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Centre for the Popularisation of Mathematics - Ronnie Brown, School of Mathematics, University of Wales, Bangor The Centre's goal is to present Mathematics to as wide as possible an audience, and to give an impression for mathematics of its objects of study, methodology, successes and applications, enjoyment, and the wider context. Includes the WWW version of the travelling exhibition: Mathematics and Knots, using the theme of knots to show some of the basic methods of mathematics, with master classes and a bibliography. Also an exploration of John Robinson's Symbolic Sculpture and its mathematics, with Ronald Brown. more>> Key Questions - Key Issues in Mathematics at the Math Forum Links to Web resources addressing questions such as: Why should the public support mathematics? Why is a research mathematics program necessary for graduate science programs? Why are we well-suited to teach mathematics to scientists and engineers? Why should people major in mathematics? What is a math degree good for? Why should students take mathematics courses? How can we answer when young students ask, "What good is math?" more>> Math Awareness Month (MAM) - Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) Mathematics Awareness Month - formerly Math Awareness Week (MAW) - is held each April to increase public understanding of and appreciation for mathematics. Since 1991, yearly themes and activities at the local, state, and regional levels have included mathematics and the environment, manufacturing, medicine, symmetry, decision making, the Internet, imaging, biology, oceans, "math spans all dimensions," and the human genome. Online essays, print posters, and web resources elaborate on the annual theme. Coordination for Mathematics Awareness Month is provided by the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics, which includes the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). more>> math - Futurity Math news aggregated from across a consortium of research universities. See also Futurity's section for science and technology articles. Futurity's consortium of research universities in United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom is led by the University of Rochester, Duke University, and Stanford University. more>> Math in Daily Life - Annenberg Media Students often question how they will use basic mathematical concepts, algebra, and geometry throughout their lives - but the average person uses math at least three times a day. Read how math affects daily decision-making in this series of short articles on: Playing to Win (probability, casinos, and the lottery; Savings and Credit (interest - simple and compounding - and managing a credit card); Population Growth (exponential growth and effective data display in charts and graphs); Home Decorating (figuring area, with a page on Pi); Cooking by Numbers (ratio and proportion, with information on the metric system); math as The Universal Language; and links to related math resources on the Web. Inspired by For All Practical Purposes: Introduction to Contemporary Mathematics, a video series in the Annenberg/CPB Multimedia Collection. more>>

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The Addventures of Plusman - Michael Cherry Math puns, wordplay and illustrated concepts, all in a comic book format. The first of the Plusman series introduces Adam Tegetter, Aidee DeGrangle, Hex A. Hedron, the evil Dr. Nein and the origin of Plusman and the Permutation; the second tells of the ...more>> Adult Numeracy A collection of resources on adult numeracy, from a group devoted to statistical literacy. Key websites, conferences, publications, organizations, and surveys. ...more>> The Amazing Mandelbrot Set - Bill Boll This site hosts a gallery of Mandelbrot Set images and a primer on how the Mandelbrot Set is generated. Posters and a DVD of animations are available. ...more>> American Council on Education (ACE) A forum for the discussion of major issues related to higher education and its potential to contribute to the quality of American life. ACE maintains a domestic and an international agenda and seeks to advance the interests and goals of higher and adult ...more>> amtnys - Math Forum The general discussion group of the Association of Mathematics Teachers of New York State. Use this service to discuss items of interest to math educators everywhere. Read and search archived messages; and register to post to the discussions. ...more>> Basic Skills Resources - National Institute for Literacy The Basic Skills Resource Collection focuses on reading, writing, mathematics and numeracy resources that can improve instruction in basic skills. Each resource listing features an abstract and a review by an expert in the field. Resources in this Collection ...more>> Be a Math Teacher - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) The NCTM's answers to "Why Be a Math Teacher?" and other frequently asked questions from prospective math teachers. "How to Become a Math Teacher" explains what it takes to complete a teacher education program and gain a state license. "Why Certified ...more>> A Bibliography of Mathematics Education - Paul Ernest, University of Exeter, U.K. A 1994 electronic bibliography prepared for students at the University of Exeter, U.K. Contents: Society, Diversity And Mathematics Education; The Learning Of Mathematical Topics; The Psychology Of Learning Mathematics; Teaching Approaches And Resources ...more>> bit-player - Brian Hayes In Hayes' weblog, the author of the American Scientist Computing Science column elaborates on those articles, posts errata, records notes from conferences in progress, and explores other topics. The blog dates back to January, 2006, and includes articles ...more>> Blog of Science - Pierre Far A blog started in December, 2005, by a bacterial geneticist to "write about the latest scientific discoveries, explaining them in terms everyone can understand." Far favors topics that "affect people," so blogsci.com tends to feature health and medicine ...more>> California Online Mathematics Education Times (COMET) - Carol Fry Bohlin A weekly news journal designed for mathematics educators and educational