Maths resources?

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Due to a decent maths teacher, I have developed an interest in Mathematics. He must have Jedi mind powers or something.

Anyway, I was wondering if there's any good internet resources for people with a lack of knowledge? Every site I go to is either: 'Teach your kids math!' or goes into this indecipherable coding of pure mathematics that makes me go cross eyed.

I have a GCSE grade 'C' in maths, by the way.

wikibooks has some math books in it. I don't know how good it is. You could go to a college bookstore and look at things like "Calculus for Dummies" and a bunch of similar books. Don't get textbooks, I have found that most of them are useless in the math arena.

Here are some sites I found:

AAA Math - Up through eighth grade only.

Cool Math - It looks like younger levels, but there are some interesting things on this site.

A Learning Website for Middle School Students - List of several different links to math sites around the internet, geared towards middle school level math students.

Math.com - This has various levels of math resources and information.

Math Counts - This is more of a non-conventional math website. Although geared towards middle school students, this has a variety of math problems and puzzles that are more like brain teasers.

That's about it, as far as I know. I hope you can find something here that you can use.

Thank you.

Cut-the-knot ...

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/index.shtml

... is worth looking at. It has a lot of interesting puzzles.
I find many of the questions easy to understand, but the answers very difficult to find. Even when the answers are explained, there are a lot of them I don't find easy to understand.

A small number of the puzzles I remember from school (e.g., Towers of Hanoi).