RESOURCES
Students
Bored of Studies?
Established in 2002 by four HSC graduates from 2001. Being the first to sit the newly revised HSC syllabus, the lack of information for current HSC students became apparent and hence developed into the sole inspiration for the development of this website. Created by students, for students, Bored of Studies strives to provide current year 12 and year 11 students with all the resources and support they need to succeed during the 2 years that form the most important part of their education and subsequently, their futures.
HOTmaths
HOTmaths is more than just an online maths tutor or homework helper. It is a comprehensive mathematics learning system — an interactive online math learning and teaching resource for students, parents and teachers, for home, school or homeschooling (home-based learning).
Mathletics
Mathletics is an online skill development site. As well, it offers online competiton aganst other students globaly.
Skillswise
Factsheets, worksheets, quizzes and games to help improve your skills.
Maths Dictionary for Kids
An animated, interactive dictionary for students which explains over 600 common mathematical terms in simple language.
NSW HSC Online
A resource for NSW HSC students in all subjects. All Mathematics courses have details about topics, assessments and preparations for the HSC.
Mathematrix
A web site devoted to exploring mathematical recreations - the more entertaining (and generally lesser known) areas of mathematics. This site can be enjoyed by anyone, from individuals with little or no math background to professors of the subject.
History of Mathematics
An extensive resource which looks at the history of mathematical topics, the biographies of important mathematicians and includes a mathematician of the day!
Teachers
Country Area Program
The resources in this site are funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations under the Rural and Regional Assistance Programme.
NSW Board of Studies
A most valuable resource for students and teachers alike. Syllabus documents, examination schedules, important dates and much more...
Assessment Resource Centre
A site to support and enhance professional practice in the assessment and reporting of student achievement across Years K to 12. It has been developed primarily for teachers, although parents and students will also find it useful.
Primary School Mathematics
An extensive resource of websites and activities for Primary and Secondary classrooms that is being updated regularly.
NSW DET Curriculum Support
A site which offers a comprehensive range of relevant and practical resources that will help in the implementation of NSW Board of Studies syllabuses.
Interactive Mathematics Classroom
A one-stop shop for quality interactive digital resources for mathematics education. Currently there are well over three hundred and seventy-five quality resources and links available from this website.
The Maths Internet Guide
Over 400 free quality websites carefully chosen for their interactivity and grouped into five search categories. Ideal for individual learning, homework, demonstrations or explorations.
Illuminations
Explore the library of 101 online activities that help to make math come alive in the classroom or at home, and view the 533 lessons for preK-12 math educators.
Centre for Innovation in Teaching Mathematics
Teacher support material for Mathematics units, including teaching notes, mental tests, practice book answers, lesson plans, revision tests, overhead slides and additional activities.
Analyzemath
Free math tutorials and problems to help you explore and gain deep understanding of math, calculus, trigonometry and geometry topics.
Software
Geogebra
GeoGebra is a free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for schools that joins geometry, algebra and calculus. It received several international awards including the European and German educational software awards.
Graphmatica
Graphmatica is a powerful, easy-to-use, equation plotter with numerical and calculus features:
- Graph Cartesian functions, relations, and inequalities, plus polar, parametric, and ordinary differential equations.
- New data plotting and curve-fitting features.
- Numerically solve and graphically display tangent lines and integrals.
- Find critical points, solutions to equations, and intersections between Cartesian functions.
- Print your graphs or copy to clipboard as bitmap or enhanced metafile in black-and-white or color.
- On-line help and demo files make getting up to speed a snap.
In summary, a great tool for students and teachers of anything from high-school algebra through college calculus.
Mathematics Visualisation Toolkit
MVT (Mathematical Visualisation Toolkit) is a set of visual and computational tools designed to help students better visualise the concepts of Calculus. It contains:
- Scientific calculator
- Plotting tools
- Numerical tools
- Linear algebra tools
- Differential equations tools
- Content-specific applications
- Other Calculus visualization tools
- Tutorial-style help system
WinPlot
WinPlot is a general-purpose plotting utility, which can draw (and animate) curves and surfaces presented in a variety of formats.
WinStat
WinStat provides access to scatter plots, curve fitting, histograms, statistical data, and standard theoretical probability distributions. It also simulates dealing cards, sampling candy, tossing darts, needles and coins.
WinGeom
WinGeom is for high-precision geometric constructions in both two and three dimensions. Drawings can be highlighted and animated in a variety of ways.
Other Software
Links to sites which have a significant collection of mathematical software which can be used in the K-12 classroom.
Applets
An applet is a program written in the Java[tm] programming language that can be included in a webpage in the same way an image is included.
Sequences (APs & GPs)
Java applets to assist in the explanation of APs and GPs
Parabola
Graphing parabolas using java applet to vary a, b and c.
Differential Equations
Direction fields for first order differential equations look easy!
Mathlets
A collection of mathematics applets to demonstrate concepts in class.
