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Fun maths... or less horrible maths |
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| A game-a-day |
Online maths games. One for each day of the year. |
| Cool Maths |
A maths amusement park. |
| Count On |
Voted best free online learning resource. Games, maths magnet, numberland and much more. Fun site from the National Grid for Learning. |
| Curious and useful maths |
Some really useful stuff here, including invaluable tricks and rules for quickly calculating certain types of maths problems. Impress your classmates. There are also some entertaining trivia and math facts that are nice to slip into casual conversation. Some of it's Useful and some of it's Curious. Which is which, though, is up to you. |
| Disaster maths |
Games and puzzles based on earthquakes, hurricanes, wild fires, floods and tornadoes from Fema for Kids. |
| Figure this |
Maths challenges for families. |
| Funbrain |
Hit out as Funbrain bowls fast and furious. |
| Maths is fun |
The classic fun site. Seriously lots of stuff in all the key areas at key stages 3 and 4. Lots of supportive materials. A good start for those who who simply know that maths is horrible, really, really horrible, I mean horrible do you hear!... but who still have an open mind, or just hope. |
| Mathemusements |
Quirky articles from the award-winning writer and mathematician Ivans Peterson. |
| Fun with numbers |
Award winning site for anarchist mathematicians. Cool. Wicked. Awesome. Rather good actually. What is the latest word? Suitable for the older pupil or more able and interested pupil. |
| 1000 fun maths problems |
It is what it says. |
| Maths movies |
Moving maths puzzles. |
| Grand illusions |
Wierd illusions |
| Maths Plus |
All round excellent web site with puzzles, book reviews, film reviews (!). Justified award winner. |
| Maths Plus puzzles |
An example of some of the puzzles from Maths Plus. There's lot more if you search. |
| Megamaths |
Problem solving for 7 to 9-year-olds from the BBC. Interactive help on shapes, transformations, mirror lines and lots on times tables in a hands-on site. |
| Woodlands maths zone |
Great interactive site for children in the last year of primary school and first couple at secondary school. |
| MathsSphere |
Good interactive site for children and parents alike with lots of things to do and good maths... but the site does require you to run Flash and have a better than average system. Otherwise it can be slow to use. |
| MathsZone |
An interactive role-play maths adventure game from Channel 4. Ben and Mai have been kidnapped by two bank robbers and taken to a castle on an island while the robbers plan the final stage of their getaway. You can help Ben and Mai to escape and reach the local police station in time to stop the robbers. It will take about 10 minutes to complete all four challenges. It's not easy but there are clues in the story as it unfolds. |
| Nrich |
One of the classic maths sites, from the government-funded National Grid for Learning. Well worth time to explore for the more serious or able student. Includes an online maths club. Challenging puzzles from primary onwards. Problems, solutions, thesaurus and lots, lots more. After five years NRICH has thousands of members from 100 countries and many more regular users. Everything is free. School students, teachers and those professionally involved in education are welcome to join. On the first of each month (except August and January) the site provides new magazines for school students of all ages with an emphasis on mathematical activity. NRICH publishes children's solutions to mathematical challenges. NRICH provides an answering service and many special interest discussion groups. |
| Puzzle playground |
Loads of puzzles |
| Ruths maths problems |
Project to explore the potential of the internet for teaching maths. Puzzles and topic specific puzzles and problems plus lots of teaching resources. Not an instant fun site, but lots of stuff here with some patient exploration. |
| Mrs Glosser's maths goodies |
Interactive math lessons, homework help, worksheets, puzzles, forums, and more! More than 400 pages of free maths activities and resources for students, teachers, and parents. US site. |
| Kevin's playroom |
Award-winning revision site covering a multitude of subjects. Lots of links on all subjects, including maths. |
| Maths in daily life |
Answers to the frequent question... why do we need to do this? |
| Plane maths |
Maths and aeronautics in co-operation with the US space agency NASA. All the activities are based around flying and aeroplanes. Some activites need Shockwave. |
| Planetarium |
A puzzle story in 12 weekly instalments, each story has one number puzzle, one word puzzle and one general puzzle. Over the 12 weeks the 36 puzzles are the clues to the major puzzle in the story. |
| Rick's maths web |
US-based maths site with more than 4,800 math problems for students pre-nursery to secondary school who need help learning to count, writing numbers, understanding place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, prime numbers, composite numbers, least common multiples, greatest common factors, factoring whole numbers, fractions and lots more. Lots of practice sheets. |
| Mega maths |
