Ball Drop - this site demonstrates the normal distribution curve
Combinatorics
Conic Sections
Conic Sections - An Introduction
The Connected Curriculum Project
Coolmath.com - for teachers, parents and kids ages 13-100!
DAU Math Refresher
Discrete Mathematics
EMR - Exercises in Math Readiness
Ellipse Game with animation
Exponential and Logarithmic functions
Famous Curves
Fitting a Line to Data - a sample project and suggested prerequisites.
If Only Nice Weather Could Last Year Round - a project in modeling with weather
Let's Regress - goal in this activity is to obtain a data file from the Internet, find the most appropriate regression function using two different variables, and discuss implications in a detailed analysis.
Math Archives - Pre-Calculus
Math Forum - Pre-Calculus
Math Puzzles - varying levels of problems given here!
The MathServ Calculus Toolkit
Pre-Calculus
Modules - Topics
Probability
Probability - What is probability? Use the random number generator on this site along with the many links to probability problems.
Sequences using the Ancient Game of Nim - arithmetic sequences (recuresive and explicit)
Skittles - and probability
Spirograph
Statistics
Teaching
Discrete Mathematics in Grades 7-12 : an article from
Mathematics Teacher
A Transformational and Technological Approach to Precalculus: A Collaborative Effort by Harold Mick and C. Wayne Patty, Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University
Unsure of Which Telephone Plan to Choose? -step functions-July, 1998
Vectors
A Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves
Word Problems for Kids - Grades 5 through 12
What a steal! or What a Ripoff? -exponential functions, regression-February, 1998
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Nancy Powell is a Web Mentor for the Teachers Network and the Lead Teacher of the Mathematics Department at Bloomington High School
in Bloomington, IL at npowell@bhs-ms.org
This site was last updated on August 5, 2006
Nancy
Powell at npowell@bhs-ms.org