Math 11 Essentials: Buying a Used Car
Where to buy:
http://www.buysell.com/classifieds/Search/Vehicle/BC.html
http://www.usedvictoria.com/classifieds/autos
http://www.usednanaimo.com/classifieds/autos
http://victoria.en.craigslist.ca/cta/
http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/cta/
http://nanaimo.en.craigslist.ca/cta/
http://autos.canada.com/map.html
Reviews:
Consumer Reports search in EBSCOHost Databases
http://www.cars.com/go/index.jsp
http://www.autotrader.com/
http://autos.yahoo.com/
http://autos.msn.com/
http://www.autos.com/autos/
Blue Book:
http://www.kbb.com/
Tips & Suggestions:
http://www.icbc.com/registration-licensing/buy-vehicle
Math Websites:
Ask an Expert: Mathematics
CLN's "Ask an Expert" page has about 100 links to specialists in the field who can serve as a valuable source of curricular expertise for both students and teachers. Questions/answers on Mathematics may be found in our "All Subjects" section at the top of the page, the "Mathematics" section, as well as the general "Reference" section.
"ERIC" stands for the "Educational Resources Information Center" - a U.S. federally funded national information system that provides a variety of services and products. "AskERIC", the Internet-based equivalent, contains two major components which may be of interest to Mathematics teachers: (1) The AskERIC Q & A service allows teachers to send a message requesting educational information. The Center staff will search the ERIC databases and respond within 48 hours. (2) The AskERIC Virtual Library contains hundreds of lesson plans, access to the ERIC database and ERIC Digests, topic guides to Internet resources, and archives of education-related listservs.
The Canadian Mathematical Society's (CMS) page provides a large number of links to other math sites of interest to educators. You'll also find career information in the mathematics field, resources for post-secondary students, and links to the 1995 International Olympiad and other math related sites.
The University of Wisconsin provides an extensive meta-list of mathematics sites and servers around the world. These are organized under types of mathematics (e.g., pure, applied, statistics) and under type of resource (e.g., gophers, newsgroups, software).
This Gateway provides a meta-list of links to resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9-12.
This section of "Eric's Treasure Troves of Science" has an extensive on-line encyclopedias of math . Each section is browsable alphabetically or searchable by keyword. Entries have a concise explanation as well as cross links which can be quite extensive.
Can't remember a mathematical formula or reference? You may find it here in this collection of mathematical reference tables, for example trig identities, geometric formulas, algebraic basic identities, and more.
This site contains an educational materials area with some great projects and course materials, mainly for Jr. to Sr. High school students.
An explanation of common mathematical/statistical mistakes made by advertisers, the media, reporters, politicians, activists, and in general many non-math people.
These are excerpts from a collection of graphical demonstrations Douglas N. Arnold developed for first year calculus students. The site's author uses many such demonstrations to illustrate and enrich his classes in the McAllister Technology Classroom.
The primary goals of the Mathematics Archives are to organize and provide you with access to most public domain and shareware software and many other materials which are contained on the Internet and which can used in the teaching of mathematics at the community college, college and university level. In addition, they provide links to various WWW, Gopher and anonymous FTP sites which are of interest to mathematicians.
Sponsored by the University of Regina, this site contains a question/answer section, a resource room for teachers (including lesson plans) and a forum for teachers to discuss math related issues.
Card tricks, calculational wizardry, and geometry & topology curiosities that are all based on simple mathematics.
Cynthia Lanius offers over a dozen lessons on a wide range of K-12 mathematics topics. Lessons feature fun and colourful student activities, investigations, experiments, etc. Teacher guides are available.
The Math Forum is a centre for teachers, students, researchers, parents, and mathematicians at all levels. The Math Forum offers "Ask Dr. Math", as well as problem-solving activities, an annotated collection of Internet math sites and sections devoted to math education and key issues of interest to the mathematics community.
This exhibition explores how math is used in daily lives. Topics covered include probability, interest, geometry, ratios, metric system, and graphing data.
The MegaMath project (and site) 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.
"The Mathwright Library is a collection of interactive, electronic mathematics learning aids referred to as "books". These books are documents created with a Windows mathematics authoring program called Mathwright. The books are only available for the Windows platform, but the Library is compatible with all versions of Windows above 3.0, including Windows 95. The Library (this website) provides a Windows program which is a "reader" for the books collected here. The Library is supported by the NSF and all materials availble here are free of charge."
This site offers a weekly puzzle contest (with prizes). An archive of puzzles previously posed is also available.
The stated goal of this site is to "stimulate and motivate students with physical disabilities in grades 4-7 to pursue aeronautics-related careers via the development and delivery of accessible math education materials on the Internet."
Everything you ever wanted to know about prime numbers, including their history, the largest known prime, how to find primes, how many primes there are, and special types of primes.
"Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is an educational model which involves students in self-directed learning as they solve complex, real-world problems." This set of materials (complete with student and tutor guides) challenges students to do the research (Internet-based) and problem solving necessary to determine if they can afford to buy a car.
Here's a meta-list of links to statistical sites and related fields.