A biography of Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, who helped re-introduce classical mathematics to Europe after the Dark Ages. (
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Al-Khwarizmi.html
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Physics of Maple Syrup Making (Math Connect page 162)
An interactive demonstration of the difference between simple and compound interest. The download contains ActiveX controls, which may not load on some school networks. (
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SimpleVersusCompoundInterest/
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An interactive applet which allows you to see the effects changing A, B, and C in the equation Ax + By + C = 0. (
http://id.mind.net/~zona/mmts/functionInstitute/linearFunctions/lgf.html
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