Links to other useful sites

University of Arizona Video
This video from the University of Arizona highlights some of the many career options that are available to you with a degree in Mathematics.

The Mathematical Association of America

www.ams.org/mathmoments
Mathematical Moments

www.jamestanton.com
An excellent source for making math fun in the school classroom and beyond.

mathforum.org/dr.math 
Get answers to all your questions about math and read answers to other people’s questions.

ArtOfProblemSolving.com
Challenging problems, advice, and support for students and teachers interested in math competitions.

mathfactor.uark.edu
A radio show about math by Professor Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Journalist Kyle Kellams.

www.thefutureschannel.com/algebra/algebra_real_world_movies.php
Movies about math in real life with algebra activities.

www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/
Math Fun Facts are ideas and puzzles that will change the way you think.

garden.irmacs.sfu.ca/
Open Problem Garden is a collection of unsolved problems in mathematics.

www.unpracticalmath.com
Has some fun math games and resources for teachers.

www.whydomath.org
Why Do Math shows that an undergraduate mathematics education can be an entryway to rewarding and engaging career opportunities.

www.tuition.com.hk/mathematics
A mathematical dictionary and glossary for students

Additional information about mathematical careers:

www.maa.org/careers/
The Mathematical Association of America has some information about mathematical career choices.

www.ams.org/careers/archived.html
The American Mathematical Society has some profiles of people employed in mathematical careers.

www.siam.org/careers/thinking.php
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics has additional information about careers in applied math

http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/math/070907/index.shtml
How math is used in the real world.

 

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Math Will Rock Your World

"A generation ago, quants turned finance upside down. Now they’re mapping out ad campaigns and building new businesses from mountains of personal data"

"Neal Goldman is a math entrepreneur. He works on Wall Street, where numbers rule. But he’s focusing his analytic tools on a different realm altogether: the world of words."

"Goldman’s startup, Inform Technologies LLC, is a robotic librarian. Every day it combs through thousands of press articles and blog posts in English. It reads them and groups them with related pieces. Inform doesn’t do this work alphabetically or by keywords. It uses algorithms to analyze each article by its language and context. It then sends customized news feeds to its users, who also exist in Inform’s system as — you guessed it — math."

Read full article:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_04/b3968001.htm