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.
HP-48 Calculators: Official Hewlett-Packard home page with pointers to a substantial number of other HP-48 sites.

. "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

Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota: The Geometry Center is a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Research Center. Its mission is to develop, support, and promote computational tools for visualizing geometric structures, for facilitating communication among mathematicians and between mathematicians and the public at large, and for stimulating research in geometry.

Some Courses and Tutorials on the Web

Calculus@Internet: This is an experiment at San Joaquin Delta College, CA. An ambitious attempt at collecting calculus resources and documents made available via the Internet's World Wide Web (WWW).

The Oregon State University Math Department Web Study Guide: The Mth 253-256 sequence forms the core mathematics sequence for engineering, mathematics, and some science majors at Oregon State University. These courses cover sequences and series, multivariable calculus, vector calculus, and differential equations and have a total enrollment each year of approximately 1000. The purpose of this project is to develop Web-based study guides for these courses that can be used by students currently enrolled in these courses and serve as a resource for the OSU community. Web-based study guides take advantage of the power of hypertext links. In a book topics are ordered linearly. In a hypertext document, one can place links between topics A and X, B and R, which are naturally connected, but need not be linearly connected. There are many topics in mathematics that are more suitable for such a non-linear approach.

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.

Interactive Learning in Calculus and Differential Equations with Applications: Indiana U. of Pennsylvania - Mathematica based

Interdisciplinary course in math, chemistry, and physics: Univ. of Pennsylvania - uses Maple

Calculus and Mathematica: University of Illinois - through Vector Calculus

Introduction to 21st Century Problem Solving: Howard McAllister - U of Hawaii - Algebra and Physics story problems

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

Search the MacTutor History Archive

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

MathMol: The purpose of MathMol is to provide the K-12 educational community with information and materials dealing with the rapidly growing fields of molecular modeling and 3-D visualization.

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.

ERIC lesson plans

Geometry Forum (not just Geometry)

Explorer (University of Kansas)

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.

SureMath: "SureMath is a symbolic algebra program specifically designed to make it possible for students to learn to solve problems reliably across the curriculum... "

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

Other places to look for math goodies:

Unofficial TI Calculator Home Page
E-Math - American Mathematical Society gopher
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Mathematics
Mathematica as a Tool
Mathematica World - Victoria Univ of Technology - heavy use of graphics
MathTensor

Numbers

The Uselessnes of Pi and Its Irrational Friends: Bandwidth is being consumed by people announcing and placing irrational numbers to the nth decimal place on the web.

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