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" Welcome to the Museum of Mathematics! Mathematics illuminates the patterns and structures all around us. Our dynamic exhibits and programs will stimulate inquiry, spark curiosity, and reveal the wonders of mathematics. The Museum will have its grand opening in 2012 at 11 East 26th Street in Manhattan."

Yenka Mathematics lets you experiment easily with 3D mathematical models, to learn about statistics, probability, geometry and coordinates. It can be used as a flexible demonstration tool - for example, on a whiteboard. Alternatively, students can use Yenka themselves, to learn by experimenting in Yenka's 3D world. There's a wide range of ready-made lessons and activities that you can use in your lessons, and a set of training videos to help you get started. And teachers and students can all use the full version of Yenka Mathematics at home, free of charge.

The connection between mathematics and art goes back thousands of years. Mathematics has been used in the design of Gothic cathedrals, Rose windows, oriental rugs, mosaics and tilings. Geometric forms were fundamental to the cubists and many abstract expressionists, and award-winning sculptors have used topology as the basis for their pieces. Dutch artist M.C. Escher represented infinity, Möbius bands, tessellations, deformations, reflections, Platonic solids, spirals, symmetry, and the hyperbolic plane in his works. Mathematicians and artists continue to create stunning works in all media and to explore the visualization of mathematics--origami, computer-generated landscapes, tesselations, fractals, anamorphic art, and more.

"A mathsnack is a haiku-size package of beautiful mathematics, with accompanying illustration. Below is an example, featuring an all time-classic, the Bridges of Königsberg. From 2004 to 2009, each back page of Vinculum (the teachers' journal published by the Mathematical Association of Victoria) consisted of Mathsnacks on a given theme."

This may be interesting to look at.

a free resource from wolfram research built with mathematics technology

* Rich Tasks * Mathematics Excel Files * Useful Links * Online whiteboards * WisWeb Applets * Online Whiteboards & Feedback * Reading * Sumdog - practice with those directed numbers.... * Rich Tasks * WolframAlpha - Further Resources

As you see in the video, Dor is more than a funny, pumped-up professor. He is onto something profound about mathematics, something truly de-mystifying, especially for give-me-something-I-can-grab-onto kids like me, tip-toeing for the first time into the mysterious world of numbers.

This is a link to someone's Diigo collection of Maths sites in the UK, with over 400 bookmarks!! Incredibly well documented and resources we need to investigate in detail

Martin Burrett 19 Aug 11 09:32:38 Nrich is a vast maths site with great interactive games and resources for young children right up to college mathematicians.

"MathBits.com is devoted to offering fun, yet challenging, lessons and activities in secondary (and college level) mathematics and computer programming for students and teachers."

maths tutorials on a variety of topics

MathTV: This site offers math video by topic and math videos that accompany textbooks in addition to coorinated homework and worksheets.

 A channel dedicated to sharing wonderful, amazing, and sometimes surprising, characteristics of numbers. Perfect for using as a possible hook in math lessons, or as an FYI for the number-curious amongst us.

Public Diigo lists of resources