Published by Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
Through this comprehensive site students can access current weather information and observations from throughout Australia, as well as lots of background information about weather forecasting and climate. The radar and satellite images, weather charts, maps and tables available through this site provide a myriad of opportunities to engage students with numeracy in real-life contexts! Suitable for junior secondary and beyond.
Published by The Mercury and the University of Tasmania
This site is an excellent Australian resource which is now several years old, but presents a model of using real-life numeracy opportunities that will appeal to many teachers. Newspaper articles are classified by topic and also by aspects of numeracy involved, making it easy to find something of interest. Students can use this site as inspiration to get involved in looking at the local paper with numeracy in mind.
Activities on the site provide links to full-text newspaper articles (from the Hobart Mercury and other News Limited newspapers) which are suitable for exploring with a numeracy focus. Some articles are also accompanied by suggested questions for students and/or related discussion points for teachers. Suitable for upper primary/lower secondary.
Published by Dr John O’Connor and Professor Edmund Robertson, University of St Andrews, Scotland (UK)
This site has an extensive collection of cross-referenced articles about mathematicians and the history of mathematics. Find out about Galileo, or the history of zero, or Egyptian numeral hieroglyphs, or the interactions between mathematics and art.
There are Hypertext-linked articles on the history of many different mathematical ideas and of mathematics in various cultures, together with biographies of mathematicians, quotes, birthplace maps, timelines, “mathematicians of the day” and more. The archive is searchable if you are looking for specific details, as well as being a mine of interesting information to explore. Suitable for early secondary and above (though teachers of younger students will also find useful information here).