Sites are graded by 5 categories, A being the best and E being the worst. They are listed in alphabetical order by title.
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Ask Dr. Math - http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/high_calculus.html
Reviewed by: Brad Seft
Organization: D - Content: A - Aesthetics: B - Ease of Use: C - Range: A
Summary: This is like a huge F.A.Q. page for calculus. If you are having trouble with something, chances are that someone else out there has the same problem, all you have to do is sift through the questions until you find the one you are asking. The only problem is that there are a lot of things in calculus that can give people trouble and the organization of the site is not very good. It could take a while to find your answer.
Overall: B-
Calculus and Analysis - http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/CalculusandAnalysis.html
Reviewed by: Richard Chiu
Organization: A - Content: A - Aesthetics: A - Ease of Use: A - Range: A
Summary: Easy and interesting, this site is pretty organized and easy to use. The info is accurate and covers a wide range of subjects. It has good explanations that are detailed with examples.
Overall: A
Calculus on the Web - http://www.math.temple.edu/~cow/
Reviewed by: Richard Chiu
Organization: A - Content: D - Aesthetics: B - Ease of Use: A - Range: B
Summary: This site is really organized, having an index set up to help people navigate their way through the site. The index is set up by each book, then the chapter in the unit, and then the section, and lastly the module with access to the general overview and individual index at the home page. The thing that makes this site appealing is the it gives you all kinds of problems to try out with an interactive format so you can practice solving the problems. The problem with this site is the lack of explanations with the solutions. This site is mostly a hands on practice site that isn’t design to teach calculus at all, but it is still recommended since practice makes perfect.
Overall: B
Calculus Power Points - http://www.bucks.edu/~farberb/CALC1POWERPT.htm
Reviewed By: Suz Cornelsen
Organization: A - Content: B - Aesthetics: B - Ease of Use: A - Range: C
Summary: This website is a college course of Math 140 Calculus online; therefore it has to be understood by students. Even though the site looks nice and it’s easy to comprehend, the site only covers the five topics of limits, rate of change, derivatives, trig, and integrals.
Overall: B+
Calculus Solutions - http://www.jtaylor1142001.net/
Reviewed By: Melissa Bollman
Organization: B - Content: C - Aesthetics: E - Ease of Use: E - Range: A
Summary: The site is organized as an index of Calculus terms and concepts so it pretty much covers everything in the course. If you know what term you need help with you can find it through an alphabetical list and get information on that term. However it does not cover broad topics. The site is very confusing and impossible to see. The font size is so tiny that you can barely read it at all. It also takes a lot of clicking to finally get to the notes which display on the left panel of the site and are hard to read. I do not recommend this site based on its poor design.
Overall: C-
Organization: C - Content: A - Aesthetics: C - Ease of Use: D - Range: A
Summary: It is a bit hard to use sometimes because some of the links don’t always work correctly and some of the tutorial windows don’t open up for all computers. On the other hand, its listed problems are solved and explained so that you can learn how to do it the next time you run in to one like that.
Overall: B-
CyberCalc Index - http://www.npac.syr.edu/REU/reu94/williams/calc-index.html
Reviewed By: Melissa Bollman
Organization: A - Content: C - Aesthetics: C - Ease of Use: C - Range: C
Summary: A very in-depth coverage of first semester topics: Review of functions, etc., Limits and Continuity, and Derivatives and their applications. However it does not cover Integrals or other second semester topics. It is hard to navigate through the many link pages to find what you need. Everything is really specific on a topic and no general notes for a subject.
Overall: C+
Formula to Go - http://www.gomath.com/formulatogo.html
Reviewed by: Brad Seft
Organization: A - Content: A - Aesthetics: B - Ease of Use: A - Range: A
Summary: This is a very simple site containing lists of formulas. It has almost any formula you could need and they are split up into derivative and integral categories.
Overall: A-
HMC Calculus Tutorial - http://www.math.hmc.edu/calculus/tutorials/
Reviewed by: Richard Chiu
Organization: A - Content: A - Aesthetics: C - Ease of Use: A - Range: A
Summary: This site is neatly organized and appealing. The material on this site is explained clearly and accurately with in-depth explanations. It has plenty of examples of what they are trying to describe with a detailed explanation that teaches the guest the steps it takes to solve the problem. It also has problems for the guest to try with the answers on another page, which keeps things interesting and appealing.
Overall: A-
Organization: A - Content: A - Aesthetics: A - Ease of Use: B - Range: A
Summary: This site has literally all the topics we covered this year. There are also many problems that the site has step by step solutions for and a "battle plan" of how you should approach these types of questions on your own. Some of the site topics are still "under construction" but I think this is a great site for notes and problems. This site is a little confusing to move between topics, however once you get there, the page will hold your interest. The site has a lot of interesting graphics for almost every topic and the background color is blue, more interesting than white.
Overall: A-
Organization: A - Content: B - Aesthetics: A - Ease of Use: A - Range: C
Summary: A very basic site, Math.com focuses only on integrals, derivatives, and series expansions. However, it greatly expands on these three topics and has online solvers which can help you integrate or differentiate. The site also has links to other calculators and tools, games, practice problems and other math subjects. Another bonus: you can surf it in either English or Spanish.
