You can contact Sonya at richarso@onid.orst.edu.
The internet is truly a remarkable resource for teachers and students. I am especially impressed by the first website here, the Calculator tutorial. How many times have we seen students frustrated by directions they weren’t sure how to follow. Here, a moving hand illustrates exactly what to do!
Free Calculator Tutorial: Hotmath and TI have partnered to offer free resources to help students learn to use their calculators. The “Getting Started Movies” feature a moving hand that illustrates which keys need to be pressed. http://hotmath.com/graphing_calculators/
WebEQ Equation Editor: From Sonoma State University in Californis, this website provides a comprehensive description of how to use the Equation Editor. Scroll down the page to find "What do you want to do?" and select the topic of your choice.
http://webct.sonoma.edu:8900/web-ct/help/en/designer/webeq_editor/webeq_about.html
Explore Learning-Solving Inequalities with Multiplication and Division: Note that you have a 5 minute a day free pass to explore each Gizmo. You will save time if you read the Exploration Guide first
http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspView&ResourceID=273
The Inverse of a Square Matrix: Richland Community College in Decatur, ILL, has posted this wonderful website that instructs students in using Matrices. If you follow down the discussion you will find a complete explanation of how to use the TI-83 graphing calculator to make the work easy.
http://www.richland.edu/james/lecture/m116/matrices/inverses.html
Portland Public Schools, Using the TI-83: This is a collection of wonderful notes with pictures of the graphing calculator screen to help you use your graphing calculator. It includes a list of topics in the Contents. Section 7.3 gives directions for Solving LInear Systems with Matrices. There are also sections on using the graphing calculator to fit curves to data. This is a very useful site!
http://www.pps.k12.or.us/curriculum/math/TI-83/TI-83.pdf
The Math Page: Percent Increase or Decrease: This is an especially clear explanation of how to find the percent increase or decrease. Here they are referred to as the "Difference" problems.
http://www.themathpage.com/ARITH/percent-increase-or-decrease.htm
Purple Math: The Advanced Math Topics features some very clear explanations of working with Matrices. This is a great place for students who need review.
http://www.purplemath.com/modules/index.htm
Nutshell Math: This is a tutoring site at a reasonable monthly cost to parents. You may select your own textbook and view brief videos of how to work problems from it. Free to teachers!
http://www.snappy-products.com/nutshellmath/html/ncc1_parent_landing.htm
Science and Optics: View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
Regions Mathematics league: ARML is the largest on site Math competition for gifted HS students . About 1500 students from 32 states have competed in this competition. A variety of competitions are presented as well as problems of the month.
http://www.arml.com/
Drexel Math Forum: This site is dedicated to math for middle school students. It has exciting links to a wide variety of interactive exploratory material.
http://mathforum.org/library/levels/middle/
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