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
    • CodingBat, a free site of live coding problems to build coding skill in Java, and now in Python (example problem), created by Nick Parlante who is computer science lecturer at Stanford. The coding problems give immediate feedback, so it's an opportunity to practice and solidify understanding of the concepts.
    • 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.mathtutorlexington.com
781-696-2614 • 81 Baker Ave, Lexington MA 02421-6228 • email