Links for Work and Play

Reference Tools Search engines: Google and Yahoo! Online databases and tools: Highline's Library Maps: Mapquest, MSN Live Search, Google, and Google Earth plus Washington State travel routes (first-person images of routes driven on Washington highways) Online dictionary & thesaurus: Merriam-Webster Online Online encyclopedia: Encyclopaedia Britannica Online library: Library of Congress Online art museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY) Regional information King County City of Seattle	Education U.S. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and its IPEDS system (for creating a custom comparison of colleges) U.S. Department of Education (DoE) WA Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) and its Data site WA State Board for Comm. & Tech. Colleges (SBCTC) and its Data site Intercollege Relations Commission (ICRC) and its parent, Washington Council on High School-College Relations Higher Education Coordinating Board (HEC Board) Transition Math Project (College Readiness Standards) Washington State Essential Learning Requirements Federal Way Public Schools HS math curricula Charles A. Dana Center's Revision of the WA Math standards (Uri Triesman's think tank at U of Texas-Austin) NCTM Standards for Mathematics Education (K-12) AMATYC Standards for Math Education (Early college) Learning and Instructional Theory in Practice Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Demographics (Back to top.) Global Statistics NationMaster.com United States Statistical Abstract of the United States U.S. Census Bureau Home Page Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society Washington State Statistics Census Bureau QuickFacts about WA	News (Back to top.) News Organizations - the people who generate the news Reuters News Agency (and who they are) AP News Wire (and who they are) Newspapers The Seattle Times The New York Times Washingtonpost.com Media outlets Al-Jazeera (Arabic news network - see Wikipedia) BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) CNN and FOXNews
Crime Statistics (Back to top.) U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics U.S. Office of Justice Programs	Health and Medical (Back to top.) U.S. National Center for Health Statistics U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention U.S. National Institutes of Health WA Department of Health
Economics (Back to top.) Consumer Price Index (U.S. Department of Labor) Information on the CPI and Inflation (Commercial site) New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) NASDAQ (another important stock exchange) Dow Jones & Company (owner of the Wall Street Journal) Dow Jones Industrial Average Closing Values and the Economic Time Series Page (Commercial site) Bloomberg.com (Financial news and analysis) Financial math formulas & derivations (broken link)	Surveys and Polls (Back to top.) PollingReport.com Gallup Organization (Major corporation for national polls) AC Nielsen (TV Ratings; plus data for purchase)
Government Departments (Back to top.) THOMAS (Congressional legislation database) The White House The U.S. Senate and Senator directory The U.S. House of Representatives and Contact info USDA Forest Service USPS - The United States Postal Service	Politics (Back to top.) FactCheck.org (Research on the accuracy of political claims, conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania) Vote Smart Web United Nations Democratic Party web page Republican Party web page
Highline Sites (Back to top.) College Home Page Mathematics Department Highline Library Faculty Handbook Faculty Contract Student Rights & Responsibilities Add/Drop Form (PDF) Instructor's Briefcase (pwd required) Entry Codes (pwd required) AS Validation Codes (pwd required) Office of Institutional Research (pwd required) Highline MaST Center & Database	Fun Sites (Back to top.) The Onion (Satirical newspaper) MC Hawking's Crib MAKE Magazine ("Martha Stewart for Nerds"); or see also Instructables.com, Dorkbot.net Get Fuzzy (Comic strip) YouTube Internet Movie Database Star Wars - Official Site
Random Sites (Back to top.) Internet Hoaxes Urban Legends Site Moviefone (Online movie ticket purchase) Buying plane tickets: Orbitz, Travelocity, Expedia Consumer World Consumer Reports® Online	Art Collections (Back to top.) The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Collection The State Hermitage Museum (Russia) Smithsonian Institution R.B. Ravens - Native American Art Exotic India
Mathematics and Art (Back to top.) Ideal proportions for beauty Beauty of Fractals Textiles and Group Theory (Dartmouth College) International Society for the Arts, Mathematics, and Architecture Hieroglyphics: Egyptian, Mayan, and Chinese Characters	Online Puzzles and Games (training that's fun!) (Back to top.) "Find the Six Differences" (Attention to detail training) Mind-Reader (by Andy Naughton) The Game of SET (Pattern recognition training) Puzzle Playground (Visual detail and logic puzzles) Logic and Math Puzzles Galore! (Huge range of topics) Nintendo's "Big Brain Academy" (Sample of exercises) "Tower of Hanoi" puzzle (Algorithmic thinking) "NIM" chip-taking game (Algorithmic thinking) "AlienTiles" color-changing game (Algorithmic thinking)
