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Math

Help for Math Anxiety --link to a page at Middle Tennessee State University. Gives study tips, how to be successful in math classes, how to deal with math anxiety, and more!

Coping with Math Anxiety --a mini-text with a definition, information about the roots of math anxiety, and how to overcome it.

General Study Tips for Math

Study Tips for Math from actual ETSU developmental math students.

One Student's Tips --a really good essay from one ETSU student.

Math Content Sites

Martin-Gay Beginning and Intermediate Algebra -- This is the official companion website for the textbook we use in both DSPM 0800 and 0850. For each chapter you will find warm-up exercises, self-grading quizzes, vocabulary checks, real world activities, career information, and help on using a graphing calculator.

Online Prealgebra Course from Free-Ed.Net. A kind of interactive text/workbook. Covers much of the same material we used to do in our prealgebra classes (which we no longer can teach). Go here if you need a refresher!

Mathnotes.com --link to a site with tutorials for slightly different prealgebra, elementary algebra, and intermediate algebra books from the ones we used to use, but by the same authors. You'll need to match book names and chapter titles with the ones in our books.

Multiplying/Factoring Polynomials Quiz -- A self-checking quiz on mutlipying binomials and factoring trinomials.

Factoring Hints -- Step-by-step help on factoring polynomials. By Margaret Donaldson, former assistant professor of developmental math at ETSU.

Algebra Tile Basics --A lesson on a pictorial way to understand multiplying binomials.

"Math for Morons Like Us" -- Despite the title, this is a site developed by high school students to teach each other prealgebra, algebra, and other math topics. This could be helpful for both elementary and intermediate algebra. You may need to browse through both Algebra I and Algebra II to find the topic you need. Also has information helpful for studying prealgebra as well as precalculus and calculus.

PurpleMath -- Free online algebra resource. Includes homework guidelines, study skills, and modules for several algebra topics. Includes explanations and examples.

Math Power--Also known as Professor Freedman's Math Help. Written by a developmental math professor at another college, this site includes algebra tutorials she wrote as well as some written by students.

Other Useful Tools

Graph paper you can print out (PDF file--requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)--lines are 5 mm apart.

Writing

GrammarLady.com -- A site that has answers to some of your most frequently-asked questions about English grammar. Includes a toll-free grammar hotline! Check especially "Hit the Books" (for the frequently-asked questions, or FAQs), "Grammar Hotline" (for the toll-free number) and "Columns."

International Writing Centers Association Resources Page --Tools and on-line references to answer many of your questions about writing. Gives information about how to get started writing, how to organize your thoughts, how to revise your paper, how to cite sources, etc. Also has links to online dictionaries, style manuals, and other useful tools.

Strunk's Elements of Style

Merriam-Webster's Online Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus

More on-line writing links -- from the National Association for Developmental Education's Web page.

Learning Strategies and General

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Outlook for specific occupations

America's Career Info-Net Wages & Trends

General outlook of the U.S. job market

Practical Study Strategies and Tips --Link to a page at the University of Illinois at Chicago with practical tips on note taking, concentration, studying for exams, studying with a group, etc. Don't use their explanation of how to calculate GPA, though--we calculate ours with a different scale.

How College is Different from High School --Contrasting how you did things in high school with how things are at the university. A page at Southern Methodist University.

"Behave Yourself!" --Suggestions from professors at Southern Methodist University about things you can do to be successful in college--and not get on your professor's bad side.

College links of interest to first-year students --at Mercer University

Tips for First-Year Students -- Another goodie from Southern Methodist University.

Favorite Learning Center Handouts -- All kinds of pages on success at college, increasing your learning, success in reading/writing/math/science, reducing stress, test anxiety, and more. From the University of Texas, Austin.

Learning Resource Center Handouts from Lewis & Clark State College, Idaho. Study skills, note taking, test anxiety, time management, overcoming procrastination, stress management, surviving finals, and more.

What I Wish I Had Known My Freshman Year, or What your mother never told you about college! -- from an article in the Tennesseean.

Standardized Test Preparation -- A site with practice tests for the ACT, GRE, and other such tests.