This is a page of some math links.

APPLIED MATH

• Applied Math Resources
A searchable database of schools offering applied mathematics programs at the graduate level.

KID'S MATH GAMES

A+ Math Games
A math game bonanza is waiting at this page, where a selection of timed math bingo games, hidden-picture puzzles and concentration brain teasers challenge players' abilities in addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. Learn geometric terms too.

• Automaths
This Java-based math drill lets you play on junior, mid and senior levels. Choose junior for simple addition and subtraction, mid for multiplication, division and more difficult subtraction, and senior for an even bigger challenge.

• Base Ten Count
Here's a game using online manipulatives that helps teach youngsters about basic counting and base 10 numbers. Along with the fun interface -- smiley faces and bright colors -- kids get a hands-on appreciation for place value and number construction.

• Brainwave
Correct answers to the 10 brain scrambles -- identifying deviating symbols in a group -- earn smart bulbs. Collect all 10 smart bulbs, and you're rewarded with the Brainwave top 5 percent brain award. The farther you go, the harder the questions become.

• Breaking Chocolate Bars
How many breaks does it take to split an evenly divided candy bar into all of its small squares? Use the Java simulation to explore various possibilities, and try to come up with the answer before moving to the solution page.

• Captain Quest & the Evil Mathematician
Part action-packed interactive story, part math challenge, this game for elementary-level students pits Captain Quest against an evil math genius who poses brain teasers designed to defeat the Captain. Correct answers lead players into the genius' lab.

• Change Maker: The Cash Register Game
Learn how to make change in this real-world simulation that lets you choose an easy level to make change for one dollar or a hard level to make change for 100 dollars. A scorecard keeps track of your progress.

• Count the Bugs
This simple counting game gives young learners the chance to practice their numbers from one to nine and to work on mouse control. Clicking a number displays colorful, animated bugs perfect for counting out loud exercises.

• Euclid's Game
If you're having a bit of difficulty understanding the Euclid's algorithm and the notion of the greatest common divisor of two integers, click over to this Java-powered applet for a little computer play and links to plenty of background pages.

• Gallery of Interactive Geometry
Geometry class was never like this Java-powered site that offers a number of interactive choices: versions of Tetris and the chaos game, a wallpaper design activity that illustrates planar symmetry and an exploration of hyperbolic triangles.

• Interactive Nim
In this interactive version of the math game with many versions, you try to beat the computer by steering play so that you remove the last token from the game board. Success depends upon knowing the losing positions -- expressed as three numbers.

• Lewis Carroll's Game of Logic
The guy who wrote Alice in Wonderland also developed a logic game that competes with Venn diagrams as a tool for solving logical problems. The background pages and explanations accompanying the online game can set you on the logical path.

• Live and Learn
This preschool learning tool supplements parents' at-home efforts to teach young children to count and helps familiarize them with computers. Find basic number recognition, counting and sequencing games and simple addition and subtraction problems.

• Logic Test, The
Think you're a logical thinker? Put your reputation to the test with logic puzzles that challenge your ability to analyze a set of statements by applying mathematical concepts. Can you avoid the assumption trap?

• Marcia's Math Chase
Two players, one computer and a Java-powered applet add up to a combination math-strategy game that tests your ability to add and multiply your way to victory along the most efficient route possible. Instructions identify strategy, levels and tips.

• Math Baseball
Answer the math question correctly, and the computer awards you a hit. It could be a single, double, triple or home run, depending the question's difficulty. Miss it, and you're out. You choose the type of game and the level of play.

• Math Game, The
This little mind game combines math and mind association into a clever little exercise. Will your response match the predicted one, or will you blaze new mind association trails? Once you play this game, link to others.

• MathMagic on the Web
MathMagic posts challenges in four grade categories (k-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12), and invites registered teams to pair up to solve the posted problems via e-mail. Geared toward classroom and home school populations, registration involves a nominal fee.

• Monster Math
Monsters populate this basic counting game for young children. Mac users, after downloading the free plug-ins, can hear the monsters speak in English or Spanish. PC users have a text-only option, but it's available in English, Spanish and Italian.

• Multiplication Tricks
The multiplication tables have always been one of those rote-learning processes; memorize them or else. But what you may not know is that there are tricks associated with multiplying numbers that can make you a multiplication whiz. Click and learn.

• Number Guessing Game
In this number-guessing game, you think of a number less than 100, and then the computer guesses it after a series of questions. The technical explanation exposes the math behind the magic.

• Pentomino
Learn about the puzzling possibilities of pentominos, those 12 tiles that can be made out of five connected squares, and explore their mathematical basis. Try to solve the puzzle (at least four solutions exist), and link to a pentomino Java applet .

