MATHEMATICAL
EDUCATION

ENGLAND, WALES
and
NORTHERN IRELAND

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Online Eductational Press
Educational Guardian
Times Educational Supplement

Teachers.tv - available programs

ATM - The new MTi, launching 1st July 09!
- ATM FORUM - Resources online
- Fun with Google Earth (Douglas Butler, from MT July 2009)
- East Midlands Branch (with MA)
- Grid Algebra software

M.A.: home page
- East Midlands Branch (with ATM)

NANAMIC (FE Colleges) - FERL (FE Resources for Learning)
BSRLM (British Society for research into Learning Mathematics)

NCETM: National Centre of Excellence in Mathematics Teaching
- Mathemapedia (new WIKI for Mathematics Education)
- East of England events
- NCETM Management team
- Using Projection technology

QCA (Qualifications and Curriculum Authority - for England)
- Home page
- INCA study (Government policy on educatinon around the world)
- The STEM agenda (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)
- The new AS and A Levels
- The new GCSEs: Mathematics - Engineering - Statistics

OfQual (Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator)

The National strategies (England)
- Primary Mathematics
- Secondary Mathematics - Mathematics Framework - Learning Objectoves (Y7-Y11+)
- Functional Mathematics

National Curriculum (England)
- Mathematics: Key Stage 3 - Key Stage 4

Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education) - England
- Mathematics - Understanding the score (Report for ages 4-19, Sept 08)

TDA (Training and Development Agencey for Schools)
- Mathematics CDP programme

Graduate Teacher Training Registry (including PCGE/PGDE course search)

BECTa (British Educational Communications and Technology Agency)

MEI - home page [Mathematics in Education and Industry]
- MEI Further Maths Network
- MEI Online Resources for Mathematics (subscription site) -

Millenium Mathematics Project (Cambridge)
- MMP Risk Roadshow -

Nuffield Foundation: Mathematics for all Post-16
Royal Institution of Great Britain - events for Mathematics

GCSE, AS/A2 Exam Boards (England): AQA - EDEXCEL - OCR
Exam Solutions and links to Syllabuses (OCR/Edexcel: AS and A2)
GCSEs are changing! -

IGCSE and IGCSE Additional Mathematics
- from Cambridge University International Examinations
- from Edexcel International

Specialist Schools and Academies Trust - Mathematics and Computing
- TeachNetUK Maths pages
Increasing the Supply of Mathematical Sciences Graduates (Project)

ACME (Advisory Council on Mathematics Education)
BSRLM (Brit. Soc. for Research into Learning Mathematics)
AMET (Assoc. of Mathematics Education Teachers)
NAMA (Nat. Assoc. of Mathematics Advisers)

MATHEMATICAL
EDUCATION

WORLDWIDE

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International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO)
- IB MYP Curriculum (from International School of Basel, Switzerland)
- IB Standard and Higher Levels (from UWC SEA, Singapore)
- IB Higher Level (from Chinese International School, Hong Kong)
- IBMaths.com (Adrian Sparrow, International School of Penang, Malaysia)

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=> SCOTLAND - (Standard Grade and Higher Still)
SMC (Scottish Mathematical Council)
Scottish Secondary Curriculum (Mathematics, Applied Mathematics)
Scottish Qualifications Authority - Mathematics Arrangements (Syllabus documents)

Maths Room (Michael Aitchison, Invergordon Academy - Online interactive resources)
Mathematics Revision (Mr. Lafferty, St.Andrew's Sec., Glasgow - PDF and PPT files)

=> IRELAND
Mathematics Support Service ( Department of Education)

=> NORWAY
Norwegian Center for Mathematics Education (Trondheim)

=> SWEDEN
National Center for Mathematics Education (Gothenburg)

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=> AUSTRALIA - NEW ZEALAND
Australian Association of Math Teachers (AAMT)
- "You can do Maths" -

Mathematical Association of New South Wales (MANSW)
Mathematical Association of Victoria (MAV)
Mathematical Association of WA (MAWA)

International Centre of Excellence for Education in Mathematics (ICE-EM) -
- Melbourne Uni
New Zealand Assoc. of Maths Teachers (NZAMT)

=> CANADA
Montana Mathematics Enthusiast (MCTM)
Canadian Mathematical Society

=> CHINA
Chinese Academy of Sciences [CAS]

=> SINGAPORE
Association of Mathematics Educators (Singapore)