Overall: B+
Mathematics - http://www.mathnature.com/
Reviewed by: Richard Chiu
Organization: A - Content: D - Aesthetics: A - Ease of Use: A - Range: B
Summary: This website links to different textbooks. Although this website is really simple to use and is really organized with appealing pictures of textbooks, the materials inside the textbooks are almost exactly the same and it isn’t really all that helpful. This site is recommended if you would like to just learn the basics or if you need extra reference on a subject.
Overall: B+
Mr. Calculus - http://users.adelphia.net/~sismondo/index.html
Reviewed by: Richard Chiu
Organization: E - Content: D - Aesthetics: C - Ease of Use: C - Range: D
Summary: This site lacks both organization and appeal, having no explanation of how to do problems. The only reason I chose to give you this site is because it has links to the answers of different AP exams through out the years so it is useful to see what the AP exam is like but unfortunately it doesn’t have the questions.
Overall: D+
Mrs. Robert's Calculus Page - http://mrsroberts.com/MrsRoberts/Calculus/calculus.htm
Reviewed By: Melissa Bollman
Organization: A - Content: A - Aesthetics: A - Ease of Use: A - Range: B
Summary: This site contains links to a lot of other useful sites. The site also has a direct link to specific problems for a calculus topic. It also contains information about the calculators used in calculus and links to the AP Exam sites. This site does not contain much original material but has organized the best calculus sources for easy use to find in one place. The site is colorfully organized into sections with descriptions about each section. When you highlight a link the font changes and it becomes underlined making it easy to see. No ads or irrelevant information clutters the screen.
Overall: A-
PowerPoint Lectures for AB and BC Calculus - http://online.math.uh.edu/HoustonACT/
Reviewed By: Suz Cornelsen
Organization: A - Content: A - Aesthetics: B - Ease of Use: A - Range: A
Summary: This website is compiled of all the topics covered in both AB and BC Calculus, from functions to series. The Power points are very interesting and full of Knowledge, the website is very well organized and it is easy to find what topic you may be looking for.
Overall: A-
S.O.S. Math - http://www.sosmath.com/calculus/calculus.html
Reviewed by: Richard Chiu
Organization: B - Content: A - Aesthetics: A - Ease of Use: A - Range: A
Summary: This site is useful and very helpful, being full of explanations, information, and examples. Overall, the site isn't very appealing, but has information on other math subjects like geometry and algebra.
Overall: A-
Organization: A - Content: A - Aesthetics: B - Ease of Use: B - Range: A
Summary: This is a massive listing of resources. The practice problems and exams are good for review but the solutions are not very detailed so you might get lost in them if you don’t understand the problem. The other resources are really a bit overboard but if you really need all the help you can get, who knows, they might do the trick for you.
Overall: B+
Organization: E - Content: A - Aesthetics: C - Ease of Use: C - Range: E
Summary: This site has step-by-step explanations of how they reach their answers to the sample problems, showing each step that they went through to reach their final answer so you can check your work with theirs and see which step you may have messed up on. However, there are some subjects that they would teach you but then leave others on the list with no explanations.
Overall: C-
Organization: A - Content: A - Aesthetics: A - Ease of Use: A - Range: A
Summary: Here is one of the most complete and various lists of calculus programs for the TI-83/84 graphing calculator. Over 150 files, the files range to helping you solve a specific problem, to having dozens of formulas downloaded into it. Very helpful, the site even gives you ratings and the size of the file. Unfortunately, it assumes that you know how to download these tools onto your calculator.
Overall: A
Organization: A - Content: B - Aesthetics: B - Ease of Use: B - Range: C
Summary: The site looks like a big advertisement for books at first but there are tutorials at the bottom. The tutorials are slow moving flash presentations on the subtopics of limits and derivatives. They don’t always used the accepted terms but they do teach the right concept if you aren’t thrown off by the poor word choice.
Overall: B
UBC Calculus Online - http://www.ugrad.math.ubc.ca/coursedoc/math100/
Reviewed By: Melissa Bollman
Organization: A - Content: C - Aesthetics: A - Ease of Use: A - Range: B
Summary: The material is very good because it has examples and useful graph animations for the topics. The main problem is that the material covered does not include everything we studied this year. There is nothing on Integrals or Sequences and Series (BC). This site would only be helpful for topics covered in the first semester. The site is very simple but it works. Not everything on the site is relevant to us high school students because this is a site for a specific college. But there are no ads on the page and the links are arranged logically.
Overall: B+
Organization: A - Content: A - Aesthetics: C - Ease of Use: B - Range: A
Summary: The page is daunting at first because it just has so much on it. The topics covered are all listed and each contains a page full of subtopics. Each subtopic has a tutorial as well as other help and learning resources.
Overall: B+
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus
Reviewed by: Brad Seft
Organization: B - Content: A - Aesthetics: A - Ease of Use: C - Range: C
Summary: Contrary to the beliefs of most English teachers, Wikipedia can be trusted to give you correct information, at least on this page. There is a lot of unnecessary history discussion and long descriptions cluttering the page which make it harder to use and a very bad quick guide, but it is very detailed. If you missed a class introducing a big topic like limits or integrals, this is a good place to go.
Overall: B
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