FULLERTON COLLEGE MATHEMATICS RESOURCES

Math Lab

The Math Lab provides a good study environment, video tapes for many courses, computers and homework help.

Fullerton College Library

The Fullerton College Library has many resources, including textbooks, graphing calculators and videos which may be checked out by students.

Fullerton College Tutoring Center

The Fullerton College Tutoring Center provides free tutoring by faculty-recommended tutors on a walk-in basis and by appointment.

Other Resources

• Wolfram Alpha - The search engine for answers. Powered by Mathematica, this site returns answers to just about any question. Ask it to "expand (5x + 3y)^5", "solve 24x^3 - 82x^2 + 43x + 45 = 0", or "integrate arctan(x)" and you'll instantly receive the answer.
• MathSciNet is an electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.
• The publisher of your textbook often provides extra help. Check out some of the links below.
• Pearson site.
• Cengage partners with Brooks-Cole, among others.

Subject-Specific Sites

Surf the web for other on-line help, discussion boards, practice tests, and other material. Here are some sites that deal specifically with algebra, geometry, statistics and calculus.

Algebra

• Algebra Homework Help Center - offers a variety of practice problems, SAT preparation lessons, and more.
• Algebra-Help - resource for students and parents with lessons, and various algebra calculators.
• MathWorld Interactive - educational problem-solving project for students.
• Purplemath - Your Algebra Resource - offers homework guidelines, links, modules, and a math study skills self-survey.

Geometry

• Gallery of Interactive Geometry
• Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies - free educational web site featuring interactive math lessons with a problem-solving approach.
• Erich's Packing Center - packing geometric shapes into other geometric shapes: circles in triangles, circles in circles, and much more, plus combinatorial geometry problems.
• Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies - free educational web s ite featuring interactive math lessons with a problem-solving approach.
• Native American Geometry - a physical, proportional geometry that originates from the simple circle. Art and mathematics seamlessly integrated in Nature's geometry, emphasizing multiple intelligences and multi-cultural instruction.
• Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves - including description, history, formulas, properties, and links for each.

Statistics

• HyperStat Online - introductory statistics book with links to other books, calculation programs, and instructional demonstrations.
• Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics - integrated combination of an online introductory statistics book, Java simulations, case studies, and data analysis lab.
• Statistics & Polls: What Do the Numbers Tell Us? - follow a year in a fictitious election campaign for an inside look at the mathematics behind the polls and the news you hear everyday.

Calculus

• The Integrator - enter any integral and watch the site solve it for you.
• DistanceCalculus - directory of related topics, courses, applications, technology, and more.
• e-Calculus - tutorials written in TeX and converted to the PDF format.