- AlgebraLAB: Making Math and Science Connections - Mainland High School (Daytona Beach, FL), Georgia Southern University
Created by mathematics and science teachers, AlgebraLAB is designed to focus on topics and skills from high school mathematics that students must be able to draw upon in their introductory college science courses. AlgebraLAB focuses on lessons and practice
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- Area Under Curves: The Integral - Don Cohen (The Mathman)
Area on the geoboard; Plotting points on a computer or programmable calculator to find the area under curves; Finding the area under curves on graph paper. Sample problems with some answers and a program to plot points - from Chapter 13 of Don Cohen's
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- Basic Math Concepts and Fundamentals - R. H. Logan
A series of readings and practice problem activities designed to alleviate "math anxiety," for those planning to take a science course but uncertain about the math preparation. Includes lessons and practice problems. The topics covered are especially
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- Calculus (S.O.S. Mathematics) - Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Univ. of Texas at El Paso
An online course: learning units presented in worksheet format review the most important results, techniques and formulas in college and pre-college calculus. Logarithms and Exponential; Sequences; Series; Techniques of Integration; Local Behavior of
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- Computation of Discrete Logarithms in Prime Fields - LaMacchia, Odlyzdo; AT&T Bell Laboratories, NJ
The presumed difficulty of computing discrete logarithms in finite fields is the basis of several popular public key cryptosystems. The secure identification option of the Sun Network File System, for example, uses discrete logarithms in a field GF(p)
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- Computing Before Computers - Brian Borchers, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Online introductions, with PostScript or PDF downloads, of Napier's Bones and of the Genaille-Lucas Rulers. Pictures of statistical computing devices such as the Pickett N525-ES Statrule, the cumulative binomial probability computer, the General Dynamics
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- coolmath.com: Cool Math - Karen
A searchable "amusement park of mathematics" for exploring math: functions, tessellations, polyhedra, limits, logs, fractals (with galleries), puzzles and problems, fun with numbers, how to succeed in math, careers in math. Also Cool Links for Math for
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- Decimals and Logarithms in the Works? And a Dyer's Hand too? - Penn Leary
Shakespeare, Decimals and Logarithms: What did Shakespeare know about mathematics, particularly logarithms and the decimal system? And when did he know it? An article partly from Leary's book, The Second Cryptographic Shakespeare.
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- Early Calculators - David G. Hicks
Some history on slide rules and their types and makers, as well as basic instructions on their use. Also Planimeters, Calculating Machines (adding machines, four function mechanical calculators, how calculating machiens worked), and Early Electronic Models.
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- Exercises in Math Readiness for University (EMR) - Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan
A collection of exercises with solutions/tutorials for high school mathematics topics important for university study in mathematics, sciences, engineering and commerce. Exercises at three degrees of difficulty, covering graphing, solving inequalities,
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- Explaining Logarithms - Dan Umbarger
"Explaining Logarithms" is a free 109 page PDF which tries to explain the origin and use of logarithms in a different logical progression than exists in the traditional textbooks. Site includes philosophy behind the work, how to order multiple copies
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- ExploreMath.com - Third Millennium Press
Shockwave activities illustrating real-time correlations between equations and graphs to help students visualize and experiment with concepts from elementary algebra through pre-calculus: experiment with the graphs of functions, systems, and complex numbers.
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- Field Guide to Functions (Web Study Guide) - Oregon State University (OSU) Math Department
This field guide contains a quick look at the functions commonly encountered in single variable calculus, with exercises for each topic: linear, polynomial, power, rational, exponential, logarithmic, trigonometric, and piecewise functions. Also algebraic
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- First Digits - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
Take a look at a newspaper page listing stock market prices. You might think that each of the numbers from 1 to 9 would occur equally often among the first digits of all the listed prices. Instead, however, you're very likely to find that numbers starting
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- From Lewis Carroll to Archimedes - Cut the Knot!, Alexander Bogomolny
On March 29, 1879, Vanity Fair began offering its subscribers a new weekly puzzle invented by Lewis Carroll... on March 17, 1953 Frank Gray, a research scientist at Bell Labs, filed patent no. 2632058, for the Gray code encoding
the vacuum tube. An n-digit
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- Graphing Applet - Greg Vogl
This graphing Java applet illustrates variable substitution and function composition by encouraging the user to experiment with variables and look at a range of functions -- logarithmic, trigonometric, exponential, and more. Parameters include xmin and
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- How a Slide Rule Works - Peter Fox
An explanation of how slide rules work, beginning with a rudimentary logarithm calculator and log tables, featuring a logarithmic scale to print out to make your own slide rule, and concluding with "tricks from the slide rule era."
