Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Browse Lesson Plans
The following database allows teachers to search for lessons for all age groups covering a wide range of subjects. Simply click on the age group and the following content: arts, foreign language, literature and language arts,...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Professional Development Workshops and Courses
Annenberg Media offers over 50 workshops and courses for teachers which can be used for graduate credit (through Colorado State University), for Continuing Education Units (CEUs), or for enrichment. The courses cover subjects in The...
Stanford University
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Democritus
A look at the life of Democritus of Abdera. He helped to develop a theory of atomism, explained in detail here. Other significant ideas he had included his theory of perception, a theory of the soul and its relationship to living things,...
Clark University
Clark University: Dave's Short Trig Course: Applications of Trigonometry
This Clark University site gives a brief historical perspective into how trigonometry is used in astronomy, geography, engineering, physics, and mathematics.
Free Math Help
Free Math Help: Origins of Math
The lesson examines the origins of mathematics. Strings of symbols, the mathematicians of Ancient Greece, Arabian scholars, and the Renaissance are discussed.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Interesting Facts About Pi
Presents many interesting pieces of information from the history of pi.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Involute of a Circle
This site from the University of Saint Andrews shows the involute of a circle graphically and gives brief history. Cartesian equation is given.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Asia
A landing page for a course on the art history of Asia.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Eratosthenes of Cyrene
Gives details of the accomplishments of Eratosthenes in the field of mathematics.
University of Manchester
Children's University of Manchester: Ancient Egypt: The Egyptian Number System
Animated and interactive website from Children's University of Manchester on the Ancient Egyptian Number System. Students can explore the characteristics of ancient Egyptian numbers and use their math facts along the way.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Ed Online: Tracing Math's Evolution
Students will use technology to research and explore mathematicians.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Taking Off on a Tangent
This is an interesting geometry project that goes back to the time of Archimedes, the famous Greek mathematician. You can combine this mathematical project with computer science and take this ancient problem into the twenty-first century...
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Colonial Williamsburg: Mathematics With a Mob Cap
This hands-on multidisciplinary activity, combines math and social studies. Students will discover how 18th Century fashion, and culture impacted Colonial Life.
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Martha's Stem Stories Activity Plan
Welcome to Martha's STEM Stories! STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. You may already know that doing STEM means testing ideas, collecting data, making calculations, and drawing graphs and charts-but you...
Cut the Knot
Cut the Knot!: Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
Contains detailed historical information regarding the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra and the various proofs that were developed. Click on the links at the bottom of the page to access all the information.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: The Evolution of Numbers
Discusses what numbers are and how our understanding of them has evolved over thousands of years, from simple counting to negative numbers and irrational numbers, for example. Includes a set of practice questions where students identify...
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Luca Valerio, Italian Mathematician
This University of St. Andrews page offers a good biography on Luca Valerio, an Italian mathematician and teacher of rhetoric.
Other
Divulga Mat: Biografias De Matematicos Espanoles Ilustre
In this math resource from the Real Sociedad Matematica Espanola, you can read the biographies of famous Spanish mathematicians.
Texas A&M University
Greek Numbers and Arithmetic
A brief description of the earliest Greek numberical notation, the Attic system, followed by a more detailed description of the alphabetical system that replaced it.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Aryabhata the Elder
Biographical information on Aryabhata (476-550 CE), a renowned Indian mathematician who wrote about astronomy, algebra, plane trigonometry, and much more. Includes links to related resources.
Tech Target
What Is: Irrational Number
A counterpart problem in measurement would be to find the length of the diagonal of a square whose side is one unit long; there is no subdivision of the unit length that will divide evenly into the length of the diagonal. It thus became...
PBS
Pbs: Base 60: Babylonian Decimals
Explore a brief history of mathematics in Mesopotamia through the Babylonian Base 60 number system. This video focuses on how a base 60 system does not use fractions or repeating decimals, some of the advantages of a base 60 system, and...
University of Houston
University of Houston: Lesson Plan: Famous Mathematicians
This lesson plan is aimed at 7th and 8th grade learners and involves researching famous mathematicians and the import of their contributions.
Other
Jeff Miller: Earliest Uses of Symbols for Variables
This personal site explains how variables began and who were the first to use them.