized by grade level (K-6,7-8, 9-12). These ideas are intended to engage students in real world applications of math. The activities are provided in a lesson plan format complete with rationale, background information, activity materials, instructions, and enrichment.
SofAR Puzzles by John Rowland contains mathematical and logical questions to test your mathematical and lateral thinking skills. A new challenge every month. Join in and get your name published
SuperKids Math Worksheet Creator Make your own printable math work sheets, on the Web!
Bamdad's Math Comics Page. Bamdad's Math Comics Page, frequently updated with new comics, features a collection of over 200 cartoons scanned from newspapers and magazines for grades 5-12. These cartoons usually involve humorous math-related situations.
Basic Math Concepts and Fundamentals. R.H. Logan provides review material, such as solving algebraic equations, understanding the scientific notation, doing metric conversions, understanding significant digits, and other math topics useful for high school science students.
Basic Math Practice. Leland R. Beaumont's Basic Math Practice provides online drill exercises in addition, subtraction, or multiplication for elementary school students. Speier Associates offers another easy-to-use Multiplication Speed Drill .
Basic Multiplication. Basic Multiplication provides a collection of multiplication tricks for grades 4-8.
BasketMath Interactive. Science Academy Software provides a wide variety of interactive math problems where students in grades 4-9 can improve their math skills. Answering the question correctly results in a basketball shot animation; incorrect responses yield the correct answer. To find out your score on a test, scroll to the bottom of the panel and click on Results. Topics include whole number computations, rounding numbers, finding the common factor, word problems, decimal computations, exponents, and many others.
BBC Education: GCSE Math Bitesize. BBC provides a variety of interactive math tutorials along with tests for students in grades 6-12.
BEAM: Downloads. BE A Mathematician (BEAM) from their publications provides a variety of classroom worksheets and accompanying activities with instructions for using them grades 1-5. To view and print these downloads, you must have Adobe's free Acrobat Reader.
BEATCALC. Beat the Calculator (BEATCALC), maintained by B. Lee Clay, provides online a math trick every Monday morning that will impress students in grades 5-12. The trick (a calculation shortcut) enables students to do math computations mentally faster than a calculator. Each trick has a clear explanation and an example. Teachers can subscribe to this weekly service via email. The site includes easy-to-follow subscription instructions.
BEATCALC Archive. Beat the Calculator (BEATCALC) Archive from B. Lee Clay's mailing list contains a wide variety of over 150 calculation shortcuts for students in grades 5-12. Each shortcut includes a clear explanation and a sample problem. The site also provides calculation practice problems to accompany these shortcuts.
Berrie's Statistics Page. Berrie's Statistics Page provides a variety of QuickTime movies to illustrate statistical concepts for students grades 9-12. Some of the topics covered are an interactive graph of the central limit theorem, mean and variance in the normal distribution, a graph of the normal distribution, and mean and variance in the normal dstribution.
BHS Calculus Student Projects. The site contains 23 group projects using the Internet to solve "real-world" calculus problems. These projects were done by AP caculus students at Bloomington High School in Illinois.
6 Billion Human Beings. 6 Billion Human Beings is an online exhibit from the Musee de l'Homme in Paris where middle school students can find out interesting number facts associated with population. Students can learn about how fast the world's population is growing, why it may slow in the next century, and the number people on earth when they were born. The site requires Macromedia's free Shockwave plug-in.
Bill Simpson's Magic Squares. Bill Simpson teaches you about magic squares from making them to understanding them. Other similar magic square sites are Kwon Young Shin's and Mutsumi Suzuki's .
Biographies of Women Mathematicians. Biographies of Women Mathematicians is part of an on-going project by students in mathematics classes at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia. The site lists over 150 biographies of women mathematicians illustrating their past and present achievements. Elisabeth Freeman & Susanne Hupfer's Past Notable Women of Computing & Mathematics also recognizes the contributions of women in the fields of mathematics and computing. These sites, suitable for grades 6-12, include links to related math history resources.
Binary Home Page. Andrew's Binary Home Page explains the binary numeration system and its connection to the modern day computer. John Rieman's description is also useful in understanding binary arithmetic. These sites are suitable for grades 7-12.