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- HyperMath - Carl R. (Rod) Nave; Georgia State University
HyperMath uses concept maps to explore mathematics ideas and applications to physics and astronomy. Originally developed in HyperCard, HyperMath covers the topics of algebra, trigonometry, geometry, vectors, linear algebra, logarithms, exponents, calculus,
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- IMSA Math Activities - Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA)
A collection of short activity sheets on algebra, pre-calculus, and calculus subjects ranging from a definition of logs and derivatives of exponential functions, to reciprocals of power functions (x^-n) and reciprocals of parabolas, to Newton's Method
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- Interactive Excel Spreadsheets - Scott A. Sinex, Prince George's Community College
"Excelets are interactive Excel spreadsheets or simulations of mathematical models. The user changes a variable and the spreadsheet changes in numerical, graphical, and/or even symbolic form (equations).... with no use of programming, no macros or Visual
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- Interactive Mathematics - Murray Bourne, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore
Flash Tutorials for Pre-Calculus (Algebra, Trigonometry, Logarithms, Complex Number Systems, Graphs); Calculus (Differentiation - The Derivative, its Applications, Deriving Transcendental Functions; Integration, its Applications and Methods), and Advanced
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- KryssTal: Mathematics - Kryss Katsiavriades and Talaat Qureshi
Essays with worked examples: numbers, algebra, Pascal's Triangle, trigonometry, logarithms, graphs, calculus (differentiation), and more.
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- MathComplete - Beata Obrzut
Learn about probability distributions, quadratic equations, linear expressions, slope of a line, radical expressions, and sequences and series through tutorials, worked MathML examples, and "automatic solvers" that use Design Science's MathPlayer software.
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- MathEclipse - Axel Kramer
Evaluate math expressions symbolically or numerically. MathEclipse plots two- and three-dimensional functions; checks primality; recognizes constants; accepts integers, rational numbers, complex numbers, real numbers, complex real numbers, vectors, matrices,
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- Mathematical Mystery Tour - ThinkQuest 1996
A no-longer-active online contest; old competition problems; lessons (logarithms, probability, trigonometry); and an area to submit problems.
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- Mathematical Tables and Formulas (S.O.S. Mathematics) - Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Univ. of Texas at El Paso
A place for students and educators to access mathematical formulas. The tables are organized by topics: The First 1000 Prime Numbers; The Prime Factorization of the First 1000 Integers; Math for the Toolbox - SAE to Metric Conversion; Some Important Constants;
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- Mathematics and Music - Dave Rusin; The Mathematical Atlas
A short article documenting the interplay between music and mathematics, with a bibliography. Explorations into tunings include why there are twelve tones in an octave, tuning problems that lead to the Riemann zeta function or to logarithms, nineteen-tone
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- Mathematics - John Savard
A collection of essays and illustrations: pentagonal tilings, infinity (Cantor's theory of transfinite numbers), rotations of the dodecahedron, Archimedean solids, the fourth dimension (regular polytopes), Gödel's proof and the halting problem, and
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- Math Made Simple: Math Help for Algebra, Trigonometry, Exponents & Logarithms - MathMadeSimple.com
A series of class-length high school math lessons for those who have had trouble with a concept, who need to review a topic or who need to prepare for an exam. These videos may also be used as support for home schooling and mature students who wish to
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- Math Made Simple: Math Help Videos
A series of class length, topic specific video math lessons. CDs and instant downloads are available to help those who have had trouble with a concept or who need to review a topic to prepare for an exam. Covers high school level basic math, algebra,
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- MathsDirect - MathsDirect
Free tutorials and exercises in the A-level maths subjects of algebra, the binomial theorem, co-ordinate geometry, differentiation, functions, indices, integration, logarithms, numerical methods, probability, series, statistics, and trigonometry. Register
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- The Maths Igloo - Ian Lynagh
Contents: Pi (generating Pi and where you can get it on the 'net); Four plus five (it's nine, isn't it. Or is it? - binary, hexadecimal); All about logarithms; About the Mathematical symbol "e".
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- MegaCalculator - Don Benish, Benish Industries
From the MegaConverter site. A web-based scientific calculator with which you can add, subtract, multiply, divide, take square roots, do powers, logarithms, sin, cosine, tangent, statistical functions and more.