=> SOUTH AFRICA
AIMSSEC - (African Institute for Mathematical Studies Schools Enrichment Centre)
AMESA - (Association for Mathematics Education of South Africa)
IEB - (South Africa)

=> THAILAND
Institute for the Promotion of teaching Science and Technology [IPST]
- English site - Thai Mathematics Curriculum (pdf)

=> USA
American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Mathematical Assoc. of America (MAA)
- 'Convergence' online magazine
- Digital Library

National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
- 'Illuminations'
National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM)
National Mathematics Advisory Panel -

AP Central (Courses and resources)
- Calculus AB - Course Notes (Univ. of California)
- Calculus BC - Course Notes (Univ. of California)
- Statistics
- Physics B - Course Notes (Univ. of California)
- Physics C - Course notes (Univ. of California)

CLASSROOM RESOURCES

Resources from
UK

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CLASSROOM RESOURCES

UK SCHOOL-BASED
sites

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Maths is Fun (Stephen Froggatt, Oaks Park High School, Ilford) -
- YouTube video on Scatter Diagrams, using Autograph

Maths Teaching (from teacher, 'Maths Chick')
Maths Workout (Alastair Duncombe, Maidstone Grammar School for Girls) -

Mr Barton Maths by Craig Barton (Range High School, Formby, near Liverpool)
- Resources for teachers, pupils, parents, and'just for fun!
- Links to ESSENTIAL FREEBIES!

Maths is Good for you! (Snezana Lawrence, Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys) -
- Math-Mam Blog!
- The Langton Institute fir Young Mathematicians

MathsLearn (James Yates, Skegness Grammar School) - support service for teachers
- A level resources, puzzles, forum, tutorial service

RISPS - Rich Starting Points for A level (16-19) - The RISP E-book -
Making Statistics Vital
- from Jonny Griffiths, Paston College, Norfolk

PG Maths - Worksheets, notes and tests for GCSE, IGCSE, AS, A2, Further Maths
- from Paul Williams, Eton College [Edexcel syllabuses]

Meikleriggs Mathematics (Peter Mitchell, Newcastle)
- includes STEP mathematics resources, and solutions to MEI GCSE and A level papers

Norton-Knatchbull School (David Benjamin, Kent) -
Please collect some data from your classes and get the students to enter it on this
site - to the left of my picture 'Click here for the Data entry link' - password: 'apples'

Mark Dabbs (Wakefield Girls HS) - growing collection of Excel and other resources
Temple School Mathematics Dept (Rochester, Kent) many fascinating resources
St Peter's Collegiate Sch, Wolverhampton (Chris Sherrington) great classroom ideas
Maths Fun: (Francis Chalmers, Dereham Neatherd High School, Norfolk) -

Fiona Allan's Maths Pages (Godalming College) -
Tewskbury School - lots of resources and things to do -
Maths and Engineering in Action (Royal Navy) -

The PI FACTORY (David Whitfield, => Portland, Oregon, USA) -
Madras College Mathematics Dept (St Andrews, Scotland)
Wright Robinson Specialist College (Gorton, Manchester)

High School of Dundee (Scotland)

CLASSROOM RESOURCES

WORLDWIDE
sites

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=> AUSTRALIA

Mathematics and Science Careers videos (Flinders University, Adelaide) -

Resources from Melbourne University (Mathematics Education, Kaye Stacey)
- Teaching and Learning about Decimals (“Digital Dozen” award from ENC)
- Foundations for Teaching Arithmetic
- Teaching Mental and Written Computation
- CAS-CAT: Computer Algebra Systems: Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching
- RITEMATHS (Real World and IT Enhancing Mathematics)
- GridPic - free download for fitting maths to images

Resources from Bond University (Gold Coast, Queensland):
- Natural Maths (John Baker)
- Spreadsheets in Education (Steve Sugden) -

Resources from AAMT
- "You can do Maths" -

SMARD (Secondary Mathematics Resource Database)
Maths300 (Lessons on the Web)
Great Sea Shells! [Des Beechey, NSW]-

My Interactive Classroom (John Short, Tasmania)-
ITAM - Integrating Technology and Mathematics (Morris Needleman, Sydney)
Explorations in Maths: Indices and Logs (Rod Seldon, Sydney)

Maths On line (Pittsworth State HS, Queensland) + Geometry Forum - JOIN NOW!
MathXTC (St Stephen's School, Carramar, Westerm Australia)
Moreton Bay College - Maths Dept (Rodney Anderson)

=> AUSTRIA
Maths Online (University of Vienna): resources, tools, applets
CAS TIME (Marlene Torres-Skoumal, Vienna International School)
- Computer Algebra resources

=> BELGIUM
Pentomino - plane shapes from squares: have a go! - Competition site
- from the Katholiek Secundair Onderwijs Ronse

=> BULGARIA
Resources from Yordan Petrov: Math10
[Boldly claiming " to include the entire knowledge of mathematics in a single site"!]

