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The Australian Mathematics Trust - Amongst other fabulous mathematical information, Mathematics Enrichment programs for Primary to year 12 students can be found here.

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Calc101 - "Step-by-Step Derivatives and Integrals ... with an explanation for each step. Long multiplication and division of polynomials, too. You've come to the right place for calculus solutions!" - link from Mathematica site.
Calculus tutorials -

CASIO Calculator sites-

• To get their Newsletter - http://www.casioed.net.au/newsletter/
• Casio graphics calculator activities - comprehensive collection sorted by topic - http://world.casio.com/edu/resources/
• More graphics calculator activities, again sorted by topic - http://www.casionz.co.nz/default.asp?ObjectID=453

Cut the knot – interactive games and puzzles

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Data Sets: ready for teaching from StatSci.org. thanks to George Paradowski.

Data and story library

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Education Index® An annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web. They're sorted by subject and lifestage, so you can find what you're looking for quickly.

www.economagic.com Heaps of data (incl Aust.), already in copy and paste format (and several others) for insertion into Excel etc.

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Graphing Calculators in Middle Grades Mathematics: A Resource Guide for the Classroom and for Professional Development
By: Center of Excellence for Mathematics and Science Education (CESME) at The University of Tennessee at Martin, in collaboration with the Eisenhower Regional Consortium for Mathematics and Science Education at AEL. Format: PDF. Pages: 460 Copyright: 2001. Free to download.
This book offers 17 lessons covering a wide variety of mathematical concepts and topics, focusing on the development of key middle grades mathematics concepts. The 17 calculator-enhanced lessons in this guide come complete with teachers' notes and reproducible student handouts. Written and reviewed by classroom teachers, each lesson includes a Teachers' Notes section containing an outline, answers to student activities, discussion points, suggestions for written and/or performance-based assessment and ideas for extending the lessons.
The calculator instructions include keystrokes and related calculator screens for the TI-73, TI-83 Plus, Casio FX-7400G Plus and the Casio CFX-9850GB Plus.

Graphing Calculators in Mathematics Grades 7-12 A newer version can be found here: www.ael.org/calculator2/contents2.htm

Graphics Calculators in the Junior High School Classroom: A slightly edited version of a report Ruth Edge (Melrose HS) wrote for a Graduate Certificate in Education (Enrichment Mathematics).

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History Topics Index - A site for secondary and tertiary student, with 38 links to topics on the history of maths, including Greek and Arabic maths and mental arithmetic.

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JOMA - Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications http://www.joma.org
Published by the Mathematical Association of America, this new online journal aims to advance the mathematical sciences, especially at the college level, by promoting effective teaching, fostering scholarship, and "making modern tools, curricula, and active learning environments more accessible to students and teachers everywhere." Offerings in the inaugural issue include the first in a regular series of reviews of small Java applets for math (Mathlets), reviews of other online math projects, and an exploration of exponential functions and their derivatives. Beginning with the next issue, JOMA will also feature a regular section on reviewed, class-tested, modular, online learning materials.

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Math Cats: "It is at times very difficult to get children excited about math, but Math Cats (designed by Wendy Patti, a teacher) is an online archive of fun and informative activities that will help young people learn about a number of math topics, including geometry, arithmetic, and other topics. As one might expect, much of this is achieved by a number of virtual cats who explain various features of the site, and the different math concepts that are explored within. The site is divided up into a number of sections, including one that is particularly well-thought out, MicroWorlds. Here visitors may download a number of interactive projects, such as Coin Flipper (a way to learn about probability) and Multiply It, which allows users to learn about multiplication. The Math Crafts section is also quite ingenious, providing plans for different fun projects, such as the Number City and a Polygon Airport. Finally, visitors may sign up to receive an electronic newsletter and learn about the various accolades that the site has received."-reviewed by Peter Recio

Mathsteacher An Australian site for developers of a new series of electronic maths textbooks.

Front for the Mathematics ArXiv [.ps, .pdf] The University of California-Davis Mathematics Department provides this searchable preprint database of mathematics articles.

Mathgate <http://www.mathgate.ac.uk/> Part of the EEVL Hub for Engineering, Mathematics and Computing, this metasite indexes Internet resources related to mathematics. The site focuses on UK-based resources, but includes sites from around the world. The annotated site listings may be browsed by subject and type or searched by keyword. A collection of links to other major math resources is also provided.

MathGym - suggested by Steve Padgham (note- you need cookies and java enabled). " An Introduction to Mathematical Problem Solving Have you ever wondered why some students always seem to be able to get answers to challenging Mathematics Problems? Sometimes they aren't even the "smartest" kids in the class."

Math and children’s literature Would someone like to review this site and then e-mail me please?

Mathematical mistakes Would someone like to review this site and then e-mail me please?

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Origami and Math (thanks to Tom Rowlands). So, you're interested in origami and mathematics...perhaps you are a high school or K-8 math teacher, or a math student doing a report on the subject, or maybe you've always been interested in both and never made the connection, or maybe you're just curious. Check out this great site.

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Professional Sites for Maths teachers - from James Cook University - The Mathematics page under Curriculum Resources contains links to homepages that in general include practical teaching ideas.

Pattern and Number: Number Patterns Fun with Curves & Topology ; Investigating Patterns: Symmetry and Tessellations ;
Investigating Patterns: Polyhedra Pastimes Educational consultant and textbook author Jill Britton is the author of these metasites listing Web resources for grade 5-8 mathematics. Each metasite revolves around a certain topic. For instance, the first site, Number Patterns Fun with Curves & Topology, is an index of eighteen subtopics such as prime numbers, the golden ratio, Pascal's Triangle, mazes and maps, etc. Under each subtopic, an annotated list of Web resources (from other authors and organizations) points to tutorials and fun activities for students as well as printable activity sheets and lesson plans for teachers. The second metasite, Investigating Patterns: Symmetry and Tessellations, contains subtopics such as soapbubbles and honeycombs, Islamic tessellations, M.C. Escher, symmetry by paper folding, and more. The third metasite listed here focuses on polyhedra with activities ranging from creating three-dimensional polyhedra with gumdrops and toothpicks to examining Ernst Haeckel's nineteenth-century sketches of polyhedral structure of Radiolaria (a plankton). Other types of links given on these pages are to merchants selling educational materials, sites on the history of mathematics, and activities with holiday themes.

Puzzles with polyhedra and numbers. In this site one can print copies of polyhedron puzzles (for non-commercial purposes only) and read several mathematical articles on the subject. From Jorge Rezende, Auxiliary Professor at the Mathematics Department of the Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon.

Peanut software This is a good site for downloading shareware programs

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Search THE DEEP WEB! "...content that resides in searchable databases, the results from which can only be discovered by a direct query, and thus cannot be indexed or queried by traditional search engines."

Statistical Science Database Heaps of data (incl Aust.), already in copy and paste format (and several others) for insertion into Excel etc.

Stats and Probability - thanks to Ed and Andy - great site, simulators. matching distributions and more, Recomended for MM classes.

http://smard.cqu.edu.au/

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Wolfram Research - Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics - While this site does not provide problems, examples etc., it is an incredible reource for looking up the defintion and explanation of any mathematical term. So, for those of you that suddenly have to teach the Zeilberger-Bressoud Theorem, here's a place to find out what it is!

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