Math Degrees and Careers (Back to top.) What do people with math degrees do besides teach? (Career information from AMS, MAA, SIAM) Highline's Educational Planning Center University of Washington Mathematics Department Washington State University Mathematics Department Western Washington University Mathematics Department University of California-Berkeley Mathematics Department University of Wisconsin-Madison Mathematics Department University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Mathematics Department CalTech Mathmatics Department Princeton University Mathematics Department	Other Resources for Math Educators (Back to top.) AMATYC's Online resources Virtual Manipulatives: Utah State; Univ. of Missouri Dartmouth College's Electronic Bookshelf (Math Across the Curriculum materials) Edmonds Community College's MAC materials Whatcom Community College's Math Center Whatcom CC's math resource archive Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum Quantitative reasoning project (Assigned by my colleague in writing, Tarisa Matsumoto-Maxfield) Council for the Advancement of Adult Literacy Charles A. Dana Center (Uri Triesman's think tank at U of Texas-Austin) CSMP Math Curriculum (CEMREL math) NSF-Sponsored K-12 math curricula "4MAT" approach to learning (haven't reviewed it carefully)
Online Math Study Aids (Back to top.) (I haven't explored these in detail, but they each had something to offer. Also try some of the activities by following the "Math applets" links in the online demos list below this list.) TheMathPage (Private educator-developed site with detailed explanations through calculus; online practice with solutions) Purplemath (Private educator-developed site with detailed explanations up to precalculus; no online quizzing) Countdown (QuickTime videos on many topics, from Loyola University) SuperKids (Online arithmetic worksheet creator w/ answers) QuickMath (Online program that solves math problems) RUReady (U. of Utah online assessment site to evaluate readiness for algebra through calculus; requires free login) AMATYC Online resources (lots of materials from the math association for two-year college instructors)	More helpful math sites: Ask Dr. Math (An archive of answers to LOTS of questions about math at Drexel University) Algebralab.org (An educator-developed site covering topics up to precalculus; limited online quizzing) Mathwizz.com (developer is unclear; has online quizzing for arithmetic and prealgebra topics) Mathwords.com (educator-developed dictionary of math words from all levels) MathPower.com (Tips about anxiety, learning styles, etc.) Calculator help (Tutorials for the TI-83,84 from Macon State University) Math.com (Commercial site emphasizing arithmetic and early algebra; has online quizzing and practice problems) S. O. S. Math (Private educator-developed site with detailed explanations through differential equations; no online quizzing) HomeschoolMath.net (Lists a variety of other sites to try)
Online Math Demos and Applets (Back to top.) Many of these applets require downloading the newest Java plug-in for web browsers. If they don't work, go here for the download. NCTM Illuminations (Java applets with suggested activities on arithmetic, probability, and algebra) Check out the forest fire simulation! Math applets for Algebra (Focused set of explorations from Lake Tahoe Comm. Coll.) Math applets for Precalculus and higher (Focused set of Java explorations from Jacksonville State University -- nice Riemann sum applet) Mathematica's interactive demonstrations (requires download of free player) Cut-the-Knot (Interactive explorations and puzzles) Demos with Positive Impact (Lessons with animations from Georgia College & State U) Traveling Salesman Problem (Generates data and solutions for real-world locations) MERLOT project (Links to web applets in many disciplines -- lots of choices, takes investigating to find most useful)	Interesting or Silly Math-Related Stuff (Back to top.) Exploration of Infinity Powers of 10 slideshow MegaConverter 2 HowStuffWorks.com Pi in financial cycles Derivation of elliptical orbits from law of gravitation Ivars Peterson's MathTrek Archives Humorous math word problem (calculations are right, and the interpretation is surprising) Defining a new number? (attempting to define 0/0) "Prime number pooping bear" Organizations (Back to top.) American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) American Mathematical Society (AMS) Mathematical Association of America (MAA) National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)

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