Math Links

Math Links Page

Useful sites are underlined.

General sites:

A) http://mathforum.org/library/resource_types/computers_res/ -has links to many other math sites

B) http://www.thocp.net/ -this is an incredibly interesting site. It lists the history of computers which covers any and all machines used to count, make calculations and other technological advances. It could be useful in several categories below.

C) http://www.techbites.com/200911151055/myblog/articles/z0031-history-of-computers-30000-20000-bc-carving-notches-into-bones.html -prime numbers detected in 8500BC. WOW!!

1)Math in Weather-barometers, wind speed, vectors, wind sheer, hurricanes, tornadoes, storms, fronts, high and low pressure, Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin

http://mathforkids.allinfoabout.com/features/weather.html

http://www.nationalmathtrail.org/hw_mountz.htm

http://www.meritsoftware.com/recommended_links/MathLinks/index.php?page=3

2)Math in Space-solar system, planets, the sun, space flight, space station, radiation, meteors, comets, asteroids, exploration.

http://www.discover.com/educators-guide/mar-04/guide1/

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/airspacesciencemath/

http://library.thinkquest.org/4116/Science/math_in_space.htm

3)Math in Engineering-buildings, bridges, neighborhoods, shopping centers, cities, water works, sewer systems, aircraft, ships.

http://www.nativeaccess.com/types/sciences_math.html

http://www.engr.utexas.edu/aim/curriculum/

http://www.digibuy.com/cgi-bin/dept.html?301

4)Math in Computers-RAM, ROM, Megahertz, Gigahertz, bytes, megabytes, gigabytes, binary code, bandwidth, file transfers, internet, processing, html, file or data compression, Charles Babbage.

http://www.complitpress.com/Mathwcomputers/Mathwcompcover.html

http://www.thocp.net/

http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/comphist/96summary/index.html

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471396710.html

See sites B and C from above.

Also, searches for History of computing will yield fantastic search data.

5)Math in Electricity-Ohms, watts, hertz, amps, AC/DC, history, capacitors, reducers, voltage(European vs. American), uses, dangers, costs, Edison, Marconi, Bell, Samuel Morse, Westinghouse, Hertz, Nicola Tesla(not the band Tesla-though they were named after him). You may also choose to do your whole project on one of those names listed above.

http://www.codecheck.com/pp_elect.html

http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/ -very cool site to read other stuff.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blelectric.htm

6)Math in Flight-lift, drag, yawl, wind sheer, thrust, speed dampening, fly by wire, digital piloting, repair and maintenance, costs, fuel, risks, probability and safety. See also, History of Flight.

http://www.usatoday.com/educate/mathtoday/

http://www.ueet.nasa.gov/StudentSite/historyofflight.html

7)Math in Business-business models, profit margins, cost, sales, taxes: sales tax, corporate tax, business calculus, projections, finance, economics, accounting. Also known as business math.

http://math.about.com/od/businessmath/

http://math.about.com/cs/businessmath/tp/businessmathtp.htm

http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/hip/hrp/career_awareness/products/favourite_subject/science/options.shtml -lists career opportunities in Math, Business and Science.

http://www.education.ky.gov/KDE/Instructional+Resources/Career+and+Technical+Education/Interdisciplinary+Courses/Math+for+Business+and+Industry.htm –once you open this page, find the Word Icon on the bottom right and open.

8)History of Pi- Egyptians, Greeks, Babylonians, Chinese, Solomon, Archimedes, Ptolemy.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Pi_chronology.html -if you click on the colored parts, it will give you more data about each entry.

http://www.ualr.edu/~lasmoller/pi.html

9)Rene Descartes- probably the most prominent name in algebra and geometry

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Descartes/RouseBall/RB_Descartes.html

10)History of Algebra-

http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~sxw8045/history.htm

http://vmoc.museophile.com/algebra/section3_1.html#SECTION0001000000000000000

http://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/

11)Egyptian Math-the wheel, circumference, pyramids, shipping, flood planes and farming.

http://www.eyelid.co.uk/numbers.htm -has multiple useful links from this page

http://webinstituteforteachers.org/99/teams/egyptmath/mathproblems.htm

http://www.flushing.k12.mi.us/fjh/brust/egyptmath.html

12)Babylonian Math-contributions, mathematicians, number systems,

http://www.angelfire.com/il2/babylonianmath/

http://www.angelfire.com/ny/brockport/babylonian.html#here 3 different sites link off of this page.

