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Science/Math/Education is for educational web sites of interest to educators, parents, students and professionals emphasizing the teaching or learning of various aspects of math or math topics. The best sites will try to teach or instruct about math, though clear, easy-to-follow explanations of topics are useful as well.

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• Mathematics Reference - Trigonometry identities and calculus rules for integration and differentiation.
  
• Bymath.com - Online mathematical high school. Includes sections of curriculum of elementary mathematics and practice tests.
  
• An Invitation To Mathematics - A free tutorial that explains difficult algebra, trigonometry and calculus concepts to beginning middle/high school students in a simplified way that they can understand and use.
  
• Extracting Square Roots by Means of Napier Rods - Illustrated, step-by-step tutorial.
  
• Richard Bowles' Math Tutorials - Learn about integers, positive and negative numbers, ratios, finding average values, statistical formulas, probability, simultaneous equations, quadratic functions and the binomial distribution.
  
• A Mathematical Fair in Kazakhstan - Puzzles and educational projects in maths.
  
• MathBank - A resource bank of teaching material for lecturers and students in mathematics at UK universities. Free upload and download of material. Registration required.
  
• Curious Math - Tricks and rules for quickly calculating certain types of problems. Also has some entertaining trivia and facts that are nice to slip into casual conversation.
  
• Teaching Innovations - A collection of case studies illustrating some innovative practices currently taking place in Higher Education Mathematics Departments across the United Kingdom. Ken Houston (Staff and Educational Development Association).
  
• Mathematics Learning and Assessment - Sharing Innovative Practices. A report on innovations at various UK universities.
  
• NRICH-Online maths club - An online maths club for young mathematicians. Publishing a monthly magazine on the web with problem sets, children's solutions to previous months problems, games, and news of events.
  
• SimCalc Project - Proposes a democritization of the learning of calculus through a combination of technology and curriculum reform. Main focus is to make basic concepts accessible to a variety of students by using a more intuitive approach. Includes information about cu
  
• The Living Mathematics Project - Working to apply recent advances in computer programming languages and the technology of the World Wide Web to construct a new medium for the communication of Mathematics. Includes links to several visualization sites. [Java.]
  
• Math in Daily Life - Virtual exhibit looks at the ways people use math every day, from cooking to planning for retirement. Offers teachers labs and workshops.
  
• Math Notes - Quick reference for basic algebra, trigonometry, geometry, calculus, and physics formulas. Includes online calculators.
  
• Cornell University: Historical Math Monographs - Digital images of many famous and important math texts Indexed by author and title.
  
• 21st Century Problem Solving - Sound problem solving concepts and examples that apply to grade school through graduate school and beyond.
  
• Study Skills Online - An electronic guide to some of the best ways to study by Martin Greenhow, Brunel University.
  
• Cynthia Lanius: Fractals - Features class exercises and lessons or making fractals. Includes explanation of this unique image and types of formulas that are used to create it.
  
• GCSE Maths Revision - Features brief reviews of basic math concepts, from numbers and fractions to probability and statistics. Also, includes formula page and help forum.
  
• MCA's Free Online Math Lessons - Features selected learning modules for arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, statistics and probability. Includes some resource links.
  
• Math Help - Tips and techniques for sixth grade math through high school, and offers one-on-one help for math students using a variety of methods.
  
• Innumeracy.com - Common mathematical and logical errors.
  
• Piguy's Math Page - This page has dozens of math calculators, making all sorts of math, from algebra to arithmetic to geometry, easier. Also, 50,000 decimals of pi and a logarithm table.
  
• Math.com - Homework help, tutoring, and formulas.
  
• Canadian Mathematical Society - Math Projects for Science Fairs - Offers ideas for contestants for various topics such as numbers, time scheduling, games, geometry, and combinatorics.
  
• Project Links - Contains modules for probability and statistics, discreet math, linear systems and advanced calculus. Developed by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
  
• Gelatinous Vector Components - Meant for Grade 7-9 (age 12-14), younger and older. This experiment demonstrates the x and y components of a vector force.
  
• Interactive Math Server - Interactive exercises, online calculators and plotters, mathematical recreations. Available in French and English.
  
• NYC Honest Open Logical Decisions (HOLD) on Mathematics Education Reform - Organization concerned with math instruction in New York City schools. Includes extensive news, advice to parents, and other information about curriculum, trends, and issues.
  