Binary, Primes, and Factors. Ulrich Sondermann's Binary, Primes, and Factors is an introduction to number theory for grades 7-12. Another similar number theory site is Ben's Number page. Do you know what is special about this number?.
Blit Math Master. Blit Math Master, created by Ohio Distinctive Software provides an online interactive math skills game for students in grades 2-9. The game offers seven levels of play from simple addition all the way to linear equations. You choose the level that you want to play, and you're awarded a star for each right answer you give.
Blue Dog Can Count. Blue Dog Can Count is fun way for preschool and elementary school children to practice basic their computational and counting skills. Blue Dog is a friendly, math-savvy canine waiting for you and your friends on the World Wide Web. Fill in any basic math equation, and Blue will bark the result through your computer's speaker. Blue will give a "howling" yelp when the answer is a zero or a negative number.
Blue Web'N. Blue Web'N, provided by Pacific Bell, contains a library of learning sites that includes over 40 mathematics Web based activities and projects for K-12 students to complete online. Scroll to "Browse the Content Table" and find "Mathematics".
BOBCAT. The Best Of the Best Computer-Aided Teaching (BOBCAT) contains a well-organized collection of educational sites and tutorials grouped by grade level and subject area for grades K-12.
Bonus.com: Math Fun. Bonus.com provides online over 40 fun math activities and games for students in grades K-6.
Bureau of Engraving and Printing: the Currency. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) provides information and images of U.S. paper money for grades 6-12. To learn about the new U.S. coins, click on The Mint's Circulating Coins site.
By the Numbers! Kinder Magic Software maintains By the Numbers! Web site which offers a variety of online basic math exercises with step-by step explanations for students in grades 6-12. Topics include addition, subtraction, and multiplication of whole numbers and fractions, as well as percent markup and rounding decimals. The site also shows students how to budget and includes a glossary of consumer math terms.
Calculating Machines. Erez Kaplan's Calculating Machines is a collection of Web pages about mechanical calculating machines suitable for grades 7-12. The pages contain pictures and provide historical reviews of machines dating back to 1623. The site also includes a comprehensive list of related computer resources.
Calculus and Differential Equations Mathematica Project. Gary S. Stoudt of the Mathematics Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania provides a variety of interactive calculus and differential equation exercises from Mathematica's notebooks for AP high school students.
Calculus Carnival. Calculus Carnival uses high-technology to visually show AP high school students basic calculus concepts. For a complete list of QuickTime movies, click here.
Calculus@Internet. San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, CA provides a wide variety of pre-calculus and calculus reources for high school students in advanced math classes. Included are teaching materials, applications, and exams.
Calculus@UTK: Math 141. The University of Tennessee at Knoxville provides online a calculus primer for AP students and teachers. Topics covered are functions and models, limits and derivatives, differentiation rules, and applications of differentiation. Math 142, the next online calculus course, includes integrals, differential equations, and infinite sequences and series.
Calculus Modules Online. PWS' Calculus Modules Online contain of a variety of math topics with exercises to help high school students learn calculus. Each topic includes basic exercises in the "Learn" section, stretch your understanding exercises, and applications in the "Case Studies" section. For a list of topics, click here.
Calculus on the Web. Gerardo Mendoza and Dan Reich's Calculus on the Web features a collection of over 250 interactive modules for learning and practicing calculus methods and concepts. The site is suitable for AP math classes.
Calculus.Org: The Calculus Page. The UC Davis Department of Mathematics provides online study materials that can help AP calculus students prepare for the SAT exam. The site includes a list of problems and solutuions for differential calculus and sample exams covering limits, derivatives, differentials, and graphing. Another similar site with practice quizzes is Carleton University's.
California Math Show. The California Math Show, a travelling, portable, interactive math exhibit based on the idea of symmetry, provides online geometry activities for grades 2-8. To find these activities, scroll to "The California Math Show on the World Wide Web".
Captain Quest and the Evil Mathematician. MediaCity provides an ongoing story with math problems to solve to continue the story, entitled "Captain Quest and the Evil Mathematician". The site is suitabe for middle school students.
Cardboard Cognition. Cardboard Cognition provides a collection of over 200 board and card games covering a wide range of subject areas designed by teachers for use in grades K-12. Scroll to "Mathematics" in the Content and Age Group Chart to find math games. Teachers can modify or replicate these learning games for use in their own classrooms.
