Spice Up Your Math Class Maria H. Andersen @busynessgirl TeachingCollegeMath.com

by Maria Andersen

1. Notes / Online Texts

1.1. Paul's Online Math Notes

1.2. Purple Math

1.3. Connexions

1.4. MathPage: Trigonometry

1.5. College Algebra Tutorials at Texas A & M

1.6. NY Regents Prep for Algebra

1.7. S.O.S. Math

1.8. SticiGui

1.9. Free Math Books

1.10. Connected Curriculum Project

2. Open Courseware

2.1. Academic Earth

2.2. MIT Open Courseware

2.3. Webcast Berkley

2.4. Stanford on iTunes

2.5. UMass Boston

2.6. Academic Earth

2.7. Hippocampus

3. Online Calculators, Equations, and CAS

3.1. Equations

3.1.1. Wolfram Alpha

3.1.2. Online LaTeX Equation Editor

3.1.3. Sitmo Online Equation Editor

3.1.4. HTML Unicode for Math

3.2. CAS

3.2.1. Maxima

3.2.2. Sage

3.2.3. Wolfram Alpha

3.3. R: A Free Statistical Package

3.4. Calculators

3.4.1. Wolfram Alpha

3.4.2. GraphCalc

3.4.3. TinyMCE Graph Plugin for Wikis

3.4.4. WZ Online Grapher

4. Search Engines

4.1. How do I find stuff for myself?

4.1.1. General Internet Search Guidelines

4.1.2. Google Guide

4.1.3. Use Yummy Search Words

4.2. Google

4.3. Searchcube

4.4. Cooliris

4.5. Kartoo

4.6. Clusty

4.7. Congoo

4.8. Rollyo Searchrolls

4.9. WolframAlpha

5. Professional Organizations

5.1. MAA

5.2. AMS

5.3. AMATYC

5.4. NCTM

5.5. NCAT

5.6. ASA

5.7. NMAP

6. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Mathematics

6.1. The Nuts and Bolts of Writing Mathematics

6.2. Concept and Clicker Questions

6.2.1. Good Questions at Cornell

6.2.2. Project Math QUEST

6.3. Professional Development

6.3.1. Eric Mazur: Confessions of a Converted Lecturer

6.3.2. Getting Results

6.4. Essays about Mathematics, Teaching Mathematics, and the Future of Mathematics

6.4.1. NCAT Math Lectures: An Oxymoron?

6.4.2. Lockhart's Lament

6.4.3. Thinking about Learning, Learning about Thinking

6.5. How can we measure teaching and learning in math?

6.6. Student Conceptions of Mathematics

7. Magazines and Journals

7.1. WIRED

7.2. The Futurist

7.3. Journal of Online Mathematics

7.4. Science Friday

7.5. Distance Educator Weekly Magazine

7.6. Fast Company

7.7. Educause Review

7.8. Technology Review

7.9. Popular Science

7.10. eLearn Magazine

8. Why do it?

8.1. Who will teach them if we don't?

8.2. Academia 2.0

8.3. The majority of our students are ...

8.3.1. Index of Learning Styles

8.3.2. Active Learners

8.3.3. Visual Learners

8.4. How much Time

8.5. Re-examine your course structure

8.6. Millenials

8.7. Before you Begin

8.7.1. A Warning

8.7.2. Download Plug-ins

8.7.3. Understand the Language of the Internet

8.7.3.1. What is a URL?

8.7.3.2. What is a hyperlink?

8.7.3.3. Embed Code

8.7.4. Virtual Magnifier

9. Fair Use and Copyright

9.1. Fair Use Guidelines for Educational and Multimedia

9.2. Copyright Crash Course

9.3. A Fair(y) Use Tale

9.4. Baruch College Guide to Copyrighted Media

9.5. Creative Commons

9.6. Legal to copy books for digital use?

10. Managing Your Links

10.1. Favorites in Web Browser

10.2. Google Bookmarks and Google Toolbar

10.3. Del.icio.us

10.4. Diigo

11. Interactive Materials

11.1. National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

11.2. Wolfram Demonstration Project

11.2.1. Epsilon-Delta Finite Limit at a Finite Point

11.2.2. Solids of Known Cross Sections

11.2.3. Roots of Complex Numbers

11.2.4. Horizontal and Vertical Line Test

11.2.5. Harmonic Oscillation

11.3. WolframAlpha

11.4. Famous Curves Index