• Chisenbop Tutorial - A method of doing basic arithmetic using the fingers that is attributed to the Korean tradition.
  
• The Wonders of Vedic Mathematics - An alternative way of learning mathematics based on Sanskrit religious texts.
  
• BrainTrax - Offers assistance in algebra, geometry, trigonomety and calculus. Contains real-world examples, detailed example problems, and interactive features. Internet Explorer 5.0+ on a Windows PC is required.
  
• S.O.S. Math - Contains tutorials covering algebra, geometry, calculus, differential equations, matrices, and complex variables. Reviews the most important results, techniques and formulas. Presented in worksheet format and require active participation. Includes prac
  
• Ptolemy's Ptools - Using tools of yesterday, and tools specially created for this site, Ptolemy Ptools will give you geometry projects to do with your 3D computer games as well as projects to take outside and explore the world.
  
• Steve's Math Page - Dedicated to students who need help with their math courses. It contains a brief description of each branch of mathematics.
  
• Pre-Sessional Maths - Refresher programme at Loughborough University.
  
• Math Skills - Provides regular newsletters, survey data, a discussion group and conference details, as well as resource lists.
  
• Primary Arithmetic, or Math - Four booklets that one can easily copy: one of math games for ages 4-8, two about teaching early math, and one that is more general. Some worksheets, number charts.
  
• Ordinary Mathematics - Covers forms, numbers and functions. Introduces high school students to basic to advanced math principles and reasoning.
  
• Numeracy - Those interested and involved in adult mathematical literacy may find helpful input at the numeracy discussion list.
  
• The Student Support Centre (UK) Ltd - Home based learning materials to supplement classroom work using Maths and English videos for ages 5-18. With over 40,000 students the results speak for themselves.
  
• MathSphere - For teachers and parents to download practice worksheets and tests to improve children's achievement. Competitions, children's pages and children's contributions.
  
• Visual Mathematics - Visual Mathematics is a forum for the dialogue between artists and scientists.
  
• Navigational Vectors - Interactive site allows students to solve a real world problem using science and mathematics. Learn about vectors by using real-time weather maps and by tracking real planes flying in the U.S. skies.
  
• Mathguide - A mathematics-related, one-stop website for interactive lessons, puzzles, educational issues, terminology, help, projects and lessons.
  
• Mathematical Musings - Articles on mathematics, problem of the month, software and computing projects, and other resources.
  
• LD OnLine : Math Learning Disabilities - Long article providing descriptions of various math learning disabilities.
  
• A Different Place - Gateway to standards-based mathematics education. Internet resources to improve teaching learning of school mathematics based on the NCTM Priniples and Standards for School Mathematics.
  
• Newsgroup k12.ed.math - Web page for the newsgroup k12.ed.math. Contains the charter, FAQ and other information about the newsgroup.
  
• Slates, Sliderules and Software - Teaching Math in America - Covers the use of chalk boards, geometrical models, rulers, and, calculators and computers to assist the teaching of mathematical concepts. Explains the overseas influence in education and America's additional contribution to the use of these tools. Arti
  
• Dyscalculia - A personal account of the mathematical learning disability.
  
• Xocxoc - Glossary of mathematical mistakes; quotes; puzzles and problems; links.
  
• Math as Language - A brief discussion of math lingo and how it is different from regular communications. Includes additional resource links.
  
• Problem of the Week - Creative and challenging math problems appropriate for high school students, updated often (usually weekly). Questions are archived.
  
• MathWorld Interactive - Participating students from all over the world work on open-ended word problems called MathWorld Interactive Challenges. During the cycle, students discuss, share ideas, meet each other, and ask questions on the he MathWorld Interactive Message Boards.
  
• Teachers' Lab - Patterns in Mathematics - Teachers explore how patterns occur in numbers and in words in this interactive lab.
  
• Math Magic - K-12 telecommunications project motivates students to use computer technology while increasing problem-solving strategies and communications skills. Posts challenges in four categories (k-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12) to trigger each registered team to pair up
  
• Vectors by the University of Guelph - Explanations notations, arithmetic operations, rules and the relationship to Cartesian graphs.
  
• Math Centre - Free mathematics support materials for UK university professionals and students.
  
• Topics in High School Mathematics - Several topics in high school mathematics presented so as to engage interest of students. Includes description of slide rule to find missing side of right triangle and method of calculating times for Earth to rotate and for the moon to revolve around Ear
  
• What is a Power of Ten? - Visual lesson on orders of magnitude (distances in this case), from a perspective of 10E-15 meters to 10E26 meters.
  
