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5. Mathematics History, Jokes,
and Humor
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- Calculating
Machines Math
Puzzles
This site gives students or teachers grades 7 - 12
information about the history and use of various calculating
machines throughout history. This is a good
site for research projects.
- Charles
Dodgson
This site gives a short biography of Dodgson
the mathematician. It also gives links to his
works, making this a good site for research papers
or projects. This is generally a teacher site,
but students could be directed here with some help.
- Diophantus
This site is a resource for biographical information
on Diophantus. Provides links for further information,
as well. More teacher oriented, but could guide
students through for a research paper.
- Euclid
This is an excellent research paper site. This
gives information about Euclid and his work.
- Evariste
Galois
This site gives information about Evariste Galois
and his work. Research paper site.
- Go
Figured - Mathematicians in History
This is a fun site that has a short history of prominent
mathematicians including Archimedes, Al-Khwarizimi,
and Isaac Newton.
- Math
History Theme Page
This site has hyperlinks to historical information
on such topics as the history of pi and ancient geometry
to biographies of women mathematicians.
- Most
Popular Biographies of Mathematicians
This site contains the top 100 biographies of famous
mathematicians. There is also a link back to full
listing of 1500 biographies on file. This link includes
mathematicians as well as scientist.
- OnlineMathLearning.com Collection of math
trivia and fun stuff. Share these with your students.
Middle and High School level.
- The
Abacus
This site is a high school level site that gives
the history, instructions, and interactive demostration
of the abacus. This would be helpful for
a student project or report.
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