• Puzzles!
Three math puzzles challenge your ability to make flavor combinations with a pack of Skittles candies, connect nine dots with a mere four lines and determine the total distance traveled by a bouncing basketball.

• Stanley Park Chase
A fun way to practice multiplication, this game combines photos and a talking dog with random problems and an interactive answer board. Click the Willoughby link for even more online math games -- addition, subtraction, division and doughnut shop managem

• Turnablock
A variation of the math game Nim, this token-flipping game pits you against the computer to see who can turn the entire board from white to black first. Two levels of play -- easy and hard -- let you ease into the game.

• Twistin' on 20
The number 20 is the operative here, and five questions explore different aspects of the number in terms of flight, bones, depth and other topics. Once you've chosen an answer, click the Check Answer button for fun facts and your score.

• Water Puzzle
It's a deceptively simple problem: with two empty glasses and one full glass, pour water into all three so that they contain an equal amount of water. After testing your abilities, explore solutions that use the graph theory and barycentric coordinates.

MATH BOOK SEARCH

• Clarke & Stone Book Company
Specializing in technical books on medicine, nursing, computer science, business and reference, Clarke & Stone Book Company also offers custom publishing for course materials.

• Discovery Corner
Discovery Corner packs the child's imagination with the fun side of science. Its selection of books and games on science and math, as well as teaching materials and programs for school, are sure to please.

• Environmental Media Corporation
With more than 100 programs for environmental education, Environmental Media Corporation offers curriculum-based books, videos and CD-ROMs covering biodiversity through children's programs.

• Rockville Creative Learning, Inc.
Is your child having difficulty with science? Are your pupils failing at lab? Rockville Creative Learning caters to those kids. Search the catalog for science kits, books on learning, parenting guides and more. Save five percent with online orders.

MATH GAMES

• Brain Exerciser, The
Designed to appeal to math puzzle and game lovers, this selection of brain teasers is categorized by skill level -- mathematically challenged to mathematically advanced.

• Clever Games for Clever People
You can play these games developed by mathematician John Conway just for fun, but you'll also learn how games can be used to describe numbers.

• Combinatorial Game Theory
An introduction to the theory of combinatorial games is followed by annotated essays that describe various related projects.

• Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
Choose from an array of games and puzzles based on logic, probability, basic math, algebra and other mathematical disciplines and approaches, consult the extensive glossary or link to other number-rich pages.

• Interesting Mathematical Aphorisms
Strain your brain with these tricky math problems, but don't think you can bail out in the middle and check the answers. You must e-mail the Webmaster for the answers, and have to include your proposed solutions.

• Lecture Notes on the Mathematics of the Rubik's Cube
Extensive set of lecture notes from a college course exploring the theory of the Rubik's cube puzzle.

• Little Math Puzzle Contest, The
Weekly puzzles posted to the SchoolNet Listserv are compiled for use in classrooms across Canada.

• Magic Cubes
Explore the mathematics behind the magic of magic squares -- arrays of numbers in which the sum of each row, column and diagonal is identical.

• Magic Number
Use this interactive Java interface to try to stump the computer as it attempts to guess your magic number.

• Magic Square
Explanations and examples of magic squares -- numerical arrays inwhich the sum of each row equals the sum of each column -- and the chance to construct your own via the interactive form.

• Math Problem of the Week
A series of challenging problems that will keep math undergraduates busy with their calculators as they attempt to prove, define and solve these puzzles. Solutions are provided.

• Mathematical Games, Toys and Puzzles
Links to pages exploring various aspects of mathematical game theory and a good selection of online games, including Othello, Mancala and Quarto.

• Matrix
An interactive math game that tests your knowledge of logic, probability and statistics, and math history and trivia.

• Mike's Page of Math Problems
Mike ranks his 80+ math problems and challenges by level of difficulty -- from basic math to integral calculus -- and provides answers and solutions.

• Pi Trivia Game, The
Test your knowledge of history, mathematics and a little physics by answering fun pi-related questions.

• Playful Thoughts
Play math games, enjoy math humor and tease your brain with mathematical puzzles and paradoxes.

• Problem of the Week
The United States Military Academy's chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon posts a weekly math problem and pointers to past problems and solutions.

• Web Wizard's Math Challenge
Register to participate in this ongoing Internet contest that pits your math skills against the skills of others as you attempt to solve a series of baffling puzzles. The problems are easy to understand but hard to solve, and speed counts.

MATH HUMOR

• Aardvark Press
Claiming to be the world's only publisher of mathematical humor, the press posts the tables of contents and selections from two of its books, along with prices and ordering instructions.

