Annotated Links: Dr. Carol JVF Burns

At various times in my life, I have found these to be high-quality, useful links. I share them with the hope that they may be useful to you, too.

Print calendars (pdf), free, easy to get a range of months

W3Schools Online Tutorials: HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, lots more

Progression in Contra Dance: Carol's analysis of how people ‘progress’ through the line in contra dancing.
Hoedowners Square Dance Club: The club is in Oregon, but there are lots of useful Square Dance links (including Square Dance clothing)

Advanced Placement Program: AP Calculus AB and more
ExploreLearning: You can only use each ‘gizmo’ for five minutes each day unless you subscribe (and pay), but these are really cool.
GeoGebra: Free, multi-platform dynamic mathematics software that joins geometry, algebra and calculus—it's great.
Math Fun Facts: Use at the beginning of classes, to liven things up.
Peter Jipsen's Homepage: Great tools for displaying math in web pages; also check out his Calculus Text Puzzles
MathJax: This is the best way to put math on the web!
JSXGraph: Dynamic graphics with Javascript for web pages
The Math Page: Beautiful exposition and presentation of many basic concepts. The author often gives a slightly different viewpoint than my own site, which may be beneficial to students. Complete courses in arithmetic, geometry, algebra, and lots more.
Mathematica Demonstrations: A very large collection of really cool dynamic worksheets to illustrate the phenomenal capabilities of Mathematica. You have to download a free Mathematica Player to run the demos, but it's definitely worth the effort.
The Most Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics: Good reading
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives: Fun, hands-on activities. These are great, and they're free.
Number Gossip: Type in your favorite number, and find out what's special about it.

Convert expressions to MathML: Just type an expression in traditional math notation, click the button, and it gives you the MathML.

Donald E. Knuth's Homepage: Author of the TeXBook
TeX Resources on the Web
WinEdt: WinEdt is a powerful and versatile ASCII editor and shell for MS Windows with a strong predisposition towards the creation of [La]TeX documents. Carol used it for years; it works great.

Cambridge Dictionary: It includes sample sentences
Etymology: Explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago
Truth or Fiction: Check on the validity of that email before you pass it along
Urban Legends Reference Pages: A good, neutral site for checking on the origin and validity of pass-it-along email messages