Stimulating Understanding of Computational science through Collaboration, Exploration, Experiment, and Discovery for students with Hearing Impairments
a collaboration of the Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf, Barton College, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, and Interpreters, Inc.

For Teachers!

The Sieve of Eratosthenese

This page has additional background material and links to resources that may help you prepare for and extend the lesson.

External Links and Resources

Eratosthenes of Cyrene 

http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Eratosthenes.html 
http://www.eranet.gr/eratosthenes/html/eoc.html 

Sieve of Eratosthenes 

http://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/Eratosthenes.html 
http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/glossary/SieveOfEratosthenes.html 

Prime Numbers 

http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/largest.html 
http://www.newdream.net/~sage/old/numbers/primeodd.htm 
http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/math/prime/m1257787.html 
http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/ 

Example Programs 

http://www.faust.fr.bw.schule.de/mhb/eratosiv.htm 
http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/programs/Eratosthenes/ 

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