• Adventures of Discriminate Boy
Follow the negative-dimension trials and travails of the Mathematical Super Zero in this ongoing saga. Share his sorrow as he is rejected by the woman of his dreams, embarks on an epic journey and displays his bad taste.

• Bambad's Math Comics Page
Proving that mathematics really is a funny subject, this collection of comics manages to find the humor in square roots, curves, trajectory and right angles. Search for your favorite concept or browse the index.

• Bibliography of Humor in Mathematics, A
Consult this list of books to find publications that include cartoons, an essay explaining the physics of a strapless gown, exposes of mathematical cranks, quotations about mathematics and even poems.

• Brian's Page of Calculus Hatred
The calculus Christmas carol expresses the pain of this computer science major who just can't see a correlation between calculus and career opportunities. The top 10 reasons for hating calculus includes the moan that no calculus calculator exists.

• Calculus Hater's Home Page, The
If you loathe calculus -- and don't most people hate it? -- here's a page designed to justify your abhorrence. Links to other calculus haters' pages follow the introduction, and if you're having trouble passing, the tutorial pointers may be some help.

• Canonical Math
Who needs words to write poetry? This math humor archive contains a one-line equation that translates into a five-line rhyming poem. Also find limericks, one-liners, story jokes and wordplay.

• Club Infinity Math Humor
York University's undergraduate math club offers its own collection of jokes with the disclaimer that they stink. Along with the usual engineer, physicist and mathematician jokes, find the characteristics of a physicist.

• Evolution of Math Teaching
Poking fun at the way the focus of math education has changed in the past 30+ years, this page presents the same problem as it would appear in each decade from the 1960s to the 1990s. The changes in vocabulary are as funny as the mathematical differences.

• First Internet Gallery of Statistics Jokes
More than 30 quips, quotes, one-liners and stories about statistics and the people who manipulate them. Find the top 10 reasons to become a statistician, the definition of a statistician and proof that all odd numbers are prime.

• Geometry Jokes
This collection of silly wordplay may be brief, but it covers all the angles. Enliven your next geometry class with jokes like What do you call a crushed angle? and What do you call people who are in favor of tractors?

• Humor in Math
Short on jokes, but long on word play, this page provides the mathematical punch lines to jokes about a cursed Italian, an escaped parrot and a grown-up acorn.

• I Hate Linear Algebra
You don't even have to really understand what it is to hate it, and this page explores a multidimensional loathing of matrices. Find out why the subject's so loathsome and meet fellow linear haters.

• Impure Mathematics
Here's the story of pretty, convergent Polly Nomial who got into trouble when she entered a large matrix without her brackets on. More clever wordplay describes her factoring encounter with the evil villain, Curly Pi.

• Ivars Peterson's MathLand: The Cow in the Classroom
This column by the math and physics writer at the publication Science News relates two anecdotes about his reading experiences with children. One book has a bovine class member; the other spoofs word problems.

• Jacob the Mathematician
Jacob shares his research into mathematical concepts, and explains 4-dimensional tic-tac-toe, the logic of division by zero and the relation between fractal sine waves and telephone calls.

• Just for Fun Page
A collection of links to amusing and potentially educational sites includes the 100,000 digits of pi, the mathematics online dictionary, calculus humor and an automated theorem prover called Deep Thought.

• Los Angeles High School Math Exam
Parents raised the roof when math teachers actually distributed this updated version of classic word problems. The questions are designed to more adequately reflect real-world urban situations than the old yawns about trains and oranges.

• Math Forum Internet Collection: Comics & Humor
Choose the unadorned or the annotated version of this catalog of Net humor; many of the entries deal with the subject of mathematics. Link to a page on paradoxes, comics collections and math jokes.

• Math Humor Links
There's something for everyone at this lighthearted page, including stories for children about Archimedes and jokes galore about the subjects of mathematics and statistics.

• Math Hut
Clever Pizza Hut takeoff has a generous collection of slogans perfectly suited for geek T-shirts and bumper stickers, 15 pages of cartoons and 3 pages of quotations that offer reflections both silly and profound.

• Math Jokes
The page is plain-text, but the content is full-fun. Large archive of one math joke inevitably following the other -- not quite to infinity, though -- includes silly stuff that kids will love and more complex jokes for college students and profs.

• Math Purity Test
Take this interactive 60-question quiz to check your math purity. Be prepared to give honest answers to questions such as Have you ever used food doing a problem set? and Did you eat it all?

• Math Teacher's Story, A
A single anecdote occupies this page, and tells the story of an Air Force math teacher's ingenious method of keeping his students attentive during an 8 a.m. class.

