Mathematics - Web Links

Exploring Mathematics on the World Wide Web

The following WWW addresses are locations which use and apply mathematics on the Internet. The locations have been categorized into areas related to communication, interactive sites, downloadable programs, accessing data, resources database, and miscellaneous fun. To view an activity, click on its corresponding address.

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Communication

Name	Location (URL)
Ask Dr. Math	http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/dr-math.html
Math Forum Tapped In	http://www.tappedin.sri.com/
Davea Career Center	http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/davea/curriculum/modules.html
Math Magic	http://forum.swarthmore.edu/mathmagic/

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Interactive Sites

Name	Location (URL)
Wolfram Alpha	http://www.wolframalpha.com
fractal activities	http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/frac/
Pizza server pizza activity (gr 9-12)	http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/pizzaweb.html
Cereal box problem	http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/cereal/intro.html
Birthday problem	http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/birthday/intro.html
Monty Hall problem	http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/javahtml/LetsMakeaDeal.html
Buffon's Needle Approximation of Pi	http://www.angelfire.com/wa/hurben/buff.html
The Living Mathematics Project	http://SunSITE.UBC.CA/LivingMathematics/V001N01/UBCExamples/java.html
Fractions thru geometry Fraction activity	http://www.best.com/~ejad/java/patterns/patterns_d.shtml http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Patterns
Interactive mathematics miscellany and puzzles	http://www.cut-the-knot.com
Nim Nim activity (sequences)	http://www.darkfish.com/nimskulls/nimskulls.html
Master Tools at the Shodor Foundation	http://www.shodor.org/master/
Activities at the Shodor Foundation	http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/index.html
Quia! Math Games (middle school)	http://www.quia.com/math.html
JavaSketchPad (Geometer's SketchPad)	http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dynamic/java_gsp/
The Integrator (Mathematica)	http://www.integrals.com/
Statistics 100	http://www.stat.uiuc.edu/~stat100/cuwu/
Graphing Vector Calculator	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/vector_calculator.html
Virtual Reality: Modeling with Math, and a little Java	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/java_vrml.html
Virtual Sound Waves	http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/play_a_piano.html
The Diet Problem (Linear Programming)	http://www.mcs.anl.gov/home/otc/Guide/CaseStudies/diet/index.html
The Math Probe tools (K-8)	http://www.mathresources.com/br_dict.html

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Downloadable Programs

Name	Location (URL)
WinPlot	http://math.exeter.edu/rparris/winplot.html
Geometers' SketchPad archive	http://forum.swarthmore.edu/sketchpad/sketchpad.html AND http://forum.swarthmore.edu/sketchpad/gsp.gallery/gallery.html
TI calculator programs and activities	http://www.ti.com/calc/docs/resource.html
Buffon's Needle (approximation of Pi)	http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/buffon/buffon.html
Fastball Fractions	http://www.dimensional.com/~janf/fastball.html
Mathematica WAVE project	http://www.mathsource.com
Linear Regression (Excel template)	http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/patel/amar430/intro.html
Chi-Square (Excel template)	http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/patel/chisquare/intro.html
Mathematical software index	http://euclid.math.fsu.edu/Science/Software.html
The Image Warper	http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/metip/software/warper.html
World Series Problem	http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/hill/ev/seriesprob.html

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Accessing Data

Name	Location (URL)
Automobile blue book car project (grades 6-12)	http://www.edmunds.com/edweb/used/usedcars.html AND http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/malcz/bootstrap/INTRO.html
Daily Weather Reports temperature project (gr. 5-9)	http://www.weather.com/twc/homepage.twc http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/meseke/temps.htm
Sports scores and statistics	http://espnet.sportszone.com OR http://www.sportsline.com
Stock reports stock project	http://www.stockmaster.com OR http://www.irnet.com http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/edu/RSE/RSEyellow/stockmarketmath.html
Population (US census) Population (World Fact Book)	http://www.census.gov http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Descriptive statistics activity	http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/hill/dstat/dstatintro.html

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Resources Database

Name	Location (URL)
The Math Forum	http://forum.swarthmore.edu/
K-12 Lesson Database	http://archives.math.utk.edu/k12.html
Mega Math	http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/menu.html
Cynthia Lanius's Internet projects	http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/
Suzanne Alejandre's Internet projects	http://forum.swarthmore.edu/alejandre/index.html
Math Forum Internet projects	http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~steve/steve/mathprojects.html
Maths Net (from the U.K.)	http://www.anglia.co.uk/education/mathsnet/
Online Math Applications	http://tqjunior.advanced.org/4116/
FHS Precalculus study page	http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/2426/
Math dictionary/encyclopedia	http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~eww6n/math/
History of mathematics	http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/mathhist.html AND http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/
Biographies of Women Mathematicians	http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm
Natural Math	http://www.naturalmath.com/
Goudreau Museum of Mathematics in Art & Science	http://www.mathmuseum.org/Index.htm
Casio calculator activities	http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~ucfcasio/casio.htm

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Miscellaneous Fun

Name	Location (URL)
metacrawler search engines	http://www.metacrawler.com/
Magic Square	http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~morton/java/magpuz/MagPuz.html
Cryptarithms	http://www.cut-the-knot.com/cryptarithms/st_crypto.html
Escher's art museum	http://www.WorldOfEscher.com/
Harper's Magazine	http://www.harpers.org/
Math Land	http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathland_archives.html

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