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Period 1	Algebra 2	Room 404
Period 2	Algebra 2	Room 404
Period 3	AP Computer Science	Room 404
Period 4	Algebra2/Trig	Room 404
Period 5	Algebra 2	Room 404

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Resources	Click here for software, setup, and downloads Will your college accept the AP Computer Science Exam for college credit? Check the list here. Words of Wisdom from last year's students
Online Java Lessons	Click here for Online Java Lessons
Online Help	Sun's Java Tutorial

Assignment Sheets	See the calendar at School Loop.
Online Help	Mr. Ferrante's Math Tutorial Gallery The BEST Online Math Tutorials! (Username: chs Password: our mascot) AWESOME Algebra videos!!! The best site I've seen yet Coolmath.com Excellent, easy to understand Math Dictionary For KidsHas good explanations Mathtrain TV Math tutorial videos TeacherTube Like Youtube, but educational Purplemath.com Tons of topics, written at a college level. Hotmath.com Step by step HW solutions ($49/year) Hotmath Videos A teacher on video. ($29/year) Hotmath Algebra Review Good for practice, not learning WolframAlpha Ask this search engine your math questions! For example, try these: Factor x^2 - 5x - 36 Solve x^2 - 5x - 36 = 0 Expand (x - 9)(x + 4) Divide x^2 - 5x - 36 by x + 4
Textbook Resources	Textbook Website Every chapter has... Flipcards: A vocabulary flashcard review Audio Summary: A guided, basic review of the chapter Student Tools: A quiz for each section and a chapter test Review Games: A review game of practice probems Challenges: Most sections have a challenge worksheet
Graphing Resources	Print your own graph paper FooPlot.com Easy, free, has root and intersection tools Webgraphing.com Easy, $, has COOL tools for Algebra 2 Download WinPlot Best graphing program ever! Download MathGV Another 2D/3D grapher Download Mathscribe Dynamic 2D grapher
Unit 1	Chapter 1 Practice Test Solutions
Unit 2	Chapter 2 Quiz w/ Answers (Pink) Chapter 2 Quiz w/ Answers (White)
Unit 3	System of Equations Solver Check your answers here! 3D Grapher Applet An online 3D Grapher MultiGraphiX Downloadable 3D Grapher GnuPlot Tutorial A college-level 3D Grapher
Unit 5	Quadratic Formula Rhyme (Listen to this 10x and you will KNOW the QF!) Quadratic Formula Rock (Sung off-key, but well produced.) A short, clever rap (Listen to this 10x and you will KNOW the QF!) Another Quadratic Formula Song Quadratic Formula Story/Song (A gruesome tale about the QF.) Chapter 5 Practice Test Solutions
Final Exam	Learning Goals Web page tutorial resources Semester 1 Lesson Tutorials<-- AWESOME!!!!! Chapter 1 Practice Test Solutions Chapter 2 Practice Test Solutions Chapter 3 Practice Test Solutions Chapter 5 Book Practice Test Solutions Chapter 5 Scantron Practice Test Solutions Chapter 6 Group Test Solutions Semester 1 Jeopardy Review
Unit 8	Chapter 8 Practice Test Solutions
STAR Test	STAR Practice Test STAR Standards w/ practice problems

Interesting Stuff

Puzzles and Challenges	The faster you go, the more difficult it is. Ready? Go! Pocoman Challenge The Amazing Impossible Cube! Decimal Conversion Challenge Extra credit if you can prove algebraically why this works. Magic Pi Challenge The Mad Scientists Show and explain why this works: Tic Tac Toe Multiplication
Humor	Math Jokes to brighten your day Old Computer Science joke about operating systems Ghost Story don't click here! A gangsta fractions rap, fo sho. Mathematicious(A YouTube math video) What you know about math?(Another sweet YouTube math video)
Math Software	Free Algebra Tutorial Software (Dale Irwin) More Free Algebra tutorial software! (xyAlgebra) To see an example of each module click here
Fun Software	POV-Ray, 3D software Moray, Excellent modeler for Pov-Ray Winfract 18.21, Fractal software Lots of fractal software! 3D Fractal landscape program Online Text-To-Speech by AT&T Labs ReadPlease Text-To-Speech Software Aptest (Compute Pi to billions of places!)
Games (puzzle/logic)	Chip's Challenge (Make a folder on your desktop and download all these files into the folder) chips.dat \| chips.exe \| wep4util.dll \| weputil.dll Pocoman Rules! Battle Tank (Two-player Battle Tank) Switch 'em Knights (1.1MB, Win version) Conspiracy! Text Adventure Game Game Maker (Game development software!) Mancala - Online! Sokaban - Online! Polytris for Win95 Needs this to run: Download vb40032.dll
Games (math)	Towers of Hanoi Game - Online! Transformation Golf - MS Excel! (Right-click, Save As) Games at MathDork.com Algebra Games! Advanced Mathematics Games Winarc - Math and Computer Science Games!
Cool Websites	This is one of the best optical illusions ever! Weird Ask Dr. Math (Find any answer to any math question) www.coolmath.com (Not just for kids!) How to make paper airplanes What does your phone number spell? Online magic trick Online Text Stereogram Creator
Misc Site Map	How To Make Your Own Music Wars Clips How I Made My Homepage Animations How To Glue A Cube To Itself Cool Pre-Calculus Stuff Sketch Pad with Java!

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