13)MP3 Technology-what is it, how does it work? Codes, MP2, MP4, other related formats, what are the other applications besides music, Fraunhofer, laws regulating and penalties for illegal file transfers, changes in the technology to limit file transfer or copying

http://www.mp3-tech.org/

http://www.pctechguide.com/11sound_MP3.htm

http://www.lordpercy.com/mp3_technology.htm

http://www.harmoniccycle.com/harmonicweb/music-mp3-info-fraubasic.htm (how it works)

14)Statistics and Surveys- what for, where from, why, how. History of, (not the easiest topic to research)

http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/histofstats.html

http://www.morris.umn.edu/~sungurea/introstat/history/indexhistory.shtml

15)Math in Food-cooking, measuring, growing, processing, shopping, shipping, selling (weaker topic)

http://www.hopesbooks.com/math_food.htm

http://www.geocities.com/hardingpj/mathandfood.html

16)Math and Sound-wavelengths, frequencies, decibels, hearing ranges for different animals, through air, through water, through fiber optics and phones, science of sound.

http://www.galaxy.net/~k12/sound/index.shtml

http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow2/apr99/soundindex.html

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/bown/article/0,16106,388134,00.html

http://www.jiskha.com/science/physics/fiber_optics.html (fiber optics)

17)Speed of Sound-what is it, why is it important, what does it take to travel like that, costs, risks, possibilities for the future, Doppler Effect

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/souspe.html

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/sound.html

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/sound/u11l2c.html

18)Speed of Light- what is it, why is it important, what does it take to travel like that, costs, risks, possibilities for the future, how did it relate to Einstein’s “special theory of relativity”, light years, Doppler shift

http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/spedlite.html

http://homepage.sunrise.ch/homepage/schatzer/space-time.html

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/waves_particles/lightspeed-1.html

http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/theory/relativity.html

http://www.bartleby.com/173/

19)Math in Travel and Exploration-cartography(map making), compass, sexton, navigation, ship building, fuels, costs, risks.

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/pres/map/ (use the 3 link that says mathematics with maps)

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~donaldm/homepage/math-mapmaking-navigation.html

http://www.sailnet.com/collections/seamanship/index.cfm?articleID=sexton050&coll_cat=Piloting&Coll_name=Piloting

http://www.sailnet.com/collections/seamanship/piloting/index.cfm

20)History and Use of Venn Diagrams- where, why, who, how?

http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/math/biograph/biovenn.htm

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/LewisCarroll/dunham.shtml

21)Chaos Theory- what is it, why do we need to know, how does it work generally, who is researching it?

http://order.ph.utexas.edu/chaos/

http://www.libraryreference.org/chaos.html

22)Scientific Notation-Origins, purpose, big scale, small scale, today’s use, tomorrow’s use, how does it work, history of. (hard topic to find material)

http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/textbook/scinot.html

http://www.vendian.org/envelope/dir0/exponential_notation.html

23)Math in Chemistry-protons, neutrons, electrons, physical reactions, chemical reactions, atomic weights, radioactive isotopes, mass, density, volume

http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/kids/science/Chemistry/math/Math%20In%20Chemistry.htm (use the links)

http://www.qerhs.k12.nf.ca/projects/math-connections/biology/Mathweb.html

24)Math in Medicine-prescription dosage, drug interactions, cost of education, salaries, nuclear medicine, MRI’s, CAT scans, X-rays, chemotherapy, cancer,

http://advance.uri.edu/pacer/march2003/story16.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1391822/posts

http://www.training-classes.com/course_hierarchy/courses/1064_Rx_Success_Complete_Guide_to_Medical_Math_for_the_Health_Care_Professional_Crane_.php

25)Math in Physics-vectors, thrust, motion, rest, Newton’s laws, Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Copernicus, Galileo, gravity, electromagnetic forces, friction, centrifugal and centripetal forces, artificial gravity, density, mass, volume

http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html

http://www.oceansiderevolution.com/EINSTEIN.HTM (relates to soccer but can be adapted to other sports)

http://yarchive.net/physics/einstein.html

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Newton/RouseBall/RB_Newton.html