Carol Hurst's Math and Children's Literature. Carol Hurst's Math and Children's Literature offers a variety of ways of integrating children's literature with math. The author provides math activities from articles she wrote for the Teaching K-8 Magazine as well as from sample chapters and books. In addition, the author lists books by grade level and theme recommended for integrating math in literature. The site is suitable for grades K-8.
Chance and Data in the News. Chance and Data in the News covers data collection, sampling, representation, and probability through Australian newspaper articles, each of which features a discussion, questions, and link to associated topics. Click here for the main sections. The articles are also cross-referenced by crime, diet, gambling, sport, and other topics. The site is suitable for grades 9-12.
Chaos Hypertextbook. Glenn Elert's Chaos Hypertextbook is an online illustrated primer on fractals and choas for AP high school classes. Another online hypertexbook by the author is Ptolemy's Table of Chords.
Children's House of Cool-Math. Children's House of Cool-Math provides a collection of math short cuts and number tricks that kids can use to amaze their classmates in grades 4-7. For another page of math tricks, click here.
The Eisenhower Clearing house for Mathematics and Science Education holds a wealth of Internet links to other educational materials ranging from the biological sciences to mathematics and the physical sciences.
Introductions to the physics and Math with JAVA-- This is an interactive Physics and math with Java, here you all can find a set of more than 20 scientifically accurate, easily understandable, user friendly educational applets.
The ERIC Clearing house for Science, Math, and Environmental Education is different from the Eisenhower Clearing house because it also includes a link that allows users to search the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) and Resources in Education (RIE), which provide abstracts of articles and information found in educational journals and publications.
The Art of Solar Science This web site gives an account on the contributions of Renaissance mathematicians to the development of science. This site looks in particular at the work of many scientists.
Colorful Mathematics. Colorful Mathematics contains computer games for exploring graph theory in grades 6-12. To download the free IBM compatible games, click here. The site also provides a teacher's corner with background information and instuctional ideas for each activity.
ColorSums. ColorSums is an online version of the picture color-in worksheets for elementary school students. Students first must figure out the answer to a math problem. They choose the answer from a list, and then click in the area with that problem. Watch it fill up! Finish a picture and you'll get a new one to color.
Comparative Technology Workbook Approach. Gary A. Harris of Texas Tech University provides a series of graphing and algebra exercises using the TI-85 calculator and the Maple software for high school classes. This material can supplement traditional teaching in algebra classrooms.
Computer Art by Hans Kuiper. Hans Kuiper provides a collection of computer art made by his Mirror Artist program for grades 7-12. The site includes tessellation pictures and other computer math-related art created by Hans Kuiper.
Connected Curriculum Project.Frank Wattenberg's Connected Curriculum Project from Montana State University provides an interactive study of calculus featuring 'real' problems. The site, suitable for AP math students, includes detailed instructions on using the TI-92 calculator.
Connected Geometry. The Education Development Center's Connected Geometry is a NSF-sponsored project providing interactive, hands-on geometry activities for high school students. To find these activities, click a chapter in the "Book Descriptions" section. The site also includes Sketchpad sketches available for download, as well as interactive Java animations that students can manipulate to make the concepts more understandable.
Connected Mathematics Project (CMP). Michigan State University's Connected Mathematics Project (CMP) provides instructional materials for teaching middle school mathematics. Topics covered are number, geometry and measurement, probability, statistics, and algebra. To find the units, click here.
Coolmath.com. Cool Math provides illustrated explanations and examples of functions, tessellations, Platonic solids, limits, and other math topics in the "lessons" section. The site, suitable for grades 7-12, also includes a collection of math resources organized by subject area.
Cool Math and Science Sites. MathSoft's StudyWorks provides a list of "ask-the -expert" sites where students in grades K-12 can find help in mathematics. Scroll to "Online Help Services" to find these resources. Similar "ask-the -expert" sites are Yahoo's and Canada's Community Learning Network, and Allexperts.com's Math.
Counting Game. Chris Malumphy provide an online counting game for preschool and kindergarten children starting to count. A child is shown a number of objects and asked to click on the correct number button. A thermometer graphic tells the child when he/she has correctly answered ten questions.
