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Colorful Characters of Mathematics
Whimsical posters of fifteen mathematicians with brief biographies.
A Circular Problem

Three circles of varying radius are mutually tangent. The area of the triangle connecting their centers is given. Find the radius of the third circle.

Guidelines for Submissions
Guidelines for Submissions
Project Mathematics
Videotape of aspects of the history of mathematics.
Running Horse

A horse halving its speed every day runs 700 miles in 7 days.

The Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss

A biography of Gauss designed for high school students.

Mathematical Treasure: Robert Tanner's A Mirror for Mathematiques

Images from a 16th-century text about the astrolabe and its uses

Historical Modules

A CD with eleven modules, each containing numerous activities designed to help secondary teachers use the history of mathematics to teach mathematics.

Napier's e

A discussion of why we use "e" to represent the base of the natural logarithm system.

Alien Encounters

A dramatization, in two Acts, of the struggles of European mathematicians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to come to terms with the newly admitted negative numbers.

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