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- Musemath - Bob O'Rourke
An interactive, Flash-animated site focusing on the mathematics and physics of the Western Traditional Music Scale.
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- Now College - Online Math Courses and Tutorials - Now International
An online learning company. Products are designed with video instruction, "real-time" whiteboard handwriting, graphics, animations, graphs, tables, and math notation. A complete high-school math program is planned. Currently, courses in trigonometry
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- Order of Operations - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math FAQ
What is the correct order of operations? Why use it? What is PEMDAS?
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- The Oughtred Society - Oughtred
An organization dedicated to the history and collection of slide rules. Meet William Oughtred, inventor of the modern slide rule; learn about the history and background of the Oughtred Society and its principles; join or renew membership; browse tables
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- Panagiotis Stefanides
Geometry presented at national conferences in Greece. Contents include: Quantization of Circle Duality; Logos Pyr Chronos; 'Buena Fortuna' (artwork); Geometric Mean Ratio (T) by Ruler and Compass; Quadrature Master Theorem; Corollary (Circle Circumference
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- Precalculus - Preparing Students for Calculus - Warren Esty, Montana State University
A text designed to prepare students for calculus, with chapters on functions, powers, polynomials, logs, exponentials, and trigonometry. Models a new approach to learning through non-traditional homework (explanatory rather than computational); an emphasis
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- Principles of Calculus Modeling, an Interactive Approach - Donald Kreider and Dwight Lahr, Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College
Web pages that correspond to each section of the book Principles of Calculus Modeling: Modeling Discrete Data; Modeling Rates of Change; Modeling with Differential Equations; Modeling Accumulations; and Culminating Experience. With quizzes, applets, worked
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- Resources for Tan's Applied Calculus - S.T. Tan; Brooks/Cole Publishing Company
Chapter-by-chapter exercises, practice quizzes, practice tests, suggested group projects, review questions, and other sample resource materials for students and instructors using Tan's Applied Calculus, Fourth Edition. Also, step-by-step instructions
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- Resources for Tan's Calculus for Managerial, Life and Social Sciences - S.T. Tan; Brooks/Cole Publishing Company
Chapter-by-chapter exercises, practice quizzes, practice tests, suggested group projects, review questions, and other sample resource materials for students and instructors using Tan's Applied Calculus for Managerial, Life and Social Sciences, Fifth Edition.
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- A Review of Logarithms (S.O.S. Mathematics) - Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Univ. of Texas at El Paso
Since logarithms are exponents, the page presents a brief history of logarithms and reviews exponential functions before continuing on to logarithms and logarithmic functions.
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- Road Sign Math - Jamie Thingelstad
"Driving + Math = Fun." A game to play on the road, identifying signs that suggest basic or advanced arithmetic, or that display constants, sequences, or primes. See digital photographs of actual street and highway signs that meet the "RSM" rules. Submit
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- Rolf's Calculator - Rolf Howarth
A fully featured JavaScript scientific calculator that includes trig functions and logarithms, factorials, 12 levels of parentheses, logs to base 2, bitwise logical operators, hex, octal, binary and ascii display.
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- Shelley's Mathematics Articles - Shelley Walsh
"Little self-contained articles [that] write up more than you can normally fit in a lecture, and ... hopefully put together enough explanation so that there's something for a great variety of different ways of thinking." Organized into Geometry; Analytic
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- The Slide Rule Home Page - Gordon P. Smith
Recent math history: all about this ancestor of the calculator and computer. What is a Slide Rule?; Types of Slide Rules; How Do They Work?; The Oughtred Society; Other Sites of Interest; Slide Rule Archive; Slide Rule related links. Page is no longer
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- The Slide Rule Universe - Sphere Research Corporation
Slide rule information, lessons, archives, links and an on-line marketplace: buy, bid for, or swap restored classics, new slide boxes still in the box, and low cost first student rules; learn to operate and care for your slide rule, from Hartung's "A
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- Solving Word Problems: Applications of Exponential and Logarithmic Functions (S.O.S. Mathematics) - Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Univ. of Texas at El Paso
To solve an exponential or logarithmic word problem, convert the narrative to
an equation and solve the equation. Includes discussions of problems dealing with interest rates, mortgages, population, radioactive decay, and earthquakes.
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- Space Educators' Handbook - Jerry Woodfill, NASA Johnson Space Center
For Mac or PC: programs that include more than 2000 files interactively linked for ease of learning about NASA, space science, space history, and space technology. Many well designed and extensively educational files are available from this Web site,
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