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Balancing Chemical Equations Using Matrix Algebra

A Biological ESTEEM module in the BioChemistry Category. This Excel workbook introduces using matrix algebra to balance chemical reactions.

A Timeline for a Job Search in Mathematics

Are you in or going to be in the market for a job? Here is a timeline for the necessary steps, with Web-based resources to assist you.

Mathematics Animations with SVG

We highlight five pages written in XHTML with links to SVG files that produce animations illustrating calculus concepts such as the sign of the derivative, inflection points, conic sections, area between two curves, and multivariable functions.

Flash Tools for Developers: Function Grapher

This Flash Forum article includes source code and modification instructions that will allow you to customize a basic one-variable function grapher.

ZMap - A Complex Function Plotter

This article describes ZMap, an applet that helps students visualize the graphs of complex-valued functions.

Power Maths

A mathlet for discovery of the integral and differential power rules prior to formal discussion of integral, power rule, or Fundamental Theorem in a calculus course.

Supplement to 'Fermat's Spiral and the Line Between Yin and Yang'

This Supplement provides an applet which allows readers to explore symmetries of "Yin-Yang" shapes generated by polar graphs of Fermat spirals.

PopTools

This ESTEEM module in the Biometrics Category is a downloadable Windows program that allows the construction, analysis, and simulation of models in a simple spreadsheet format. The only programming required is the ability to construct formulas in Excel.

Simple Row Reducer

This applet performs traditional elementary row operations keeping track of the entire process. It also allows fraction, integer, or decimal entries and preserves these types throughout the row reduction process.

World Class Sprints

A module examining a model for the performance of world-class sprinters.