A site for children written by research mathematicians at the US Los Alamos National Laboratory in California. Mathematics is a live science with new discoveries being made every day. The frontier of mathematics is an exciting place, where mathematicians experiment and play with creative and imaginative ideas. Many of these ideas are accessible to young children. Others (infinity is a good example) are ideas that have already piqued many children's curiosity, but their profound mathematical importance is not widely known or understood. The MegaMath project is intended to bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to elementary school classrooms so that young people and their teachers can think about them together. All of the activities involve hands-on exploration, and lots of opportunities for mathematical thinking, problem-solving and communication. All of the topics are live, important areas of current mathematical research. When mathematicians consider these subjects, they do just what you will be doing---wrestling with interesting ideas, and having that special kind of fun that comes from tenacious and satisfying thinking. |
| Maths baseball |
Take a swing at the maths problem pitch and hit a home run. |
| Maths magic |
Graded challenges aimed at helping pupils develop their problem solving skills. You download files with the challenges, so not interactive. |
| Pi in the Sky |
Online maths magazine written for high school maths students in Canada with articles, jokes, challenges and puzzles. |
| Problem of the week |
Lists web sites with problems of the week. |
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| The wonder of maths |
The wonder of maths from one of the best all-round maths sites. Highly recommended for fun, games and homework help and revision. US site... so no "s" on the end of math! Games, knots, mazes, roman numeral calculator, fractals, tesselations and much more with links to study guides, formulae and tables, references. |
| Maths mistakes |
Lots of examples illustrating how advertisers, politicians, newspapers, TV and others misuse maths and get it all wrong. Pages of puzzles too. |
| Common misconceptions and mistakes |
Common mistakes often made in maths... and how not to make them any more. |
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| Easy maths |
For those who hate maths, but want or need to make the best of a painful chore. This site includes GCSE tutorials, exam-type questions, a practice room and reference materials as well as some curious maths, games and puzzles.
For the rest of us, we have to slog away at maths, not knowing how it really works, spewing out formulas in exams at random and ending up with pretty mediocre marks. The aim of Easymaths is to put a stop to all this and reveal the secrets of maths in a way that is easy to understand and to make maths a challenge rather than a chore.
If you take in all of the secrets in these pages then you'll be achieving much more than a pass grade. Try to treat the pages as a voyage of discovery, if you really hate maths - give the site a chance. Have a browse around and you may be surprised at how much of maths can be used in everyday life. |
| Eric's treasure of maths |
A comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia intended for students, educators, math enthusiasts, and researchers. Like the vibrant and constantly evolving discipline of mathematics, this site is continuously updated to include new material and incorporate new discoveries. Impressive in its scope and detail. A ture treasury for those who like maths. |
| Unsolved maths problems |
Solve one and make yourself famous! These are not puzzles. This is for the next Andrew Wiles (and if you need to ask who he is... then this is not the site for you). |
| Loads and loads of puzzles from Exeter University |
Exeter University has developed this site as an experiment in delivering innovative maths teaching via the web. Lots of puzzles... plus almost complete materials for the entire curriculum from year 7 through to year 10. Well worth hours of browsing. |
| Hotel Infinity |
A mathematical story. |
| Clever Puzzles For Clever People |
With practice "clever" could mean you! Just play these games and try to win. As you understand the games and become expert at playing them, you will be building tools for understanding numbers and becoming an expert at playing with them. |
| Cut the knot |
Interactive maths puzzles and number games plus lots to help aspiring mathematicians. Lots to find here. Learning starts from wondering, this site is a resource for things, simple but curious, related to mathematics. |
| Maths challenge |
Challenges at different levels including code breaking "dedicated to the puzzling world of mathematics". |
| Math Forum |
US site for the more serious student. Not the easiest to get round quickly, but a useful resource. Puzzles and problems are of a serious nature. Not a fun site. |
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Numbers, big small and magic |
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| Constants and equations |
Good reference point for that maths fact you just can't quite remember. |
| Fibonacci, nature's numbers |
The definitive site on the sequence of numbers that is everwhere in nature... from breeding rabbits to the patterns in a pine cone or snail shell or a cauliflower. |
| Fibonacci by school students |
Fibonacci explained... by students like you. Very impressive. |
| The Golden section, perfect proportions |
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The simple mathematical shape of perfect proportions that has inspired artists down the ages from the face of the Mona Lisa to contemporary artists such as Mondrian. |
| Famous maths numbers |
Everything you wanted to know about the numbers that come up again and again and again.... forever. Pi, e and other constants. |
| Pi |
The food of mathematicians. |
| Pi, everything you ever wanted to know |
For the really hungry. |
| The Integrator |
The power to do integrals online, including a useful history of integration from Archimedes onwards plus examples of how vital integration is in the modern world. |
