Math Topics

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

Precalculus

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. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. The sciences explorer
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 011149
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, created for grades 9 to 12 by three high school students as part of ThinkQuest's First Annual Web Site Creation Contest, offers a variety of Internet resources for biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics. The biology page contains an virtual cell where visitors may view three dimensional representations of the organelles, an essay on cloning, and information of the different fields within biology.
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6. Math activities for K-12 teachers
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1998 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 015267
   This Internet site provides K to 12 mathematics lesson plans using real world applications related to aeronautical themes. As an example, the activity Plan a Flight Around the World integrates mathematics and geography.
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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. NASA-AMATYC-NSF mathematics explorations I and II
    Date: 1999 Grade(s): 11 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 018515
    This Internet site features mathematics learning modules based on NASA space activities. Materials are the result of a collaboration between the American Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges (AMATYC), the Kennedy Space Center, and Capital Community College.
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11. The new Mathwright library and cafe
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 11 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 020432
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site offers, by subscription, a collection of 150 interactive mathematics and science materials, called workbooks. The material can be placed on a computer desktop from the web and then read and used later.
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12. SMARD website
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): 8 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 014004
    This Internet site, the Secondary Mathematics Assessment and Resource Database (SMARD) offers classroom tested, non-traditional resources and assessment ideas for teachers grades 9 to 12. SMARD, created by the Queensland Association of Mathematics Teachers and sponsored by Sharp Corporation, is an ongoing project that provides an opportunity for teachers to share ideas and to investigate new approaches to instruction.
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13. The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 010720
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site provides information on the various programs of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Fund (WWNFF) and access to the activities developed by classroom teachers from its yearly workshops. The workshops cover the topics of biology, chemistry, mathematics, and world history.
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14. Conic sections
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 014518
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site presents a Java Applet that can be manipulated to show the locus of the perpendicular bisectors of all the line segments connecting a given point (labeled Focus) to each point on a fixed circle. The envelop of this locus of all perpendicular bisectors for any given Focus and circle forms one of the conic sections: parabola, hyperbola, circle, or ellipse.
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15. Frequently asked questions about Trigonometry
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): 10 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 012138
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site offers trigonometry students an interactive format for investigating introductory concepts involving sine, cosine, and tangent. In experiment boxes contained in the readings, students experiment with creating angles by virtually dragging a stick that casts a shadow.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)