Count Hoot's Number Activity. Count Hoot, from BBC Education's The Little Activity Center, provides online addition, subtraction, and addition/subtraction games for preschool and primary school kids. Each game include three difficulty levels and requires Macromedia's free Shockwave plug-in. BBC Education also offers a Clockwise game in the Dynatastic Den for telling time.
Count Me In. Count Me In from from BBC Television provides four interactive activities where students play a number trick, make addition combinations, and explore the Pythagorean theorem and the Fibonacci sequence. These online games require Macromedia's free Shockwave plug-in. The site is suitable for grades 5-8.
CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics. The CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics is an extensive searchable online encyclopedia of math equations, formulas, facts, figures, terms, derivations, and recreations compiled by Eric W. Weisstein. The site is suitable for grades 8-12.
CSUN's ELM Resources. CSUN's Entry Level Mathematics (ELM) Resources provide practice tests with accompanying study material for basic algebra, intermediate algebra, and measurement geometry. College-bound students in grades 8-12 can use this site from California State University at Northridge to see if their math skills are up to par with the requirements of introductory college math.
CTW's Sesame Street. The Children's Television Workshop (CTW) provides a variety of online preschool math activities related to their popular Seame Street television program. The site includes a collection of printable number coloring and shape coloring pages of their favorite Sesame Street characters as well as fun connect the dots, fit the shapes, and hidden numbers interactive activities.
Cubic Science. Cubic Science provides online a step-by-step animated proof of the Pythagorean theorem and an interactive inequalites tutorial with rules and exercises for high school math students. To view these activities, you must download Macromedia's free Shockwave plug-in.
Curious and Useful Math. Clay Ford's Curious and Useful Math Web site features a variety of tricks and rules for quickly figuring math computations. Included are mutiplication and division tricks, age math, scroll down slowly, squaring tricks, and square roots by hand. The site is suitable for grades 5-12.
Currency Comparison Page. The Currency Comparison Page provides an interactive project for grades 5-12 from WimmeraNet in Australia. The site asks students to compare what their currencies will buy with five Australian dollars. Students can also view other entries at the comparison list.
Curriculum Connections. Curriculum Connections from the Park Maitland School contains a variety of math games and activities for students in grades 1-6.
CUWU Statistics Program. The CUWU Statistics Program, created by John Marden of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, contains many Java applets for visualizing statistics and demonstrating principles of probability and statistics. Students can perform online simple data analyses used in basic statistics, histograms, "split" histograms, scatter plots and regression, and calculations. Students can also do simulations of drawing tickets out of a box illustrating the central limit theorem, confidence intervals, and the law of averages as well as play interactive games such as quessing correlations by matching correlation coefficients to scatter plots. For a complete list of the site's contents, click here. The site is suitable for AP students.
CyberCal: An Interactive Learning Environment for Calculus.Michele Williams of Saint Michael's College provides an online calculus textbook covering review topics, limits and continuity, and derivatives for AP math students.
Cyber Jacques. Cyber Jacques offers a variety of online games including a tangram game, and a connect the dots activity, and a sliding tile puzzle for kids in grades preK-2.
Darts Plus. Darts Plus, created by Knowledge Adventue for grades 2-6, is an online version of a real darts game. Students use a small number of darts to match the score shown in the target box. Other interactive math games from Knowledge Adventure are Connect the Dots, Frog Well, and Cannon Ball Lake.
Data Powers of Ten. Roy W. Clickery's Data Powers of Ten provides concrete examples illustrating various data media according to how much data they can hold, from 0.1 byte to a billion billion bytes. The collection includes estimates for bytes, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, and others. This site, suitable for high school classes, makes hard disk storage capacity and RAM values meaningful.
Data and Story Library. Carnegie Mellon University's Data and Story Library (DASL), pronounced "dazzle", is an online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods. The site includes 29 topics ranging from archeology to zoologogy for grades 8-12.
DAU Tutorial Modules. The DAU Tutorial Modules provides online a comprehensive review of basic mathematics, probability, and statistics for high school students. To find a map with links to all the math topics, click on Math Refresher and to find a map with links to all the probability and statistics topics, click on Statistics Refresher. These interactive modules were built for the Defense Acquisition University for students needing assistance with high school level subjects in mathmatics.
