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I started our first website, Coolmath.com, in
the Spring of 1997. I had really just started the site to help
my community college students and show them some cool things about
math like tessellations and fractals.
Since I hated math while I was growing up
and didn't find out that math was cool until I was 21 years old, I
wanted to make a website to show students how cool math really is!
The very first lesson I made was
tessellations and, at the time, I knew just enough Web design to be
dangerous. For example, I didn't know how to center something.
(Remember that there wasn't much on the Web at the time - not even
Google, so it's not like I could just "google" to find out how to
center something.) So, to center stuff, I just hit space,
space, space over and over until it was where I wanted it! A
couple of years later, when I knew what I was doing, I laughed so
hard when I saw the programming of that lesson. And, yes, I
fixed it.
Anyway, even though there was no Google,
there was Yahoo (but, you had to ask to be listed on it) and there
were teachers. Slowly, people started to find the site.
I remember how excited I was when it got 1000 users in ONE DAY!!
Well... on May 20, 2001, we had 759,602 visitors!! Yep,
it's really grown - way beyond my wildest dreams - and that has been
VERY COOL.
Now, Coolmath.com has math lessons in
Pre-Algebra,
Algebra,
Precalculus and some other
cool math lessons
like The Geometry of Crop Circles. We also have an
online math
dictionary and a
Geometry and Trigonometry reference area. And
don't forget to visit our cool fractal gallery - which is why I made
the site black - because all my fractal pictures looked soooo cool
on a black background.
We also have a
cool math for teacher's area and
an equally cool math for parent's area.
Oh, and I've written a
Math Survival Guide
if you are really having
math anxiety
issues and problems in your math classes. Believe me, I was
tortured by math and I can help!
As of the Spring of 2011, Coolmath.com
because the second most popular educational website in the United
States (second only to our Cool Math Game site, Coolmath-Games.com.)
And here I just started it as a hobby. I think that's pretty
cool!
You can hop on over to our "About
Us" page to find out who we are!
-- Coolmath Karen
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