http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~casey931/mega-math/welcome.html
Introducing MegaMath
Mathematics is a live science with new discoveries being made every day.
The frontier of mathematics is an exciting place, where mathematicians
experiment and play with creative and imaginative ideas. Many
of these ideas are accessible to young children. Others (infinity is
a good example) are ideas that have already piqued many children's curiosity,
but their profound mathematical importance is not widely known or understood.
The MegaMath project is intended to bring unusual and important mathematical
ideas to elementary school classrooms so that young people and their teachers
can think about them together.
See also: A
Message from the Authors of the MegaMath Workbk
MegaMath is the work of many people
:
classroom teachers, mathematicians, students in education and computer
science, elementary school and high school students, school administrators,
computer scientists, parents...
MegaMath is a project of the Computer
Research and Applications Group at Los
Alamos National Laboratory.
Additional technical support for MegaMath comes from the
Department of Computer Science at the Univeristy
of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho.
MegaMath Needs Collaborators!
MegaMath collaborators are far-flung geographically, located in both the
United States and Canada, connected by the Internet. We are always looking
for people who would like to join us in major
and minor ways. We need...
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Parents, teachers, children, mathematicians, computer scientists, artists
and babysitters who will try out MegaMath materials and let us know what
they think.
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Computer science students looking for programming projects
involving graphics and games. UNIX, Windows, or Mac. We can provide specs,
serve as "end user", and assist professors with evaluation.
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Ideas for topics. Send us your ideas, or references to material that you
find interesting.
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Send
us mail if you would like to know more.
Nancy Casey (casey931@cs.uidaho.edu)
Explore MegaMath!
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If you have a good link and a large screen, begin with the imagemap,
it's really pretty.
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Or, if waiting for the imagemap will drive you crazy, use the menu.