Dave's Math Tables. Dave's Math Tables, available in English and Spanish version for grades 5-12, provides a vast array of math topics from a basic multiplication table to something as mind-boggling as a "fourier series". The site includes topics ranging from general math to calculus as well as an English-Spanish Math Dictionary.
Dear Parents. Dear Parents, courtesy of Edmark Corporation for grades preK-6, offers advice on a wide variety of school-related subjects. The Math section includes topics ranging from homework to content. The site also provides Donna Stanger's answers to your selected questions.
Deep Zome. Deep Zome explores the the Fibonacci sequence as well the Golden Section and the Golden Rectangle geometric topics for high school math classes.
Definition of Math Terms. The Highline School in Seattle provides list of math terms useful for students in grades 4-8.
Derick Yung's Games and Tricks. Derick Yung provides online a math trick which will determine your birthday, a quessing game where you try quess the computer's number, and a master mind game where you try figure out the exact positions of each of the four colors. The site is sutable for students in grades 4-8.
Derrand Education Web Site. Derrand Education Web Site provides online math practice for students in grades K-6. The practice questions include answers.
Developing Educational Standards. The Putman Valley Central Schools in New York provides an annotated list of Internet sites with K-12 educational standards and curriculum frameworks documents. To find mathematics documents by state, click here or click on Math.
Dictionary of Units. The Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching at the University of Exeter provides a comprehensive dictionary of units with easy conversions from almost any unit of measure to any other unit of measure found in use around the world today. A unit may be found either by looking under the category such as length, mass, or density, or by choosing a unit from an alphabetical list of units. The site is suitable for grades 7-12.
Did you know that... Alexander Bogomolny from the aothor's Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles site provides a collection of over 65 math curiosities for students and teachers in grades 6-12. Did you know that... in a group of 23 people, at least two have the same birthday with the probability greater than 1/2 ; the word 'fraction' derives from the Latin fractio - to break. However, there are continuous fractions; and a sphere has two sides. However, there are one-sided surfaces. To view one-sided surface animations like a Moebius strip, click here.
Digital Mathematics Archive. The University of British Columbia Mathematics Department provides a digital collection of mathematical sources, with a primary focus on documents from the late 19th century through today. Included are the selected works of Robert Langlands and Oliver Byrne's edition of Euclid. The site is suitable for grades 9-12.
Don Archer's Legendary Fractal Art and Music and U-Draw Fractals. Don Archer provides a collection of fractal art created by Fractint software progam. You can create your own fractal drawing by using this online U-draw program. To view the best of of the U-draws, click here.
Don Archer's Legendary Fractal Art and Music and U-Draw Fractals. Don Archer provides a collection of fractal art created by Fractint software progam. You can create your own fractal drawing by using this online U-draw program. To view the best of of the U-draws, click here.
Dr. Caffeine. Dr. Caffeine, C. Thomas Wu's site, provides an online interactive table that can help elementary school students learn their multiplication facts. A student enters two numbers and press the enter key to see the answer displayed in the table. Other useful interactive tools are the Clock Applets.
Dynamical Systems and Technology Project. Boston University's Dynamical Systems and Technology Project, developed by Robert L. Devaney, contains Interactive Papers with activities introducing secondary school teachers to contemporary topics such as fractals and choas. The site also offers a fractal quiz.
e-Calculus Home Page. The University of Akron provides a variety of online tutorials including algebra review, trigonmetry lessons, assorted calculus topics for AP math students. To view the material, you must download Adobe's free Acrobat Reader.
Ed Tech Tools. Ed Tech Tools provides a service for creating interactive quizzes on the Web. No knowledge of HTML is necessary. For more information about this free online service, click here and to apply for a QuizCenter account, click here. The site also includes a list of sample quizzes created by their QuizMaker 2.0 for various topics.
Educational Java Programs. Jacobo Bulaevsky's Java site provides interactive applets for introducing fractions, fraction operations, and geometric concepts in grades 5-8. Both the Pattern Blocks and the Fractals progams include includes instructions on how to use the applets, exercises, and activities for the students.
Educational Object Economy(EOE). EOE provides a collection of hundreds Web-based learning tools for grades K-12. The library contains Java applets for general mathematics, algebra, geometry, and other math topics.
Education 4 Kids. Infobahn Xpress provides interactive math games for students in grades 2-8. Students can practice online their skills in computation, telling time, and making change/spending money. The games are Math Tables, Math Square, Time Experince, and Money. (The link to their popular "Flashcards for Kids" site is listed below).
