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Links To Math Web Sites
Tutorials, Resources, and Online Courses
- Math Is Power
This is the web site for the commercials you see on TV claiming that you get
a better job if you take more math, i.e., algebra, trigonometry, calculus.
- Eric
Weisstein's World of Mathematics Loads and loads of math goodies
from Wolfram Research.
- Rick
Stoll's Web Site Lots of good stuff for Calculus I.
- Langara
College internet resources for the calculus student A wealth of
material to help with calculus can be found here.
- Langara
College internet resources for the math student A wealth of
material to help with a variety of math courses can be found here.
- The
Connected Curriculum Project Great stuff for multivariable
calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations by Frank Wattenberg,
Department of Mathematics, Montana State University.
- Visual
Calculus Terrific tutorial material for PreCalculus, Calculus I,
and Calculus II. This is an
award winning site created by Lawrence S. Husch, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, with help from his students.
- Geometry,
The Online Learning Center A web site with links to lots of limit and
continuity topics (and other stuff). It is an online learning
center. Click calculus learning and
then limits and continuity
when at the site to see material on limits and continuity.
- Dan
Bach's Help for Calculus A web site with a nice tangent line
animation as well as other calculus material including limits, differential
calculus, integral calculus, and vector calculus.
- World
Web Math A web site in progress (incomplete) with help for
trigonometry, calculus, vector
calculus.
- Georgia
Tech Math Physics Vector Calculus Home Page Maple and Mathamatica
based lectures.
- Online
Calculus III from the Springfield Technical Community College
distance learning project.
- Vector
Land An introduction to 3D vector analysis
- HMC
Online Tutorials Harvey Mudd College online mathematics tutorials
including help for PreCalculus, Calculus, and Differential Equations.
- Karl's
Calculus Tutor This is an improved version (over the one that has
been listed on my Homestead Links below) and has a lot of useful tutorials
and examples for Calculus I and Calculus II.
- Help
for Everything Help in all areas including math.
- Math
Help Desk Help for math.
- Math
Archives A wide variety of Math support tools at the University of Tennessee at
Knoxville. Visual
Calculus linked above is under this site.
- Duke
University Math Materials Many great tutorials and math
explorations but most of them require a computer algebra system (CAS).
Many are written for either Maple, Mathematica, Mathcad, or Matlab.
- calc101.com
Step by step derivatives and integrals.
- SOS
Math Calculus Help for calculus students. There are
tutorials on many calculus topics. SOS Math has tutorials ranging from
Algebra to Differential Equations. The logo below links to their homepage.
 - Mathematics
Help in a wide variety of courses from Pre-Algebra to Calculus including
Statistics on the About mathematics
site.
- Math Forum at
Drexel Extensive math resources including Ask Dr. Math linked
below in the online tutoring section.
- Calculus
I and Calculus III Review material for Calculus I and lots of
Calculus III material by Carlos Rodriguez.
- UBC
Calculus I Online This links to the homepage of the University of
British Columbia's online Calculus I (Math 100) course which has lots of
nice demonstrations.
- UBC
Calculus I and II Online This links to the homepage of the
University of British Columbia's online Calculus I-II (Math 101) course
which has lots of nice demonstrations and applets for calculus I and
calculus II topics.
- 21st
Century Problem Solving This site bills itself as a modern
approach to reliable problem solving across the curriculum. It is a
Math Online International site from HAWAII
owned by Howard C. McAllister.
- Calculus
Quest (Oregon State University Statewide and High School Outreach) This is an online Calculus I
class with lots of tutorials and sample problems on topics ranging from
limits to continuity to differentiation and with curve sketching, related rate problems and
optimization problems.
- Calculus
Quest II More topics from Calculus I and also topics from Calculus
II.
- John
Pais' Web Site Calculus for kinetic modeling from the St. Louis
College of Pharmacy.
- Zona
Land Education in physics and mathematics.
- I-Math
Illuminations This site has some "illuminating" projects
from the NCTM for math students ranging in level from pre K on.
- Bigchalk
This is a site primarily for teachers and students K-12 but if you go to the
teachers section and then to the math section under high school you can find material for lots
of different math courses including calculus. Most of the material
however is accessed through links to sites listed above.
