Mr. Whitney's CALCULUS Resource Web Page

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Welcome to my resource web page for the IB Math Methods and AP Calculus (AB) students at the High School of Commerce, Springfield, MA, USA. Here you will find some review / supplemental material that I have created, links to sites where students can download graphing software for their home computers, and a collection of (hopefully) useful links to calculus resources on the web.

I hope these resources will add to your understanding of the calculus. Reaching this advanced level in your high school mathematics studies is an achievement that should fill you with pride. The calculus is one of the great achievements in human science and art (yes ... art ... there is great art in mathematics). Succeeding in a course such as this will take commitment and hard work. There is much that must be memorized and while you will probably find many of the basic concepts to be astonishingly simple, the symbol manipulation will test your algebra skills to the maximum. Key to success will be your level of dedication, including the willingness to make mistakes and to learn from those errors, and staying with the material even when things seem to not work out.

"The Rule of Four" is a common saying among math teachers. Students are expected to understand concepts and be able to communicate their findings in four manners of representation:

1. Numeric (via tables of values)
2. Analytic (usually thought of as "algebraic")
3. Graphical
4. Verbal

Thus, much of the material accessible via this page and the links that follow will address any or all of those avenues of understanding.

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External Links:

Graphing Software

WINPLOT Software from Phillips Exeter Academy, Mathematics Department ... FREE ! http://math.exeter.edu/rparris/default.html   Equation Grapher (Free 30 day demo of graphing software ... if you chose to keep it you will be billed) http://www.mfsoft.com/equationgrapher/   Graphmatica - Graphing Software (free?) http://www.rocketdownload.com/Details/Math/graphmat.htm

 

MathWorld - Eric Weisstein's Encyclopedia of Mathematics

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/

 

Graphing Calculators Online

http://www.hofstra.edu/~matsrc/Graf/Graf.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/2426/calculator.html

 

The Calc AP AB Test Review- Table of Contents

http://library.thinkquest.org/3616/Calc/Toc.html

 

TheCalculus.Org: THE CALCULUS PAGE

http://math.ucdavis.edu/%7Ecalculus/

 

Graphics for the Calculus Classroom

http://www.math.psu.edu/dna/graphics.html

 

The Integrator

http://www.integrals.com/

 

Interactive Java Applets

For Calculus: http://www.ies.co.jp/math/java/calc/index.html

For Trigonometry: http://www.ies.co.jp/math/java/trig/index.html

 

MathServ Calculus Toolkit:

A toolkit of various calculus topics, including Algebra, Functions, Graphing, Limits & Derivatives, Applications of the Derivative, Integrals

http://mss.math.vanderbilt.edu/~pscrooke/toolkit.shtml

 

OJK's Precalculus Page (Lots of good review material)

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/2426/index.html

 

Texas Instruments

http://www.ti.com/

 

Trigonometry and Calculus Problems of the Week - The Math Forum

http://mathforum.org/calcpow/

 

Trigonometry and Calculus Problems of the Week - The Math Forum

http://mathforum.org/calcpow/

 

Tutorials for the Calculus Phobe

http://www.calculus-help.com/funstuff/phobe.html

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Matthew C. Whitney