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Lots o' links

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The MCM
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Carroll College and Helena, Montana

• Carroll College
• Department of Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science
• MyCarroll
• Project MathQuest/MathVote
• A useful plotting to eps site
• Our WebWork Server and our old WeBWorK Server.
• WebWork: A system for online mathematics homework. CVS Instructions, WW2.2 installation. The webwork Discussion group. WeBWorK Documentation.
• The Carroll Math Boards
• Carroll CORE requirements.
• The Spring '08 MA 334 Schedule
• The Fall '07 MA 233 Schedule.
  
• The Fall '06 MA 233 Schedule.
• C*ODE*E: The Consortium of ODE Experiments and the C*ODE*E Newsletter.
• Instructions for the TI Voyage 200 Calculator.
• The Math Activities Page.
• ExplorationWorks museum of science and culture here in Helena.
• The Helena Symphony
• Concerts in Helena.
• Helena's Grandstreet Theatre
• KTVH
• The Helena Independent Record Newspaper.
• Movie times at the Cinemark 8 and the Myrna Loy.
• Helena Civic Television
• Montana Academy of Sciences
• Sage an open-source mathematics system.
• Network Solutions
• The Ames Education Associates Program
• PNNL Science and Engineering Education

Science/Math Supply Companies

• SargentWelch
• Carolina
• Pasco
• Edmund Scientific
• Pitsco
• Learning Technologies
• Fisher ScienceEducation

Open Source Textbooks

• A First Course in Linear Algebra
• Holistic Numerical Methods

Finite Element Software

• LISA Free version, full for $50.
• Internet Finite Element Resources
• Links to free finite element analysis software.
• ANSYS ED
• General Purpose FEA Software

Replies to Kuhn

• The Revolution That Didn't Happen by Steven Weinberg, also in his book Facing Up
• Do Thomas Kuhn's Scientific Revolutions Take Place? by Ernst Mayr from his book "What Makes Biology Unique

Astronomy/Physics Topics and Pages

• Free Planetarium Software
• 4 Interactions from the particle adventure.
• A Review of the Universe, very exhaustive online astro text.
• An Introduction to Chaos
• The K/T Boundary, an essay.
• Catastrophism and Mass Extinctions
• What Killed the Dinosaurs?
• A Blast From the Past
• Dinosaur Extinction
• The Deccan Traps Volcanism-Greenhouse Dinosaur Extinction Theory by Dewey McLean.
• A nice page on the scientific method from answers.com.
• Dark Energy
  • Resource Book on Dark Energy edited by Eric Linder
  • Dark Energy and the New Cosmology by Mike Turner.
  • Dark Energy Dominates the Universe from the group at Bonn.
  • Galaxy Clusters and Dark Energy from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
• The Quantum Theory
  • Line Spectra and Quantum Mechanics by Adam Frank
  • Physics 6H which looks to be a fun course in relativity and quantum mechanics.
  • Physics 2000 An awesome physics website!
• Black Holes
  • Orbits in Strongly Curved Spacetime
  • Einsteni's field equations and Black Holes
  • Relativity and Cosmology Problems
  • Black Holes with Java
  • The Quantised World
• Stars
  • Measuring the Stars
  • Chemical Analysis of the Stars
  • Stars
  • Measuring the Stars
  • StarSimu
• Supernovae
  • What is a supernova? from the British National Maritime Museum.
  • Page of SN links
  • NASA's Imagine page, NASA's Observatorium page, and a small page from NASA's HEASARC.
  • A seminar paper largely focusing on observational characteristics.
  • The Supernova Remnant Group at Penn State.
  • A discussion of the hypernova theory.
  • General SN page from Davison Soper, and one on SN1987A.
  • Page from Adam Frank.
  • Page from Jim Brau.
  • Page from James Schombert.
  • Birth Life and Death of Stars
• The Big Bang
  • A great set of pages on cosmology from The WMAP Mission.
  • An excellent Cosmology Tutorial by Ned Wright at UCLA.
  • A nice introduction to cosmology from a person at Berkeley.
  • Cosmology intro from the research group at Cambridge
  • Cool set of numerical cosmology pages with some nice movies.
• Saturn's Rings
  • Ringmaster
  • Planet Saturn
  • Solarviews
• Dark Matter
  • Chandra's Dark Matter page.
  • Nice dark matter page from an astronomy student.
  • Page from Berkeley.
  • Essay by Joe Silk.
  • Essay by Chris Miller
  • Excellent set of papers from caltech. In particular this is a wonderful review paper.
  • Page of references
  • Dark Matter Lecture from Ann Zabludoff. It's part of a course page on great debates in astronomy -- good stuff! And speaking of, she has a great set of lecture outlines for a general natural science course.
  • Page from Greg Bothun. Here’s the whole course.
  • Page from James Schombert, who has quite a few online lecture notes linked off his main page
• Nice set of astronomy stars and galaxies online lecture notes here, and the solar system notes here, plus a few on violence in the cosmos.
• Lunar Eclipse Computer from the us naval observatory.
• Earth & Sky provides nightly starmaps, showing where the constellations and planets are.
• Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA.
• NASA Image Exchange for searching NASA images.
• Black Hole Movie
• Particle Physics Web Sites
• The Official String Theory Web Site
• Here is a wonderful site describing particle physics from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
• The Astronomer's Songbook 2003 and The 2004 Addendum, both from Jon Bell of the Hallstrom Planetarium
• PhysicsSongs.org
• Physics Notes
• The public lectures of Stephen Hawking.

