Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Finding Extreme Values
In this activity, students can use symbolic algebra and graphing to find the extreme values for a polynomial function.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Project: Extreme Makeover, Webpage Edition
Finding webpages that are jQuery and then modifying them.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Absolute Minima & Maxima (Closed Intervals)
Find absolute minimum/maximum points of continuous functions over closed intervals.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Absolute Minima & Maxima (Entire Domain)
Find absolute minimum/maximum points of continuous functions over their entire domain.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Maclaurin Series
This page provides the Maclaurin Series for math, which is derived from the Taylor Series. Also provides an extremely helpful list of Maclaurin Series for many common functions along with a useful search engine.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Wwics: Congressional Oversight: Rules of the Road Less Traveled
This extremely well-written article is a thorough description of the powers, responsibilities and inherent problems of the current congressional oversight system. It is easily read and well organized. (Oct. 24, 2004)
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Procedimiento Para Analizar Una Funcion
Use this unit to learn and practice the general procedure for representing curves in the form y=f(x). It provides a more advanced look at polynomial and rational functions with interactive graphs.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The Fore Brain or Prosencephalon
This site from Bartleby.com contains an intense, in-depth article from Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body on the fore-brain or prosencephalon. The article discusses the thalamus throughout and touches on its functions as a whole.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Absolute Extrema
This activity involves finding the absolute extrema on a closed interval of a function.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Happened to Your Eye?
This is a virtual lab that investigates the effects of damage to eye muscles and nerves on the motion of the eyes. This lab is extremely realistic. This activity can be done as a whole class or as a demonstration.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Extremum Test
With this site one may understand how to test a point in a function for a relative minimum, maximum, saddle point, or none of these, by taking derivatives of the function. Explains and performs what is known as the "Extremum Test."
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Minimum
This site from Mathworld.com defines the minimum of a function and set.
Wyzant
Wyzant: Basics of Proportions
This tutorial from WyzAnt on proportions describes in detail the functions of proportions and includes several examples to demonstrate how to solve proportions. The tutorial is concluded with an interactive worksheet that allows for...
Other
Dolan Dna Learning Center: Inside Cancer
Multimedia guide to cancer provided by Dolan DNA Learning Center. The site is extremely comprehensive and is divided into four main segments:Hallmarks of Cancer,Causes and Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment, and Pathways to Cancer. The...
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Puntos Caracteristicos, Criticos Y Singulares
Use this interactive unit to learn and use analysis tools that allow the location and calculation of the extreme value of a function on a closed interval.
Other
Stat Soft: Statistics Glossary
Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: Physical Map of South America, 1898
A map from 1898 of South America showing the general physical features including mountain systems, prominent peaks and volcanoes, river and lake systems, plateaus, and coastal features. The map includes an insert of the Isthmus of...