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Copernicus.htm

26)History of Geometry-

http://www.learner.org/teacherslab/math/geometry/space/

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Geom/his.html

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/geometry.html

27)History of Calculus-history of, Archimedes, Isaac Newton, Ptolemy

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/The_rise_of_calculus.html

http://www.meta-religion.com/Mathematics/Articles/timeline_of_calculus.htm

http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/courses/whystudy.html

28)History of Calculators- weights and measures, fingers, counting, abacus, slide rule, early calculators, adding machines, scientific calculators, graphing calculators, future of calculators.

http://www.thocp.net/hardware/ti_calculators.htm

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcalculator.htm

http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.vintagecalculators.com/

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471396710.html

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/abacus/history.html

29)History of Numbers and Counting-fingers, toes, marbles or rocks, tally marks, numbers, real vs imaginary, rationals, counting, whole, integers, fractions, Roman, Arabic, decimals, other bases besides base 10.

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471375683.html

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/abacus/history.html

http://math.youngzones.org/Math_2213_webpages/history_numbers.html

30)Einstein and Physics-E=mc², speed of light, theory of relativity, gravity, electromagnetic forces, military, personal life.

http://www.oceansiderevolution.com/EINSTEIN.HTM

http://yarchive.net/physics/einstein.html

http://www.westegg.com/einstein/ (this site has tons of stuff)

31)Radio Carbon Dating-geology, radioactivity, half-life, accuracy, uses, Willard F. Libby

http://www.c14dating.com/ (multiple useful links at the top of the page)

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/dating/radio_carbon.html

http://home.tiac.net/~cri/1999/c14hist.html

http://www.c14dating.com/agecalc.html

32)Digital World-MP3, MPG, jpg, gif, .com, .org, .net, internet, music, movies, data, chat, text messaging, TV, phones, GPS, the digital revolution

http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/digital.html

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/07/20/peter.gabriel/ (as relates to the music industry)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_revolution#Brief_History

http://www.nedcc.org/plam3/tleaf54.htm

33)History of Equations-

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:2MikzCo6i4EJ:numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu/mws/gen/03nle/mws_gen_nle_bck_hiscubic.pdf+history+of+equations&hl=en&start=1

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Quadratic_etc_equations.html

34)Golden Ratio-

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldenRatio.html

http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat2.html

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&oi=defmore&q=define:golden+ratio

35)Movie Screen Ratios-different theatrical and filming sizes, IMAX, high 8, beta max, VHS, DVD, digital streaming, television presentations, pan and scan, progressive pan and scan, widescreen, letterbox, aspect ratio.

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/home/wsfaq.html

http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/34579/94119.html

http://www.thelooniverse.com/movies/west/aspectratio/aspectratio.html

36)Math in sports- contractions, pronate, supinate, torso, flexion, stretching, ballistic forces, stress fractures, fluids, football, basketball, baseball, swimming, tennis, volleyball, racing, jumping, throwing, catching,

http://www.oceansiderevolution.com/EINSTEIN.HTM (relates to soccer but can be adapted to other sports)

http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/webunits/math/sport.html

http://mathforum.org/library/topics/sports/

37)Women’s contributions to Math-Maria Agnesi, Sophie Germain, Caroline Herschel, Hypatia of Alexandria

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/airspacesciencemath/

http://www.netwomen.ca/research/litrev.htm

http://www.cs.geneseo.edu/~scragg/Papers/barriers%20overheads.shtml

http://www.cs.geneseo.edu/~scragg/Papers/barriers%20to%20women.shtml

http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm (pretty extensive list)

38)Nicola Tesla-Scientist, mathematician, inventor, innovator with electricity including wireless power sources, city lighting and early competitions with Thomas Edison

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

http://www.tesla.org/

http://www.teslasociety.com/biography.htm

39)Thomas Edison- Inventor of the light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture as well as other items.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

http://www.thomasedison.com/

http://edison.rutgers.edu/

40)Isaac Newton-physicist, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, theologian among other intellectual pursuits. Well known for his math and science discoveries including "Newton's Three Laws of Motion".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton

http://www.newton.ac.uk/newtlife.html

http://www.newton.ac.uk/newton.html

41)Solar Cells-convert the sun's rays into electrical power. Can used to power anything that runs on electricity including cars, homes and entire cities. There is a lot of new cutting edge development in the world of solar cells including spray paint solar cells which can literally be sprayed onto any surface and be used to generate electricty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell

http://www.howstuffworks.com/solar-cell.htm

http://www.siliconsolar.com/

http://encyclobeamia.solarbotics.net/articles/solar_cell.html

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