Interesting Web Sites:

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Careers in Math

 

Math Help-Mixed Math Help-Calculus
Math Help- Algebra Math Help- Other Courses
Practice Calculus Problems Summer Programs for Undergrads
Mathematical Organizations Fun With Math
Biography and History Help to start a Senior Project
Free Software What is Math
Careers in Math Study Skills/College Life
For Future Teachers Mathematicians are people too!
 



Comparison Pricing or Direct Textbook or Book Headquarters or Half or Amazon

Compare internet prices for your textbooks

College Life
A general page about college life- includes discussions of all aspects of college life- dealing with parents, study skills, dealing with dorm life, etc.

 

Council of Undergraduate Research

If you are doing Undergraduate research, register here to get connected with Graduate Schools interested in you!

 


Math Help-Mixed

 

Using your TI-84 Calculator

These Quicktime tutorials will help you learn how to use your TI-84 Calculator.

Math Mistakes

An interesting look at common math mistakes.  This site also has the answer to "Why study...."

DAU Math Refresher
lessons, examples and worksheets for both algebra and calculus

Other Algebra and Calculus Tutorials
by Waner and Costenoble

SOS Math
tutorial with discussion and examples for algebra, trig, calculus, etc.

Math Forum
includes "Ask Dr. Math" along with other resources for all subjects

Mega-Math

GoMath
Lots of questions about algebra/geometry/SAT answered

Common Mathematical Errors
A list of errors found by a Math Professor at Vanderbilt- as he says- we're tired of these common errors- we'd rather have some new, original errors!

Calculation Tips and Tricks
Ex:  Divisibility rules and why they work

Math for Morons Like Us
Various tutorials written in "plain english"

Appetizers and Lessons for Mathematics and Reason
Short lessons explaining concepts in math

Explore Math
Interesting animations and visualizations for basic mathematical ideas

Reading a Mathematics Textbook
 

Karl's Calculus Tutor
This includes tips on all kinds of things mathematical



Math Help-Algebra
 

Purple Math Learning Modules

xyAlgebra

download this program to get practice problems with personalized hints.

Algebra Help
discussion of topics, worksheets with clickable answers, use RealPlayer to listen to the lesson

Dr. Freedman Tidbits
A set of videos where Dr. Freedman gives short tips on basic algebra techniques- very good



Math Help- Calculus

 

Are You Ready for Calculus I?

Are You Ready for Calculus II?

Are You Ready for Calculus III?

These websites are quizzes to help you determine if you remember enough previous material to enter these courses.  If you don't, either reconsider your choice of course, or get some help!

 

Precalculus Review Notes

this is a nice printable 2-page set of formulas you should remember from PreCalculus

 

Precalculus Review

this is a nice interactive quiz you can take to be sure you are ready for Calculus

Visual Calculus

Related Rates
tutorial by S. Waner and S. Costenoble

Calculus Animations with Math Cad
animations for slope,arclength, quadric surfaces, infinite series, limits,etc

Cool Math
Web Links for Calculus

How to Ace Calculus

The Integrator
Will integrate almost anything- brought to you by the creators of Mathematica.  Also has the history of integration.

Ask Mr. Calculus
Ask him!



Math Help- Other Courses

 

A Matrix Calculator

An Interactive Euclid Elements

The Physics Classroom
Discussion of various physics types topics included in Calculus III- might also help you with physics!

Are you Ready for Ordinary Differential Equations?

Differential Equations Tutorial

Downloadable textbooks

Books in all topics which may be downloaded free by students to use for self study.  Others can download the books for $10. 

 

Linear Algebra

Download or view this free textbook.
 


Practice Problems- Calculus

MathSpark
Page of explanation and practice problems for mathematics written by students and faculty at Harvard.

University of Michigan-Professor Garret's page
lots of practice problems intended for his calculus class with immediate feedback.  They are sorted by their due dates in class, but you can browse through to find topics for which you need practice.



Careers in Math

MAA Profiles
Profiles of mathematicians in various types of positions.  This includes people with BA, BS, MS, as well as Ph.D.

Careers that Count
Profiles of people who have math degrees put together by the Association of Women in Mathematics.

American Mathematical Society (AMS)

Data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) about where people who graduated recently with degrees in Mathematics are employed or going to school.