Physics and Mathematics Education Research

• Richard Hake, wonderful research and resources for physics education. Note particularly the final set of links.
• Can Mathematicians Learn Anything from Physics/AstronomyEducation Research? by Richard Hake.
• David Hestenes, includes the FCI MBT and other standardized tests to quantify physics learning.
• A summary of p chysics education research.
• The Physics Education Group at the University of Washington.
• Papers by Alan Schoenfeld who has some interesting things to say about mathematics education and research thereof.
• Education Resources for the classroom.
• A page of resources on Classroom Voting Technology.
• Science Education Funding Sources
• The classroom voting technology system we use is from Interwrite Learning PRS Infrared. I also have experience with the TurningPoint Student Wireless ResponseCards. Other electronic classrom voting system is from Hyper-Interactive Teaching Technology, and another, the eInstruction Classroom Performance System.
• Link to the Interactive Lectures Interest Group, using classroom voting in a variety of contexts.
• Page at Umass Amherst which is also using the PRS.
• A nice article by Kenny Felder that discusses the fundamental concept of how math is used in basic physics.
• Astro Cartoons
• Demonstrations of physics things
• A Methanol Rocket demonstration. Methanol Combustion

Undergraduate Mathematics Publications:

• PRIMUS Problems, Resources, and Issues in Undergraduate Mathematics Studies
• The UMAP Journal, from COMAP
• Louisiana Association of Teachers of Mathematics Journal
• Math Horizons, from the MAA
• Mathematics Teacher.
• Mathematics Magazine
• The College Mathematics Journal
• A nice Searchable Index for Math Magazine and CMJ.
• The Journal of Statistics Education, which is all available online.
• The MAA FOCUS Newsletter.
• FOCUS Online has a Teaching and Learning section, with a Research Sampler column and an Innovative Teaching Exchange.
• The Journal of STEM Education Innovations and Research
• Mathematics and Computer Education
• The Mathematics and Education Reform Newsletter
• The International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology
• Research in Mathematics Education
• Educational Studies in Mathematics
• The Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Mathematics Education Resources:

