"The Physics Classroom" at Glenbrook South High School
Karl's Calculus Tutorial
I've never met Karl Hahn, but we seem to have something in common (besides the Beatles): like me, his focus is on informal explanations of difficult concepts, with the hope that people who were frustrated by bad teachers will rediscover the joy of math. Unlike me, he is going about it systematically, creating a step-by-step Calculus course on the Web.
"The Physics Classroom" at Glenbrook South High School
This is a lot like my page, in the sense that it is a bunch of individual papers on individual topics in Physics. But it is carefully constructed to cover the high school Physics curriculum.
A pretty cool collection of resources for teachers and parents. The first one I found was a little utility that generates fraction worksheets. You can say "I want a worksheet with this many problems of that sort," and it creates it randomly, and you can just print it and hand it to a student.
A place where you can post questions such as "Why the heck does E=mc2 anyway?" and have a bunch of people answer. Organized into topics, so you can easily browse for questions on a topic that you are interested in.
Math2.org (formerly "Dave's Math Tables")
A great place to look up that integration rule or trig identity that you can't quite remember.
Would you rather see demonstrations than read a bunch of text? This YouTube site has videos on a variety of Physics-related topics.
Jenny Olive is the author of Maths: A Student's Survival Guide, and this supplement to that book offers a complete course in vectors, starting from the very basic concept. Jenny says "I wrote it to help science and engineering students cross the mathematical High School/College divide, so it emphasises the physical applications of vectors."
Usenet Physics FAQ
FAQ is computer-geek-speak for "Frequently Asked Questions." This Web page is a collection of questions that appear frequently on physics related newsgroups, and answers from the Very Knowledgable.
Online Tutorials!
A list of free online tutorials that can be found on the Web. Tutorials are broken down into topics such as "Air," "Computers," "Theory" and so on.
The Mining Company Guide to Physics
This is a sort of expert page that answers questions and provides references about Physics. It is part of a very cool thing, The Mining Company which provides expert "guides" on a wide variety of topics.
NCTM's "Illuminations" site has a bunch of cool activities and lesson plans, mostly for the pre-Algebra level.
Science for the practical minded! This site is full of explanations of how real-world things work—like your car engine, or your CD player, etc.
World of Mathematical Equations
A very large, detailed site with links and papers, mostly at the advanced level (differential equations and suchlike).
The best educational thing to happen to TV since Sesame Street. Schoolhouse Rock is a collection of catchy songs about math, grammar, and American history—and in all cases, the explanations are very surprisingly sophisticated.
What could be more educational than cheap books? You type in a book, and this site checks all the different internet sites that sell books, and tells you where you can find it the cheapest. What a great service!
This kids' educational page has award winning interactive games which feature math drills, word games, etc.
Sponsored by The Exploratorium, this site features some cool real-world physics stuff such as a discussion of the physics of hockey.
Physics for Beginners
A general overview of a lot of concepts at the high school level, and also an "equation solver" which is a pretty cool Java applet that does Physics equations.
The IB Physics Compendium Homepage
A concise, well written overview of a tremendous amount of Physics, with an eye specifically toward the curriculum of the International Baccalaureate Organization in Geneva. See also the one-hour Calculus course, also by Thomas Illman, which focuses on Physics applications of Calculus.
The Canadian Mathematics Competition posts its old contests and answers. So it's a great source for math "brain teasers" and questions from a pretty wide variety of subjects.
This is a Web front end to Mathematica. With just a mouse-click online, you can expand, factor or simplify expressions, solve equations or system of equations and find derivatives and definite or indefinite integrals. Pretty cool!
Graph Explorer
A very easy-to-use Java applet where you type in an equation and you get a graph. I use this all the time when I'm creating lessons.
Printing Graph Paper
Another useful tool in my line of work—links to allow you to print a wide variety of kinds of graph paper.
There are two Web sites I know of that are meant to hook up students who need tutors, with tutors who need money. They are MathLessons.com and Ziizoo. Seems like a pretty cool idea, I hope it catches on!
This is actually a Chemistry page, not Physics. But it's chock-full of information, some of it mathematical. And when the guy told me that writing an electronegativity tutorial which was understandable by high school students was his idea of fun, I knew I had to add a link!
Last but never least, my father, who has dedicated his life to the improvement of education at the college level. My father is my guide and inspiration in many things, but one of the biggest is certainly his passion for real teaching. His home page contains, among other valuable material, a collection of his articles written for students trying to learn, and professors trying to teach.
The NSF-funded 'Science and Engineering Report' summarizes 25 websites featuring high-quality research/education resources. They found my site and wrote a good review that makes it obvious that they read and and thought about it. A great place to find lots of other sites with good reviews!
SchoolZone
Not just a list of sites, but an indexed, reviewed, and searchable list of all sites educational. Like the 'Science and Engineering Report' above, they found my site somehow and gave it an award. So they obviously have crack search teams and excellent taste!
Well organized into categories, this site gives a list of helpful Web sites on Physics, math, Chemistry, Astronomy, and other topics. Note in particular the list of online Physics demonstrations (java applets and the like)!
Focused on the physical sciences, this lets you type in a search phrase and see a bunch of links to pages about it. What I like is that they don't just give you links, they give you descriptions.
An extraordinary large, organized, searchable list of math-related pages on the Web.
Compiled by the Wilton High School Chemistry department, this is a well organized and catalogued list of educational links.
A comprehensive list, tons and tons of links to other education-related sites on the Web.
John Henry's Excessive Math Links
A big list of math-only links, rated as "Very Cool" or "Very Hot" or neither.
Links to a Better Education
Despite the name "Chemistry Coach" this section of the Web site actually has nothing to do with Chemistry per se. It is a huge clearinghouse of papers on topics such as test taking, study skills, and learning styles.
Internet Resources for Pond Ecology
Straying from math and physics to (gasp!) biology. My wife's brother's wife is a science teacher who has a real passion for both teaching and for nature. She maintains a page of links to internet resources having to do with pond ecology.
Jim Allman (Founder and President, Interrobang Digital Media)
Michael Fagin (Washington Online Weather)
R.W. Hutchinson (old friend who also maintains a math-related page)
Helen Mahoney (my wife's brother's wife)
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The Math and Physics Help Home Page
Schoolhouse Rock
FunBrain.com
ChemTeam
Dr. Richard Felder
PSIgate
Topics in Mathematics
Links to a Better Education
ABCentralwww.ncsu.edu/felder-public/kenny