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Math
placement information from SDSU--important information for juniors and
seniors!
Did you know that Michael Jordan was a math major? This
and other career information is available at the When
will I use math? site sponsored by BYU and MAA
Wolfram|Alpha
is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all
systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question
or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing
collection of data to compute the answer
custom graph paper generator to make the perfect graph paper for your
project. You can adjust it to work perfectly with your particular printer. You
can adjust the color from black to grey to blue. If you have run out of your
usual graph paper, make some of your own. The program generates a PDF file that
is customized to your needs. Simply click and download it onto your desktop, and
feel free to use it as often as you wish. Have fun with your assignment.
YouSendIt is a free file upload service. Here's a way to send those files
that are too big to email as attachments. Send and receive files up to 100 MB.
Slow
motion photography: My favorite is the movie of a
water-filled balloon being pierced by an X-acto knife. The balloon falls away
almost instantly - and then the water holds the balloon shape for an
unbelievably long time. It's a great example of the way water molecules stick
together. The golf ball is also amazing!
Federal
Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) website searchable or browse by
topic
Texas
Instruments downloads and links
Everything you could ever possibly want to know about US
Ag production. Statistics, totals, by state, product, county, etc. (from the
USDA)
Coin
Stacking :This isn't the one that shows how big a stack of a million (etc.)
pennies would be. Created by a civil engineering student who use pennies to
create interesting stacks to form bridges, towers, and more. Glue? No way!
That'd be cheating! Extraordinary!
Convert the first 10,000
digits of Pi into a musical sequence: Turn on your speakers, this is cool!
Math Mind Reader "Think
Clear"
You will find a million uses for the symbols
page
Dr. Larry Lesser's Mathemusician
page
Internet
classics!
Fiddling
while your hard drive crashes (Ask Bob Rankin) Strangely beautiful track
made from the sounds of dying Hitachi hard drives
Psychic
(psycho?) mind reader page! Green cards for first correct explanation!
Latin
phrases for all occasions: anything said in Latin sounds profound.
Hurricane Katrina links from D'Ilberville High School near
Biloxi Mississippi. (High speed connection recommended for video) How do I know
them? Long story...
http://www.biloxi.ms.us/Katrina/Video1.htm
http://www.biloxi.ms.us/Katrina/Video2.htm
http://www.biloxi.ms.us/Katrina/Video3.htm
http://biloxi.ms.us/photogallery/default.asp?CatLevel=2&Cat1_ID=3
http://youtube.com/watch.php?v=vN5yqNtg6ZI
Dictionaraoke
Pronunciation: 'dik-sh&-"ner-A-O-ke
Definition: Audio clips from online dictionaries sing the hits of yesterday and
today. The fun of karaoke meets the word power of the dictionary.
Download free
graph paper.
Math Cartoon Archive
by Carolina Biological
The Elements
Song by Tom Lehrer is composed of the elements of the periodic table--a
classic!
Optical
Illusions page features 53 optical illusions and visual phenomena including
physiological explanations. Highly recommended!
Northern
Lights in Nebraska 8 Nov 2004--Amazing!
Christmas and Pascal's
Triangle
Akiyoshi's Optical
Illusions page
Math
websites sorted by topic and grade level
Devlin's
Angle Column (MAA) Includes essays on mathematical topics.
"When
I become a teacher..." movie
The
pencil revolution
Suggestions
for substitute teachers contains some great ideas a resources for short-term
teaching assignments.
Those
resilient little birds... As we plunge into the 21st century, it is
time we take a closer look at the technological wonders we create. Here,
we try to discover just a little bit more about the world around us through the
miracles of science, technology, and preservatives. We hope you enjoy this
educational tour as we work to characterize everybody's favorite Easter candy,
the Marshmallow Peep.
Through the No Child Left Behind Act, President Bush has made clear
his commitment to the goals of raising standards of achievement for all children
and providing all children with highly qualified teachers and instruction that
is based on scientific research. The U.S. Department of Education's free
booklet, Helping Your Child Learn Mathematics, available in both English
and Spanish, is part of the President's efforts to provide parents with the
latest research and practical information that can help them both to support
children's learning at home and to understand what they should expect from their
children's schools.
Parents, teachers and others working with children can order a free copy of Helping
Your Child Learn Mathematics by:
Calling the U.S. Department of Education's Publications Center (ED Pubs)
toll-free at 1-877-4-ED-PUBS (1-877-433-7827); TTY/TDD: 1-877-576-7734; FAX:
1-301-470-1244;
Ordering online at: www.edpubs.org;
or
Writing to request a copy: ED Pubs, P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, MD 20794-1398.
This publication is also available online at: http://www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/math/index.html
E-Library
offers copyright-friendly resources for teachers and students. You can search by
topic for images, activities, websites, and more.
SOS
math offers free trigonometry help.
Math Work is an on-line math worksheet generator.(Free!)
This web site will allow you to create printable math worksheets from your
browser. (Elementary and Middle School level math)
http://www.scottbryce.com/mathwork/
20Q.net is an experiment in artificial intelligence. The program is
very simple but its behavior is complex. Everything that it knows and all
questions that it asks were entered by people playing this game. 20Q.net is a
learning system; the more it is played, the smarter it gets. Play 20
questions
Braille
site: This site has jokes written in Braille
and students can type in their answers. They can type in their
names and have it printed in Braille.