=> CANADA
Eyeball - Estimating goemetric properties (from Matthias Wandel's woodworking site, Canada) -

Resources from Jill Britton, Camosun College, Victoria, BC
- Symmetry and Tessellations 30 Activities
- Fun with Curves & Topology: Topics 1-12 - Topics 13-18
- The occurrence of Conics
- Escher in the Classroom - Polyhedra Pastimes

Appetizers and Lessons for Math and Reason
- 150 web pages and on-line texts, by Alan Selby (CAM Internet, Montreal)
MathLove - launching May 2004
Mathematics Magazine (Grades 1-12) - Aurora, Toronto, Ontario [by subscription]

=> CHINA
Whistler Alley Mathematics (Paul Kunkel, Hong Kong) -

Arthur Lee's Resources Mathbook (Educ. Dept, Hong Kong University)
David Surowski's Math Dept pages (Shanghai American School)

=> ESTONIA
EquMath - math lessons from Algebra to Differential Equations!

=> FRANCE
Coniques [de Figues Animée pour la Physique, Geneviève Tulloue, Grenoble Uni]
M@ths en Prép@ Comprehensive resources site from the Lycée du Park, Lyon
Le Kangourou des Mathematics - Le Chat Bleu

=> GERMANY
Compass and Ruler (free Java program from Rene Grothmann)
- and some other mathematical java programs
Spirals -

=> INDIA
Number Recreations (Shyam Sunder Gupta, Chief Engineer, South Eastern Railway)

=> ITALY
The 5 Regular Polyhedra (Dynamic applets)

=> JAPAN
Mathematical JAVA applets
Nearly 300 applets, mostly on geometry, trigonometry and calculus

=> MACEDONIA (+ USA, Australia)
Cool School Tools (Whiteboard Movies)
Calculus Movies by Tim Falhberg (Washington USA), Graeme MacNeil (Queensland)
and Linda Falhberg-Stojanovska (Macedonia) [several using Autograph]

=> NETHERLANDS
Freudenthal Institute (Utrecht University)
- home - Wisweb: Applets (grades 7 - 12)

=> PERU
Geometry step-by-step (Antonio Gutierrez)
- The Landscape of Geometrical Terms
- Experiencing Geometry (David Henderson)

=> PORTUGAL
Puzzles with polyhedra and numbers (Jorge Rezende, Universidade de Lisboa)

=> SOUTH AFRICA
Superb resources collected by Stephen Sproule (St John's College, Johannesburg)
- MathsNews from around the world
- Maths Problems of the Week - Elementary, Middle, High School, Advanced

=> SPAIN
Triangle Geometry (Ricardo Barroso Campos, Universidad de Sevilla)

=> SWITZERLAND
The web Mathematica-project (Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences)

=> UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Experiment and Explore Mathematics (Java Applets from UAE University)

CLASSROOM RESOURCES

USA sites

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MATHEMATICAL
ENTERTAINMENT

GAMES

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Interactive Mathematics, Miscellany and Puzzles (Cut-the-Knot)
Unsolved Mathematical Problems (Wolfram Research)
Puzzles Codes and Cyphers (CIMT, Plymouth Uni)

Math is Fun! (Rod Pierce, USA) -
- Spanish version

Nim - Pearl3 Flash Animation!
Jon Ingram's blog report from TSM 2007:"Winning and losing at NIM"

Andrew Jeffrey - The Mathematical Magician -
- Home - Newsletter (sign up for monthly email of great ideas and links)

Colin Wright - The Juggling Mathematician -
- Home (Maths, Design, Juggling, Computing) - Colin
- Juggling

Nick's Mathematical Puzzles (Nick Hobson, UK)
Mastermind + Set Games (Arizona) + Delphi Programs
Games List (Madras College)

Math Magic tricks (Many worksheets to download, Bob Greenlee, USA)
Pass the Pigs (Gary Kramer)
Subtangent - Millionaire, Countdown, etc

Combination Lock puzzle
Puzzles.com - Puzzle links
20 Questions - play against the computer!

