Mathematics Plus

• Honors Geometry Course Outline
• Class Expectations:
  • Honors Geometry
  • Geometry, Academic or Regular
• Powers of Ten - An interactive web trip zooming from far outside our galaxy in to view the subatomic particles in an atom on planet Earth
• Ivars Peterson's MathTrek Archives
• The Math Forum Student Center
• The Delaware Valley Annual Math Fair
• Buy the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition
  • from Amazon
  • from CircuitCity.com
  • from Target.com
  • from SchoolMart
• Get Cabri Jr Software for TI-83/84 (FREE!)
• SAT Question of the Day
• The Flood of 2006
• Play The Tower of Hanoi
• Pascal's Triangle
• A Pascal's Triangle Calculator
• Number Patterns in Pascal's Triangle
• Modular Color Patterns in Pascal's Triangle
• A Tale of Four Problems: Combinations & Pascal's Triangle (my handouts of slides for students)
• Modular Magic Cubes Discovered! (news item: 11/18/03)
• Class Data (an Excel file)
• Intro to Statistics notes
• Normal Approximation of Binomial Distribution
• The Central Limit Theorem
  • My lesson guide for the CLT (a PDF file)
  • An explanation of the theorem
  • A great Java simulation to explain the theorem
  • An even greater Java simulation to generate sampling distributions from a variety of populations
• Flatland The complete text of the classic book online!
• RSA Algorithm An explanation with a JavaScript example
• Star Links A movie/TV star look at the Six Degrees of Separation Conjecture
• Major League Baseball Players and Teams
• Dijkstra's Shortest Path Algorithm
• APA Publication Manual Crib Sheet
• World Population Information
• World & US Pop Clocks
• Pennsylvania Statistics Poster Contest
• Origami.com Tons of patterns for Japanese paper-folding
• Chi-Square Test
• M&M Distributions
• The Pi Trainer
• 2000 Digits of Pi
• Near A Raven An amazing example of constrained writing
• Cool Number Trivia Interesting facts about every whole number through 1002 and beyond!
• Nova: The Proof (Fermat's Last Theorem)
• Data and Story Library - DASL
• Census Data (searchable via image maps)
• List of Data Sources
• Bureau of the Census
• National Center for Education Statistics - US Dept of Ed
• Data Sets and References from St. Lawrence University
• The TI-83/84 Graphing Calculator
  • Statistical Inference on the TI-83 (with downloadable programs)
  • Programs for the TI-83 (for a variety of mathematical subjects)
  • The TI-83 Official Site (with downloadable programs and other supporting material)
• Dr. Math get answers to your math questions
• Blockages

Science & Health News

Access to current news stories, some with testable claims

• Article: 106 Science Claims and a Truckful of Baloney
• Science News from the New York Times
• Science News from MSNBC
• Health News from the AP
• Health News from the New York Times
• Health News from MSNBC
• Medical News from the AP

Slides from Some of My Most Recent Presentations

• Connecting Geometry and Biology National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Baltimore, October 2004
• Some of My Favorite Counting Problems Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Split Rock, March 2003
• Fractals in the Geometry Classroom PCTM Harrisburg, March 2002
• Genetics Meets Geometry National Association of Biology Teachers, Montreal, November 2001

Steelers (and other Sports Stuff Not As Worthy of Its Own Section)

• Pittsburgh Steelers News Site
• Pittsburgh Steelers Official Site
• Steelers Team News from NFL.com
• The Official Pittsburgh Pirates Site
• The Official Pittsburgh Penguins Site
• USA Today Scoreboard

Miscellaneous (but Nonetheless Important) Links

• DV World
• Apple Computer
• The Tabasco Pepperfest
• NY Times Circuits Column by David Pogue
• Chile Pepper Magazine
• Pocono Record Online
• NE PA Weather from NWS
• The American Contract Bridge League
• DVHS Drug Testing Permission Form