leaders, COMET features information on current educational issues, web resources, professional events and opportunities, and news articles from California and across the nation. ...more>> Carl Bialik Author of "The Numbers Guy," a weekly column on "how numbers are used and misused in the news, business and politics," for the Wall Street Journal Online. Read past columns, such as "Putting a Number on Happiness," "Lightning Stats Are Partly Cloudy," ...more>> CHANCE - J. Laurie Snell, Mathematics Dept., Dartmouth College Materials designed to help teach a "Chance" course or a more standard introductory probability or statistics course. A Chance course is a case study quantitative literacy course designed to make students more informed and critical readers of current news ...more>> Comments on Mathematics and Education - E. Lee Lady, University of Hawaii Notes on the teaching and learning of math. What Is Mathematics? What Makes Mathematics So Hard? My Attitude Towards Teaching. Universities and Learning. Also e-mail comments from readers, on: Teaching Maths in the public schools; Giving Students Power ...more>> Coping With Math Anxiety - B. Sidney Smith, Wendy Hageman Smith; Math Academy Online/Platonic Realms A "mini-text" concerning the potentially disabling fear of math. This site defines math anxiety, discusses its social and educational roots, addresses some widespread myths about math and learning math, and deals with possible strategies for overcoming ...more>> Count On - Department for Education and Employment, UK Activities and resources -- some simple and some fancy -- for parents, teachers, and students. Resources offers, among other things, guides: to mathematical misconceptions; for parents helping with homework; for promoters of math fairs; and for providers ...more>> Creative Problem Solving - Rob Eastaway Eastaway's "portfolio" of interests includes short descriptions of his school talks, newspaper articles, and books he has authored or co-authored, such as Maths for Mums and Dads, The Hidden Mathematics of Sport, How to Remember Almost Everything, Ever, ...more>> Czech Statistical Office (Cesky statisticky úrad) - Czech Republic Collects and distributes statistical data for the Czech Republic. Includes various statistics and maps on regional variation, release dates and ordering information for various publications, introduction to the department, and a FAQ about the value of ...more>> danicamckellar.com - Danica McKellar From the author of the books for middle school girls, Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail, and Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who's Boss. Read about McKellar's voice-over for the math-themed ...more>> Digit's Website - Alex Vrenios Downloadable short stories introduce mathematical concepts to early college students in a way intended to generate their interest. ...more>> Discoveries & Breakthroughs Inside Mathematics - American Mathematical Society (AMS) Read articles and watch video news segments about the latest discoveries and applications of mathematics: "Do the Math Dance," "Mathematician Calms the Skies with Turbulence Detection Algorithm," "Become a Smarter Shopper," "The Science Behind Movie Magic," ...more>> DO MATH...and you can do anything! - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Features grade level-specific mathematical activities that children can do with their families and on their own, as well as links to other sites where children can explore the connections between math and some possible career paths. Also includes a family ...more>> Do software engineers need mathematics? - Keith Devlin (Devlin's Angle) Software engineers don't use their college mathematics, but they make use of their college mathematics education every day. Brains are perhaps the world's best examples of an adaptive system. When we subject the human brain to an extended educational ...more>> Dr Len Fisher: Opening the Door to Science - Len Fisher Fisher concentrates on the science of the everyday and making science accessible. His latest book is Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Real Life. The site contains excerpts from his books as well as descriptions of his talks, articles about his work, ...more>> Early Career Profiles: Recent bachelors-level graduates in the mathematical sciences - American Mathematical Society A collection of profiles of alumni from a variety US colleges and universities who majored in mathematics. Each profile includes statements of what the alumnus or alumna now does, the math each uses on the job, the recent graduate's educational background, ...more>> Education Index - Frank Quinn, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech Download Quinn's articles: "Contemporary Proofs for Mathematics Education," "A Science-of-Learning approach to Mathematics Education," "A Revolution in Mathematics? What really happened a century ago, and why it matters today," and "What should students ...more>> Edward Burger Journal publications, Thinkwell textbooks, and other professional activities of this professor of mathematics and social responsibility and ethics. In particular, buy videos that star the Baylor University Robert Foster Cherry Professor for Great Teaching: ...more>> Expectations of Mathematics Education - EXTEND - Perspectives on Mathematics Education Links to articles about society's conflicting expectations for the goals (ends) and pedagogy (means) of school mathematics. Concerns about the relation of skills to understanding, about connections with other disciplines, and about preparation for employment. ...more>> FamilyEducation Network Articles, discussion groups, professional advice, suggestions, and other resources for children of preschool and younger, elementary school, middle school, and high school and beyond. Resources topics include activities, health and safety, homework help, ...more>> Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia The Federal Reserve Bank has nine billion dollars in its vaults, and on an average day it destroys $20 million in unfit currency. At the Money in Motion exhibit you can explore the theoretical and mathematical realms of interest rates, inflation, and ...more>> Fermilab Education Office Online