LESSON PLANS AND ACTIVITIES FOR PRE-CALCULUS


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Sites on the Internet which involve lessons and activities for Pre-Calculus include the following:

Explore Math
This site contains activities for the exploration of numerous topics in pre-calculus.

Famous Curves

This site contains examples and equations of some of most famous curves in mathematics, such as the Spiral of Archimedes and the Witch of Agnesi.

Degrees
This site contains information about converting from decimal degrees to degrees, minutes, and seconds. It also contains a short history and applications for the conversion. This site is included in Hamilton's Math to Build ON

Pre-Calculus
This site is the Pre-Calculus section of the Math Archives. The site includes links to Pre-Calculus lesson plans and activities.

OJK's Precalculus Study Page
This site contains practice and examples for all topics in precalculus.

Dan's Math@Home Lessons
This site contains tutroials, factoring, solving quadratic equations, graphing parabolas, trigonometry, solving triangles,functions and graphs, and exponential and log functions.

Dave's Short Trig Course
This site contains tutorial, applications of trigonometry, angle measurement, chords, sines, cosines, tangents and slope, the trigonometry of right triangles, the trigonometric functions and their inverses, the trigonometry of oblique triangles, and trig identities.

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LESSON PLANS AND ACTIVITIES FOR CALCULUS


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Sites on the Internet which involve lessons and activities for Calculus include the following:

I Love Calculus
This site by Cynthia Lanius is an excellent site for Calculus resources. It contains practice problems and solutions from an AP Calculus exam, a list of calculators allowed on the exams, many current and archived calculus problems, interactive calculus problems, and calculus tutors.

Calculus-Help.com
This site is an excellent site for the calculus student. The "Tutorials for the Calculus Phobe" section contains excellent explanations for various topics, such as limits and derivatives. The explanation contains motion and sound! There is an interactive "cheat sheet" for all of the formulas that you need to memorize for Calculus. This site even has "Calculus Music".

The MathServ Calculus Toolkit
The MathServ Toolkit provides an interface between the user and a computational engine, Mathematica . Mathematica is a powerful computer system that is capable of performing many different types of algebraic calculations. To use the Toolkit, fill-in information about the problem and then press an execution button. Topics included on the Toolkit include factoring polynomials, partial fractions, polynomial equations, graph of equations and functions, limits, derivatives, antiderivatives, and definite integrals.

Are You Ready for Calculus?
This site provides examples of problems that students should be able to solve before completing a Calculus course. These skills should have been learned in prior mathematics courses. Students can solve the problems and then check their solutions.

Dave's Math Tables
This site is a very helpful site for Calculus students who have forgotten some of the formulas needed in mathematics. The topic on Integrals not only gives the formula, but also gives the proof of basic identities in Calculus.

Visual Calculus
Visual Calculus is a collection of modules which can be used in the study of calculus. Topics included at this site limits and continuity, derivatives and applications, integration and applications, and sequences and series. This site was designed to use by instructors to show how the computer can be used in the teaching of calculus. The collection has been expanded to include tutorials and interactive modules. Additionally, modules containing quizzes and drill problems have been added to the site as an aid students. This site is included on The Math Archives site at the University of Tennessee.

Math Forum
Math Forum's Graphics for the Calculus Classroom contains a collection of graphical demonstrations developed for first year calculus to illustrate and enrich the teaching of Calculus. The demonstrations include computing the volume of water in a tipped glass, Archimedes calculated the value of pi, functions determined by the height of a bouncing ball, the geometric convergence of secant lines to the tangent line as well as others.

Basic EXCEL-skills for calculus and differential equations.
This site includes examples of skills needed to use the program Excel as a tool for solving Calculus problems.

Calculus
This site contains links to Calculus resources. It is located in the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics. There is also a search engine to explore specific topics.

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