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Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching

Based at the University of Plymouth, the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching has developed many instructional materials designed to help both novice and experienced math teachers. This particular area of their website provides access to a number of interactive mathematics tutorials. The materials are divided into eight units, including those that deal with factors, mathematical diagrams,...

https://www.cimt.org.uk/
Diamond Theory: Symmetry in Binary Spaces

This Web site provides detailed discussions of Diamond Theory, and is intended for college math students or mathematicians. Diamond Theory, according to the author, is best classified in the subject of "finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures." The main focus of the material is the technical aspects of the concept, but there are some references to its...

http://m759.freeservers.com/
INTEGERS: Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory

INTEGERS is a free online journal of combinatorial number theory. Although it is "published with the help of the State University of West Georgia, Charles University, and DIMATIA," the journal's editors are professors and mathematicians from universities around the world. INTEGERS is currently in its third year, and all research papers that have been included in the journal are archived on the Web...

https://www.emis.de/journals/INTEGERS/
Math Awareness Month

Get ready for Math Awareness Month! April 2001 will be Math Awareness Month, and the theme will be mathematics and the ocean, recognizing how mathematics enhances our ability to model and to gain insight about complex physical phenomena such as the ocean. Teachers and mathematics enthusiasts looking for ideas on how to celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month (MAM) can visit this Website from The...

https://ww2.amstat.org/mam/01/
Mind Your Decisions

Can social media make a math problem go viral? Ask Presh Talwalkar, a Stanford-educated mathematician, economist, and author who runs the popular Mind Your Decisions channel on YouTube. The channel teaches viewers how to solve tricky math problems and tackle delightfully maddening logic puzzles, riddles, and brain teasers. Popular videos on the channel address math challenges posed to Amazon...

https://www.youtube.com/user/MindYourDecisions/featured
Perfect, Amicable and Sociable Numbers

These friendly sounding numbers are defined by their divisibility and sums. A perfect number is a number whose positive divisors (except for itself) sum to itself; an amicable number is a pair of numbers each of which equals the sum of the other's aliquot parts; and the members of aliquot cycles of length greater than two are often called sociable numbers. This page, housed at (but not officially...

http://djm.cc/amicable.html