MATHEMATICS RESOURCES

GAMES and PUZZLES

TITLE	Fun with Puzzles
COMMENT	Challenging, informative and interesting puzzles with a distinct element of fun involved.
LINK	http://www.tribute.com.au/index.htm

TITLE	Interactive Mathematics Miscellany
COMMENT	Lots of maths puzzles here and some interesting facts as well - did you know that almost every integer has the digit 3 in it?? Well worth a visit and lots of interesting information to browse.
LINK	http://www.cut-the-knot.com/

TITLE	Mathematical Diversions
COMMENT	Mike Keith's page full of interesting mathematical diversions - well worth a visit for some high brow mathematics!
LINK	http://members.aol.com/s6sj7gt/mikehome.htm

TITLE	MathsNet
COMMENT	Great site a must for all.
LINK	http://www.anglia.co.uk/education/mathsnet/

TITLE	NRICH
COMMENT	One of my favourite sites with something for everybody - teachers and students will find plenty to keep them gainfully occupied and interested….and how delightful to see mathematics presented so well
LINK	http://www.nrich.maths.org.uk/

TITLE	Problem of the Week
COMMENT	Lots of interesting puzzles and all of them graded as well - but be patient…..
LINK	http://www.wits.ac.za/ssproule/pow.htm

TITLE	Puzzles, Games, Contests and a Whole Lot of Fun
COMMENT	Certainly, a whole lot of fun, with pages and pages of interesting brain twisters, interactive puzzles, contests and a lot more beside - take a picnic and spend the day there!
LINK	http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~burrough/Puzzles,etc.htm

TITLE	Thinks.com
COMMENT	Billing itself as the brain games, puzzles and pastimes website, you will certainly find plenty here to amuse and interest you….
LINK	http://www.thinks.com/math/index.htm

TITLE	The Ultimate Puzzle Site
COMMENT	An interactive puzzle site set up by three dutch students and containing large numbers of puzzles and riddles (including solutions) which are also graded by difficulty…some good links provided also.
LINK	http://www.dse.nl/puzzle/index_us.html

Other Puzzle sites worth visiting:

Interactive Mathematics, Miscellany and Puzzles
Puzzle Archive (from Inter-Links)
Unsolved Mathematical Problems
Puzzles and challenges from CIMT, Exeter

FIBONACCI
Ron Knott‘s Fibonacci pages
The Golden Section

PI and IRRATIONALS
The Uselessness of PI and its Irrationals friends
Favourite Mathematical constants
Buffon's Needle - estimate for PI
Hotel Infinity

PRIME NUMBERS, etc
Mersenne Primes
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
Encyclopeadia of Integer Sequences

Autograph lists
[Powers of 2, Pythag. triples, Primes/Mersenne, Factorials, Pascal's triangle]

TITLE	Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching
COMMENT	Provided by the University of Exeter, this site provides a variety of materials, both for teachers and pupils, to enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics.
LINK	http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/

TITLE	CTI Statistics
COMMENT	This is a free on line statistical resource centre - particularly useful for A level statistics??
LINK	http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/cti/index.html

TITLE	GCSE BITESIZE
COMMENT	Revision for GCSE mathematics - a version for KS3 will follow shortly so watch this space.
LINK	http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/gcsebitesize/maths/index.shtml

TITLE	Interactive Exam Revision
COMMENT	Revision guides and practice exam questions for GCSE Maths- well worth a visit.
LINK	http://www.logo.com/resources/IKS/subjects.htm

TITLE	MathsNet
COMMENT	I cannot recommend this site enough - teachers and students will find plenty to keep them gainfully occupied and interested….
LINK	http://www.anglia.co.uk/education/mathsnet/

TITLE	NRICH
COMMENT	One of my favourite sites with something for everybody - teachers and students will find plenty to keep them gainfully occupied and interested….and how delightful to see mathematics presented so well
LINK	http://www.nrich.maths.org.uk/

TITLE	QuickMath
COMMENT	QuickMath is an automated service for answering common math problems over the internet….a sort of online calculator that solves equations and does all sorts of algebra and calculus problems. Who needs mathematics teachers (only joking!!)
LINK	http://www.quickmath.com/

 

TITLE	Resources for the History of Mathematics:
COMMENT	Everything you need to know if you want some historical background to add a little bit more substance to your mathematics lessons.
LINK	http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/webresources.html

TITLE	UK National Lottery Winning Numbers
COMMENT	It probably won't improve your chances on the lottery but it certainly will provide you with lots of statistical information about the National Lottery winning numbers, jackpots and numbers of winners.
LINK	http://lottery.merseyworld.com/Winning_index.html

TITLE	UK Schools: Maths Resources
COMMENT	Maths puzzles, problems and resources for use in schools.
LINK	http://www.liv.ac.uk/~evansjon/maths/menu.html

MATHEMATICS MISCELLANY

TITLE	Ancient Greeks
COMMENT	Lots of information about the history of mathematics but this one takes a long time to load or is it just me?
LINK	http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/greece.html

TITLE	Autograph Home Page
COMMENT	A suite of interactive pages developed by Oundle School so it must be good. Some interesting information for you to view.
LINK	http://www.acorn.com/developers/autograph/

TITLE	Digits
COMMENT	Lots of fact, figures and interesting information about the various digits …but be very patient if you want to find out about the digit 6!!
LINK	http://www-personal.umich.edu/~brinck/digits/digits.html

TITLE	Egyptian Math
COMMENT	Some very informative work on Egyptian numbers….well worth a visit and you can even have a look at Egyptian fractions
LINK	http://www.vpds.wsu.edu/fair_95/gym/um130.html

TITLE	Eric's Treasure Trove of Mathematics
COMMENT	An online encyclopaedia of information about mathematics…describing itself as the most extensive on the internet…but be patient when you load this one.
LINK	http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~eww6n/math/math.html

TITLE	Fibonacci Numbers and Nature
COMMENT	A large collection of ideas, information and investigation - who would believe that Fibonacci numbers could be so interesting?
LINK	http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat.html

TITLE	Fractal Explorer
COMMENT	A tutorial on fractals - not for the faint hearted but some interesting graphics which really can help to bring the subject alive
LINK	http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/2854/

 

TITLE	Fun with Numbers
COMMENT	The site says that 'Number are Fun' and, after visiting this site, you might even be convinced about the fact.
LINK	http://newdream.net/~sage/old/numbers/

TITLE	Mandelbrot Explorer
COMMENT	Some very interesting graphics - lots of potential but the site is still being developed.
LINK	http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/mandel/mandel.html

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