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Newsletter Volume 17.2, April 17 2007

An update on resource development at www.mathsnet.net. Thank you for subscribing. MathsNet.net is a free and independent educational website, produced in its entirety by me.

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MAIN RESOURCE SUMMARY
The main curriculum resources on MathsNet are:

ASA2 Mathematics: http://www.mathsnet.net/asa2/2004/
Geometry: http://www.mathsnet.net/geometry/
KS3: http://www.mathsnet.net/ks3/
Graphs: http://www.mathsnet.net/graphs/
Algebra: http://www.mathsnet.net/algebra/
Fractions: http://www.mathsnet.net/fractions/
Games and puzzles: http://www.mathsnet.net/puzzles.html
Discussion forums: http://www.mathsnet.net/forums/
Interactive GCSE Subscription site : http://www.mathsnetgcse.com

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
A lot has been added to the ASA2 site at http://www.mathsnet.net/asa2/2004/ . The number of pages exceeded 1500 at the end of April and has now passed 1600. A number of new interactive pages on calculus have been added using applets provided by David Little (Lecturer in the Mathematics Department, Penn State University, USA) and is used with his permission. See this example on volumes of revolution: http://www.mathsnet.net/asa2/2004/c45volumedisks.html. There are more graphical displays to illustrate the meaning of tangent and normal for various curves from C1 to C4 and some additions have been made to the resources on hyperbolic functions in FP2.

The newest material is video. There are videos for C1, C2, S1 and M1 courtesy of http://www.livemaths.co.uk and other videos collected from http://www.youtube.com, including a few from http://www.midnighttutor.com who specialise in answering by video any mathematical problem emailed in to them, and http://www.examsolutions.co.uk.

Most importantly, however, are the videos produced by MathsNet itself. For an example try http://www.mathsnet.net/asa2/2004/c26intro.html . Any comments on these is appreciated. Some will also be put on YouTube. To check this out go to YouTube and search for "mathsnet". You will find some videos put these recently by someone who is attempting to solve the 3D cube puzzles at http://www.mathsnet.net/geometry/solid/houses.html .

An online store has been added at http://www.mathsnet.net/asa2/2004/buy.html which will take you direct to books, calculators and other resources on Amazon.co.uk which are relevent to the course.

Finally, with the KS3 SATs approaching, don't forget the area dedicated to this at http://www.mathsnet.net/ks3/

Newsletter Volume 17.1, Feb 14 2007

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
In the puzzles section (currently 92 games!), the Japanese games, Sudoku, Kakuro and Slitherlink have all been developed to include a lot more individual games at different levels of difficulty. All the Japanese games have been linked together to make them easier to access. This includes Hashi, Hitori, ABC Endview, Nurikabe and Arukone as well. Links to puzzle books published by Amazon have been extended too.

A new area, Maths on YouTube, has been introduced. Here we attempt to collect together the best videos available on YouTube. Currently this includes fractals, some A-Level material and other general maths.

Many of the Geometry pages have been redesigned to make them more whiteboard-friendly. Finally, reviews of FX Draw 3 and TI SmartView were added in late last year. And with the KS3 SATs approaching don't forget the area dedicated to this at http://www.mathsnet.net/ks3/