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Mancala V2.0
Play the ancient game of Mancala online! Three levels of difficulty are offered for you to test your skills against Mancala Web.
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Living Math!
A homeschooling website with a focus on Mathematics. Provides articles, wide-ranging lists of recommended books, Math activity ideas, book reviews, and some sample lessons. (Note: Some links may no longer work.)
Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa
Red Escolar: Mathemata
Learn a little history of Pythagoras of Samos and the relationship between numbers and their divisors.
My Hero Project
My Hero: Galileo
"First to use a telescope to overserve the starts and planets," Galileo Galilei secretly published his work, which contradicted the Catholic Church's teachings. Use this site to learn about how Galileo's independence and courage made him...
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Sudoku Puzzles
This site offers many uses for Sudoku, including free online puzzles, free puzzles for school publication, and it gives the history of Sudoku.
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Univ. Of Arkansas: Symmetry and the Shape of Space
This University of Arkansas site applies symmetry to the world of history and artifacts. Includes images.
Curated OER
Tour Egypt: The Ancient Egyptian Number System
This Tour Egypt site presents an easy-to-read account of ancient Egypt mathematics. Content explores the history and development of mathematics, how it was used, what helpful documents we have found that give us insight into what the...
Curated OER
Ancient Greek Philosophy: Thales of Miletus
Includes a short summary of the life and work of the Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus. Discusses his life, work in Astronomy and Mathematics, and view of water and pantheism. Also includes a couple of quotations that make reference to...
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: History of Mathematics: Abraham De Moivre
This site contains biographical information and works of the mathematician Abraham DeMoivre.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Greek Number Systems
A comprehensive discussion of Greek number systems of the first millennium BC, including acrophonic and alphabetical. Includes examples demonstrating the lack of a truly unified system among the Greek islands.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Winifred Merrill
The first American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, Winifred Merrill made many contributions to the world of mathematics. Her life and accomplishments are documented in this short biography.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Archytas of Tarentum
Claiming that "mathematics was composed of four branches, namely geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and music", Archytas made an impact on Plato and other mathematicians.
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Wichita State University: Rene Descartes 1596 1650
This site contains biographical information on Rene Descartes. Discusses his achievements in mathematics and philosophy.
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Interactive Real Analysis: Leonhard Euler (1707 1783)
Contains a biography and information on Leonhard Euler's background and contributions to the field of mathematics.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Andre Marie Ampere
Although he was not the first person to observe a connection between electricity and magnetism, Andre-Marie Ampere was the first scientist to attempt to theoretically explain and mathematically describe the phenomenon. His contributions...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Georg Ohm
Georg Simon Ohm had humble roots and struggled financially throughout most of his life, but the German physicist is well known today for his formulation of a law, termed Ohm's law, describing the mathematical relationship between...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Claude Shannon
Claude Shannon was a mathematician and electrical engineer whose work underlies modern information theory and helped instigate the digital revolution. He was the first person to recognize how Boolean algebra could be used to great...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Julian Schwinger
Theoretical physicist Julian Schwinger used the mathematical process of renormalization to rid the quantum field theory developed by Paul Dirac of serious incongruities with experimental observations that had nearly prompted the...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Sin Itiro Tomonaga
Japanese theoretical physicist Sin-Itiro Tomonaga resolved key problems with the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED) developed by Paul Dirac in the late 1920s through the use of a mathematical technique he referred to as...
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Piero Della Francesca
This site details Francesca's work as a mathematician. It analyzes his treatises on mathematics, provides an archive of his works, and lists references for further research.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Srinivasa Ramanujan
University of St. Andrews provides a biography on Srinivasa Ramanujan and his mathematical works.
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Musical Math
This site includes 14 activities which explore how math and music are related. Great exercise opportunity for any student to sharpen their math and musical skills.
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Jeff Miller: Earliest Uses of Symbols for Variables
This personal site explains how variables began and who were the first to use them.
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Teach With Movies: Lesson Plans Based on Shorts and Clips
Links to many video-clip based lessons in the areas of health, English language arts & drama, mathematics, music, biology, earth science, inventions, astronomy, physics, chemistry, U.S. history and culture, and world history and...
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