11.5. Finding Little Stuff and what to do with it

11.5.1. Arc Length Animation

11.5.2. Epsilon-delta Applet

11.5.3. Focus of a Parabola

11.6. Concept Questions (Project QUEST)

11.7. Connecting Mathematics

11.8. Math and Search

11.8.1. Adding search to public data

11.8.2. Google Trends

11.8.3. Google Trends Flu Trends

11.9. Math Interactives

11.10. Illuminations Activities

11.11. Geometric Look at Partial Derivatives

11.12. Calculus Songs

11.13. Math Top 10 Lists

11.14. Statistics

11.14.1. Dr Arsham's Business Stats Resource

11.14.2. RVLS Simulations and Demonstrations

11.14.3. TAMU Flash Demos

11.14.4. Seeing Statistics

11.14.5. Gapminder

11.14.6. StatPages

11.14.7. We Feel Fine

11.15. Calculus

11.15.1. Calculus Applets at SLU

11.15.2. CalculusPhobe Tutorials

11.15.3. Demos with Positive Impact

11.15.4. Linerider

11.15.5. Maths Online

11.15.6. Visual Calculus

11.15.7. Tom Leathum's Java Applets

11.15.8. Mathingo (think Bingo)

11.15.9. Mathematics Animated

11.15.10. Mathlets at UMN

11.15.11. Stewart Tools for Enriching Calculus

11.16. Algebra and Precalculus

11.16.1. Maria's Telescoping Math

11.16.2. Visual Fractions

11.16.3. Density Equalizing Maps

11.16.4. LSquaredMath

11.16.5. Interactivate

11.16.6. Tom Leathum's Java Applets

11.16.7. Linerider

11.16.8. Maths Online

11.16.9. Quia

11.16.10. Learning Algebra Fundamentals

11.16.11. Using Google Earth in Math

11.17. Math Elem Ed

11.17.1. Linerider

11.17.2. Using Google Earth in Math

11.17.3. For the record

11.18. History

11.18.1. Periodic Table of Mathematicians

11.18.2. Thinkquest Mathematics History

11.18.3. Euclid's Elements

11.18.4. MAC Tutor History

11.19. Online Resources for Probability and Statistics

11.20. Above Calculus

11.20.1. ODE Animations

11.20.2. Mathematics Animated

11.20.3. PDE Gallery

11.20.4. Complex Analysis

12. Digital Libraries

12.1. AMSER

12.2. Wolfram Demonstrations Projects

12.3. Science Literacy Maps

12.4. NLVM

12.5. NSDL

12.6. MERLOT

12.7. MathDL

12.7.1. Loci

13. Video

13.1. TED Talks

13.1.1. Chris Anderson on "the long tail"

13.1.2. Web's Secret Story: Jonathan Harris

13.1.3. Mathemagic with Arthur Benjamin

13.1.4. Toys that make Worlds: Will Wright

13.1.5. Jawdropping Photosnyth Demo

13.1.6. Ron Eglash on African Fractals

13.1.7. How Engineers Learn from Evolution

13.1.8. Birth of the Computer

13.1.9. Hans Rosling's Best Stats You've Ever Seen

13.1.10. Hans Rosling's New Insights on Poverty

13.1.11. Hans Rosling on HIV

13.1.12. Mathematics of War

13.1.13. Beautiful Math of Coral

13.1.14. How Stats Fool Jurors

13.2. Sixty Symbols

13.3. YouTube

13.3.1. MathGirl

13.3.1.1. Differentials Attract

13.3.1.2. Zero's Discontinuity

13.3.1.3. Rationalize This

13.3.2. Moebious Transformations Revealed

13.3.3. I Will Derive!

13.3.4. The Laws of Sir Isaac Newton

13.3.5. Rube Goldberg Style Honda Commercial

13.3.6. Kumar's Root 3 Poem

13.3.7. Pilot Math Channel

13.3.8. MathTV Channel

13.3.9. Calculicious

13.3.10. Mathmaticious

13.3.11. Zero and One

13.3.12. Fractorix

13.3.13. Ma and Pa Kettle do Math

13.3.14. u-sub Silent Movie

13.3.15. IBM TV Smarter Math

13.3.16. Acting out Related Rates

13.3.17. MAA YouTube Channel

13.3.18. Calculus Rhapsody

13.3.19. Center of Mass Trajectory (MIT)

13.4. 100 Incredible Open Lectures for Math Geeks

13.5. Mathematics in the Movies (from Knill at Harvard)

13.6. Math and the Movies with MathBits Worksheets

13.7. Sputnik Observatory for Study of Contemporary Culture

