Math Topics

Lists of web sites categorized by subject areas within mathematics.

Precalculus

1. Exploring precalculus
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 10 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 029291
   This Internet site offers lessons and interactive examples designed to prepare students for calculus by providing them with a solid understanding of functions. The web site introduces precalculus as a metaphorical bridge that connects the more familiar branches of mathematics, such as algebra and geometry to the study of calculus, and uses everyday analogies to reduce students' anxieties about learning precalculus.
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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. ON-Math, Online Journal of School Mathematics
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 3 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 025860
   This Internet site features the Fall 2002 premier issue of the online journal developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). The goal is to provide a range of ideas about teaching and learning mathematics.
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6. 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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7. Welcome to the Math League: building student interest and confidence in mathematics through solving worthwhile problems
   Featured in ENC Focus  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 4 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 012664
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Math League, provides information that will enable teachers, educators, and parents to bring challenging mathematics materials to students in grades 4 to 12. The Math League sponsors contests and publishes books and computer software designed to stimulate interest in and promote confidence in mathematics.
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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. Vectors
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 8 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 017231
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site features static sketches with mathematical explanations and interactive vector models that are intended as supplementary material to help students in their first encounter with vectors. The material aims for a visceral understanding of vectors rather than offering a rigorous logical presentation.
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12. Trigonometry, online video lessons
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 10 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 019306
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site features nine units of material typically found in a high school trigonometry course. Each unit contains a pretest with answers and multiple topical lessons.
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13. 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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14. Zona Land
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 011839
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by math and physics teacher Edward Zobel, is designed to be an educational and entertaining resource for students and teachers of high school physics and mathematics. All topics are presented in a visual, interactive format intended to help the student who has difficulty with the topics covered in a traditional presentation.
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15. 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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16. 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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17. Dave's short trig course
    Featured in ENC Focus  
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): 10 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 018640
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site introduces trigonometry as computational geometry and offers explanations and illustrations of basic trigonometry concepts. The site, with interactive Applets, is designed for students who would like to learn a bit about trigonometry, or brush up on it; it is not offered as a full trig course.
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18. A visual dictionary of famous plane curves
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): 11 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 014904
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site for advanced students illustrates, through detailed drawings and animation, such properties of plane curves as cusp, tangent, evolute, involute, and envelope. The Webmaster states that the goal of this project is to educate and entertain the user.
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19. Visual calculus
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1995 Grade(s): 11 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 017873
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site presents a collection of modules that can be used in the study or teaching of topics in a calculus course. Topics include precalculus concepts, limits and continuity, applications, and sequences and series.
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20. 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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