explorations for students and teachers, plus information about field trips to Fermilab, student collaborations with Fermilab, student and teacher workshops, and links to other math and science education resources. ...more>> The Five Percent Solution - Keith Devlin (Devlin's Angle) "Mathematical disciplines such as statistics, optimization theory, probability theory, queuing theory, control theory, game theory, and operations research are all used routinely in making difficult choices in public policy, health, business, manufacturing, ...more>> From Fish to Infinity - Steven Strogatz Steven Strogatz, a professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University, offers this several-week tour of mathematics from an adult perspective--from the basics of math to the baffling. This New York Times series is not meant to be remedial, but rather ...more>> GalaxyGoo An interdisciplinary, volunteer thinktank dedicated to exploring expressions of science and math with online technologies, for public benefit. Read interviews of scientists; explore math such as the sine curve with Flash, participate in forums and blogs, ...more>> Government Affairs and Education (AMS) - American Mathematical Society Government Affairs: news from Washington on science funding; calls for action; policy statements; recent statements by the mathematical community; federal budget information; how to contact Congress; science policy events; and a link to the AMS Committee ...more>> Hard Problems - George Paul Csicsery, and the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Hard Problems is a feature documentary about the students who represented the United States at the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). The film shows the dedication and perseverance of the six American high school students, the rigorous preparation ...more>> Homepage Michel Delord - Michel Delord Une site opposé "à la spirale qui prétend faciliter la compréhension en allégeant les savoirs fondamentaux.... [et] à la justification de cette spirale qui sépare l'intelligence conceptuelle de ses manifestations ...more>> Horizon Research, Inc. A private research firm located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, that specializes in work related to science and mathematics education. Recent project include Looking Inside the Classroom, A Study of K-12 Mathematics and Science Education in the United ...more>> Humanistic Mathematics - Mathematics Education at The Math Forum The idea that teaching, learning, and creating mathematics issues from the same psyche as literature, aesthetics, and music has attracted, since 1986, a worldwide network of people who share this belief. The existence of the Humanistic Mathematics Network ...more>> innumeracy.com - Steve Head A site devoted to the nature of chance and critical thinking, a result of a search of various sites that may be of use to others whose desire is to develop a more critical mind. Some articles are posted to the Probability and Critical Thinking pages; ...more>> The Institute for Figuring - Margaret and Christine Wertheim, Co-Directors "If mathematics is a language of pattern, its structures may be seen as the verses of a formal, yet fantastical poetics. Across the globe people have delighted in the harmonies of this language and the patterns discovered therein. These are the songs ...more>> The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) The professional and learned society for qualified and practising mathematicians, based in the UK and with thousands of members worldwide. IMA aims to promote mathematics and its applications in all sectors: industry, commerce, education, the public sector ...more>> John Allen Paulos John Allen Paulos is a mathematician and author of the books Mathematics and Humor, I Think, Therefore I Laugh, Innumeracy - Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences, Beyond Numeracy - Ruminations of a Numbers Man, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper,and ...more>> Joint Policy Board for Mathematics - Math Forum The Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) is a collaborative effort of the American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The Board represents nearly 55,000 mathematicians ...more>> Joseph Malkevitch's Home Page - Joseph Malkevitch, York College (CUNY-The City University of New York) Malkevitch's interests include geometry (polytopes, graph theory, tilings, etc.), discrete mathematics, and mathematical modeling (especially models dealing with fairness and equity issues and codes of all kinds). Most of his research concerns using combinatorial ...more>> Kids Do Count! Seeking Excellence in Math Education "We feel strongly that new new math is detrimental to our children's future...." Background, experiences of students and parents, impact, comments on NCTM, and "what to do" statements about the teaching of the "Connected Mathematics" and "Investigations ...more>> The Klein Project Revisiting the intent of Felix Klein's Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint on the centenary of its publication, this IMU/ICMI-commissioned project aims to produce a book for upper secondary teachers that communicates the breadth and vitality ...more>> The Magic of Math - magicofmath.org Communicate and share the delight of mathematics. Talk to a math whiz about how math makes the world go round, get pointers on how to figure out a math problem, or just chat about math by sharing cool ideas, original math jokes, poems, riddles, art, problems ...more>> Martinez Writings - Alberto A. Martinez Sample the introduction from Negative Math, which shows that "unlike 2 + 2, some basic rules in mathematics were established essentially by convention.... We can make an algebra in which minus times minus is minus. And we can make another algebra in which ...more>> Math Alive - Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton University Materials from a course designed for those who have not had college mathematics but would like to understand some of the mathematical concepts behind important modern applications. Interactive "virtual labs" address cryptography; error correction and ...more>>

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