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Prairie State College
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This rigorous course covers topics such as problem solving, bases other than ten, estimations, mental math, number systems and operations on these number systems using algorithmic and non-algorithmic techniques. This course satisfies the Illinois teaching certificate pre-requisite. This is a content course, not a methods course in teaching mathematics.
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Important Article: Girls may learn math anxiety from female teachers
Links to interesting or useful stuff
General Information:
Mathematics Archives Math Forum Ask Dr. Math Math Education Links:
NIU's Elementary Ed. Links MathGoodies A+ Math FunBrain.com - The Internet's #1 Education Site for K-8 Teachers and Kids Project Interactive - This is a very nice site with lots of interactive activites. Patterns/Sequences/Numbers/Number Theory:
Fibonacci Numbers Exploring Pascal's Triangle The Prime Pages On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences Golden Ratio Geometry:
Animated constructions with printable worksheets More animated constructions Construction Reference Polyhedra - Paper nets, nice tessellation tutorial. Geometry Web Page Pythagorean Theorem and its many proofs GeoGebra - GeoGebra is a free dynamic geometry program Some GeoGebra examples Statistics:
- Research Randomizer
- WebStat - Very nice freely available online data analysis. This can be a big help when doing homework!
- Statistical Graphs
- Histograms
History and Other Stuff:
- History of Mathematics
- Mathematicians of the Day
- Mathematical Quotation Server
- Famous Problems in the History of Mathematics
- Women Mathematicians
- A Modern History of Blacks in Mathematics
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This page was last updated on March 9, 2010.
