Math Topics

Lists of web sites categorized by subject areas within mathematics.

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. Ask Dr. Math
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 003521
   This Internet site features a question and answer service for K-12 math students and their teachers. Visitors fill out a web form to send questions on mathematics related topics to Dr.
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6. Interactive mathematics
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 8 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 028744
   This Internet site is designed to help students learn mathematics by directly engaging them in a variety of lessons and tutorials that cover a broad range of topics in algebra and basic mathematics. Teachers may use these resources for classroom lectures.
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7. ALEKS, Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 6 - Post-Sec. Cost: $17.95 ENC#: 028743
   This Internet site provides an interactive one-on-one tutor for the assessment and learning of mathematical skills. The automated tutor is designed to help students work on the math concepts they are most ready to learn by assessing the individual student's current level of understanding of basic arithmetic concepts.
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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. Tutorials for the calculus phobe
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 11 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 026023
    This web site offers a series of calculus tutorials done with Flash animation. The tutorials are organized like lessons in chapters of a calculus textbook.
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12. Mudd math fun facts
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 11 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 018228
    This website, designed and maintained by Francis Su at Harvey Mudd College, is designed to pique the interest of advanced high school or college students in different areas of mathematics. The fun facts were originally conceived as five minute warm ups at the beginning of lectures so that non mathematics majors would not think math was just calculus.
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13. 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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14. Physics 2000
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 012547
    This Internet site, maintained by University of Colorado in Boulder as part of the Physics 2000 Educational Initiative, offers interactive applets designed to make physics more accessible to students and people of all ages. In addition to countering the negative public image of physics, the goals of the Initiative are to focus public attention on physics research and to develop interdisciplinary undergraduate courses for both majors and non majors.
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15. Mathematical ideas in science
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1999 Grade(s): 11 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 014855
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site provides a series of tutorial modules for high school and undergraduate students in mathematics and physics. The modules utilize animation and virtual laboratories to explore topics such as linear transformations of the cube, sphere packing, waves, vectors, abstract algebra, relativity, quantum mechanics, linear regression, and the Doppler shift.
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16. Mathematics in biology
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): 11 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 013226
    This Internet site, created at Brandeis University, offers interactive simulations of scientific concepts that are applications of advanced mathematics topics. Content is intended for upper level mathematics and science students.
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17. Chickscope
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 016485
    This Internet site, maintained by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, allows students to perform scientific and mathematical explorations while studying embryo development. Students use access to database of magnetic resonance images (MRIs) to learn about the changes that occur during the 21 days of chick development.
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18. Math teacher link
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 009503
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the University of Illinois, is designed to deliver professional development opportunities and classroom resources to teachers of mathematics, statistics, and related subjects at the high school and lower division college levels. One menu option, Classroom Resources, provides links to online resources available at this site, organized according to traditional high school math courses as well as advanced classes in subjects such as probability and statistics, discrete mathematics, linear algebra, and history of mathematics.
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19. 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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20. 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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