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links checked 8/10/2004 Alvirne High School. Alvirne High School's in Hudson, N.H. calculus class invites you to join them in their preparation for the AP exam. The site contains Alvirne's and guest problems of the week, and archives for Alvirne, guest, and student problems with solutions. Included also are sample multiple choice AP calculus questions and solutions, student and teacher calculus resources on the Web, and general information about AP exam. Brain Exerciser. Brain Exerciser offers a variety of math riddles from beginning to advanced levels for high school students and AP classes. Many of the puzzles include hints. 21st Century Problem Solving. 21st Century Problem Solving for the high school math class contains a step-by-step procedure for solving problems in algebra, physics, and chemistry. To find an encylopedia of problems across the curriculum, click on solved. The page also includes a list of related sites for teaching problem solving Fibonacci Puzzles. Fibonacci puzzles, for high school students, is a collection of puzzles involving Fibonacci numbers taken from Ron Knott's home page entitled Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section. Forum Interactive Projects. Forum Interactive Projects is a collection of math sites featuring online help, problems, and projects for students and teachers in grades 3-12. Ask Dr. Math site, organized by elementary school, middle school, and high school level, invites you to email your math questions and includes an archive of previous questions and answers to a variety of math topics for each level. Elementary Problem of the Week site provides weekly a non-routine math problem and past solutions. Project of the Month site features monthly a geometry project with activities and a list of past projects and solutions. Problem of the Week site offers weekly a geometry problem and past problems and solutions. Each site provides rules for submitting your solution via email.Games, Games, Games. 9th Grade Math Proficiency Test. 9th Grade Math Proficiency Test provides 39 multiple choice questions which can be used in grades 9-12 as an online tutorial for improving a student's math skills. Each answer (item) has an explanation as to why it is incorrect, and each incorrect answer (item) will then ask another question to see if you have understood the concepts of the question. For a similiar test in basic algebra and geometry skills, try questions 1-5. Houghton Mifflin's Brain Teasers. Houghton Mifflin provides weekly brain teasers that are grouped in categories for grades 3-8. Each teaser includes a hint and its answer appears the following week. Also, each category includes an archive of past puzzles. Jim Wilson's Home Page/Server. Jim Wilson's Home Page/Server provides analyses and solutions to algebra and geometry problems for high school teachers and students.. You can find the problems presented in Jim Wilson's papers and in the student papers in his various courses. Math Education. K-12 Math Education at the University of Central Florida features a problem of the week contest and a elementary brain teaser of the week contest. The problem of the week site includes a list of previous problems. 5 Math Line Puzzles. 5 Math Line Puzzles feature five online puzzles, each with the question, suggested materials, an illustrated procedure, and a link to check understanding, a link providing a hint, and a link to the solution. Mathematical Games and Recreations. Mathematical games and recreations, for advanced high school math students, is a collection of famous puzzles which are associated with the most illustrious mathematicians in history. They include number games, geometrical puzzles, network problems, and combinatorial problems. MathMagic. MathMagic, developed in El Paso,Texas is a math competition project in which K-12 students can collaborate with other via the Internet to solve math problems. The site contains an archive of current and past challenges organized by four categories. Math Problems & Puzzles. Math Problems & Puzzles, for K-12, is Math Forum's huge annotated index of math problems and puzzles collected from many Internet sources. Maze Maker. Maze Maker, created by John Lauro, lets students generate intricate mazes based on mathematical properties. Students in grades 6-12 enter different numbers and see how these influence their mazes. Nancy Casey. Nancy Casey presents online instructions for making the instant insanity and the Penrose rhombs puzzles. In addition, she provides information and clever puzzles for exploring knot theory in grades 5-8. For more online resources about knots, click on knots on the Web. Open Problems. Open Problems, presented by Nancy Casey from MegaMath, are unsolved problems in math that lack rigorous proof and are still open to investigation. Nancy includes a problem in knot theory about a closed circular braid, the four color problem , and the degree/diameter problem, referred to as the three for the money. Nancy encourages students in grades 6-12 to share their open problems. Puzzling Things. Puzzling Things offers a weekly conundrum, answers to previous conundrums, a box puzzle, and a list of puzzle sites for high school students. Quandaries and Queries. Quandaries and Queries, provided by the University of Regina for K-12 students and teachers, will try to solve any nagging math problem or question and provide information on something your curious about in math. You can also browse through the database of questions other people have asked, or search by keyword. Refrigerator Math. Refrigerator Math, provided by Houghton Mifflin, is a collection of math puzzles organized by grade level (K-6). Word Problems for Kids. Word Problems for Kids, maintained at St. Francis Xavier University in Canada, contains a large collection of word problems for students and teachers in grades 5-12. Each problem includes a hint and the answer. These pages has links to many sites related to math. If you have any corrections or additional information please email NUA. The pages are arranged by the following categories. Ideas and Activities A - L |
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