• Online Math Applications - Free stock market game to learn how the market works. Using real time data from Wall street.
  
• Natural Math - To create and then develop an environment for learning mathematics. Articles, software tools and links.
  
• Mathematics Experiences Through Image Processing (METIP) - Materials that promote digital image processing as a means of motivating K-12 students in mathematics and as a means of teaching mathematical concepts.
  
• Math Abundance - Tutorial covers trigonometry, vectors, lines,complex numbers, cubic equations sequences and limits, continuity derivatives, minimum and maximum values, exponential and logarithmic functions, hyperbolic functions, finding roots of equations, i
  
• Solid Gold Gnarly Math - Aims at getting kids age 10-14 interested in mathematics. Reviews math books, Internet links, and software products. Offers a free newsletter and sample downloads. For parents, teachers, homeschoolers, and other adults, too.
  
• The Precalculus Algebra TI-83 Tutorial - Includes lessons for using the TI-83 graphing calculator in a college algebra or precalculus algebra course.
  
• Coolmath.com - An amusement park of mathematics. Puzzles and number problems, fractals, geometry, calculus, algebra, online games, online calculators, and links.
  
• Mathstutor - GCSE mathematics explanations, examples and exercises. Also, English football club statistics.
  
• Mortensen Math - Products designed for a mathematics curriculum by an educator and mathematician. Includes online activities for kids.
  
• The Mathematics of Cartography - Learning math through maps.
  
• Mega-Mathematics - An educational project of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  
• K-12 Activities - MathMol (Mathematics and Molecules) is designed to serve as an introductory starting point for K-12 students and teachers interested in the field of molecular modeling and its application to mathematics.
  
• Count On - Features games, puzzles and competitions for all ages. Details of events, an online maths museum, newspaper and magazines. Resources for parents and teachers.
  
• Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics - Describes the errors seen most frequently in undergraduate mathematics, the most likely causes and remedies. Avoid these in order to improve class performance.
  
• Mathematically Correct - Critiques and concerns regarding various reform efforts, fads and trends in math instruction, described as "fuzzy math" or "New-New Math." Includes news from the "math wars" and resources for assessing different curricula.
  
• Math Forum Quick Reference - Resources for teaching all levels of K-12 math.
  
• Answering Mathematics Helper - Exercise tool to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, trigonometry and fuzzy logic problems.
  
• Murderous Maths - Books, games, hints, tricks.
  
• Mathematics for Mechanics - Topics: Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Analytical Geometry, Calculus, Vectors. Teaching material and tests. Pages created by Mehrdad Negahban and the University of Nebraska.
  
• QELP Web Site - Quantitative Environmental Learning Project (QELP) at Seattle Central Community College. Resources to integrate math and environmental science in college classrooms.
  
• Web-Based Math Resources for the College Student - There is a large and rapidly growing body of material on the web that may be of use to the mathematics student. Here are the authors' choices for best of those sites.
  
• Cut the Knot: Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles - Features instructional games and puzzles based on a variety of math topics. Includes more serious articles about the language of math and related links.
  
• Children's Mathematics - A network of teachers, educators and students interested in supporting and developing children's early graphic interpretations of mathematical concepts.
  
• The STIMULUS Project - STIMULUS - peer assisted learning (PAL) through visits to schools. University students visit schools to share with school students their enthusiasm for science, engineering, computers, mathematics or medical sciences and, guided by experienced teachers,
  
• Keith Devlin - The Math Guy - The professor is a regular visitor to NPR's Weekend Edition, where he discusses math topics, both popular and theoretical. Includes links to NPR segments for this show since 1995.
  
• ACTS Mathematics - Irish school mathematics review, with answers.
  
• Reaching the Second Tier: Learning and Teaching Styles in College Education - Discusses the study conducted by Sheila Tobias about two groups of science students that are separated by personal math class experience. Also, explains ways to discover a student's strong point as far as assimilating and processing knowledge.
  
• Multiplication Help - Learn to multiply by counting with fingers. Fee based service.
  
• Mazes from Newton's Apple - What does mathematics have to do with mazes? What is the history behind mazes? Are there different kinds of mazes? What is topology? David solves a maze by applying the principles of mathematics.
  
  

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