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The Geometry Forum Newsletter
Spring 1995, page 1
The Geometry Forum grows on the Web --
What's new and useful for teachers at our site?
There are riches in the Internet ocean, but extracting them is no mean feat, which is why our team of professional surfers is working hard on your behalf to locate and organize them for you. The goods are on display in our Internet Resources Collection, fondly known as Steve's Dump. If the Geometry Forum is not reason enough to bring your school on the Internet, then take a look at this infinitesimally small sample of what else is available.
- History of Mathematics:
The School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences of the University of St. Andrews hosts a site containing the biographies of more than 1,000 mathematicians, about 200 of them fairly detailed and at least 300 accompanied by pictures of the mathematicians themselves. Other interesting features are a Birthplace Map linked to the biographies and a collection of additional good web sources of information concerning the history of mathematics. Clark University has also developed a very rich math history resource.
- Lesson Plans:
ERIC, BigSky, and the University of Kansas all host extensive collections of lesson plans for K12 math classrooms, as well as for other subjects.
- Problems:
The Internet Problem Center has collected in one place the many archives of math prob-lems on the Internet, including problems from contests such as the Putnam and the All-Soviet-Union competitions, 1961Ð1987. A number of newsgroups on the Internet such as rec.puzzles and sci.math have also archived the most famous or popular of the many appearing there.
- Projects:
MegaMath, a project run out of Los Alamos National Laboratory, brings important mathematical ideas to elementary classrooms, making it possible for children to play with new discoveries in math and big concepts such as infinity, knots, map coloring, and graph theory. There are also interdisciplinary projects such as CoVis and Alice (TERC) which integrate math and science, providing visualization, data manipulation, and collaboration software linking K12 students around the country.
This is not even the tip of the iceberg. Many commercial entities such as Scholastic, CNN, and Key Curriculum Press have established online presences, and there's no end to what is available for teachers.
We keep it all organized for you. Our Internet collection is searchable and twice a month we publish a list of recent additions. For those who prefer to browse, the collection has five main sections: math resources, general education resources, information on the tools and structure of the Internet, reference sources and other subjects of interest to educators, and search tools for the various types of Internet archives.
So come on and hang ten!
The sites mentioned here can all be found in the Math and Education sections of the collection. Look for Lessons and Projects on the Internet.
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