• American Institute of Mathematics
• Mathematics Department Assessments
• Linear Algebra Applets
• Matlab Activities for Multivariable Calculus
• Learning and Teaching Ordinary Differential Equations by Chris Rasmussen and Karen Whitehead.
• Guidelines for Writing Mathematics Projects from Bill Briggs at CU Denver.
• At Franklin & Marshall College, Annalisa Crannell's Guide to Writing in Mathematics Classes and page of Writing in Mathematics Resources.
• A nice page of links to sources of mathematics ConcepTests (questions for classroom voting) from David O. Lomen at the University of Arizona.
• The Cornell GoodQuestions Project, developing and testing materials for classroom voting in mathematics.
• Bruce Atwood has some good materials on using classroom voting in statistics.
• Mark Schlatter at Centenary College of Louisiana has done some work with ConcepTests in multivariable calculus -- described here and his library of multivariable ConcepTests is here
• The instructor companion sites for our Calculus Text which includes ConcepTests for classroom voting.
• A nice article describes classroom voting and its results here.
• See also this paper that was in FOCUS, by Melanie Butler at West Virginia University.
• Here's an innovative calculus text: Conversational Calculus.
• I'm trying to get a server running WebWork going here at Carroll, so that we can provide students with instantaneous feedback about whether their answers are right/wrong, and give them further chances to get things right.
• Nice set of resources for finite mathematics and applied calculus. Note especially the Excel Tutorials.
• Chance News, a newsletter that reviews articles in the news that involve probability and statistics.
• Project INTERMATH a source of ILAPS (interdisciplinary lively applications projects) for small groups of students.
• The Beyond Boundaries Conference: Integrating Technology into Teaching & Learning.
• The NSF's CCLI program .
• Actuarial Science Links: Actuarial College Listings from the Society of Actuaries and their categorization criteria for academic actuarial science programs. They also approve specific courses for Validation by Educational Experience in three fields: Applied Statistical Methods (econometrics), Corporate Finance, and Economics, of they satisfy the necessary requirements (Guidelines). The Casualty Actuarial Society's Academic Correspondent Program. Lebanon Valley College has a top notch Actuarial Science Program. Details on the first two actuarial exams. Topics (and here) on the first 1/P Probability Actuarial Exam. Details on exam and VEE requirements.

Astronomy Education Resources:

• Peer Instruction
  • Paul Green has some great resources for using Peer Instruction in astronomy.
  • The PI technique originally comes from Erik Mazur who used it in physics classes.
  • PI has now spawned Project Galileo.
  • The BeyondQuestion software for this, created by William Junkin at Erskine College.
• Small group in-class activities.
  • The CAPER team at Montana State have created a vast library of in-class group activities.
  • Mike Zeilik's workbook of group activities for large astronomy classes.
  • Mysteries of the Sky: Activities for Collaborative Groups, Adams and Slater, 1998, Kendall Hunt. Lots of great in-class group activities.
  • The folks at the space science institute have put together a fun "lab" for kinesthetically understanding the motions of the Earth.
• Role playing in-class activities from Paul Francis .
• Computer based astronomy labs:
  • Project CLEA has created a series of them with free downloadable software, that allow students to gather data, analyze it, and draw important conclusions.
  • Labs from NYU
  • The Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project
  • These java labs were put together at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Science, although they're rather touchy on what computers they work with.
  • The University of Oregon has a number of useful java labs.
• Astro Activities
• Everyday Classroom Tools from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
• A great resource for teaching physics and astronomy: The Physics Teacher
• Astronomy Education Review
• The NASA JPL Center for Astronomy Education.

Excel Tutorials

• From Brad James at the University of South Dakota
• From baycongroup
• How to do grades on Excel from Andrew Lummis
• From Florida Gulf Coast University
• From Business Training Schools
• From the Alabama Supercomputing Program

Music

• mfiles: Free sheet music downloads.
• The Sheet Music Archive classical sheet music: 2 free downloads per day.
• Here is a nice collection of elementary sheet music, from Gilbert DeBenedetti.
• free-scores.com, a wonderful collection of free classical music.
• Words and Music, lots of free sheet music -- pop and alternative mostly.
• Christmas Music
• The Free Sheet Music Guide to Christmas Music