| Census at school |
A schools project spanning continents. Schools make available statistics and facts about themselves. A good source of live data for projects. |
| The Prime Pages |
A prime site ha ha! Good source for everything to do with prime numbers. |
| The first 2000 primes and lots and lots more |
One of the many useful bits from the impressive site of Oundle School... look wider. The links page is particularly useful. |
| Mersenne primes |
Thirty-eight have been discovered so far. The latest is 26972593 -1 which has 2,098,960 digits! The history plus everything on these special prime numbers. You too can join the search for more at GIMPS, the great internet prime search. |
| Help to find Mersenne primes |
GIMPS, the great internet prime search. Only 38 Mersenne primes have been found.... and there's an infinity of them. Find number 39 and earn a place in every maths journal in the world. |
| Pythagoras |
Who? |
| Pythagoras in depth |
39 proofs of this most famous of all theorems plus more history and background. Some use maths symbols, others words and others are just proofs without words, intuitive pictures. |
| Sequences |
An online encyclopaedia of number sequences. |
Art and maths |
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| The beautiful pictures of maths, fractals |
The real beauty of maths. |
| Loads on fractals |
Links galore to fractal galleries of all sorts plus explanations... from the simple to the absolutely frightening. |
| The art of Bridget Riley |
![]() Bridget Riley was a prominent artist of the op art movement in the 1960s and 70s. She has continued her explorations in the study of light colour and space in this way and is still one of the UK's top artists. This site shows how you can create your own mathematical op art. Also features techniques used by the French artist Victor Vasarely. |
| Maths and art |
Is art maths? Is maths art? Answer: Both. |
| Maths, art and music from Math Archives |
Excellent list of links on maths, art and music. Goes much further than the mind-blowing drawings of Escher. Lots of other links to maths topics too. |
| Escher, mathematician or artist? |
Escher: The mathematician's artist. The artist's mathematician. Genius. |
| Geometry in art and architecture |
Comprehensive overview of the role of geometry in art and architecture. |
| Mondrian |
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| Hops Tiles |
Contemporary artists are pushing the boundaries of patterns, tessellations and art... inspired by Escher, but art of today. Lots of links to other stuff on art and maths today. |
| Music in numbers |
Turn numbers into music. Free software to create fractal music. |
| The sound of mathematics |
Weird. Listen to the sounds of Pi, Pascal's triangle and the prime numbers... |
| Tessellations from Thinkquest |
How to tile your bathroom with style. |
| Maths in the Movies |
![]() How Bruce Willis and Sam Jackson in Die Hard: With a Vengeance use a five gallon jug of water and a three gallon jug to keep a bomb from exploding... plus lots more movie maths. Films rated both for action and maths. |
| Pictures and patterns -- Maths Archives |
Mathematics is the art of patterns. With computers many of the most complex patterns can be turned into beautiful pictures. Fractals, knots, pictures of chaos, surfaces beyond the third dimension! This site gives as good a comprehensive list of links to sites with pictures of patterns as I've found. Don't be put off by the names and of the sites, click away and find some beautiful poictures. Many of the linked sites also give the maths behind the patterns... it is beautiful maths, but truly of the most horrendous, horrible proportions. Admire the pictures, leave the maths till you get a professorship at the Massachusetts Instutute of Technology. |
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World maths, very old, old and new |
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For more details on the maths from these countries see the links below... there you can find out how the Babylonians used the number 60, how the Indians were hundreds and thousands of years ahead of Pythagoras... and much, much more.
There's no evidence, for instance, to show that Pythagoras had anything to do with the theorem that takes his name (he did plenty of other stuff to deserve the honour), but there is evidence to show the Indians and Chinese at least were well there long before.
And it is a human story written often by brilliant people... but people with flesh and blood feelings, people with foibles, people who fell in love, felt jealousy, obsession, worry, fear as well as having insight and burning passion and the keys to changing the world.
And frequently the gifted mathematicians were the unsung ordinary people — look at the patterns on the rugs across the world, woven by poor and often illiterate women, but containing and passing on mathematical truths. Look at the number skills of the itinerant traders of the world. Marvel at the Pyramids, designed as well as built by nameless slaves.
As good a start as any is the Maths history web site developed by St Andrews University in Scotland. Well worth clicking your way through its many links. |
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| Today's mathematician |
Biographies of mathematicians who were born or died on this date, plus lots more maths history from the University of St Andrews.
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| The Abacus Index |
One of the oldest calculators used from China, to Africa to Russia and beyond. Tests and competitions have shown that an Abacus can be quicker than the latest electronic calculator.
