Suggested Web Sites

A search of The Math Forum <http://forum.swarthmore.edu/> using the terms "probability" and "sorting" will return a long list of K-12 activity links such as:

http://csr.uvic.ca/~mmania/networks/menu.htm Mathmania Sorting Networks

A MetaCrawl seach on the term "sorting" produced these links which you might find of interest:

*http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/NowSort/index.html describes the current record-holding implementation of a sorting algorithm. You can get an idea of how, in real life, several sorting algorithms are combined to achieve4 the best performance.

*http://gaigs.cmsc.lawrence.edu/animation/ Java Sorting Algorithm Animation - One aspect of computer science that one has to deal with often is to rearrange a random collection of data sets into an ordered collection,i.e., to sort the data in order. There are various methods for sorting,and here we concentrate on five methods that are commonly taught in a computerdata structure class -- Insertion Sort, ShellSort, Heap Sort, RadixSort, and Quick Sort.

http://www.futamura.info.waseda.ac.jp/~nemoto/Java/SortDemo/demo.html Sorting Algorithm Demo

http://www.silcom.com/~ramey/article.html The Postman's Sort The world's fastest sorting program

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/2167/book.html Sorting and Searching Algorithms: A Cookbook by Thomas Niemann

*http://csr.uvic.ca/~mmania/ Mathmania Homepage is an excellent resource for teachers who wish to bring some of the more interesting areas of discrete math into the classroom, such as knot theory, topology, graph coloring, sorting networks etc...

http://csr.uvic.ca/~e4k/mmania/conmod/sortnets/ Mathmania, Society for Education and Popularization of Mathematical Science presents Sorting Networks Content Module

http://perl.guru.org/scott/alg/alg3.html Sorting Algorithms

*http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/barc/SortBenchmark/default.html Sorting Record holders

*http://www.ordinal.com/uguide.shtml Ordinal Nsort User Guide

*indicates links mentioned in the Resource Book for Sorting

A MetaCrawl seach on the term "probability" produced these links which you might find of interest:

http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp/ Institute of Mathematical Statistics Affiliated journals Electronic Journal of Probability (ISSN 1083-6489) Electronic Communications in Probability (ISSN 1083-589X )

http://www.pmms.cam.ac.uk/CPC/cpc.html Combinatorics, Probability and Computing

http://wkuweb1.wku.edu/Dept/Academic/Ogden/Math/instruct/probability/prob.html Probability Computer Projects With Mathematica

Other Web Sites metioned at the follow-up:

http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~casey931/puzzle/penrose/penrose.html Aperiodic Tiling with Penrose Rhombus was discussed by Joe at the opening session under the heading of Mathematics in the News "The Great Toilet Paper War".

http://www.ed.gov/nationaltests US Department of Education Site with information about the voluntary National Tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade mathematics. Discussed by Joe at the opening session.

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