Educ-Station: Teacher Tested Sites and Ideas. Disney's Educ-Station provides a collection of sites and ideas featuring math activities for grades 4-8.
EduStock. EduStock features a a free 20 minute delayed stock market simulation game and a tutorial on how to pick good stocks. It also profiles a group of well-known companies like Coca Cola, McDonalds, Nike and others to help you start your research into what stock is going to make your fortune. The site is suitable for students in grades 7-12.
Edutest. Edutest offers a free online service providing a large collection of math tests and assessments with instant feedback for the elementary and middle school grades. Click here to take a test.
Egyptian Sites. Terri Santi provides a variety of math sites that can help middle school students learn about the ancient Egyptian numeration system. Vern Beaumont's Egyptian page also offers an introduction to Egyptian mathematics. To learn more about other ancient number systems, click on Suzanne Alejandre's page.
E-Lab. E-Lab provides a variety of online interactive activities, visualizations, and student worksheets from Harcourt Brace's CD-ROM for grades 3-8. To print any student worksheet, you must download Adobe's free Acrobat Reader.
Elementary Statistics Interactive. Wlodzimierz Bryc of the University of Cincinnati provides a wide variety of interactive elementary statistics exercises and quizzes for AP students. For a collection of other online statistics resources including simulations and tutorials, click Elementary Statistics Interactive.
ENC Frameworks: Mathematics Toolkit. The Eisenhowser National Clearinghouse (ENC) provides online a K-12 model curriculum framework with sample activities as well as problem solving activitiesfor grades K-12.
Enchanted Learning's Connect-the-Dots. Enchanted Learning Software provides a collection of online connect-the-dot math games for preschool and primary school kids. Kids click on the dots in order to make a picture, and each game includes a clue describing the missing picture. The site also offers printable activities where kids color butterfly and dinosaur picture worksheets by finding answers to the math problems.
ESPN SportsZone: Behind the Numbers. Behind the Numbers, suitable for grades 7-12, is a collection of articles by ESPN SportsZone's resident mathematician, Jonathan Sills. He writes about the mathematics of sports from World Cup Soccer qualifying to the World's Strongest Man Competition to Beanie Babies effect on attendance.
Ethnomathematics on the Web. Ron Eglash of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) provides an extensive collection of sites related to multicultural mathematics education for grades 7-12. Dr. Eglash also offers other cultural diverse resources for math like African Fractals and the African Influences in Math and Science History .
Euclid, Fibonacci, and Sketchpad. Euclid, Fibonacci, and Sketchpad is an article from the Mathematics Teacher Online recounting two students' solution using the Geometer's Sketchpad software to an age-old geometry problem of dividing any line segment into a regular partition of any number of parts. To view an animation of their proof, click here and for related sites about geometry problem, click on Jim Wilson's Commentary, William I. Johnston's The GLaD Construction and Its Precursors, or Domingo Gomez Morin's Scalene and Isosceles Partitions (SIP). These sites are suitable for AP math students.
Euclid's Elements. Euclid's Elements is David Joyce's complete online English version of the13 Books ofEuclid's Elements based on Heath's translation. All of the figures are illustrated using the Geometry Applet which allows you to manipulate the figures by dragging points. If your browser is not Java-capable, then the illustrations in the elements will appear as plain images. The site, suitable for high school geometry classes, includes a table of contents.
Evergreen Curriculum. The Saskatchewan Education Curriculum and Instruction Branch provides a variety of mathematics curriculum guides for grades 1-5, grades 6-9, grades 10-12, and advanced math classes in grades 10-12. Each curriculum guide contains daily routines, instructional ideas, evaluation techniques, and sample units.
Exact Change, Please. The Tennessee Department of Financial Institutions provides an exact change finance game for grades 3-8. The game requires students to click on the correct combination of bills and coins to match the given amount. The easy game keeps a running total, while the hard game requires the player to keep track of the amount entered.
Exam Writer. Exam Writer, developed by L. Joshua Leon of the Institut de génie biomédical at the Université de Montréal, is a tool that allows you to create an exam on the Web consisting of a variety of short answer, true/false, and multiple choice questions. All you do is fill out the forms provided with your questions, correct answers, comments, and any image files you want included. This Web quiz creation tool checks the answers for you and can even email you the results.
