National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Personal Number
Find your personal number using your birthday. It is the month + date + year and month X date X year.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Tower of Hanoi
Use this applet to solve the Towers of Hanoi puzzle.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Tournaments
Math activity challenges you to find out how many more games need to be played in the modern 1999 NCAA tournament during March Madness than in 1985?
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Volume of a Triangular Tank
This question and answer site solves a volume problem for a triangular tank.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Is a Sphere 2 D or 3 D?
Do you think you know weather a sphere is two dimensional or three dimensional? Read this question posed to Doctor Math, very interesting.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Sphere Eversion
This question and answer site provides links to sites that show how to mathematically turn a sphere inside out.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Angles of an Octahedron
This question and answer site from The Math Forum with Dr. Math discusses the angle between two adjacent faces of an octahedron. Links are also provided for additional information on related subjects.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Drexel Math Forum: Distance to an Object
Dr. Math offers a way to calculate the altitude of a triangle using only the lengths of the sides of the triangle. He briefly explains how this was used by the Egyptians long ago.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math Faq, Prism Formulas
This site defines what a prism is and gives formulas for surface area and volume. Contains related links.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: The Cross Product
This site gives a brief explanation of cross products.