Videos, podcasts and courses
Futurelearn – online mathematics courses to build problem solving and analytical skills, and understand the language of mathematics..
Gresham College – Professor of Geometry lectures over the years cover many topics starting with a roughly GCSE / O level base.
In our time Radio 4 podcasts
Khan Academy – A virtual school offering free mathematics presentations at a range of levels.
LMS – Since 1982, the London Mathematical Society has hosted its annual free Popular Lectures to inspire interest in mathematics.
Ted Talks – Some interesting talks by key people. Search on Math
YouTube – Search on Mathematics for a range of interesting talks.
Other sources of mathematical resources
BSHM – The British Society for History of Mathematics resources page points to useful webpages on various aspects of the history of mathematics.
JMC – The Joint Mathematical Council of the United Kingdom details on its website over 20 UK national mathematics organisations and provides links to each of them.
Mathematics Matters – The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) has created some very useful short articles called Mathematics Matters on the uses of mathematics.
National STEM Centre – The National STEM Centre is based at the University of York and is collecting together for access from its website, and for those visiting, copies of resources in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
NIST – The NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions was developed over a number of years to provide a reference tool for researchers and other users in applied mathematics
.NCETM – The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics is a Government funded organisation that focuses on providers of training for teachers of mathematics and has useful resources to help in the development of mathematics group leaders.
NRICH – The NRICH site is based at Cambridge University and contains stimulating activities to try out in mathematics.
TSM Resources – Douglas Butler, former head of mathematics at Oundle School, maintains an excellent website of very useful links to mathematics related websites.
Wikipedia – A developing free encyclopaedia
Wolfram Alpha – This is part of Wolfram who have developed the powerful mathematical package ‘Mathematica’. This site allows you to enter a range of questions to get some useful information. Try for instance entering ‘integrate (1+x)^(1/3)’ or ‘1,1,2,3,5’.
Courses