Resources

Misc

• Summer loan of mathematics textbooks for LHS students
• Please put up copies of this flyer wherever you think it might be appropriate
• Printable graph paper (two pages so you can print two-sided)
• "Figured out" not figured out; figures not out, a letter to the Globe about some shocking assumptions made in a book review of pictures of mathematicians
• my ed school portfolio, more or less
• Keywords (blatant pandering to search engines)

Math links

• Common Core Standards
  • Key Points In Mathematics
  • Mathematics Standards (pdf)
• Khan Academy
• Dan Meyer's Curriculum Needs A Makeover TED talk (12 min) and blog
• One Mathematical Cat
• Wolfram Alpha: Ask it anything!
• Hung-Hsi Wu's papers on mathematics education
• Experiencing Maths, lots of cool experiments with math concepts
• 100 best websites for mathletes
• Mark's Mathematics Education Links
• Intermediate Math League of Massachusetts
• CML (Continental Mathematics League)
• The Math League, with good sample contests (NEML, New England Math League etc.)
• MathCounts, with good sample problems
• The Art of Problem Solving, somewhat commercial but has lots of good stuff
• Cut the Knot: Explore!
• Wolfram MathWorld, a great encyclopedia of mathematics
• Don't forget Wikipedia!

Software tools

• Open source software in education
• My GeoGebra page
• Virtual manipulatives: Virtual manipulatives are computer simulations of real-world things that can help us understand mathematics. Here are some of the ones I've used.
  • National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
  • Positively Negative, an online number line I wrote to play with adding, subtracting and multiplying negative numbers (requires Java)
  • Algebra balance scales, in which we solve equations using a balance beam (version with negatives)
  • Algebra Tiles, in which we use rectangular and square tiles to understand the distributive law

Writings

• How to factor quadratics (pdf)
• Completing the square and the quadratic formula (pdf)
• Exponent properties
• Unit calculations, unit conversions, and all that (pdf version)
• Annoying Circle Question (pdf)

Courses

• Algebra
  • LHS Honors Algebra 2 book; Holt's current Algebra 2 book info
  • Positively Negative, an online number line I wrote to play with adding, subtracting and multiplying negative numbers (requires Java)
• Statistics
  • LHS Lv1 Statistics and Probability course page
  • StatSoft Electronic Statistics Textbook
  • Colorado State's Statistics guide
  • For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics (New York Times)
• Physics
  • Physics Classroom
• AP Calculus
  • Calculus AB
  • Calculus BC
• AP Computer Science A (AP Computer Science AB has been discontinued)
  • College Board info
  • Development tools
    • Java SE Development Kit (JDK) (download something named "JDK 6 Update whatever" or similar and maybe "Java SE 6 Documentation")
      • Mac users should use the JDK from Apple instead
    • BlueJ integrated Java development environment, a great environment in which to learn Java
    • Eclipse IDE for Java, from the Eclipse Foundation
    • Java information at Sun
      • Java documentation
        • Java language tutorial
• Other programming languages/environments
  • Squeak
  • Squeakland: home of Squeak Etoys
  • Scratch
  • Robocode
  • StarLogo
  • Baheyeldin's teaching kids programming
  • Turing Machine simulator
• Course/grade management systems
  • Moodle
• PSAT
  • About
  • Preparing (with practice questions)
• SAT
  • Annoying Circle Question (pdf)
  • College Board SAT info (practice)
  • Wikipedia SAT entry
  • studyguidezone SAT info
  • Princeton Review practice SAT/PSAT
  • SparkNotes SAT Information Center
• MCAS
  • Sample tests
• GED
  • GED Testing Service (Sample questions)
  • GED in Massachusetts
  • practice
  • GED books on Amazon

Class/teacher/school Web pages

Pages for classes/teachers/schools that some of my students are in

• Lexington Public Schools
  • LPS snow day info
  • Lexington High School
    • Math Dept
      • (You now have to look up each course to find the exam archive)
      • TI-83/TI-84 Calculator information
  • Clarke Middle School
    • Lucy Lockwood
    • Josh Frost, Clarke Math Team
  • Diamond Middle School
    • math department
    • TeacherWeb
    • Lally (K2)
    • Tatyana Finkelstein
    • Ms. Denham
• Peter Atlas' CP2 Algebra 2
• Ms. Schacker, CCHS
• Oracle math (Murphy), Campbell, McCall Middle School, Winchester
• Arlington, AHS, Math Dept, Mr. Bookston, Algebra 2
• Glencoe myBooks
• Harvard Extension: Harry Lewis' Bits

Math leagues

• Wikipedia article: Math Teams in Lexington Public Schools (Massachusetts)
• Continental Mathematics League (source of assessments used at Diamond Middle School)
• Intermediate Math League of Eastern Massachusetts (IMLEM)
• MathCounts

Math programs

• The Math Club
• The Russian School of Mathematics
• MIT KEYS for 11-13-year-old girls
• Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth

Summer programs

• PROMYS at Boston University

Jon Dreyer • Math tutor • Computer Science tutor • www.passionatelycurious.com
781-696-2614 • 81 Baker Ave, Lexington MA 02421-6228 • email