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School PC. A site that looks at how teachers can use technology in their teaching and incorporate computers into their lessons. It also gives valuable information on what resources are available to teachers to use.
http://www.schoolpc.acp.com.au/

AAMT Home Page. Well worth a look for the different sites that they list. It is orientated towards teachers.
http://www.aamt.edu.au/

Mathematics Hot List. This site contains a list to various sites such as: The History of maths, Olympiad Math Madness, What is a Fractal?, Ancient Geometry.
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/math.html

Deakin Mathematics Resource Page. A site that contains useful maths resources available on the Internet for Primary School Teachers and students.
http://www.deakin.edu.au/~adag/

Mersenne Prime Search. There is a worlwide search to look for the Mersenne Prime Numbers. You can download the software and reserve a space on the number line to look for Mersenne Primes or just have a look to see what its all about.
http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm

Women in Mathematics. A Canadian site that contain pages and links of interest to women in mathematics and to women contemplating careers in maths.
http://camel.math.ca/Women/.

Nobel Prize Winners. An interesting site that contains information about the people that have won Nobel Prizes.
http://www.nobel.se/essays/archive-index.html

Maths Biographies. This site contains information about the famous mathematicians in history. It also contains information about Fractals.
http://www.watson.org/rivendell/math.html#1

Knots on the Web. This site is dedicated to knots. It looks at: Knot Tying, Knot Theory, Knot Art amongst other pages dedicated to Knots.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/knotlink.htm

The Library in the Sky. A site the is for Middle-High School Maths. It contains links to a vast range of different sites. the sites are categorised into heading such as: Lesson Plans, Lists, Materials, Papers, Projects.

Kali. This site allows you to draw Escher-like tilings, infinite knots and other patterns.
http://www.geom.umn.edu/apps/kali/about.html

History of Mathematics. A great site as it is very detailed. It contains biographies of a large number of mathematicians and a comprehensive study on the history of mathematics.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/

A brief History of Algebra and Computing. A worthy site for teachers and students as it gives brief descriptions on: The origins of Algebra, Early English Algebra, Algebra and Computing amongst others.
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/users/jonathan.bowen/algebra/#ToC

Virtual Reality Polyhedra. An excellent site that allows you to look at different polyhedra by manipulating them. To view them you will need a browser that has a virtual reality plugin. If you can't view the images, the site gives you instructions on where to find the necessary software. Well worth the look. It is advisable that you have a failry fast computer for the best results.
http://www.li.net/~george/virtual-polyhedra/vp.html

Composing Mozart Music variations with Dice. Not a well known fact but Mozart composed a piece of music by rolling dice. Each bar was determined by the roll of the dice. As a user of the site you can choose what bars you want to hear with the instruments that play it.
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~zsofi/mozart/

Plane Math. A site that has been designed by NASA and Info Use with disabled students in mind.
http://www.planemath.com/

Frac-Ed. this site is aimed towards high school and college students. It gives introductory units on fractals. There are "interactive programs that demonstrate the techniques of fractal generation".
http://www.ealnet.com/ealsoft/fracted.htm

World of Escher. This site contains everything you would like to know about Escher. There is a gift shop where you are able to download some software called Cool TesselMania that allows you to draw Escher style drawings.
http://www.WorldOfEscher.com/

Fibonacci Numbers and Nature. A great site that looks at the practicality of the Fibonacci sequence.
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat.html

Famous Curves Index. This site contains some famous curves, their features and the functions that produce them. Definitely a site that is aimed at upper secondary and college students.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Curves.html

The Mathematics of Cartography. This site show how maths plays an important role in the drawing of maps. Such concepts as scale, the coordinate system and projection. There are links to other site that contain related material such as Geometry of the Sphere.
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/pres/map/

Maths FAQ. Definitely a site that is aimed at teachers or high ability students with an interest for such questions as: How to compute the digits of PI.
http://daisy.uwaterloo.ca:80/~alopez-o/math-faq/node1.html.