Collin County Community College
David Katz, mathematics instructor
Links to Math Tutorials & Study Resources
From the Publisher of Elementary Statistics (Addison-Wesley) -
http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/triola_awl/chapter1/custom11/deluxe-content.html (quizzes)
http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/triola_awl/chapter1/custom3/deluxe-content.html (videos)
http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/triola_awl/chapter1/custom9/deluxe-content.html (tutorials)
Other Statistics & Probability Tutorials -
http://www.statcrunch.com provides an easy to use on-line spreadsheet for computing answers to most descriptive and inferential statistics problems
http://bcs.whfreeman.com/ips4e/cat_010/applets/CLT-Binomial.html provides a good visual demo on how the normal distribution can approximate the binomial probability distribution
http://www.hofstra.edu/~matsrc/MontyHall/MontyHallSim.html play a simulated Monty Hall game, styled after the Let's Make Deal game show.
http://www.planetqhe.com/applets/LetsMakeaDeal.htm another simulation of the Monty Hall game
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/ links to the famous Statistical Abstract of the United States, summary tables on all aspects of life in America
Precalculus Tutorials -
http://cow.math.temple.edu/~cow/cgi-bin/manager good tutorial on precalculus and calculus topics
http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_blitzer_precalc_2/0,7638,698937-,00.html free tutorial from the Blitzer precalculus book
General Math Tutorials -
http://www.coursecompass.com/ (requires a MyMathLab registration number)
http://www.mathxl.com/ (backdoor to MyMathLab when the regular MyMathLab server is busy)
http://www.ccccd.edu/studentservices/tutoring.html (CCCC tutorial resources, including application for FREE group tutoring)
NEW! http://www.interactmath.com/ (free tutorials for many common textbooks such as Sullivan's College Algebra and Triola's Elementary Statistics)
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/content.shtml/
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ (encyclopedia of math vocabulary and concepts)
Source Materials on Lotteries -
General Math History -
http://iws.ccccd.edu/ardis/MathLinks/historyl.htm
http://iws.ccccd.edu/ardis/MathLinks/m1342l.htm (good resource on the history of statistics)
http://www.edumedia.fr/animation-DroiteEuler-En.html (Euler's Line Tutorial)