Mr Heitmann's Mega Math Resources

MacTutor Mathematics Biography Index
The University of St. Andrews in Scotland provides this searchable index of over 1,000 mathematical biographies, accessible by mathematician's name, historical period, or country of origin.

Mathematician Trading Cards
Math major and computer engineer Steve Kang brings you this clever set of 40 math "trading cards" styled after baseball cards. Each features a likeness of the mathematician, a list of his or her principal works, and a brief description of his or her contribution to mathematics. Unfortunately, they're not printer-friendly, but the information's valuable nonetheless.

Women in Math
Faculty at the University of Oregon's Department of Mathematics bring you this site devoted to women in mathematics. Although much of the site is most relevant for higher education, the biography section provides hundreds of profiles of women from many eras and cultures who have contributed to the advancement of mathematics. The site incorporates biographies presented at other sites as well.

Math League Help Topics
This Math League promotes student interest and confidence in mathematics. This section serves as a help resource for 4th through 8th grades. Topics include whole numbers and their basic properties, decimnals, exponents, using data and statistics, fractions, geometry, ratio and propertion, percent and probability, integers, metric units and measurement, and introduction to algebra and positive and negative numbers. Each topic offers definitions and examples. This is a great site for review before tests or when you might need a new way of looking at a math topic.

The Amazing Mathematical Object Factory
Canada's SchoolNet provides a colorful, useful way to describe and "play" with discrete mathematics, which studies combinatorial objects. The object types here are subsets, combinations, permutations, 8-Queens problem, pentominoes, permutations of multiset, partitions, Fibonacci sequences, and magic squares. Each object type has a description to get you started and a section where you can generate your own example. This is a helpful way to learn about a topic that can be difficult for many people.

Fractal Tutorials
Fractals are things that are made up of smaller versions of themselves. This is a ThinkQuest semi-finalist, which helps the viewer learn about fractals with step by step tutorials on three levels of difficulty: elementary, general audience, and advanced readers. They'll make learning fractals understandable. There are many animations (some require plug-in software), and activities provided to further your understanding of fractals. With RealAudio Player 4.0, the section "Just for Kids", is narrated for the viewer. Be sure to check out the Fractal Gallery and Fractal Landscapes.

Powers of Ten
This is an amazing visual journey consisting of 42 images - 42 powers of ten. At one end of the journey is the immensity of the known universe, some 15 billion years old and 10 to 20 billion light years across. At the other end of the journey is a depiction of the three quarks within a proton. The image "One Meter Square" is in the middle of the continuum, and as you decrease to smaller powers of 10, you find pores in the skin, DNA, and a carbon nucleus. As you increase in powers of 10 from the central image, you move from Chicago to the Earth to the Solar System to clusters of galaxies. Note: This is a large, graphics-intensive site.

Symmetry and the Shape of Space
Developed by a university math professor, this site about symmetry is for high school students with a solid understanding of advanced math. Plane, cyclic, dihedral symmetry, mobius bands, tori, orbifolds, and paper dolls are highlighted. These paper dolls are not as simple as the kind you may have cut as a child! Proofs and theorems are provided for some patterns.

The KnotPlot Site
From a Ph.D. thesis by a computer scientist at the University of British Columbia, this site provides a collection of knots viewed from a mathematical perspective. The images were created to visualize and manipulate mathematical knots in three and four dimesions. In knot thoery, two embedded circles (knots) are considered equivalent if one may be smoothly deformed into the other without any cuts or self-intersections. This notion of equivalence may be thought of as the heart of knot theory. Some images require downloading.

Department of the Treasury for Kids
Follow TREZ, the Alley Cat, for a virtual tour of the United States Treasury Building. Learn about savings bonds, money, banking, starting your own business, taxes, and counterfeit money. You can find out what large denominations of paper money look like. Become a music store employee or a pizza delivery person and find out how your income is taxed. There is a Saving Bond Redemption Calculator to find out how much your bonds are worth since you bought them.

Basic Computation
A member of Ryerson Polytechnic Institute's Department of Engineering and Computing brings you this award-winning site about the history and operations of the abacus. The site compares devices from different countries, gives an overview of the abacus's history, teaches how to use an abacus, offers instructions on making an abacus out of Legos, and offers recommended reading and links.

Base Ten Activities
Professor Margo Lynn Mankus of George Mason University prepared this entertaining site designed to help students understand the base ten counting system. The site includes a user-friendly though detailed java applet which allows students to manipulate base ten counting units in an online game, with accompanying teacher materials.

Click on Bricks
This site was created by students for the ThinkQuest Junior competition and reinforces basic multiplication skills in a fun and engaging way. Visitors will be able to access tutorials and online problems; hints are given when a wrong answer is selected. Students use Legos as manipulatives as they learn about multiplication. Related links and a feedback form are also provided.

