The Jefferson Lab is a research lab in Virginia that also has some great, free Science and Math Resources for students and educators.

The site has Teacher Resources with activities, lesson plans, projects, worksheets, and more. There are sections for students with homework help, videos, puzzles and resources. There are science and math games, flash cards, videos, puzzles, and science demonstration videos.

The site also has online practice tests for science, math and technology based on Virginia standards. The student can select the number of questions, topics (math including algebra and geometry, science including biology and chemistry, and technology) and then get started. It tells the student if they are correct or not so the student can learn from it.

This is a great, free resource for Science and Math students and educators.

Wolfram, the makers of Wolfram Alpha, the computational search engine, and Mathematica, announced yesterday the launch of the Wolfram Education Portal. The portal will have dynamic teaching and learning tools, organized by course, such as dynamic textbook, lesson plans, interactive demonstrations, widgets and more.

It is in Beta at this time, but anyone can sign up for a free account and access the materials.

Materials are available for Algebra and Calculus and Pre-Calculus are coming soon. Future features include forums, problem generators, web based apps, and personalized content. The problem generators will allow students to work on problems online and it will change the difficulty and type of question based on the previous answers.




The interactive textbook was developed in collaboration with the CK-12 Foundation which produces free K-12 materials and e-textbooks. I've used many of the CK-12 materials and they are very good.

The interactive textbook has Wolfram|Alpha widgets and links and interactive demonstrations from Mathematica.

This is a great resource for math teachers and any teacher or parent looking to help a student with math (or brush up on their own math skills).

Take a look: Wolfram Education Portal


Source: Wolfram Blog announcement of Wolfram Education

Yummy Math is a new site I just learned about from one of it's founders, Brian Marks. The site is run by Brian, a math instructional coach, and Leslie Lewis, a retired math teacher.

The site provides free activities and ideas to relate math concepts with real life. Math is much more interesting and easier to learn when it is in the context of something familiar to the students, like sports and games.

They have the activities written to correspond with standards and sorted by math topic, like Algebra, Geometry, Math and Science, and much more.

This is a great resource for anyone who has math in their class.

Google is now a graphing calculator. Enter the equation in the search bar and you get your graph. You can even do multiple functions, just separate them by a comma. You can also zoom and pan in the graphs.


Here's a screen shot of a quick one I did: y = 4x + 5




According to Google, "This feature covers an extensive range of single variable functions including trigonometric, exponential, logarithmic and their compositions, and is available in modern browsers."


Pretty cool stuff! Math and science students can use this for graphing instead of a graphing calculator for quick graphs. 

Free Math Resources - Tutorials, Formulas, Calculators, Directories is a great site I found that has a huge number of resources in math. 


These resources can be used by teachers, students, or both. 


There are math standards and benchmarks, tutorial videos, interactive activities and puzzles, how-to's, calculators and converters, how to use different measuring tools, metric system, formulas, and topics in each area of math. 


This is a great resource for teachers and students. Please share!

Exploriments is a site that has interactive simulations that help students learn and understand math and science. Students are active and engaged, rather than passive. They get to explore different topics and ask, and answer, questions like "what-if" and find the cause and effect of things. There are learning objectives for each Exploriment and everything works together and builds on previous knowledge.

The Exploriments are organized by Physics, Chemistry and Math and then further organized by topic. The physics ones are well done and I've used a few with my students already.

The free access does not give you full access or function, but there are some great things to use. You can upgrade to the premium access if you want to.

Math Open Reference is a site that has interactive resources and information on different math topics. The pages are easy to read and understand and are a great resource for teachers and students.

The topics include Plane Geometry, Trigonometry, and Coordinate and Solid Geometry.

I learned about some very cool applets for math and physics from Dolores Gende the other day. These two pages and the applets were created by Walter Fendt.

An applet is an interactive animation (run with Java). These applets allow students to visualize and manipulate different things to explore and learn about the topics.

There are applets for arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, forces, Newton's Laws, momentum and collisions, circular motion, waves, and much, much more.

These are great resources for teachers and students to use to better understand and explore these topics.


Applets on Mathematics

Applets on Physics 

hip2b2 (hip to be squared) is a new website with an interesting purpose. The site is designed with activities and information to help teach students critical thinking, problem solving and to get them to love learning. The site wants students to get a curiosity in math and science in every day life.

Some of the articles include optical illusions, the chemistry of love, how to avoid red eye in photos (and what causes it), future devices and inventions, and much more. Everything is geared towards making science and math fun.

The site has activities and links that show students that those subjects typically thought of as "hard" can be fun and are also very important in life. There is the website, a magazine, and a TV show with engaging and fun activities and information.

I found a lot of great information and resources that I will be using with my physics students. I highly recommend that all teachers take a look at this site. There are some great things here.

Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 is a free download from Microsoft. Mathematics 4.0 is a set of math tools for students to use. It helps students learn how to solve equations step by step along with learning the fundemental concepts in pre-algebra, algebra, trigonometry, physics, chemistry and calculus.

It includes a graphing calculator that works just like a handheld calculator. There are also tools for evaluating triangles, converting units, and solving systems of equations.

The layout is similar to the popular handheld graphing calculators. It is easy to use and navigate, and free.

This is a great resource for math and science teachers and students.

Math.com is a great resource for students. One of the pages on the site that I use and share is the page with Online Calculators. 

This page has a basic calculator, scientific calculator, prime number check, square root check, quadratic equation solver and more.

It's great for my physics students to use to help them solve the physics problems.

TenMarks is a free math practice resource available to teachers and students. TenMarks uses a different approach to math problem solving practice. There are a variety of problems on each topic with hints available to help students get through the problem instead of getting frustrated. There are also video lessons available to help them review and learn the topics.

Teachers can select their own curriculum, which is mapped to state standards, assign work to students which is automatically graded and then review student performance to find areas that students need help in.

I found that it was very easy to set up and the materials were very good for helping students practice and learn math concepts. The highest it went for high school is Algebra 2. There was no Calculus available for Connecticut, but I was happy to see that Algebra 2 included trigonometry since that is what my physics students struggle with the most.

All-in-all it is a very good, free resource.