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Alphabet Geometry - Transformations
Definition and demonstrations of rotation, reflection and translation.
Also try the Symmetry Tool on this site.
Egyptian mathematics and Numbers Hieroglyphs
Some free resources including worksheets using Egyptian numbers. Nice wallpaper downloads – including one you can only obtain if you solve a sequence of Ancient Egyptian number maths problems. Worksheet generator available for around AUD$12.
Pictorial Proofs of Euclid’s Elements
Full scan of Oliver Byrne’s 1847 masterpiece: Euclid’s Elements presented in colour pictogram style proofs (proofs with very few words). Pages can be used to give to students to decipher/explain – or as part of an exploration of the idea and history of mathematical proof. See for example http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/Euclid/book1/byrne-4.html
Surface area of a cylinder
A reference for finding the surface area of a cylinder, includes a good animation.
Sydney Water
Educational Resources for primary and secondary students and information about excursions. Nothing specifically maths, but large number of interesting facts for some real-life applications and Applied Maths.
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Type in a sequence of integers – ANY sequence – and discover where that sequence appears in a registry of 195,549 sequences. Many of the results are advanced mathematics, but should be great exploration for students. The concept alone that there are so many known sequences and ways to make them is of value.
The Pi-Search Page
The Pi Searcher lets you search for any string of digits (up to 120 of them) in the first 200 million digits of Pi.