CNN Article
about the advantages of having a math degree- top ten list of careers which use general math majors with only a bachelor's degree

 

Career Options for Graduates in the Mathematical Sciences

A page from Appalachian State University with links to Math career Ideas

 

Career Ideas- University of Dayton

A page by Wiebke S. Diestelkamp with more career links (scroll down)

Mathematical Careers
This is a page provided by the American Mathematical Society

Occupational Outlook Handbook

University of Delaware Careers in Mathematics

Be an Actuary

I Enjoy math, but what good is a math degree?

Jobs in Statistics

Careers in Math
CoolMath.com

Article about Math Careers
Article written by Dr. Pat Kenschaft from Montclair State University, host of radio show, Math Medley.  This article is based on a survey taken of Montclair graduates asking about their current careers.  The copy here is pre-publication.

Math used in other fields
Research article giving examples of math in other fields- automobile production, nursing, banking, biology, etc.

Alumni Career Profiles
Page compiled by South Dakota School of Mines- it includes descriptions of careers pursued by math majors at that University.

Maths at Work
A searchable database of profiles of employees and how they use math- this is from the UK, so some of the phrases they use may be unfamiliar- but still worth your time.

Royal Statistical Society
Information about careers in statistics- from the UK

 

NSA
Career opportunities at the National Security Agency

Alumni Profiles- Southwestern University
This page lists mathematics alumni and their current jobs.

Bachelor's degree recipients- report by National Science Association
Statistical report of what kinds of jobs bachelor degree recipients are taking

Careers at the Census Bureau

Careers at the Census Bureau (Census Bureau Site)

 

Careers in Science and Engineering

 

Monster Job Search Web site

type in "mathematics" or "math"  for key word

 

Design Science

If you have an interest in Math on the Web,  Design Science has a number of openings, including some that aren't just programming work. I mention that since in my past life as a math teacher, I always found it difficult to advise math students who didn't want to be programmers as to how they might be able to use their math backgrounds to find work in industry.

 

Sloan Career Cornerstone

A Non-Profit resource center for people exploring career paths.



Mathematical Organizations- sources for further links, job info, etc.
 

MAA  (Mathematical Association of America)

AMS  (American Mathematical Society)

NCTM  (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics)

AWM  (Association for Women in Mathematics)

AMSTAT (American Statistical Association)

CAS (Casualty Actuarial Society)

Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (in the UK)

 

Access to other departments nation wide

Site recommended by  Fred Lemmerhirt of Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, Illinois

Math Archives
Site for links to sites for undergraduates in math- includes pages for undergraduate projects, careers, etc.

Math Counts
this is the website for the program for middle school students- SDSU held a Math Counts contest last year, our winner went to the Nationwide contest!

Math Forum
Register for their weekly newsletter with lots of interesting websites highlighted in each newsletter.  This is a MUST for future teachers- there are thousands of links for ideas for teaching.

Math Goodies
This site has lots of "stuff" for math teachers- sign up for their weekly newsletter and get new ideas every week!

Plus Magazine
Really neat on-line magazine for mathematics- accessible to high school students, but interesting for all levels!

Pi in the Sky
Another really neat mathematics magazine accessible to high school students, but interesting for all levels!  This one has articles which are downloaded as .pdf files (need acrobat reader)


Fun with Math

The Curve Bank

Cool and useful animations!

 

Fractint

Download this free Fractal Generator!

Pythagorgrams  and Homepage for the author

Really cool interactive proof of the Pythagorean theorem

Platonic Realms
Just a fun compendium of mathematical thought!

Bamdad's Mathematical Cartoons

(discontinued due to copyright infringement)

Math Humor  

From John Handley High School Mathematics Department

Math Games

Candy Bar math
not really math, but fun anyway

The Fractal Microscope

Mandelbrot Fractal Slide Show

Building Models of 3-D Surfaces
from Math Forum

Math Forum's Puzzle of the Week

Cut the Knot
interactive games and puzzles

Yahoo Math Problems
Just some fun problems for you to play around with- solutions included

Cool Math
Lots of fun topics- good for secondary and college level mathematics

Number Patterns
Magic squares, magic stars, other patterns

Mathematical Applets
Applets (animations) which demonstrate mathematical ideas



Mathematicians are People too!

Famous non-mathematicians or Famous Non-Mathematicians
A list of people in various non-mathematical occupations who majored or minored in math i.e. Teri Hatcher

Math in the Movies
Discussion of Math topics found in major studio movies- from Flubber to Die Hard

The World of Escher
Stories and Art of M.C. Escher

Mathematicians are People Too
Take this quiz to find out which mathematician you have the most in common with.

