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
• Keywords (blatant pandering to search engines)

Math links

• 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
• The Math League, with good sample contests
• 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

Courses

• Algebra
  • LHS Honors Algebra 2 course description
  • LHS Honors Algebra 2 book; Holt's current Algebra 2 book info
  • How to factor quadratics (pdf)
  • Completing the square and the quadratic formula (pdf)
  • Exponent properties
  • Positively Negative, an online number line I wrote to play with adding, subtracting and multiplying negative numbers (requires Java)
  • Unit calculations, unit conversions, and all that (pdf version)
• 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
  • Unit calculations, unit conversions, and all that (pdf version)
  • Physics Classroom
• AP Computer Science A (AP Computer Science AB has been discontinued)
  • College Board info
  • Download the Java SE Development Kit (JDK) (download something named "JDK 6 Update 14" or similar and "Java SE 6 Documentation")
    • Mac users should download the JDK from Apple instead
  • BlueJ integrated Java development environment, a great environment in which to learn Java
  • Java information at Sun
    • Java documentation
      • Java language tutorial
• Programming languages/environments
  • Squeak
  • Squeakland: home of Squeak Etoys
  • Scratch
  • BlueJ, an education-oriented Java development environment
  • Robocode
  • StarLogo
  • Baheyeldin's teaching kids programming
  • Turing Machine simulator
• Course/grade management systems
  • Moodle
• SAT
  • College Board SAT info (practice)
  • Wikipedia SAT entry
  • studyguidezone SAT info
  • Princeton Review practice SAT/PSAT
• MCAS
  • Sample tests
• GED
  • GED Testing Service (Sample questions)
  • GED in Massachusetts
  • GED books on Amazon

Class/teacher/school Web pages

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

Peter Atlas' CP2 Algebra 2
• Lucy Lockwood
• Clarke Middle School, Lexington Public Schools
• Lexington High School Math Dept, Lexington High School
• Tatyana Finkelstein, math department, Diamond Middle School
• Ms. Schacker, CCHS
• Oracle math (Murphy), Campbell, McCall Middle School, Winchester

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