- Larson Internet Text
Solutions This site includes previews of all the Larson et al
online textbooks. You can preview them for free for two weeks and also
look at free demos from selected sections of each textbook.
- Tutorials
on a Wide Variety of Topics on the Finite
Mathematics & Applied Calculus Tutorial Resource Page by Stefan Waner
and Steven Costenoble at Hofstra
University. Finite mathematics here includes a wide variety of topics
including algebra.
- Project Links
These learning modules from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) are
awesome.
- Hotmath
You can look at solutions to the first nine problems in any exercise set
from a wide variety of mathematics textbooks including Calculus
by Larson, Hostetler, Edwards, sixth edition. You have to join to be
able to look at their solutions to other problems in the exercises. To
look at Calculus solutions (1-9) for free go in as a guest, click the
calculus button at the top, and then click on the textbook icon.
- ecalculus
This site includes worked out detailed solutions to problems (by D. A. Kouba), and
animations (by Deej Heath) for calculus.
- Optimization
Theory This site is a tutorial devoted to optimization theory,
difference equations and differential equations.
- cut-the-knot
All kinds of stuff on this site including puzzles, algebra, geometry, and
links to other outstanding sites.
- Math
Made Easier by Angela Olson has help for calculus students.
- The Geometry
Center of the University of Minnesota. The physical center is now
closed but the web site contains lots of good stuff.
Links to Links
Java Applets and Other Animations and Visuals
- Links
to Applets by an Applet
- Project
Java at SUNYSB Java applets for earth science, computer science, math
, physics, chemistry.
- Three Java Applets: The
Juggler, A View of
Space, Animated
Sum of Two Sine Waves
- Solar
System Applet An applet depicting our solar system today.
This is from the Liftoff site linked above.
- JARS
Math Applets Here are lots more applets for math.
- JARS
Math and Science Applets Here are more applets for math and
science.
- Cool
Java Scripts and Gif Animation The title may or may not fit since
I have so far not been able to view many of these and fear some may no
longer be available.
- The
Living Mathematics Project More Java math tools and demos hosted
by SunSITE UBC, University of British Columbia Math Department.
- Educational
Java Programs for Math and Science K-12
- Larry
Green's Applet Page This includes algebra word problems and other
algebra problems from Lake Tahoe Community College.
- Java
Components for Mathematics Hobart and William Smith College java
components for mathematics.
- Manipula
Math with Java Lots of neat Java applets for math from IES.
- Interactive
Physics and Math with Java Java applets for physics and math
demonstrations by Sergey Kiselev and Tanya Yanovsky-Kiselev.
- MSTE Java
Applets A nice selection of java applets from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Education).
 - ExploreMath.com
Many outstanding interactive math explorations.
- ExploreScience.com
Many outstanding interactive math-science explorations. These are fun
and you see the results of the math although the actual math behind the
demonstrations is generally not explained.
- Walter
Fendt's Java Applets on Mathematics He has some nice ones.
- La
Trobe Mathematics La Trobe School of Mathematics surface animations.
- Graphics
for the Calculus Classroom Some nice animations by Douglas N.
Arnold.
- Georgia
Tech Calculus Applets from Eric A. Carlen.
- Circle
of Curvature This is a nice practical application of circle of
curvature.
- Apollo
13 This is a nice example of space navigation and vector calculus.
- Vector
Calculus Visuals Links to a group of visuals for vector calculus
including the two above by Marc Frantz.
- Some
Nice Surfaces in Space by Paul Bourke of Swinburne University.
- Numerical
Integration A nice java applet visually demonstrating numerical
integration.
- Maths
Online Gallery This is a gallery of interactive multimedia
learning applets.
- Calculus
Animations with Mathcad by Przemyslaw Bogacki and Gordon Mulrose.
- Java
Projects By John Orr at the University of Nebraska.
- Mathlets:
Java Applets for Math Explorations Nice java applets for
precalculus and calculus by Tom Leathrum.
- Java
Math Applets at UCLA
 by Terence Tao.
- Some
Nice Math Animations by Paul Garrett from the University of Minnesota.
- Quadric
Surfaces A gallery of animated algebraic surfaces including
quadric surfaces (section 10.6) and other exotic surfaces by XIAO Gang.
- Dr.