The Pi Club
The name speaks for itself!



Biography and History of Math
 

Women in Math- University of Oregon

History of Mathematics

Biographies of women mathematicians

Early Use of Mathematics Words

Yahoo History of Math Page

Biographies of Mathematicians
in alphabetical order

History of Math by Region

Famous Problems in the History of Math
(from Math Forum)

Mathematician's Geneology Page
find who you are related to mathematically- start with your math professor and follow them up the tree- look for a name you recognize from your math classes- My advisor was R. Kannan- he also worked with Lamberto Cesare- so I'm related to Arzela' and indirectly to Volterra and Mandelbrojt!

Mathematician Links
Yahooligans (kids search engine) results for Mathematicians.

Calendar
Click on certain days on this calendar to find out what kind of Math "anniversaries" are celebrated on that day.

Mr. Brandenburg's List of Books you can Read

A very comprehensive annotated bibliography of Math and Science books.
 



Web Sites to help you find a  senior project idea

Archimedes
Great web page with history and problems attributed to Archimedes

Explore Math
This web page has some interesting animations- but more importantly has a discussion of some interesting mathematical ideas- Mozart's dice game, Acoustics, etc.

Vedic Mathematics
Vedic Mathematics is the name given to the ancient system of Mathematics which was rediscovered from the Vedas between 1911 and 1918 by Sri Bharati Krsna Tirthaji (1884-1960).

Appetizers and Lessons for Mathematics and Reason
Interesting short tidbits of interesting ideas in mathematics

Using quaternions to represent rotation

Hamilton's research on quaternions
This page gives a very basic definition of a quaternion and contains many links to their uses

Morley's Miracle

Mathematics and Music

Mathematics of Cartography
Page from Rice University with lots of interesting links for cartographers or geographers

Proofs in Mathematics
Cut-the Knot: a discussion of proof in general, followed by links to many clever and fascinating proofs

Cut-The-Knot
an interactive web-column by Alex Bogomolmy- lots of interesting mathematical essays are listed in the middle- on the far left of this page are links to many interesting puzzles, problems, paradoxes, etc. There is also an interesting poll in which you can participate

The Abacus

Geometry of the Sphere
 

Non Standard Analysis and Hyperreal numbers
A new way of looking at infinite and infinitesimal numbers

Writing in Mathematics
this is a web page which explains the need for you to learn to write mathematically, gives you tips on how to write mathematically, good "phrases" to use in mathematical writing, and tips for using word processors when typing in mathematics.  This page has moved, and I haven't found its new location yet.

Mathematik
Interesting web site with animations illustrating unique mathematical ideas- includes explanation of the topic or a link for further information.

Game Theory
Elementary introduction to some interesting "games" and the mathematics involved.

Colorful Math
Games designed for K-12, but which will give you an introduction to graph theory- a topic which is both "cutting edge" and easy to understand.

What is a Matroid?

Complex Numbers
This "short course" is a nice introduction to complex numbers and applications.

Curious and Useful Math
Interesting tricks and the mathematics behind them

CWATSETS
Brand new topic in math- this stands for "closed with a twist"- if you want to be part of a new generation, try this one!  This may require that you personally contact the mathematician who started it all (he's nice) to get some of the results from his Summer Research for Undergraduates program.

Game Theory and the Cuban Missile Crisis
An intro to game theory, which is then used to model the Cuban Missille Crisis- very interesting modeling problem!

Math Modeling- Why run instead of walk?
Another interesting math modeling problem- very interesting animations.  Modeling and solving problems such as this would make a very interesting senior paper!

Unsolved problems
Interesting page with essays discussing unsolved problems in math.

Mersenne's Primes
Includes history and table on known Mersenne's primes

Fibonacci Numbers / Harder Fibonacci Numbers
This page has a set of puzzles which show applications of Fibonacci Numbers.  The second page has harder applications- you can start with the easy ones, but of course for a senior project, you would need to move to the harder ones, too.

Free Software

Peanut Software
This site contains some very useful windows programs.  In particular, the program WinPlot and the dynamic geometry program WinGeom are especially recommended

gnuplot
This is another useful plotting program- it is freeware from Dartmouth- this site answers questions about gnuplot and gives you a link to the download site- downloads as a .zip file

 

EXP Viewer

This program allows you to view documents that were created in EXP, a scientific word processor.
 