=> CSF Software (Chris Farmer)
'Countdown' for Maths
'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' - for maths AND a game designer
10 quick questions - Word search creator, etc

MATHEMATICAL
ENTERTAINMENT

NUMBER

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=> FIBONACCI and the GOLDEN RATIO
Ron Knott: Introduction - Nature - Golden Section
Gary Meisner: The Golden Number

=> SIMON SINGH BBC Broadcasts (Radio 4)
Five Numbers (0, PI, PHI, i, INFINITY) [Mar 02]
Another Five Numbers (4, 7, Largest Prime, Kepler's Conjecture, Game Theory) [Oct 03]
A further Five Numbers (1, 2, 6, 6.67 x 10^-11, 1729) [Aug 05]
Simon's Newsletter

=> PI
42 Explore "PI"
Wolfram Mathworld: "PI"
Simon Singh "Five Numbers" 2 (PI) - Listen

"PI - sing it!!" [from 'You're the Man Now, Dog']
How Random is PI? (BBC, David Whitehouse)
Buffon's Needle - estimate for PI - Java Applet

PI - the Movie (1998)

=> PRIME NUMBERS and INTEGERS, etc
Integer Lists to full accuracy
[Powers of 2, Pythag. triples, Primes/Mersenne, Factorials, Pascal's triangle]
Mersenne Primes - The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search

Casting out the Nines (Flash Mind-reader game) - [new location]
The Prime Pages (Chris Caldwell, University of Tennise, Martin)

Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Names for large numbers (Russ Rowlett, N Carolina)
Prime factors of any integer (up to 18 digits)

=> POWERS of 10, and SPACE!
Powers of 10 A tree in Florida from 10^23 metres down to 10^–16 (39 images)
- Powersof 10 Teaching resources
- Powers of 10 video (10^24 metres down to 10^–16)-

Universcale (Nikon) Miscellaneous objects from 1027 metres to 10^–15 (45 categories) -
How Big is the Earth? [from the Planets to Antares!!] -
Celestia (free space simulation, by Chris Laurel) -

Hotel Infinity

MATHEMATICAL
ENTERTAINMENT

ART

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=> GENERAL
Ruth Carver's Internet Math Projects
Benford's Law (from Plus Maths, Issue 9 Sept 99)
Flatland (Edwin Abbott 1838-1926, text only)

Donald in Mathmagic Land (Disney, 1959 26 min. Preview to download)
Graph Paper printer!

=> TRANSPORT FUN
Maiden flight of the Boeing 747 (1969)
Mathematical error caused loss of Mars spacecraft (1999)
Airbus 380

=> ART and FRACTALS
Math Art Gallery
Esher's 'Waterfall' (1938)
Math and Music connections (from zZounds.com, USA) -

Grotesque Geometry (Tessellations, from Andrew Crompton, Manchester) \
The Fractal Microscope (Java Simulation)
Fractal Landscapes (Adam Brown)

Fractals (elementary/middle schools) by Cynthia Lanius, Rice University (Houston)
Mathematically inspired art (Mary Rouncefield) -
Xoas Fractal Generator (to download)

MATHEMATICAL
ENTERTAINMENT

MOVIES

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=> YOU-TUBE Mathematical Videos
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge
- London to Brighton in 2 Minutes
- Tom Lehrer: New Math

- Dominoes Pool
- Ma and Pa Kettle Math (1949): [25/5 = 14!] (4Mb)
- Abbott and Costello 'In The Navy' (1941): [28/7 = 13!]
- [from Math in the Movies] or YouTube

- 'e' and 'PI' ... and 'i'
- The Dot and the Line
- 'I will Derive' [parody of 'I will survive']

- Disturbing trends in Math skills (Washington State Uni)
- Did you know? (from a Colorado High School)
- Harry Potter 1 (Hedwig's theme) - Harry Potter font

- YouTube Maths selection from Craig Barton (Range HS, Formby)

=> Movie Search Engines
- VideoSurf (finds from all possible sources)
- Blinkx (over 35 million hours of video!)
- Mathematics and Science Careers videos (Flinders University, Adelaide)

=> MATHEMATICS and the MOVIES
Apple Movie Trailers:
- Toy Story 2 - Finding Nemo - Shrek 2 - Ice Age 2
Lord of the Rings Teaching resources

