WEB 2.0 This is a fantastic short video introduction to XML and Web 2.0 by Michael Wesch of Kansas State University, posted on YouTube. After loading the page, click on the bottom right button of the small video screen to enlarge it—it's much more effective to watch this way.
The Math Page: Beautiful exposition and presentation of
many basic concepts. The author often gives a slightly different viewpoint than my own site, which may be beneficial to students. Complete courses in arithmetic, geometry, algebra, and lots more.
Math Words: Gives fascinating origins and information
on a wide variety of mathematical words.
Mathematica Demonstrations: A very large collection of
really cool dynamic worksheets to illustrate the phenomenal capabilities of Mathematica. You have to download a free
Mathematica Player to run the demos, but it's definitely worth the effort.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives: Fun, hands-on activities! These are great, and they're free! I'm going to incorporate links to them throughout my math curriculum.
Number Gossip: Type in your favorite number, and
find out what's special about it!
Q.E.D. Beauty in Mathematical Proof
This book by Burkard Polster is an absolute gem. If you know anyone who dabbles in mathematics, get it as a gift.
Also, Dr. Polster's web site is incredible!
SAT Prep Center:
Practice questions; sample test; register online
Slope Fields (calculus): Input a first-order
differential equation, see the slope field, click on a point to the see the particular solution through that point.
Very well done!
MATHEMATICS UTILITIES
Graphing Calculator: A free online graphing calculator;
you can download it and use it in your own applications; it's very user-friendly and easy to use; note the General
Public License and how they ask for donations.
Graph Paper: Print free graph paper; wide variety of styles
Maxima: A freeware CAS (Computer Algebra System); analogous to MAPLE
SciLab: An open source platform for numerical computation; analogous to MATLAB
MATH MARKUP LANGUAGE (MathML)
Convert expressions to MathML: Just type
an expression in traditional math notation, click the button, and it gives you the MathML!
MathPlayer: free download; for viewing MathML in Internet Explorer
The Universal MathML stylesheet: making MathML available to the greatest numbers of browsers.
If you use this stylesheet, then your MathML document must be a valid XHTML document (which is much more stringent
than HTML). Be sure to save your file with the extension " xml " !! Here are the four files you may need
to download (be sure they get saved with the extension " xsl "):
WinEdt: WinEdt (shareware) is a powerful and versatile ASCII editor and shell for MS Windows with a strong predisposition towards the creation of [La]TeX documents.
Carol has been using it for years; it works GREAT!