13.8. YouTube EDU

13.9. AtGoogleTalks

13.10. Harvard at Home

13.11. Leibniz Calculating Machine

13.12. Project Tuva: Feynman Videos

13.13. Year of Math Blogging

13.14. Science Friday Video Site

14. Data, Charts, and Graphs

14.1. Wolfram Alpha

14.2. Federal Statistics

14.3. Measure of America

14.4. Many Eyes

14.5. Statistics Human Development UN

14.6. Collection of Sites for Data, Charts, and Maps

14.7. TinyMCE Graph Plugin for Wikis

15. Humor

15.1. xkcd

15.2. GraphJam

15.3. Indexed

15.4. Spiked Math

15.5. Math Modeling of Zombie Outbreak

15.6. New Math

15.7. Brown Sharpie

15.8. Math Purity Test

15.9. Dieting the Math Way

15.10. Virtual Math Museum

15.11. Nearing Zero Math Cartoons

16. Articles and Blog Posts about Wolfram Alpha

16.1. Don't get Wolfram Alpha? Try these examples.

16.2. Wolfram Alpha for Inquiry-based Learning in Calculus (2010)

16.3. What we're doing with Wolfram Alpha (2009)

16.4. Interview at Wolfram Alpha Homework Day (2009)

16.5. Recalculating Teaching and Learning

16.6. Impact of Wolfram Alpha on Math Ed

16.7. Wolfram Alpha Loci Article

16.8. Wolfram Alpha Blog

16.9. Singularity Summit: Supreme Mathematics of Gods and Earth

16.10. Sum Help: New search engine for Mathletes (WSJ)

16.11. A new computation engine shakes up math

16.12. A Calculating Website could ignite a new campus Math War

17. Math Blogs

17.1. Terry Tao

17.2. Walking Randomly

17.3. y of x

17.4. Haven't found what you're looking for?

17.5. Start a Blog

17.6. Recently added

17.6.1. Math-blog

17.6.2. Tanya Khovanova's Math Blog

17.6.3. (x, why?)

17.6.4. Mathematics under the Microscope

17.6.5. The n-Category Café

17.6.6. Not Even Wrong

17.6.7. 360

17.6.8. The Unapologetic Mathematician

17.6.9. Wild About Math

17.6.10. God Plays Dice

17.6.11. Annoying Precision

17.6.12. Gower's Weblog

17.6.13. What's New

17.6.14. Good Math, Bad Math

17.6.15. bit-player

17.6.16. Gyre & Gimble

17.6.17. Division by Zero

17.6.18. Rigorous Trivialities

17.6.19. Math Notations

17.6.20. Secret Blooging Seminar

17.6.21. Pat's Blog

17.6.22. The Numbers Guy

17.6.23. Steven Strogatz at Opinionator Blog

17.6.24. A Mind for Madness

17.6.25. Concrete Nonsense

17.6.26. F_un Mathematics

17.6.27. E. Kowalski’s blog

17.6.28. Arcadian Functor

17.6.29. Combinatorics and more

17.6.30. Accidental Mathematician

17.6.31. The Geomblog

17.6.32. Konrad Voelkel’s Blog

17.6.33. Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP

17.6.34. OxDE

17.6.35. Computational Complexity

17.6.36. Disquisitiones Mathematicae

17.6.37. Hydrobates

17.6.38. MAA Math Minute

17.6.39. MAA NumberADay

17.6.40. Math for Love

17.6.41. Deb's Mathematic Blog

17.6.42. Casting Out Nines

17.6.43. xkcd

17.6.44. Walking Randomly

17.6.45. SquareCircleZ

17.6.46. Natural Blogarithms

17.6.47. yofx

17.6.48. Sumidiot

17.6.49. Complexify!

17.7. What is a blog?

17.8. What is RSS?

17.9. 360 Blog

17.10. 37 Data-ish Blogs You Should Know About

17.11. AMS Grad Student Blog

17.12. Casting Out Nines

17.13. Division by Zero

17.14. God Plays Dice

17.15. Math in the News RSS Feed

17.16. nLab Collection of Math Blogs

17.17. Number Warrior

17.18. Teaching College Math

18. Technology Tools and Tutorials for Math

18.1. eLearning Tools for STEM

18.2. Teching Up: Mapping out Math

18.3. Math DAISY Demo

18.4. Jarnal Tutorials

18.5. Students focus on Software, not mathematical errors

18.6. iPen

18.7. Encylcopedia of Educational Technology

18.8. Wolfram Alpha