Home Page of Daryl L. Stephens, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics East Tennessee State University   E-Mail*:  stephen@nospam.mail.etsu.edu Office Phone:  423-439-6973 Office Location:  Gilbreath 308D (New office location and phone!) Vita (PDF file)

2006--Liberty Bell Museum, Philadelphia

Contents

• Teaching and Office Schedule
• Handouts from Conference Presentations
• Franklin Math Bowl
• ACT Math workshop from Hampton High School (10/13/06)
• Math links  
• A History of U. S. Developmental Education (my own little scholarly treatise, which in revised form is in the 2003 NADE monograph)
• Fun links (non-math stuff)
• Adapting Developmental Course Content to Align with Changing Realities--Handout from NADE 2003 conference (PDF file--Adobe Acrobat Reader needed)
• Developing an Online College Course: Instructional Design --An annotated bibliography/webliography about teaching online courses (developed for a class I took at UTK)
• National Association for Developmental Education's Mathematics Special Professional Interest Network -- I am webmaster and former chair for this organization.
• Blackboard Log-in Page
• 5 mm graph paper (PDF file) -- print out as much as you need!
• My professional paper, Matrix Properties of Magic Squares, written for my M.S. in math at Texas Woman's University, 1993. This is a PDF file which has a few problems with it. The original was written using a program called EXP which I no longer have access to. I used a program called EXP viewer to call it up from the old 3.25-inch floppy disks and then print to PDF, but somehow a few of the formatting codes showed up in red and the page numbers on the table of contents are wrong. Trying to remove the red codes and changing page numbers, though, creates all sorts of worse havoc, so just make do with what's there. If you really need a good copy, let me know and I'll get a paper copy for you.
• My dissertation, Predicting Success of Developmental and Core Mathematics Students at East Tennessee State University (PDF file--403 K, 106 pages), written for my Ph. D. in math education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2005.
  
  

Tentative Schedule for Fall, 2008

(Most of these links will open in a new browser window.)

• Help for Math Anxiety
• Help for Math Anxiety --link to a page at Middle Tennessee State University. Gives study tips, how to be successful in math classes, how to deal with math anxiety, and more!
• Coping with Math Anxiety --a mini-text with a definition, information about the roots of math anxiety, and how to overcome it.

• General Study Tips for Math
• Study Tips for Math from actual ETSU developmental math students.
• One Student's Tips --a really good essay from one former ETSU student who is now an ETSU adjunct faculty member in the Criminal Justice Department.

• Developmental Math Content Sites
• Online Prealgebra Course from Free-Ed.Net. A kind of interactive text/workbook. Covers much of the same material we taught in our prealgebra classes when we had them. Good for a refresher!
• Mathnotes.com --link to a site with tutorials for slightly different prealgebra, elementary algebra, and intermediate algebra books from the ones we used to use, but by the same authors. You'll need to match book names and chapter titles with the ones in our books.
• Multiplying/Factoring Polynomials Quiz -- A self-checking quiz on mutlipying binomials and factoring trinomials.
• Factoring Hints -- Step-by-step help on factoring polynomials. By Margaret Donaldson, former assistant professor of developmental math at ETSU.
• Algebra Tile Basics --A lesson on a pictorial way to understand multiplying binomials.
• "Math for Morons Like Us" -- Despite the title, this is a site developed by high school students to teach each other prealgebra, algebra, and other math topics. This could be helpful for both elementary and intermediate algebra. You may need to browse through both Algebra I and Algebra II to find the topic you need. Also has information helpful for studying prealgebra as well as precalculus and calculus.
• PurpleMath -- Free online algebra resource.  Includes homework guidelines, study skills, and modules for several algebra topics.  Includes explanations and examples. Probably my favorite.
• SOS Math -- another free math resource, written at a slightly higher level.  Covers topics beyond algebra also.
• CoolMath --yet another free math site with a really interesting cursor.


• Precalculus Content Sites -- I haven't had time to investigate these offsite links too thoroughly yet. These will open up in a new browser window.  I'm scouring the web looking for more and will add them as I have time.
• OJK's Precalculus Study Page
• The Precalculus TI-83 Tutorial
• Review of Plane Trigonometry (mostly references--formulas, etc.)
  

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