Pre-Calculus and Calculus

• Pre-Calculus and Calculus Practice Problems - Nice explanations and examples.  Graphics of pre-calculus and calculus topics.  Be patient.  If you try to go to the next level before the document is done loading it will crash.  Animations of calculus problems is great.

• Math Archives precalculus page
• A Short Course in Trigonometry- Good, quick explanations of Trig topics.
• The Visual Calculus project at the University of Tennessee - Formal Definition of the limit.
• Swarthmore Calculus Links - Links to calculus websites.
• The Integrator - Integrates input functions but drops the constant.
• A Java applet for graphing vectors - Draws vectors and does a good job teaching addition and subtraction of them.
• e-Calculus

Calculators

• Finance Math Calculators  

• An unofficial site about TI graphing calculators-You will find answers to most frequently asked questions about TI graphing calculators including programming, linking to computers and general usage.   Also, you can access tutorials to help you learn programming.

• Education from Texas Instruments

• Unit Conversion

Math Helps

• SOS Math - A site with lessons, sample problems and exams, as well as a message board for posting questions and solutions only available to members.

• Math Forum - A site with lesson plans, software, and newsgroups related to the content of math courses taught at Highline." (Good for faculty resource.)

History

• African-American Mathematicians - Biographies of African-Americans who have contributed to mathematics over the years.

• Women Mathematicians - Biographies of the women who have contributed to mathematics over the years.

• Mathematicians Born Today - Find out whose birthday it is!

• A Random Mathematical Quote Every Day

• A Modern History of African-Americans in Mathematics

• The Women in Math Project -  This Web site contains a collection of bibliographies of publications (topics include gender & mathematics and feminist theories of science .... 20 categories altogether), a search engine for the bibliographies, information and links to informational sites on various journals, newsletters, and catalogs on or of interest to women.

• Euclid's Elements Online- The text of all 13 books is complete, figures are illustrated using the Geometry Applet.

• Trinity College Resources - A history of mathematics resources maintained by David R. Wilkins, Trinity College, Dublin ( Newton attended).

• The Vatican's History of Math Exhibit -A website on ancient science and its modern fate.

•  The MacTutor of History of Mathematics Archive - An archive of information, including biographies, mathematician of the day, and famous curves.

Miscellaneous

• Knot a Braid of Links - A list of math sites on the Web. Some are intended for mathematicians, but most are not.
• Math Becomes Way Cool - This is an article discussing why math is suddenly showing up more often in books, TV and movies.
• Math Forum -Formerly the Geometry Forum. Areas for educators, students, researchers.
• Ask Dr. Math -Good resources organized by level and subject area.

Recreational Math

• Eppstein's Recreation Math Depository - A huge collection of non-specific recreational math and math history sites (as well as links to other recreational math sites).
• Anagram Maker-makes anagrams for absolutely EVERYTHING!!! ("A cheetah might slim in" for "Highline Mathematics")
• Puzzle Archives- A collection of text based puzzles (interesting but dry)
• Sequences Encyclopedia - Give them the beginning of a sequence, they'll try to find a match.
• Math Tutorials and Games- Math education resources.

Math Mistakes

• Common Math Mistakes - This page contains explanations of the most common errors made by undergraduate mathematics students and tries to help explain why these errors are made and how to avoid making them yourself.

Fibonnaci Related Links

• Fibonacci Number Links - This site is mostly a question and answer page.  It has some interesting questions that have been posed, and their answers. You can ask Dr. Math your own questions, also.
• Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section - Interesting explanations, and some cool puzzles to ponder.

Geometry

• Geometry in Action-Geometry application links.
• Geometry Junkyard - Odds and ends of geometry info, serious and entertaining. Includes nice 4+ dimensional links.
• Geometry Center- Full of geometry software and links particularly useful to educators.
• Native American Geometry - This highly informative page describes the geometry of circles and lines (or compass and straightedge), which was developed independently by cultures around the globe.

Fractal Related Links

• Mandelbrot Set - This page allows you to zoom in on any location in the Mandelbrot set. Cool graphics!
• Mandelbrot Set
• Fractal of the day - Slightly more technical, but lots of cool pictures.

Organizations 

• Mathematical Association of America
• SIAM undergraduate page
• American Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges (AMATYC)
• American Mathematical Society (AMS)

Publications

• Academic Press Journals
• Chance News - Newsletter for statistics.
• Fibonacci Quarterly - Newsletter all about the Fibonacci sequence.
• Geometry and Topology - G&T annual journal.
• Mathematics Information Servers - Excellent list of all e-journals on the www. Lists math web servers around the world.

Employment

• Community College Web site has a list of web sites of different community colleges across the country. This site is great if you know which college you want, but don't know their address (most college web sites have a list of employment opportunities).http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cc/
• If you're looking for community college positions in the state of Washington, this site is for you. http://www.sbctc.ctc.edu/
• Higher Ed Jobs has academic jobs across the US.http://www.higheredjobs.com/

Additional Links

Case Studies - How statistics is used in real life.
Mathematical Quotations Server
Mathematics Archives-Teaching mats, software, journals. Good list of math newsletters and mailing lists.
Yahoo Mathematics -Math links by course/topic, with search engine.
World of Escher - Escher is the master of symmetry and tesselations.
Golden Mean
Golden Ratio
Golden Ratio Activities
Dave's Math Tables
Mathematical Connections

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