FunBrain.com
This site provides a fun way for elementary students to reinforce basic math skills through interactive online activities about making correct change, fractions, and computation. For teachers, there's the opportunity to create customized online quizzes for your students. You and your students will also enjoy the language arts and geography games on this site.

Kids Only at Coolmath.com
A community college math instructor has created motivating games for this site. In the Math section, play the Number Monster! Pick an operation (add, subtract, multiply, or divide) and then choose a level (easy, medium, hard, harder, killer, monster). The easy section is good for younger students, but without using a calculator, some of the killer and monster problems will be a challenge for high school graduates! Check out more games in the section on Math Art & Games, and Geometry.

Through the Glass Wall: Computer Games for Mathematical Empowerment
This site presents the results of three studies conducted by TERC and funded by the National Science Foundation. The studies examine the educational content of mathematically-oriented computer games and look for patterns in how boys and girls play each game. The site is easy to use and presents in-depth reviews of over 50 commercial software applications. Visitors can access information about different software programs by searching alphabetically, by age range, or by content strand. The site also includes a bibliography and list of links for those who want to learn more.

Geometry & Shapes
Jos van Uden, a Dutch Java programmer, supplied the Java applet that forms the centerpiece of this site. Visitors with Netscape 2.0 or Internet Explorer 3.0 and above will enjoy manipulating tangram pieces in a series of puzzles.

Geometry Math Problem of the Week
Swarthmore's Math Forum investigates a different math puzzler each week at this site. Past problems have dealt with pizzas, flags, baseball, kites, the Daytona Speedway, and dog houses. Answers and links to elementary-level problems are also available on the site.

The Sound of Chaos
Did you ever think you'd get funky with fractals? Make a little math music with the Discovery Channel Online's site devoted to fractal melodies, a type of composition that assigns note values to numbers in fractal equations. The site allows you to experiment with fractal images and "hear what you see" through RealAudio.

Symmetry and Pattern: The Art of Oriental Carpets
Swarthmore University and The Textile Museum provide an excellent way to teach students about symmetry, tesselation, and other geometric concepts. The site includes a primer on different types of symmetry and pattern, a gallery of rug patterns, information on how oriental rugs are made, and student activities.

Totally Tessellated
Three high school seniors from Virginia, Georgia, and California designed this site for the 1998 ThinkQuest competition. The site includes beautiful graphics, an introduction to the concept of tessellation, use of tessellation in math, art, and science, a spotlight on Escher, and an exploration of the math behind tessellation.

Calendars Through the Ages
The Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement prepared this online exhibit, which contains information about the history of the 7 day week, the calendar year, and comparisons of Mayan, Jewish, Chinese, French, Islamic, and Christian calendars. The site also contains a timeline about the history of timekeeping.

EduStock
Students participating in the ThinkQuest competition designed this educational introduction to the stock market. Included are company profiles, a history of the stock market, a glossary of stock terminology, information about different types of stocks, and a stock market simulation. (The simulation requires that users provide an e-mail address.)

Egyptian Mathematics
Learn about the Egyptian decimal system and the seven symbols used to solve ancient math problems.

Figure This! Math Challenges for Families
NCTM, the U.S. Department of Education, and the National Science Foundation team up to provide this colorful, practical site built around math's everyday applications. Challenges cover questions related to health, transportation, food, and more. Each challenge includes fun statistics, related resources, and math resources for parents.

IRS Tax Interactive
The IRS's online 'zine for kids contains games related to starting a small business, the reasons we pay taxes, payroll deductions, and more. The site contains a special teachers' area and a tax glossary as well.

Mathematical Ideas in Science: Tutorial Modules
7 Stones Multimedia, a technology development company, has designed this Shockwave-enabled site to help students explore the connections between math and science. Modules include information on waves, orbits, half life, relativity, and more. You'll need high-end equipment (i.e., you really need the Shockwave to make full use of this site, and a speedy connection) and it's most appropriate for advanced students, but there's a lot here to explore.

Math in Daily Life
The Annenberg/CPB Project's Learner Online offers this rich Web site introducing students to the multiple applications of math in everyday life. The site includes information and hands-on activities related to cooking, finance, population growth, home decorating, and language.

Online Math Applications
This site by kids, for kids connects math with music, investing, science, history, and trips. Includes dozens of activity ideas and demonstrations.

The Titanic: What Can Numbers Tell Us About Her Fatal Voyage?
This Webquest, brought to you by the School of Education at Louisiana State University, engages students in Internet research and spreadsheet creation to connect math with the mysteries surrounding the Titanic. The site includes evaluation rubrics, lists of recommended resources, and clear step-by-step procedures written for secondary level math students.

The U.S. Mint: H.I.P. Pocket Change
Although the kids section of this Web site is geared primarily towards social studies students and coin collectors, the teachers area contains lesson plans, related resources, and an online forum to help teachers connect currency and math. The site is appropriate for grade school students and is colorfully designed.