Excel in the Classroom. Kathy D. Adkins provides a collection of ideas and online resources for using Excel, a spreadsheet program, in the elementary school classroom.
Excellent Adventure.Excellent Adventure, created by Shawsheen Tech for grades 6-12, is an Internet-based math activity where students take an online trip down the East coast to Disney World with several required stops and activities along the way. The site includes a teacher's guide and printable student worksheets.
Experiments. Neal Carothers' Experiments Page contains historical topics in math on infinite sets, the Cantor Set, the Babylonian method for computing square roots, "A Common Book of Pi". The site is suitable for advanced high school students.
Exercises in Math Readiness for University Study (EMR). The University of Saskatchewan's provides a collection of online tutorial exercises (EMR) for algebra I and II, geometry, trigonmetry, and other topics for students in grades 8-12. This resource can serve as as a storehouse of extra exercises for math teachers, as enrichment for gifted middle school students, as a review for 11 or 12 grade math students who are about to take the SAT.
Exploring Fractals. Mary Ann Connors provides a series ofinvestigations for exploring and for generatingfractals at the high school level.
Family.com: Education. Go Network's Family.com provides a collection of articles loaded with activities for grades preK-8. To find math activities, click here or choose the age you want and the math/science topic from the pull-down menus in the education bank.
FamilyEducation Network. The FamilyEducation Network, sponsored by Scott Foresman/Addison Wesley, provides a wide variety of curricular resources of interest to K-12 teachers and students. To find mathematics activities and online quizzes, click on an age group, and for an overview of the site, click here.
Family Math Home Page. Family Math, published by the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley for grades K-6, provides a variety of sample hands-on activities from Issue 1, Issue 2 , and Issue 3.
Famous Curves Index. The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive provides Java applets for you to experiment with a whole collection of over 70 famous curves such as the Spiral of Archimedes, Witch of Agnesi and the Quadratix of Hippias. The site is suitable for high school classes.
Famous Mathematicians. ScholarNet provides short biographies of 26 famous mathematicians from Pythagoras to Einstein. To access the site, type the word "hod" in the name box and "free" in the password box.
Fantastic Fractals. Fantastic Fractals is an online guide where you can learn all about the different types of fractals. The site, suitable for grades 6-12, includes tutorials, a fractal gallery, and a reference section.
Fantastic Math Tips. Marmalade Man provides a variety of computational tricks and tips for grades 5-12. Other similar sites are Mrs. Mitchell's math games, Kenneth Fletcher's math tricks for all ages, Emil Vázquez's math tricks of the trade, Peter Schulz's number tricks, and Card Trick Central's mathematical card tricks.
Fast Arithmetic Tips. Alexander Bogomolny provides a collection of fast arithmetic tips for grades 7-12. Topics includes mutiplication and division shortcuts, squaring numbers, divisibility tricks, and math magic to amaze your friends.
Fast Marching Methods and Level Set Methods. J.A. Sethian's Fast Level Set Methods introduces AP math students to numerical geometry techniques used for analyzing and computing interface motion in a host of settings. The site contains graphics, animations, and Java applets which show level set approaches for following the evolution of various interfaces from soap bubbles to a beating heart, and includes an explanation of 'Why we still can't predict what happens when milk is poured into a cup of swirling tea'. You can also download the first chapter of Professor Sethian's book.
FasTrack Muliplication Tables. FasTrack provides an online basic facts generator to help elementary school students find specific products and review the multiplication tables.
Favorite Mathematical Constants. The Favorite Mathematical Constants, maintained by MathSoft's Steven Finch, is a searchable collection of famous numbers that includes history, computation algorithms, and late-breaking news from the world of mathematics. To find a list of Steven's favorite numbers, scroll to "Well-known constants" or click on his Table of Constants where the number values (constants) are arranged in ascending order and each value has a brief description and a link.
FHS Precalculus Study Page. The FHS Precalculus Study Page is an online study guide with 15 pre-calculus topics done chapter by chapter for high school students. Topics covered are exponents and logarithms, linear and quadratic equations, inequalities, functions, polynomial functions, and analytic geometry. The site contains examples and sample tests with answers as well as interactive quizzes.
Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section. Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section, created by Dr. Ron Knott of Surrey University in Guildford, UK, contains information about the Fibonacci series: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13,... and also its related mathematical objects: the golden section +/- 0.61803 39887... or +/- 1.61803 39887... and the golden string 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 ... for grades 9-12. It is recommended that your start your explorations at Fibonacci Numbers and Nature to learn about Fibonacci numbers and how they relate to rabbits, bees, shell spirals, branching plants, and more.
Final Bell. Sandbox provides Final Bell, a realistic stock trading simulation for grades 9-12. Students can learn the basics of investing online free of charge.
Finite Mathematics Applied Calculus Resource Page. Hostra University's comprehensive Web resource for finite Mathematics and applied calculus contains tutorials with clear explanations and examples, online texts, quizzes, and exercises. The site is suitable for AP math classes.
Flash.Megakids' Flash provides online math table practice for grades 3-7. Students can chose addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division to find out how fast they can solve the tables!
Flashcards. A+ Math provides a collection of interactive flashcards to help students in grades 2-7 improve their math skills. There are Java as well as a non-Java flashcards. Topics include +, -, x, and ÷ basic facts, area, geometric shapes, rounding, inequalities, simple algebraic equations, +, -, x, and ÷ negative numbers, and money denominations. The site also offers +, -, x, and ÷ advanced problem flashcards.
FleetKids. FleetKids, created by Headbone Interactive for the Fleet Financial Group, provides interactive games that help elementary school students learn about money management, good citizenship, the importance of teamwork, and more. To play the games, you must sign up.
Formula QuickGuide. Formula QuickGuide provides a list of formulas with examples on the mathematics section of the GED tests. The site is a useful reference, whether you're preparing for a math exam, helping a family member, or just looking for a quick brush up.
Galileo Lesson Plans Galileo is a collection of science lesson plans for K-12 science teachers for use in the classroom.
Mathematics and Molecules This web site gives you a view to students, teachers, and the general public with information about the rapidly growing fields of molecular modeling and related areas; K-12 students with basic concepts in mathematics and their connection to molecular modeling; a working model of a hyepmedia textbook and supplementary multi media activities that makes full use Internet Resources.
The Office of Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign includes links to a variety of other science and mathematics education resources.
The Math and Geometry Forum for Students, Teachers and Parents Our goal is to build a community that can be a center for teachers, students, researchers, parents, educators, citizens at all levels who have an interest in mathematics education.
Mega-Math Mega-Math was founded by Mike Fellows and Nancy Casey who shared a concern that much of what kids are asked to do in school is repetitive, tedious, meaningless, and boring. This seems to be especially true when it comes to math. So the basic idea behind MegaMath has been to find ways to make challenging, interesting topics in math and computer science (algorithms, infinity, logic...) accessible to elementary school kids
Teaching K-12 Math The following are Internet sites which contain significant collections of materials which can be used in the teaching of mathematics at the K-12 level. We have organized these materials into the following categories: Lesson Plans Schools Software Hundreds of links with comments about some of them.
Mathematics ArchivesThe primary emphasis is on materials which are used in the teaching of mathematics from grades K to 20. Currently the Archives is particularly strong in its collection of educational software. Other areas, ranging from laboratory notebooks and problem sets to lecture notes and reports on innovative methods, are growing. A second strength of the Archives is its extensive collection of links to other sites that are of interest to mathematicians. Resources available through these links include electronic journals, preprint services, grant information, and publishers of mathematical software, texts, and journals. These educational resources and the organized collection of links combine to make the Mathematics Archives a comprehensive site for mathematics on the Internet.
Math & Reasoning at High School & Early College Levels Every math teacher will find something of interest here. The site is designed to facilitate skipping the content that doesn't interest you. The lessons are immediately usable. Some of the lessons could serve as starting point for integrating math into other curriculum areas.
Ministry of Education, Skills and Training Examination, Key and Report to Schools Search Page These examinations and key response materials are provided exclusively for the non-profit use of teachers, administrators and students in the B.C. educational system of schools, universities and colleges for study, practice and teaching purposes only. No other use or reproduction in any form or by any means including electronic storage, reproduction, execution or transmission is permitted without the prior written permission of the Ministry of Education, Skills and Training, Province of British Columbia.

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