MAth Department

USEFUL WEB ADDRESSES

This site includes some interesting problems involving probability and their (possibly) surprising solutions:

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/monty3/index.html

 

For a graphical presentation of Pascal’s triangle in different modular bases, have a look at:

http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/organics/papers/granville/support/pascalform.html

 

A gentle introduction to logs can be found at:

http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/tutorials/LOG/

 

For a friendly look at similar triangles, try:

http://regentsprep.org/Regents/math/similar/Lsimilar.htm

 

Good graphs to explain Riemann sums can be found at:

http://www.calvin.edu/~rpruim/courses/m161/F01/java/RiemannSums.shtml

 

If you have time to spare and enjoy mazes, go to:

http://www.logicmazes.com/

 

You can dial up random mazes of your chosen level of difficulty at:

http://www.flint.umich.edu/departments/its/crac/mazeorig.form.html