Mathematics Education Resources

Engineering Fundamentals: Engineering Fundamentals (eFunda) is an online destination for the engineering community, where working professionals and students alike can quickly find a variety of information to aid in the solution of complex design problems.
Dr. Math: Check this site out for help with your math homework!
Practical Uses of Math and Science: Try this on-line journal of math and science examples for pre-college education.
Math League Help Topics: Designed for 4th through 8th graders, this is a resource for learning and practicing the fundamentals of elementary math.
Number Theory Web
Mersenne Primes
The Prime Page: Everything you ever wanted to know about prime numbers.

"The Bridge to Calculus Project will systematically reform the before-calculus curriculum and teaching and learning processes." This is part of a National Science Foundation project administered by the Maricopa County Community College District

TI Graphing Calculators: Official home page with programs and educational support for Texas Instruments calculators. There is also an unofficial page at Berkeley.

Steve's Dump: This is the best place to look for mathematics education links. It is maintained by Steve Weimar at Swarthmore College, home of the Geometry forum.

MathMagic: MathMagic is a K-12 telecommunications project developed in El Paso, Texas in which teams of students pair up to solve problems. communication is via e-mail. MathMagic posts challenges in each of four categories (k-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12).

Mathematics Archives WWW Server

The Mathematics Archives Software Page includes reviews, abstracts, references and the software itself.

Macintosh

MSDOS

Some Courses and Tutorials on the Web

Visual Calculus: Visual Calculus is a collection of modules from the University of Tennessee which can be used in the study or teaching of calculus.
Interdisciplinary course in math, chemistry, and physics: Univ. of Pennsylvania - uses Maple
Calculus and Mathematica: University of Illinois - through Vector Calculus

Histories of Mathematics

The History of Mathematics on the World Wide Web: This collection of links is organized under the following headings:
General Sites for the History of Mathematics and Related Sciences
Biographies of Mathematicians and Scientists
Societies for the History of Mathematics
Museums
Journals
Mailing Lists
Lectures
Topics in The Development of Mathematics and Related Sciences
Pages relating to Individual Mathematicians
Miscellaneous
Vatican Exhibit Materials on Greek Mathematics (Library of Congress)

Prime Numbers
In the context of history, and amplified by biographies of many master mathematicians, prime numbers are presented here definitively. The ancient Greek mathematicians' discoveries and proofs introduce the study. Separate pages are devoted to Pythagorus, Euclid and Eratosthenes. Euler's 18th century life and work with positive primes come next, where we learn that to this day no one has proved there are any odd perfect numbers. Fermat and Albert Girard then continue the long parade of mathematicians set against a summary of developing theories and theorems. At the bottom of it all, are 14 unsolved problems, and the latest prime records. The largest known primorial prime is a number with 10387 digits, announced in 1993.

Clark Univ. - David Joyce

MacTutor History of Mathematics archive - Univ. of St. Andrews (Scotland)

Curriculum ideas

MegaMath: The MegaMath project is intended to bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to elementary school classrooms so that young people and their teachers can think about them together.
Geometry Forum (not just Geometry) Science Education Programs Office (UC Irvine): Listing of math and science teaching materials on the Internet using the California Science Framework Categories - Math is heavily under construction

Curriculum debate

Honest Open Logical Debate (HOLD): Group of parents concerned with the move from traditional mathematics instruction to the methods and sequence proposed by the California Mathematics Framework. This is their side. Unfortunately the counter to their position is not represented. If you know a site, let me know.

Commercial Math Software and Hardware

Vernier Software: Vernier sells Graphical Analysis, particularly useful in the science classroom. The company also distributes the TI calculators and CBLs.
Sparcom: Software and hardware for HP48 calculators and the Palmtop computer.
Mathematica: MathSource - notebooks and packages; Graphics, sound, and animation library
Waterloo Maple Software: Information and archives for Maple and Theorist
MathSoft, Inc.: Makers of Mathcad

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