Explore radial
symmetry by cutting a snowflake. You can preview, recut, and save your
design.
Mind Reader Math
site! Green cards for a correct explanation of how it works.
Insultingly Stupid
movie physics explains how moviemakers violate the laws of physics.
Movies are rated GP (good physics), PGP (pretty good physics), PGP13 (children
under 13 might be tricked), etc.
They do the math!
Knowledge
and Skills for University Success
page contains the link to the Introduction and the six academic disciplines
contained in the booklet Understanding University Success. The contents
are provided here in separate sections by academic discipline to make
downloading easier and to enable online viewing by discipline. Begin with the
Introduction and then select the academic discipline in which you are
interested. You may download
the entire book (4.2 mb) or order
a hardcopy
BrainChild.com is an online
SAT practice tests include scoring, solutions, and study hints.
Psychic
Math Mind Reader: first correct explanation earns 2 green cards!
Faces Hall of Fame
-- Consider the trig combinations project: Flip Book
The NRCS Photo
Gallery contains natural resource and conservation related photos from
across the USA. The Gallery is a joint project between NRCS Conservation
Communications and the NRCS Information Technology Center in Ft. Collins,
Colorado.
MATH2.ORG allow users to
search a collection of downloadable math reference tables. Math tables are
available for algebra, geometry, trig, calculus, and more.
Units of measurement
history and conversions; metric and customary units
Star Wars
ASCII-mation uses keyboard characters to animate the original Star Wars
movie. Some people have WAY too much time on their hands!
M.C. Escher
gallery has examples of his work, tessellations and more!
Make your own license
plate (any state).
Presidential
Awards 2001 Click on the Awardees link, search for 2001 winners, South
Dakota
Fear of
Physics is a website with demonstrations, activities and videos involving
general principles of physics. Check out the activities involving
acceleration, gravity, sound, relativity, and many more.
ACT
test practice page : For each question, click on your choice of lettered
answers to see if you are correct. Explanations of both correct and incorrect
answers are given with the correct choices. Five sets of questions are available
for English, Mathematics, and Science Reasoning; four sets are available for
Reading. Together, these 19 sets make up one complete ACT Assessment Test.
View a panoramic
view of the world . The image is actually a composite of hundreds of
pictures made by the orbiting DMSP
satellites. It is a night photo with the
lights clearly indicating the populated areas. For another view, try this link.
You can scroll East-West and North-South. Note that Canada's population is
almost exclusively along the US border. Moving east to Europe, there is a high
population concentration along the Mediterranean Coast. It's easy to spot
London, Paris, Stockholm and Vienna. Check out the development of Israel
compared to the rest of the Arab countries. Note the Nile River and the rest of
the "Dark Continent." After the Nile, the lights don't come on again
until Johannesburg. Look at the Australian Outback and the Trans-Siberian Rail
Route. Moving east, the most striking observation is the difference between
North and South Korea. Note the density of Japan.
What a piece of photography!
Prepare yourself for the big SAT test!
The Standard Deviants full-length exam covers everything you need to get an 'A.'
Just click on your choice below to download the complete test, with solutions,
in Adobe Acrobat format. Then print it out, sharpen your pencil and test your SAT
knowledge - but don't peek at the answers until you're done! SAT
Downloadable tests
Anagrams rearrange letters to form new
words. Try out the internet
anagram server at Wordsmith.com .
Powers
of Ten explores scale and gives ideas and tools for teaching concepts of
relative size. Travel across the Universe.
Changing scale by just a few powers of ten dramatically alters your
perspective. Awesome!
The Math
Dictionary for Kids is an animated interactive dictionary for students which
explains over 400 common mathematical terms in simple language.
The Library of
Congress has collections, services and exhibitions. You can also
access the Library's Portals
to the World page directly to link to information from many nations.
The CIA
World Fact Book contains everything you would ever want to know about
nations of the world!
Mudd Math Fun Facts This
archive is designed as a resource for enriching your courses with mathematical
Fun Facts! Use the sidebar to get a random Math Fun Fact, or search the
growing archives!
This
is True is a weekly syndicated newspaper column by Colorado
humorist Randy Cassingham. True reports on bizarre-but-true news
items from legitimate newspapers from around the world (never
"tabloids"). Each story ends with commentary by Randy -- a tagline
which is humorous, ironic or opinionated. An online pioneer, True has
been publishing online weekly since June 1994. You too can have such true
stories of human weirdness sent to you once each week by e-mail for free.
The "How much is inside?" website is a hilarious science
fair (?) project analyzing the contents of shaving cream cans, Doritos bags,
Cheerios, Silly String, and much much more. Check it out!
The "Joy of Pi" website will tell you everything you ever wanted to know
about pi. Check out the "pi facts and figures" link, and the
10,000 digits of pi page.
The Pi Pages:
find out more than you ever wanted to know about pi!
What does your phone number spell? Type it in, and
"PhoneSpell" will
generate a list of word combinations from your number.
Morph your favorite celebrity with "FearThis"!
"4Teachers"
is an on-line magazine for teachers, includes links and reviews
International Talk
Like a Pirate Day is September 19th!
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