Vogel's Gallery of Calculus Pathologies
- Math
Archives Interactive Math Links Links to interactive math
resources, java applets, etc.
- Interesting
Life and Death Applet
- Imaging
Raytracer A java applet for drawing quadric surfaces by Paul
Flavin.
- The
Stars in the Sky This applet shows the positions of all 297 stars
with magnitudes less than 3.5, projected onto a sphere like a planetarium,
and identifies all those of the first magnitude.
- National
Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics This
is a library of tools for number operations, algebra, geometry, measurement,
data analysis and probability from Utah State University.
- Scatter
Plot Manipulative from the Library above.
- Hangman
Applet
- AOC/AUC
Applet This applet compares Area Over a Curve to Area Under a
Curve in the rectangle described by 0 <= x <= a and 0 <= y <=
f(a) with f(x) = x^n and asks the user to find a pattern. Take a
look--it's nice.
- Dr. William
Ziemer Homepage This site includes java applets for Riemann sums,
secant line approaching the tangent line, and a surface grapher as well as
an introduction to WebWork.
- Java
Applets for Math and Statistics by Lesley Robinson of The University
College of the Cariboo.
- Courseware
A java toolkit for web-served science and math simulations.
- Group
of Applets This links to a group of applets by MathinSite.
- Java
Tools for Calculus This site has java tools for calculus (real
analysis) including an integration applet with a right, left, and general
Riemann sum demonstration and also an upper/lower sum demonstration.
- Here is a nice
set of applets that includes a damped harmonic oscillator (spring) and a
simple plane pendulum.
- Arizona
Mathematical Software Here is a collection of free software for a
wide variety of mathematical topics from the University of Arizona.
- Differential
Equations Applets from Dartmouth.
- Arc
Length This is a nice applet demonstrating the approximation of
arc length using line segments.
- Another
Surface Grapher and other java applets.
- Fabulous
Mini-Putt Golf
- UNT
Physics Demonstration Facility Links to physics applets.
Graphing and Computer Algebra Utilities
- Surface
Graphing Utility and other math resources on the Finite
Mathematics & Applied Calculus Resource Page by Stefan Waner and Steven
Costenoble at Hofstra
University.
- THE
INTEGRATOR A free function integrator. You need to read
their instructions on entering input to use it effectively. It is from
Wolfram Research and powered by Mathematica.
- DPGraphics
Terrific 3-D graphics requiring the DP Graph Viewer which can be downloaded
for free from the site.
- David
Parker Site David Parker makes extensive use of DPGraphics in
multivariable calculus on this site.
- Vanderbilt
Toolkit Great toolkit for differentiating, integrating, and lots
of other math operations including Newton's Method.
- Vanderbilt
DE Toolkit This will solve a variety of differential equations.
- Function
Grapher Here is a very nice function grapher that will graph
multiple functions at the same time and each in a different color.
- WWW
Interactive Mathematics Server (WIMS) One of the best online
sources for math resources. Click Online
calculators and plotters for some terrific
tools.
- Traces
Animes A really nice set of 2D and 3D WIMS graphing tools by XIAO Gang
which will produce pictures and graphs that can then be saved and printed or
used on a web site.
- WozGraph
Free Grapher
- HartMath
A free java computer algebra applet.
- Calculus WIZ
This latest product from Wolfram is based on Mathematica.
- Calculators
On-Line Center Mathematics This site seems to have everything
including graphing calculators, 3D graphers, software to compute anything
needed in undergraduate mathematics, and more.
- Waterloo
Maple Home Page
- Derive
5 Tutorials
- Math
Calculators These include a calculus calculator and a differential
equations calculator. The site is from the University of Wisconsin-La
Cross, R.H. Hoar and M. Kristopeit.
- Math
Tools From Math.com This is an assortment of calculators, graphers,
and converters.
- xFunctions
xPresso This is an educational tool for exploring several topics
in calculus and precalculus mathematics. It includes animated graphs,
parametric curves, derivatives, Riemann sums, integral curves, 3D graphs and
basic graphing.
- CGI
Based Web Plotter From UC Davis.
- MuPad A
computer algebra system site with a download for a free thirty day trial. Thanks
to Eric Bancroft for finding this one. I downloaded it and it seems
pretty nice.
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This page was last updated on 12/17/09
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