Math Topics

Use math topic words to find web sites with lesson plans and activities.

Calculus

1. Jim Loy's mathematics page
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 6 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 027665
   This Internet site provides many lesson resource materials for teachers and students pertaining to areas such as arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and precalculus. Topics featured include sequences and series, Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, complex numbers, fractals, chaos, and number theory.
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2. Calculus-Help.com
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 11 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 027654
   This Internet site, developed as a resource for teachers and students of high school calculus, provides free multimedia tutorials and practice problems. The tutorials cover topics such as limits, continuity, and derivatives.
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3. Nick's mathematical puzzles
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 11 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 027660
   This Internet site, updated weekly, presents 68 math puzzles designed to be educational and fun for students. Pre-college math skills are necessary for solving the puzzles, which address topics such as algebra, calculus and geometry.
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4. Maths online: a gallery of multimedia learning material for school and distant learning
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 026478
   This Internet site features a Gallery with interactive learning units designed to facilitate understanding of abstract mathematical ideas. With the units, the student can explore concepts ranging from the definition of a set to topics in the study of vectors, trigonometry, and calculus.
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5. PCPOW (Physics and calculus problems of the week)
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): 11 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 016771
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site is designed and maintained by two AP Calculus and AP Physics teachers as a way to foster an increased enjoyment of advanced math and science concepts through problem solving with a competitive twist. The calculus and physics problem contest is open to everyone.
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6. Demos with positive impact: a project to connect mathematics instructors with effective teaching tools
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 025493
   This Internet site offers applets and calculator-based demonstrations on precalculus to post-calculus topics for use in the mathematics classroom. The site, partially funded by the National Science Foundation, is the project of professors at Temple University and Georgia Southern University.
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7. Calculus: limits, derivatives, integral
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): 11 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 025066
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site contains interactive java applets that demonstrate concepts from calculus. The page has three main sections that cover topics concerning limits, derivatives, and integrals.
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8. Automatic calculus derivatives and integrals... with each step explained
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): 10 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 025909
   This Internet site solves calculus derivatives and integrals. Users can browse worked examples with solutions as well as submit specific expressions to the site's automatic solver.
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9. Manipula math with JAVA
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1996 Grade(s): 5 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 011230
   This Internet site, developed and maintained by International Education Software (IES Inc.), uses interactive animation to explore an extensive set of sophisticated mathematical concepts. The web site is designed for middle school geometry students, high school students, college students and all who are interested in math.
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10. Math teacher link courses and tutorials for mathematics teachers
    Featured in ENC Focus  
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 011896
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, part of Math Teacher Link, offers a series of on-line courses on educational technology as well as mathematics for teachers at the high school and lower division college levels. Several of these tutorials and modules, available on a guest basis, are also offered as graduate level courses for math teachers through the University of Illinois.
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11. Circles of light: the mathematics of rainbows
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1995 Grade(s): 11 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 000755
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site contains a laboratory experiment to determine how and why rainbows are formed. This lab helps to answer these and other questions by examining a mathematical model of light passing through a droplet of water.
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12. AP calculus: Alvirne High School
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1995 Grade(s): 11 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 001880
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, updated only during the school year, provides advanced placement (AP) calculus students the opportunity to solve another AP students and/or a guest mathematics aficionados problem each week and to submit the solution. Furthermore, students can ask questions and propose problems; submitted problems must be accompanied by a detailed solution.
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13. Calculus@Internet
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1993 Grade(s): 11 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 010771
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by WebPrimitives of Cambridge, Massachusetts, contains information for students and teachers of calculus. From the homepage, users have access to computer-based laboratory projects (using Maple, MathView, Mathematica, MathCad, and graphing calculators), on-line homework assistance, and the visual study of three-dimensional calculus.
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14. Infinite secrets
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 100908
    This NOVA web site describes the recent discovery of the Archimedes palimpsest, a tenth-century copy of an ancient Greek manuscript, and examines the meaning of infinity. It offers students the opportunity to learn about mathematics history and to see how the understanding of infinity has developed through the centuries.
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15. Mathematics, Science and Technology Education at UIUC, lessons and curriculum
    Date: 2004 Grade(s): 1 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 001898
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site provides users with a database containing Internet based lessons in mathematics and science. The database features ready to use lessons that employ the Internet to teach mathematics or science.
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16. Math tools
    Date: 2004 Grade(s): Pre-K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 029125
    This web site presents a collection of software tools for math education. The catalog, which includes software intended for all grades from preK through high school, may be searched by grade level, topic, or operating system.
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17. Shedding light on the subject: function models of light decay
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 027406
    This Internet site, from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) ILLUMINATIONS series, provides an integrated investigation in which students develop a mathematical model for the exponential decay of light through water. The investigation is divided into four parts for students to make conjectures, gather data, analyze the data, and make connections to other concepts.
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18. Simpsonmath.com
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 7 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 029268
    This Internet site uses the popular television show The Simpsons to introduce important mathematical concepts to students in an approach designed to reduce students' math anxieties. The site offers a number of printable classroom activity sheets that are based on math references taken from past episodes of The Simpsons.
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19. Saxon homeschool's online activities
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 029423
    This Internet site offers a variety of online mathematics problems and activities for homeschooled students in the equivalent grade range of K-12. Topics addressed in the problems and activities include arithmetic, algebra, and calculus.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
20. SimCalc project
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 11 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 028563
    This Internet site offers information about the SimCalc project, designed to provide universal access to calculus and to help all students practice skills and develop a solid understanding of fundamental concepts in the mathematics of change. The project goal is to gradually expose students to key ideas in calculus, starting from their early years of school.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)