Related Links

Using the web to enhance teaching and learning is quickly becoming a standard. We would like to help you integrate the Internet into your course in order to augment the real data and real-world examples provided in the book. To get you started, here are some interesting math links recommended by George Gilbert and Rhonda Hatcher.

For material on Voting Methods, Chapter 1, visit http://www.psqonline.org/psabra.html for an article from Political Science Quarterly on presidential elections, third party candidates, and the Electoral College.

For material on Apportionment, Chapter 2, visit http://www.agora.stm.it/elections/index2.htm for Wilfried Derksen's Electoral web site. This site houses the results of international elections. It is particularly useful for vote tallies and apportionments resulting from proportional elections.

For material on the Mathematics of Money, Chapter 3, visit http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/RefCalculators.html. Contains over 9330 links to online calculators, including many financial calculators.

For material on Probabiltity, Chapter 4, visit http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/ This is the Chance site, highlighted by the Chance newsletter (available here and through free e-mail subscription). The monthly newsletter discusses probabilistic and statistical issues that arise in the news media. This is mostly non-technical reading at or just above our students' level; we strongly recommend it.

For material on Statistical Samples, Chapter 5, visit http://www.pollingreport.com/ for polls from a variety of sources.

For material on Paths and Networks, Chapter 6, visit http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Euler.html This site contains biographical information on Euler at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.

For materials on Tilings and Polyhedra, Chapter 7, visit http://www.peda.com/poly/ Poly: Macintosh and Windows shareware allowing user to rotate and flatten over one hundred polyhedra, including all regular and semiregular polyhedra.

For material on Number Theory, Chapter 8, visit http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/largest.html for a listing of the largest primes of certain types.

For material on Game Theory, Chapter 9, visit http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/Games/gamelearn.htm. A Java applet lets you play a repeated 2 by 2 game versus the computer.