Web Search
At last - A web review with live links! For this opening edition, Douglas Butler takes you on a tour through his TSM resources site, and offers up a few surprises.
For the Busy Teacher
Click the image for a video tour of some websites for the busy teacher.
Flash Earth • an instant web-based satellite image site with which to search the globe for those elusive mathematical shapes.
Nice Clock • a lovely Flash clock to add some interest during a timed test?
Jing • a simple download and you are quickly making and uploading your own tutorials, or setting homework. It does, however, require DotNet 3, which is quite a hefty download.
Useful Files
Click the image for a video tour of Excel Files, Images and Data.
Excel simulation of a Geometric Progress
TSM-data: a zipful of interesting and useful data, including weights of babies, sports data, belly button measurements, etc.TSM-images: a zipful of interesting and useful images, including Sound Mirrors, Nautilus Shell, Butterflies, Human Cannon, etc.
Circle theorems - GSP file to illustrated the basic theorems.
Integer Lists
Click the image for a video tour of big numbers, some are seriously big!
Powers of two - up to 2^222 - how big is that!!
Prime Numbers - there are more primes than you think: the 2000th is only 17389.
Mersenne Primes - the 45th to be discovered is 2^43 112 609–1 with 12 978 189 digits!
Try out the Java applet that can instantly give the prime factors of numbers up to 30 584 300 921 369 395 ... How does it do it?
Mathematics Links
Click the image for a video tour of some mathematical links.
Mathematics Education (England and Wales), for example ATM of course!
Mathematics Education (Overseas), for example NCTM Illuminations
Classroom Resources (UK), for example Plus Maths Magazine a superb monthly digest for the curious.
Classroom Resources (Overseas), for example The Occurrence of Conics by Jill Britton, Canada.
Mathematical Entertainment, for example Tom Lehrer: The New Math (YouTube)
Primary Fun, for example NRICH for Key Stages 1-2 and 2-3
Probability and Statistics: for example the amazing Google Gapminder
