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Valencia College
Emergency Website
You will want to bookmark this website. In the
event that an emergency impacts the college, information will be provided here
and also will be made available on their emergency phone lines: 407-582-1691 and
407-582-1692. Did you know you can also receive voice mails, text messages, or
email notifications about incidents or emergencies on campus? Just visit
https://atlas.valenciacollege.edu
to sign up. Look for the emergency alerts channel in the My Atlas tab.
Hurricane Alert
Procedures
Last updated May 30, 2015. Valencia College's document providing
information on college procedure regarding severe weather as well as important related links.
East Campus
Math Center
Is there a place on the East Campus where I can get help in math? Yes!
Besides going to your instructor, you can go to the East Campus Support Center
located in building 4 inside the Academic Success Center.
Math Pathways Chart
Last updated July 1, 2019.
For your major your will need to take either a Statistics, Liberal Arts, or
Algebra Pathway. View this chart to find which math courses are in each
pathway. See a counselor or advisor for a recommendation.
Math
Anxiety Page
This is a separate page of my website providing additional links pertaining to
Math Anxiety.
A Student's
Guide to Balancing Stress
This website explains what stress is as well as
its causes and effects. Moreover, it gives advice on how to manage and get
help for your stress as a student. Additional resources are cited.
Math help 24/7
This Valencia College website provides links to video tutorials created by
Valencia math professors. The videos use a variety of technologies, all simple
to view, but some will require flash player. If you need flash player installed,
you will be given directions on how to install this at the time it is needed.
Click on the STATISTICS STA 2023 row for tutorials in this class.
TI-89 stats app
Using a TI-89 calculator and don't see the
statistics menus and functions that we are using in class with the TI-83/84
calculator? This application should help you out.
CauseWeb
A wealth of statistics education information. Check out the Laboratories
in the Resources section for interactive, downloadable applets.
Sampling Distribution: Sample Proportions
Similar to the M&Ms activity we did in class, this applet uses Reese's Pieces.
Unfortunately, you can't eat them. ;)
Sampling Distribution: Sample Means
Download an applet that illustrates sample mean sampling distributions as well
as the Central Limit Theorem.
Scatterplots, Correlation and the Regression Line
When is a scatterplot linearly strong? How do outliers affect the
regression line? Download an applet that illustrates these concepts.
Feel free to play around with it, since you'll learn more that way. NOTE:
Firefox browser 18.0 or higher required.
Gallery of Statistics
Jokes
Read them in a list or scroll down to the bottom to read by category.
Math help 24/7
This Valencia College website provides links to video tutorials created by
Valencia math professors. The videos use a variety of technologies, all simple
to view, but some will require flash player. If you need flash player installed,
you will be given directions on how to install this at the time it is needed.
Click on the MATH FOR LIBERAL ARTS MGF 1107 row for tutorials in this class.
Interior
angles of a polygon
Create your own polygons and see how the interior angles add up. Also
includes Regular polygons.
Creating Tessellations (Tilings) With
Regular Polygons
After clicking the above link, scroll down the page
halfway to view an interactivity that allows you to create tilings with regular
polygons. Firefox won't support this Java applet, so you should view it in
Internet Explorer.
Create
Even More Tessellations (Tilings)!
Create even more tessellations
(tilings) with this interactive applet. Firefox won't support this Java
applet, so you should view it in Internet Explorer.
Attack on the pentagon results in discovery of new mathematical tilling.
It becomes only the 15th type of pentagon known that can do this, and the first
discovered in 30 years. Study of pentagonal tilings is interesting also
because of its potential applications. “Many structures that we see in
nature, from crystals to viruses, are comprised of building blocks that are
forced by geometry and other dynamics to fit together to form the larger scale
structure.” -- Casey Mann
Math is Fun--Animated Polyhedron Models
See 3-D rotating polyhedra, or
spin it yourself! Includes a "net" which shows you the types of polygon
faces the polyhedron has, and it allows you to print it out so that you can
construct the polyhedron yourself.
