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David C J Bowers Professional Home Page |
Selected Links I include here some links to sites which I find useful or informative from a professional point of view. They fall into the following four categories:
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| Technology in Mathematics Education | For Students Learning Maths & Stats |
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The LTSN Maths, Stats & OR Network (formerly CTI Maths and Stats) has a focus on using technology for teaching, learning and assessment, mainly in HE. http://ltsn.mathstore.ac.uk The Austrian Centre for the Didactics of Computer Algebra (ACDCA) maintains research papers and links. http://www.acdca.ac.at Bernhard Kutzler maintains a good set of links to forthcoming conferences, also some of his articles. http://www.kutzler.com Derive User Group. Even though the computer algebra software Derive is no longer available, it had a seminal influence on the teaching and learning of mathematics. http://www.austromath.at/dug/index.htm Here are links to websites supporting specific maths software: Mathcad: http://www.mathsoft.com Mathematica: http://www.wolfram.com Matlab: http://www.mathworks.co.uk/ AutoGraph: http://www.autograph-math.com Cabri Geometre: http://www.cabri.com Texas Instruments: http://education.ti.com/product/prselect.html SPSS: http://www.spss.com/software Minitab: http://www.minitab.com Chartwell Yorke are my favourite suppliers of mathematical software and support materials (aimed mainly at schools and colleges). http://www.chartwellyorke.com |
Simple but effective drill and practice in basic number work. http://www.aaamath.com Skillswise from the BBC has a well structured set of numeracy revision materials, up to GCSE level. http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/ Bitesize GCSE Maths Revision from the BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/maths Tutorials and test questions on GCSE Maths. http://www.gcse.com/Maths Revision notes and sample exam papers for GCSE and AS/A level maths http://www.examsolutions.co.uk More revision notes for GCSE and AS/A level maths, plus further links. http://www.mathsrevision.net A detailed, partly interactive, online statistics textbook. Suitable for A-level and basic undergraduate research methods. http://faculty.vassar.edu/~lowry/webtext.html Another online statistics textbook. Perhaps more accessible than the one above. http://www.onlinestatbook.com A third online statistics site. Popular, with lots of onward links. http://www.davidmlane.com/hyperstat/ This advanced online statistics course deals with multivariate analysis - difficult stuff! http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/PA765/statnote.htm Sigma is the UK Centre of Excellence for university maths and statistics support. http://www.sigma-cetl.ac.uk Bryan Dye's MathsNet is an excellent collection of interactive maths resources for schools and college level. http://www.mathsnet.net |
| General Mathematical & Statistical Interest | Teaching and Learning Links |
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Math Forum is a vast US site for students, teachers, researchers and citizens. http://www.mathforum.com Intute provedes a huge and authoritative internet resource catalogue for mathematics and statistics, mainly at university level. http://www.intute.ac.uk/mathematics/ NRICH is an online maths club for school and college students. New content each month. http://nrich.maths.org PLUS is an online magazine for school and college students dealing with interesting applications of maths. http://pass.maths.org.uk Maths Year 2000 resulted in this wonderful site (Count On) celebrating and popularising mathematics. Some excellent online games. http://www.counton.org An excellent History of Mathematics archive is at http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history -------------------------------- Finally, if you want more to browse, try: Google: http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Math/ Yahoo: http://uk.dir.yahoo.com/science/Mathematics/ |
ALDinHE is the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education. http://www.aldine.ac.uk LearnHigher is the UK Centre of Excellence for learning development and university study skills. http://www.learnhigher.ac.uk BECTA (British Educational Communications and Technology Agency) is the Government's lead agency on the use of ICT in schools and colleges. http://www.becta.org.uk Excellence Gateway is run by the UK Learning and Skills Improvement Service (aimed at the 14-19 sector). http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk The National Curriculum in all school subjects can be found at http://curriculum.qcda.gov.uk |