• Mathematics & Education Quotation Server
This college math teacher uses a quote of the day to entertain his students and organize his lessons. He has cataloged his collection alphabetically by the last name of the author, and provides bibliographic citations when they're available.

• Mathematics Humor
This collection of bad puns -- great if you like that kind of thing -- is the work of a math professor at the University of Windsor and his young son. Find word play with Newton, Laguerre and Barbie, and then link to the author's Queueing Humor page.

• Mathematics Jokes
This huge compilation of jokes from contributors all over the world is arranged in discrete categories addressing general math, proofs, statistics, poetry, quotes and puns.

• Mathematics Mnemonics
Having trouble remembering that sine equals opposite/hypotenuse and cosine equals adjacent/hypotenuse? Consult this collection of silly phrases that can help fix the concepts in your memory.

• MathNEWS
For more than 25 years, math students at the University of Waterloo have been putting out this paper with lots of humor and not too much math. Stacks of back issues are archived and searchable, and the Best of mathNEWS contains the jewels.

• Power of 17, The
Become a member of an exclusive secretive society of real, hard-core mathematicians -- Scalars and Bowties -- who know that the number 17 is the most randomly picked prime number in the universe.

• Proof that One Equals Two
Here are two separate mathematical progressions -- each beginning with an indisputable equation -- that prove the equivalency of the numbers one and two. Try to find the error before reading the solution at the bottom of the page.

• Stupid Math Stuff
To prove that math is fun to people who haven't yet discovered its humor potential, this page offers actual quotes from professors, a collection of math jokes and math proofs.

• Thirteen Misunderstandings in the History of Mathematics
Not for the math-history challenged, the humor of these 13 one-liners depends on the reader's background knowledge of such folks as Fibonacci, Michael Rolle and August Mobius.

• Uselessness of Pi and its Irrational Friends
Rambling collection includes quotes, history, notes and a list of pi-related organizations, including a club for people who have memorized 1,000 digits of pi. If you want to try to join, the page offers mnemonic devices to help you remember the numbers.

SCHOOL HOUSE MATH

• About Today's Date
This simple site offers trivia and comical references to the number of the day and month for today's date.

• Absurd Math
Kids at the pre-algebra level will get a kick out of this math challenge, a witty cartoon world where only critical thinking, the hidden puzzle clues and mathematical knowledge can save you.

• Ask Dr. Math
Kindly Dr. Math answers your toughest mathematical questions! Help is here with this useful Q&A and archive site. Answers are archived by grade level, from elementary school to college and beyond. Also check out the collection of math puzzlers.

• Brain Teasers
Publisher Houghton Mifflin's site dishes up mathematical brain teasers for three grade ranges. Puzzlemasters archive previous questions and publish new mindbenders weekly.

• Dave's Math Tables
A helpful resource for math students, it has all the multiplication, algebra, geometry and statistical tables they'll need. Download in English and Spanish versions; chat with other mathematicians on the Math White Board.

• Elementary Problem of the Week
This educational project was designed to challenge students in grades 3-6 with non-routine math problems. There is a tutor to answer questions and review solutions to the problem each week as well as prizes for correct answers.

• Everyday Mathematics Resource Guide
This is a page of links for students and teachers to helpful and entertaining math sites on the Web.

• Fun with Numbers
Numbers are your friends. To prove it to you Sage has compiled a number of resources to aid in your enjoyment of integers and real numbers alike. This page is for the more advanced math student.

• Grade 5/6 Finch Home Page
Mr. Finch's students have created a great site where they post all kinds of useful educational resources, such as the Math Problem of the Week and complete reports on Canada and Japan. Each student also has a personal home page with stories and artwork.

• Math League Help Topics
This is a help resource for the fourth through eighth grades covering topics such as whole numbers, fractions, geometry and measurements. If you need more information, they offer CD-Roms with a more complete help facility.

• Math Reference Materials
This collection was designed to make it easy for mathematicians to find the resources available on the Web. There are hundreds of links, with descriptions, to quality mathematics sites for the advanced student.

• Mega Mathematics
There are so many different topics in mathematics at this site that everyone can find something that they like and are good at. Find the students' guide to navigating MegaMath to get to the games and topics that might interest you.

• Middle School Problem of the Week
This educational project was designed to challenge students in grades 6-9 with non-routine math problems. There is a tutor to answer your questions and review your solutions to the problem each week as well as prizes for correct answers.

• Statistics Every Writer Should Know
Numbers can talk. Mathematicians have developed the field of statistics for getting answers to many questions out of numbers. You can learn the basic concepts of statistics at this site, so that you can interpret all sorts of data.