The Mind-Boggling Challenge of Designing 120-Sided Dice
Designing a
120-sided die was a complex process, not only in choosing how many polygon faces
surround a vertex, but also in placing the numbers on the faces to create a fair
die (each face has an equal probability of being the face that comes up after
rolling the die).
Escher For
Real
This website showcases the two-dimensional artwork of M. C. Escher and turns it
into 3-D!
Maps
of Konigsberg
Maps of Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad) where Euler showed that you cannot find a
path that crosses each of its bridges exactly once.
Shrinking Blob Speeds
Traveling Salesman On His Way
This physics news article (March 26, 2013)
showcases how the mathematics of biology is used to find an approximate solution
to the Traveling Salesman Problem.
Large prime numbers
Why is searching for large prime numbers so important? Find out here.
Pierre De Fermat
Just who is this mathematician that asked the most famous question in math
history for 350 years!?
Check
Digits are used for a chemical's registry number
All chemicals have a CAS
(Chemical Abstracts Service) registry number. This allows a chemist to see
if a CAS number is authentic.
Voting change
for best film Oscar (2010)
With an increase of candidates for Best Film, the voting method to
determine which movie should receive the Oscar has changed from plurality to
preference ranking.
Valencia College (East Campus) Math Course
Class Types
What type of math class should I be in? What is Individualized Learning?
These questions and more can be answered at the link above.
Math Path
Last updated October 25, 2017.
To find out which math courses you are able to take next, or to find out which
math courses are prerequisites to an existing math course, you can follow the
Math Path! The Math Path is meant as only a guide and you should probably
talk to an advisor before making critical course-taking decisions.
Academic Advising
and Counseling at Valencia College
Educational advising staff and counselors provide developmental advising which
includes life, career and educational planning, interpretation of assessments,
strategies to address academic difficulties, programs to develop student success
skills, preparation for university transfer, and workforce preparedness.
Careers in Mathematics
Do you like math, but don't know what you can do
with it when you get out of school? Do you have a job in mind, but don't know
how much math education (BS, MS or Ph.D.) you'll need? This link will help
you with a math career.
Employment with
the State of Florida
Post your application or perform a vacancy search for the best job for you with
the state of Florida.
Female Mathematicians
This site helps to eliminate the gender gap in math. A current and comprehensive
list of the many female mathematicians.
Minorities in Mathematics
Related links on minorities in mathematics and the sciences.
Kingdomality
Who would you have been in a Medieval Kingdom? The White Knight? The
Shepard? Take this survey to find out how you fit into a medieval society.
True
Colors
Are you mainly Gold? Or perhaps Orange? Take this online assessment
and discover the dominant "color" of your personality.
TypeLogic
Another personality assessment only more detailed. Related to the
Myers-Briggs classifications.
Khan Academy Video Tutorials
With a library of over 2,600 videos covering everything from arithmetic to
physics, finance, and history and 220 practice exercises, this website is on a
mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.
Number Sequence Puzzles
Sequence puzzles are brainteasers that use sequences in any set of numbers to
create patterns. These patterns can sometimes be quite easily spotted, or they
may be very hard to figure out.
Online
Fractal Jigsaw Puzzles
Like jigsaw puzzles? Like cool-looking fractal images? Then this
site is for you!
Mathematicians
Everything you wanted to know about mathematicians. Biographies, information,
famous theorems and women mathematicians.
Math Words
A dictionary/history of the most common mathematical words.
5 Famous Numbers
What are the five famous numbers? Find this out as well as other
scientific numbers of interest at the link above.
Math Stamps
Images of mathematicians on postage stamps.
Sir Isaac Newton
Biography of this famous mathematician.
Using English
sentences in math.pdf
Why is it so important to use full English sentences when giving an answer to a
math question? This document is satire using "real-life" memos between the
boss and an employee.