Saturday, June 5, 2010

The Totally Free Children's Learning Network

While surfing the web, I came across this rich site for the kids. The resources provided will surely make education to be fun and free. It is a free educational Websites For the young, and the young at heart.

Professor Freedman's Math Help

Professor Ellen Freedman provides information about basic math, algebra, study skills, math anxiety and learning styles and specifically addresses the needs of the community college adult learner. She captures the individual learning style and recognizing the instructor's teaching style. This site provides links for students and teachers to information about learning styles, study skills tips, and ways to reduce math anxiety and gives the students access to tutorials, algebra assignments, math videos, and a forum for discussing with the professor a variety of math topics.

Do the Math and Making an Impact

This is a link to the commencement address presented by Professor Doug Arnold on May 18, 2003 for the math and stat graduation at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.  This address might be of interest to you and others who wants to know why mathematics is so central to many disciplines.

On the Importance of Mathematics

Antonio Cangino provides link to the incredible lecture by the brilliant mathematician Timothy Gowers, entitled “The Importance of Mathematics”. Prof. Gowers makes a very strong case in favor of the value of math, of financing its relatively cheap research and its deep implications on human progress. Follow this link to watch the 8 parts that compose the whole video, in the following playlist: It is also made available in PDF format.

How to Understand Importance of Mathematics

Mathematics plays a significant role in the lives of individuals and the world of society as a whole. Mathematics is an essential discipline recognized worldwide, and it needs to be augmented in education to equip students with skills necessary for achieving higher education, career aspirations, and for attaining personal fulfillment. Its significance to education is not limited to the following aspects.  Follow this link to see some of the reasons why this is so.

10 Places for Online Math Help

This site provides links to a wide range of websites dedicated to providing lesson games, problem solvers and other resources that provide math practice.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Calculators

The following links instacalc,  web2.0calc provide amazing calculators that can be used to calculate everything from math equations to color gradients. New calculators will constantly being added.

Elementary Calculus

This is a calculus textbook at the college Freshman level based on Abraham Robinson's infinitesimals, which date from 1960.  The First Edition of this book was published in 1976, and a revised Second Edition was published in 1986, both by Prindle, Weber & Schmidt. The book is now out of print and the author decided (as of September 2002) to make the book available for free in electronic form at this site.

Online Dictionary,Encyclopedia and much more

Answers.com marries the best of community-driven questions and answers with hundreds of respected and trusted editorial reference books. The site knows the best answer to give you, whether it summons the expansive, ever-growing collection of community answers from WikiAnswers, or it taps into its ReferenceAnswers database, a comprehensive set of editorial, licensed reference topics.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Webmath - solve your math problem

Webmath is a math-help web site that generates answers to specific math questions and problems, as entered by a user, at any particular moment. The math answers are generated and displayed real-time, at the moment a web user types in their math problem and clicks "solve." In addition to the answers, Webmath also shows the student how to arrive at the answer.