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| The Abacus |
A brief history from the impressive cut-the-knot.com |
| African maths |
The first evidence of counting was found in Africa. But African maths has largely been ignored since... until now. |
| Ancient African maths |
Most histories of mathematics devote only a few pages to Ancient Egypt and to northern Africa during the 'Middle Ages´. Generally they ignore the history of mathematics in Africa south of the Sahara and give the impression that this history either did not exist or, at least, is not knowable, traceable, or, stronger still, that there was no mathematics at all south of the Sahara. In history, to Europeans, even the Africanity of Egyptian mathematics is often denied or suffers eurocentric views of conceptions of both 'history' and of 'mathematics' form the basis of such views. Contrary to the popular view, one can neither racially or geographically separate Egyptian civilization from its black African roots. |
| African mathematicians |
Biographies of mathematicians of the African diaspora, their triumphs and tribulations. |
| American Mathematical Society |
Some helpful links for school students. |
| The Mathematical Association of America |
A bit wordy, but some interesting articles within the grasp of the interested secondary student. See also USA |
| Arabic maths |
Arab and Moslem mathematicians guarded and developed the world's storehouse of mathematical knowledge through the Middle Ages. |
| Babylonian maths |
5,000-year-old maths. The days of the year, hours, minutes and seconds based on the Babylonian number 60 are just some of the Babylonian legacy that still survives. The 360 degrees around the circle is another legacy. And they could do fractions a lot easier than how we do them. |
| Caribbean maths |
Biographies of Caribbean mathematicians. |
| Chinese maths |
A not-so brief history of Chinese maths. |
| Chinese magic squares |
The history and maths of Chinese magic squares |
| Chinese numbers |
The history Chinese numbers, from counting rods onwards. |
| Chinese number converter |
Type in a number... and see the Chinese equivalent. |
| Chinese pythagoras |
The Pythagoras theorem... as discovered in China. Ancient Chinese maths from the Chou Pei. |
| Egyptian maths |
The history of ancient Egyptian maths. |
| Egyptian hieroglyphics |
Egyptian numbers and hieroglyphics. |
| The Eye of Horus, Egyptian fractions |
The hidden fractions within the Eye of Horus. |
| The Pyramids |
Find the height and weight of the Great Pyramid from the British Museum site with lots of Egyptian activities. |
| Greek maths |
Golden rectangles and the golden ratio phi figured in Greek maths and Greek architecture. |
| Inca maths |
Maths from the ancients who understood the principles of relational databases, constructed from coloured knotted strings, before the modern computer was a twinkle on a chip. |
| Indian maths |
Maths from the continent that seems to have thought of it all before anyone else. |
| A tour of Indian maths |
A great summary of the history of Indian maths and how to calculate the indian way. |
| Indian mathematicians |
Including the greatest mathematician of all time, Ramanujan... a rail clerk from Madras. |
| Indian Vedic maths |
Ancient maths techniques which many still find easier than many modern techniques... as well as inspirational. |
| Indian Vedic maths formulae |
In Vedic times, it is believed, math formulae were often taught within the context of spiritual expression (mantra). Thus while learning spiritual lessons, one could also learn maths. Details of the 16 "Sutras", Vedic maths formulae plus lots more about Hinduism and maths. |
| I love maths, Vedic-style |
For school students in India, featuring excellent materials on Vedic maths. |
| Mayan maths |
Ancient maths from the mountains of what is now called Peru. |
| Roman maths |
Roman numeral converter. |
| USA maths -- The Algebra Project |
Details of The Algebra Project, uniting maths education, students, teachers and communities to build a maths culture particularly among African-American communities to achieve economic and civil right equality. Initiated by civil rights activists of the 1960s based on organising techniques learned during the black voter registration struggles of Mississippi. Maths with politics and attitude. |
Revision and help |
| Ask Dr Math |
This is a highly-popular, high-quality maths question answering site run by Swarthmore College in the USA as part of the Math Forum. |
| Dave's maths tables |
Comprehensive reference tables covering numbers, algebra, geometry, trogonometry and more. Maths discussion area. |
| Edexcel's formula book |
Download all of the formulae needed for Edexcel exams. Edexcel is the examination board used by Southgate School.You will need Acrobat reader.If you have not got Acrobat Reader then get it (free!) from here
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| Edexcel's support page |
Help from the Edexcel examining board. |
| Mr Hughes |
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Past A-level papers plus solutions from Trevor Hughes. |
| Discovery School |
Type in your question and get and answer... plus a similar problem to try yourself. Covers number, measurement and geometry, algebra, trigonometry, data analysis, calculus. Plus lots more. |
| GCSE help |
This site is being re-launched, but help with physics is available. |
| Math for Morons like us |
Help for students written by students. Sorted by topic including algebra, geometry and calculus. |
