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MathWorld The first place you should look to find your answers to mathematically related questions. This is a wiki created and maintained by professional mathematicians and scientists. A very reliable source for information.

Ask Dr. Math Post a question and receive a posted response from a mathematician. Or search the archives of questions and answers posted over the years.

The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive Find biographical information on famous mathematicians and browse its history of mathematics pages.

Math Pages Kevin Brown's pages on a broad range of mathematics topics.

Numerican Hall of Fame Many answers to your math questions can be found here.

Cut the Knot A first stop for any question related to geometry.

The Geometry Junkyard Just what is says. This site has it all, from cartoons to professional research.

On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences Enter a sequence to find its formula and much more.

Maths2Art This website has been designed to promote the teaching of mathematics in ways that are visually stimulating, for pupils of a wide range of abilities in Key Stages 3, 4 and even 5.

The Math Forum Student Center Mathematics topics and help given by grade level.

The Art of Problem Solving An excellent place to find interesting and challenging mathematics for the middle and highschool student. Lots to see here!

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search Be the first to find the next prime!

Euclid's Elements The most printed text in history.

Origin of Math Terms Some origins of mathematical terms.

European Women in Mathematics Lots of information on what women have and are currently doing in mathematics.

Mathematics Association of America Visit their bookstore for books on mathematics.

American Mathematical Society Visit their bookstore for books on mathematics.

KENKEN KenKen is the puzzle phenomenon sweeping the world! Fun, fast and highly addictive, even educational, KenKen is a great way to enjoy yourself and exercise your brain at the same time!

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Diploma Program Maths Links

Math Centre Lots of resources to be found here. Revision guides, online exercises, and very good tutorial videos.

ibmaths An experienced IB maths teacher's website, hosting lots of revision guides by topic and past papers practice tests.

HL Maths Revision and study website. Has lots of interactive applets allowing you to explore various mathematical objects dynamically.

TI-83 & TI-84 Tutorials This is the Quick-and-Dirty Guide to the TI-83, TI-83+, TI-84, and TI-84+

TI-83 & TI-84 Progamming This is a site of many many tutorials to get you started writing your own programs on your TI-83/4 calculator

TI-84 PLUS GRAPHING CALCULATOR Selected instructions. Some examples of sequences and series are here.

GeoGebra Tutorial Tutorials for understanding and using GeoGebra.

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Economics Links

World Organizations

Food and Agricultural Organisation

International Development Agency is the part of the World Bank that helps the world’s poorest countries.

International Finance Corporation The International Finance Corporation is a member of the World Bank Group.

International Labour Organization

International Monetary Fund

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

UN Children's Fund

UN Conference on Trade and Development

UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation

UN Environmental Programme

UN Industrial Development Organisation

United Nations

World Bank Group

World Conservation Monitoring Committee

World Health Organisation

World Trade Organisation

World Resources Institute

International Organisations

Economic development sites (lists)

European Central Bank

European Economic Intergration

Eurostat Statistical office of the European Union

MERCOSUR (in Spanish)

NAFTA

Individual Country statistics

Australian Government link to 500 other sites

Barclay annual country reports on 51 countries

Canada's statistical agency

CIA World Statistics

Government of Ireland

IMF World Economic Outlook Database

Japanese Economic Foundation

Japanese Ministry of International Trade & Industry

Nanyang University, Singapore Statistical Locator

New Zealand government

Scottish Abstract of Statistics

South Africa

Statistics Finland Available in either Finnish or English.

Statistics Sweden

Statistique Swisse

United Kingdom Statistics

United States statistics

Bureau of Labor Statistics U.S. statistics.

World Bank Statistics

Central Banks

Bank of England

Bank of Japan (in English)

Bundesbank (in English)

Central Bank of Ireland

Netherlands Central Bank (in English)

European Central Bank

Reserve Bank of Australia

US Federal Reserve Bank

Other sites of interest to IB students

Mark Thoma Professor of Economics at the University of Oregon. He has posted videos of his lectures. Hours and hours of economics... Yippie!

Paj Holden Teacher of Economics in Greece and occasional farmer. Lots of instructive YouTube videos on various economics topics.

Max Keisler Max Keiser is a TV presenter, radio host, entrepeneur, broadcaster and journalist.

Economic-truth Documents contained within this section are not necessarily designed to be easy to read, but they can be very educational. Most have been written in response to an essay assignment; some are theses or dissertations written for a degree.

Child Labour Coalition

Institute for Fiscal Studies virtual economy model

Economics America

Exam practice MCO

Farmers World Network LDC farm case studies

Economic Development

Monopoly

The Whirled Bank Group A group dedicated to bringing to light perpsectives to the World Bank and IMF in order to give a more balanced view of these two institutions, particularly in regards to whether or not they do more harm than good in terms of development.

News Websites

Africa News Online

Asia related news

Economist

Financial Times

Greek News Agencies

Kyodo News, Japan

Reference Desk to a range of newspapers

Moscow Times (in English)

New Straits Times

New York Times

Sloman's News Articles Links

Sydney Morning Herald

Straits Times

Wall Street Journal

Washington Post

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Math Team Stuff

Mu Alpha Theta (ΜΑΘ) National High School and Two-Year College Mathematics Honors Society

Berkeley Math Circle Excellent problems to be downloaded from this site.

Marywood Students Mathematics Club A very nice collection of multiple choice contest problems. Don't be fooled. These can be difficult and you will encounter contests much like these!

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Free Maths Programs

AutoGraph This is a must for IBDP mathematics. It is standard on most of the machines in our school but a copy for yourself will benefit you greatly when it comes time to do your Internal Assessments. This is a PC program operating in three modes: 1D Stats & Prob, 2D Graphing, Coordinates, Transformation and Bivariate Data, and 3D Graphing, Coordinates and Transformations. It has a 30-day trial version.

GeoGebra GeoGebra is a free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for schools that joins geometry, algebra and calculus. It received several international awards including the European and German educational software awards.

Math Pad MathPad is a general purpose graphing scientific calculator for the Macintosh.

KSEG KSEG is a Free (GPL) interactive geometry program for exploring Euclidean geometry.

Taco HTML Not a math program, but it is an excellent easy to use peice of software. Taco HTML Edit is free software for Mac OS X. It is designed to simplify the process of creating attractive web sites that render correctly in various browsers.

LOGO for Mac Logo is a popular language used to teach simple programming by guiding the progress of a 'turtle' which moves around a graphics screen. You can make some really impressive graphics with this programming. And you learn programming effortlessly. It has a cool history you can read here.

LOGO for Windows Logo is a popular language used to teach simple programming by guiding the progress of a 'turtle' which moves around a graphics screen. You can make some really impressive graphics with this programming. And you learn programming effortlessly. It has a cool history you can read here.

Graphmatica is a powerful, easy-to-use, equation plotter with numerical and calculus features. A great tool for students and teachers of anything from high-school algebra through college calculus.

Mathomatic If c2 = a2 + b2, then what do a, b, and c equal? Mathomatic is a Computer Algebra System (CAS) that works like an algebraic calculator.

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Other Links

Wikipedia The free encyclopedia.

Georgia Learn about my birthplace.

World Factbook The book of facts as collected and arranged by the CIA.

Writing HTML A good place to start to lear n how to make webpages from the ground up.

The Weather Underground An excellent resource for statistical in formation on weather and much more.


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