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CALCULATORS
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WRITING |
Texas Instruments (TI) offers educational support for their calculators, including:
Comparison chart to help you select a calculator at http://education.ti.com/studentzone/product/home_product.html
Tutorials:
TI tutorials are available at http://education.ti.com/us/student/tutorials/tutorials.html
WatchMe Ware tutorials are available at http://www.watchmeware.com/
TI-83 Basics at http://math.uwyo.edu/courses/TI83.html
Guidebooks:
TI-89 is available at http://education.ti.com/us/product/tech/89/guide/89guideus.html
TI-86 is available at http://education.ti.com/us/product/tech/86/guide/86guideus.html
TI-83 Plus is available at http://education.ti.com/us/product/tech/83p/guide/83pguideus.html
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Cleaves, C. & Hobbs, M. (2006). Essentials of college mathematics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc. Companion website available at http://www.prenhall.com/cleaves
Harter, J.H. & Beitzel, W.D. (2004). Mathematics applied to electronics, 6th ed. Pearson Prentice Hall. Companion website available at http://wps.prenhall.com/chet_harter_mathematic_6
The Math Worksheet is available at http://themathworksheetsite.com/subscr/index.html
The Concord Consortium offers weekly lessons in its publications series.
ASSESSMENTS
Texas Grade 10 Assessment (also see Student Assessment Division)
VIDEO
Abbott and Costello Math Problem (division) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUmVe9qnw7E
New Math at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx5KDyvlG3Q
Tom Lehrer-New Math at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXx2VVSWDMo
Ma and Pa Kettle Math at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfq5kju627c
Simpsons on Math at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFbYe-MJ3K4
Numb3rs Math for Beginners www.m4th.com (probability) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9WFKmLK0dc
GAMES
Time Engineers uses a problem-solving approach to use binary code, rates, linear expressions, and much more.
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ASTM International, originally known as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), is is one of the largest voluntary standards development organizations in the world-a trusted source for technical standards for materials, products, systems, and services.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides information about the fundamental physical constants, the International System of Units (SI), and expressing the uncertainty of measurement results. NIST also provides the Official U.S. Time Clock and an energy converter.
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TOOLS and DATA SOURCES
ANTHROPOMETRIC DATA
U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory. (1988). Anthropometry and mass distribution for human analogues. Volume I: Military male aviators. (Report # NBDL 87R003) Naval Biodynamics Laboratory: New Orleans, LA. Retrieved September 12, 2007, from http://www.humanics-es.com/ADA304353.pdf
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (1995). 3. Anthropometry and Biomechanics. Man-Systems Integration Standards, vol. 1, section 3. Retrieved from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Web site: http://msis.jsc.nasa.gov/sections/section03.htm
HermanMiller, The anthropometrics of fit. http://www.hermanmiller.com/hm/content/research_summaries/wp_Anthropometrics.pdf
MATERIAL PROPERTIES and CHARACTERISTICS
MatWeb maintains a database of the properties and characteristics of common engineering materials such as thermoplastic and thermoset polymers, metals, ceramics, semiconductors, and fibers.
Tensile Strength is described at http://www.cvgs.k12.va.us/Nuclear/Tensile%20test%20page.htm
Material Testing is described by Instron
MEASUREMENT
RESEARCH
LIFECYCLE ENERGY ANALYSIS
Maclean, Heather L. & Lester B. Lave, "A Life-Cycle Model of an Automobile." Environmental Policy Analysis v.3 n.7 (1988), pp. 322A-330A. Overview available at http://www.ilea.org/lcas/macleanlave1998.html
TIME
NIST also provides the Official U.S. Time Clock.
UNIT CONVERSION TOOLS
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides information about the fundamental physical constants, the International System of Units (SI), and expressing the uncertainty of measurement results. NIST also provides the Official U.S. Time Clock and an energy converter.
London Electronics Ltd. offers a tool to calculate the equivalent base value of a decimal number.
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WEB PUBLISHING
W3C: World Wide Web Consortium "was created in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability."
Microsoft FrontPage is a Web development and management tool. Tutorials and resources can be found at Ball State University.
Dreamweaver is a Web development tool. BSU offers several tutorials including: http://www.bsu.edu/techtrain/media/pdf/dmw-8-intro.pdf and http://www.bsu.edu/web/ucspubs/pdf/dreamweaver/dwmx-intro.pdf.
HTML Resources
Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction. (June, 2000). Writing HTML: A tutorial for creating web pages. Retrieved on August 13, 2002 from http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/
DESIGNING WEB Documents
Lynda.com has Inspirational Sites
Color
Visibone's Color Table
SemList.com Hexadecimal Color Wheel
December.com's Hexadecimal Table
Davesite.com Using Hexadecimal Color Codes
Javascript
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