A Walk Through Time
Sundials, water clocks, Greenwich Mean Time and lunar cycles are included in this site from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Although the site is text-heavy, it would provide good information for student research or background for a teacher developing word problems or experiments.

What Good Is Math?
This award-winning site was created by math education students at the University of Richmond. The first section, "Art & Math: How Are They Related?" is written more for teachers than for students, but other sections of the site related to sports, grades, vacations, etc. speak directly to students in upper elementary, middle and even high school.

What Is a Dollar Worth?
http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/economy/calc/cpihome.html
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures the average level of prices of the goods and services typically consumed by an urban American family. The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis maintains this site enabling users to calculate the buying power of a dollar between 1913-1999. It also explains how the CPI is used to make the calculations.

Dave's Math Tables
Scientific Instruments Systems offers this Web reference on basic operations, conversions and measurement, and advanced mathematics. Visitors will find information on calculating interest, area, graphing, statistical distributions, and much more. The information is also available in Spanish.

Probability Central
This site, designed by three high school students in Maryland for the ThinkQuest competition, provides basic, interactive information about probability through a PowerPoint presentation, lessons, a forum, an interactive poker game, and a "probability calculator" which helps students determine the likelihood of events occurring together.

Metrics Matter
This site was designed by a team of sixth graders for the ThinkQuest competition. It provides a brief introduction to why the metric system is important and why it's easier than the English system of measurement. Its chief feature, however, is an overview of units used for mass, volume, length, temperature, and time. Each area includes a converter that the students programmed themselves which shows equivalent units in different systems of measurement.

Your Weight on Other Worlds
Ever wonder what you'd weigh on Jupiter or Io? This site from The Exploratorium provides handy online conversions and a user-friendly explanation of the math involved.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics (MathWorldTM)
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics (MathWorldTM) is compiled by Internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from the mathematics and Internet communities. One facet of this site is recreational mathematics, including cryptograms, dissection, folding, games, illusions, magic squares, number guessing, numerology, puzzles, and sports. These challenging activities are suitable for middle and high school students.

Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education
The Center sponsors several online curriculum projects which employ real-world data in math investigations. These include global temperature projects, remote sensing data from cargo ships around the world, and many more.

Interactive Math
This site is brought to you by Alexander Bogomolny, a former math professor with the University of Iowa. Interactive Math offers visitors dozens of problems and puzzles organized by categories which include Arithmetic, Algebra, Probability, and Proofs. The site also includes a math poll, a "did you know" area with little-known information about math, and a rotating feature column.

NOVA: The Proof
At the NOVA site, you'll read about Andrew Wiles, the mathematician who spent seven year's trying to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and get to try your hand at a Shockwave demonstration of the Pythagorean Theorem.

Plane Math
This site, brought to you by InfoUse and NASA, provides teachers and students with a fun, interactive way to tie aeronautics engineering and math skills together. Intended for middle level students, the site engages kids in a series of activities in a game like format. Students learn about estimation, computation, geometry, spatial relations, fractions, and more. Teachers can register with students to win prizes. Some games require Shockwave, but overall the site is graphically pleasing, fun, and well worth a few class periods!

Coping With Math Anxiety
Written by B. Sidney Smith and Wendy Hageman Smith, this site is one Web resource within the Math Academy Online / Platonic Realms site. It describes what math anxiety is, identifies its social and educational roots, exposes math myths, proposes constructive ways of managing math anxiety, suggests strategies for solving word problems, explains what Latin and Greek letters mean in math, and lists resource books on math anxiety.

The Glossary of Mathematical Mistakes
This site provides an interesting and informative look at the ways advertisers, the media, and public institutions "get the math wrong." Users will find a detailed glossary of math mistakes and a special section of fifteen puzzles and problems related to algebra, arithmetic, and geometry (answers provided).

* Interactive Mathematics Online
* On-line Mathematics Dictionary
* The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Mathematics

* What Good Is Math?

Math Teacher's

Ten Commandments

Thou shalt accept the challenge of teaching math and educate thyself in every way so that students will learn.
Thou shalt recognize that some students fear or dislike math and be compassionate and understanding when teaching.
Thou shalt convey to students that their self worth is unrelated to their math skills.
Thou shalt adapt teaching strategies to meet the different learning styles of students.
Thou shalt respect all student questions as you would have them respect yours.
Thou shalt pursue the response of "I still don't understand" through different avenues until there is understanding.
Thou shalt not ask a class "Do you understand?" Instead, thou shalt determine what each student knows and does not know, and address student problems individually.
Thou shalt identify students in need of extra help and make certain they get it.
Thou shalt actively involve students in class, assign daily homework and quiz frequently, knowing that student discipline comes from teacher discipline.
Though they may at times seem few, thou shalt count thy blessings.

AND THE MOST IMPORTANT....THOUGH SHALL LOVE THE SUPPORT OF UNDERSTANDING PARENTS WHO CAN SEE AND UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE.

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