| Maths revision interactive |
Online maths lessons. Test yourself. Needs the latest version of Flash and can be slow if you don't have the latest kit. |
| BBC revision, interactive |
Good interactive maths fun for years 7, 8 and 9. Children need an email address to log in. Safe site. |
| Essay finder |
Essays on every subject and every question.... but at a price. US site. |
| TCAEP |
Comprehensive listing of constants and equations in physics and astronomy as well as maths. Covers basic numbers, logs, complex numbers, algebra, trig, calculus, matrices, maths symbols and units and more. Sponsored by the Institute of Physics. Good stuff on planets and constellations too. |
| Maths help |
Free help and advice with problems in Mathematics and Statistics at GCSE, A-level, BTEC, GNVQ and Foundation year degree level. Question answering service, maths knowledge bank, maths chat room. Run by maths teachers. |
| Homework elephant |
The site that forgets nothing. Help with algebra, geometry, calculus and trig plus science-based maths. |
| Homework resource |
Help and practice questions at GCSE and A level. |
| Maths Direct |
Online help for A level with tutorials, exercises, solutions, feedback, exam papers and marking schemes. |
| Math dot com |
Excellent homework help files on basic maths, e veryday maths, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics plus, plus... from simple to more hairy. Ask and expert service. Games, calculators and more. |
| Project GCSE |
Revision notes in four main sections: number, algebra, shape and space and handling data. Small section of GCSE maths revision guides and software packages. |
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Algebra |
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| Algebra from Math dot com |
Excellent algebra resource. Also pre-algebra help. |
| Gomath, algebra |
Excellent algebra resources from a major US site. |
| Algebra from ThinkQuest |
Links to student sites developed to explain algebra in the ThinkQuest internet challenge. |
| Vectors |
Lots of detail on vectors from the basics to the complex. Also some help on percentages. |
Geometry |
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| Geometry from Math dot com |
Excellent help files and resources. |
| Gomath, geometry |
US site with excellent resources on Geometry. |
| Geometry from ThinkQuest contestants |
Geometry explained... by enthusiastic students. |
| ThinkQuest introduction to geometry |
An online introduction from ThinkQuest. |
| Ptolemy's Ptools |
![]() Ever wonder how high a cloud is? You can calculate altitude right from your own backyard and this site will tell you how. It will also show you how to have fun while completing math projects. Learn more about Claudius Ptolemy, a famous Greek mathematician. Check out quadrants and the properties of triangles. Do math projects which measure trees, buildings, cloud altitude, wind speed, and the altitude of a model rocket flight. |
| A 3D look at 3D geometry |
Why stick with boring old 2-dimensional geometric figures, like squares and triangles, when you can add a third dimension and get cubes and pyramids? Spin the polyhedrals using your virtual reality plug-in and get to know these shapes inside and out. |
| Geometric Eagle |
Need to know the difference between an isosceles trapezoid and a kite? Take a look at this site, which leads students from beginning to intermediate geometry. Organized in chapter-by-chapter format, topics includes angles, direct and indirect proofs, the Pythagorean and other theorems, properties of polygons, and lots to know about circles. Concepts are illustrated by numerous definitions, equations, and examples. |
| Maths Universe |
A self-teaching project suitable for everybody who wants to learn more about Maths, especially Calculus. This site has been designed in an interactive way, to improve and increase your knowledge. Since Calculus is one of the most important branches of mathematics, and one of the most used "techniques" for solving common problems, this site has been developed to have applications for it. Mathematics are part of our daily life, you use numbers, geometrics figures, variables, etc, and we bet that you haven't realized about that. You count money, you draw any kind of object made primarly of geometric figures, you make hypothesis about your grades and calculations about them. You see? Maths are everywhere!!! Our well known friends, the X, Y, Z variables, will go all the way together us and will explain step by step every process. Interactive exams, online help, examples, excercises, graphics everything so you can learn more about it. Calculus of one varibale will be revised in this project. Just like we say: "... The greatest men are not who fight other men in battle, but those who fight the ignorance... " |
Other sites with good links |
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| Geometry.net |
Lots and lots of links in all aspects of maths, not just geometry. |
| Oundle school links |
A selection of maths web sites from the school that has pioneered much in maths education and ICT. |
| Links2Go |
A comprehensive links pages for maths. Many of the links on this page are included, plus lots more on detailed subject matter. |
| ThinkQuest |
Links to lots of maths from the ThinkQuest internet challenge library. |
| Science gems, maths |
Comprehensive listings of web sites by maths topic. |
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