What is Math?
 

Mathematical Atlas
A Gateway to Mathematics

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
NOW AVAILABLE!  (11/06/01)

Math in Daily Life
Web links in math

The Living Mathematics Project
some interesting interactive mathematical illustrations, for example- interactive proof of the Pythagorean Theorem, comparison of a function with it's Taylor polynomial, etc.

What Good is Math?
Ideas of why math should be important to you- geared for pre-college students, but still interesting.

Frank Potter's Science Gems
List of web sites for mathematics- sorted by topic.



Study Skills- Managing College Life

http://euler.slu.edu/Dept/SuccessinMath.html

Dr. Flints "You are currently at risk of not passing this course" page

College Life web page

Western Nebraska Skills Study page

Coping with Math Anxiety

Ways to be a Successful Student

Cindy Arem's Math Study Skills

How to Study for a Final Exam

College Life
A general page about college life- includes discussions of all aspects of college life- dealing with parents, study skills, dealing with dorm life, etc.\

Professor Freedman's Study skills Page

Find your learning style
A questionaire which helps you determine your learning style- be sure to read the tips on how to best utilize your style!

Index of Learning Styles
Another chance to decide how you learn.

Math Study Skills Inventory
Take this test to determine how your study skills rate!

Cuesta College Academic Support Center- Mathematics

Lots of good ideas for how to be successful in math classes.
 

Summer Programs for Students

Southwestern University- C. Sawyer
Listing of summer programs sorted by class (freshmen, soph, etc.), topics, student diversity

NASA
Undergraduate Student Research Program

NSF
Listing of Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

AMS
Listing of Summer REU's

MAA
Listing of Summer REU's

MAA
Other Summer opportunities

NSA
Opportunities for Co-Ops at the National Security Agency

AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellows Program

Fellows have worked as reporters, editors, researchers and production assistants at such media outlets as the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, Sacramento Bee, and Scientific American. Participants come in knowing the importance of translating their work for the public, but they leave with the tools and the know-how to accomplish this important goal.


 

For Future Teachers
These sites are just great sites I have come across in my own surfing- they are by no means a comprehensive list of sites available.  Of course, all of the sites above will be useful to you as you look for classroom resources, these are just geared especially towards teachers

Inspirational Posters
Download mathematical posters which would be good for decorating your room from the AMS

NCTM Web site (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics)

Math Forum
Register for their weekly newsletter with lots of interesting websites highlighted in each newsletter.  This is a MUST for future teachers- there are thousands of links for ideas for teaching.

Teacher2Teacher
A Math forum discussion archive for teachers

Math Goodies
This site has lots of "stuff" for math teachers- sign up for their weekly newsletter and get new ideas every week!

Plus Magazine
Really neat on-line magazine for mathematics- accessible to high school students, but interesting for all levels!

Pi in the Sky
Another really neat mathematics magazine accessible to high school students, but interesting for all levels!  This one has articles which are downloaded as .pdf files (need acrobat reader)

AMS High School Page
American Mathematical Society page for high school students and teachers.

AP Calculus
College board web page for advanced placement calculus exams

Karen's Tricks of the Trade
Author of Coolmath gives tips on how she makes her math class fun!

Math Counts
Math Counts is a contest for middle school math students- this is a page with a problem of the week as well as other class or math club activities

Chameleon Graphing
Web based unit on lines and slope

Lesson Plans
Interesting ideas for various topics- divided by grade level

Math Applications
This is a high school level course in applied math.  The chapters are quite interesting and have good ideas around which you could build a unit.  It is funded by a U.S. Challenge grant and the Department of Education of Hawaii.

Math Problems and WarmUps
A searchable list of word problems- high school, early college level.

Mathematical Games
List and rules for mathematical games which are terrific to use in the classroom.

NASA Kids Page
Besides the obvious, look at the "puzzles" section for interesting math problems- for example, how much would you weigh on the moon, etc.  You can also subscribe to an e-newsletter for teachers.

SDSU Career Center
Register at the SDSU Career Center

AIMS Web page
Activities Integrating Math, Science and Technology

Investigating Patterns
This page has really interesting activities for Middle School students involving patterns, curves and topology.

Beginning Teachers Toolbox
 
 

Link to SDSU Math and Stat Department
Link to Dr. Flint's Homepage
 
 

Last updated on:09/02/08

 

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