Math in the Movies - Stand & Deliver: totally based on fact.
Mathematics in Movies (collection from Oliver Knill, Harvard)
Math from The Simpsons!
Numb3rs (CBS tv)

Flatland - the movie

MATHEMATICAL
ENTERTAINMENT

Competitions
and
History

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MATHEMATICAL
ENTERTAINMENT

Bits & bobs

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MATHEMATICAL
ENTERTAINMENT

PRIMARY FUN

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=> ICT for PRIMARY MATHEMATICS (ages 5-11)
Standards Site (England, 2000)
Ancient Egypt

Math Exercises for Kids (from Nelsy, USA) -

Fun with Tables
- Pop Lock and Learn - MySpace

Top Marks - fun and games - NIM
Kidsweb - resources and search engine for kids!
Create a Graph (NCES- National Centre for Educational Statistics)

Shambles list of Primary Mathematics resources
NRICH: Online Maths Club - Tiers: 1(age 6-12), 2(8-14)

TUTPUP!; Play - Compete - Learn (form Mind Candy Ltd, Battersea, London) -
Integer Lists to full accuracy

Ambleside Primary School (The Lake District, UK)
- Ambleweb Numeracy hour (Pupil's online creations)
- Links with Alice Springs Schools of the Air (Australia)

PROBABILITY
& STATISTICS

DATA

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=> DATA SETS [there are further data resources on the Useful Files page]

UK Census @ School project:
Census at School - Random Data Selector
- data from UK, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand
- RSS Centre Review of Handling Data in GCSE
ExperimentsAtSchool - SurveyAtSchool

Conker Statistics - Brad Payne (Oxfordshire) - online surveys
CIA Fact Book

Australian Census sites:
- Census online (Australia) - South Australian data - Sampler
- Australia CensusAtSchoool (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
- Exploring Data

Numeracy in the News (1991 - 2001)
DASL: USA Data and Story Library (1996 - a bit old now, but still good data)
OzDASL (Univ of Queensland)
The Data Library (Math Forum)

Historical Weather data (UK)
Wind stats from around the world
Names and their history

Who drives on the LEFT and who on the RIGHT?
Athletics World Records
Sports Data (xls) - World Population Data (xls)

General World Statistics (from the amazing infoplease.com)
Demographic statistics (incl. up to minute world pop.)
Data from UN, by country (Only 6 countries at a time)

Google Gapminder (dynamic country statistics) by Hans Rosling (Sweden)
- Explanatory video from TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design - USA)

Global Carbon Emissions - animated, by countries

UK Lotto [useful data on "All Winning Numbers" page]
UK Premier Football results and statistics
UK National Statistics
Datasets from Bryan Dye's MathsNet

Schoenfield's List of Data Archives (Oxford University)
US Statistics Reference Database
(NCES- National Centre for Educational Statistics)

World Bank: Data - by topic - by country

Data sets complied by CIMT (Exeter Uni)
IDS (International Data Base) - World Statistics
- Population Pyramids, by country (US Census Bureau)
Fact Files from Carel Press (subscription)

PROBABILITY
& STATISTICS

TEACHING

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=> UK
UK-schools m@ths links (Diana Rolf)
Exeter University CIMT list of sources

=> Specialist Schools Trust:
- Maths Links
- The Maths Zone (Chris Olley, MMI Consultants)

=> AUSTRALIA
Wardy's Maths Webpage (Mark Ward, Flinders University, Adelaide)-
Interactive Maths resources for IWBs (Rex Boggs, Queensland)
Barry Kissane's home page (Perth, WA)

Mike Shepperd's High School mathematics resources (Brisbane)
SMARD - Secondary Mathematics Resource Database (Queensland)
Maths Internet Guide ( Dr Boris Handal)

=> AUSTRIA
Vienna International School: The VIS Math Web
SunSITE Austria (Spreadsheets+Music, Erich Neuwirth - Univ of Vienna)
ISMTF (International Schools Mathematics Teachers Federation)

=> CHINA
Chinese International School, Hong Kong (Maths Dept)

=> SINGAPORE
United World College of South East Asia

=> THAILAND
'Shambles' (for Far East International Schools)
- Mathematics Newsletter

=> USA
Ruth Carver's Mathematics Web Sites
MathSoft Links
Kathy Schrock's Math Pages
Education Index Math list Images and Mathematics list
AMS: Mathematics on the Web
Some Cool Math Links

Links2Go: Mathematics (+ keyword search)
Mrs Glosser's Math Goodie