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These are links to help your student supplement the instruction that they receive from the classroom.  We have found them to be beneficial in extending the classroom curriculum and adding some variety in there approaches to the material.

http://www.onlineintervention.com
http://www.coolmath.com/graphit/
http://www.math.com 

Warm-ups for Pre-algebra

Warm-ups are available in PowerPoint slides to prepare students in Pre-algebra and Algebra AB that review fundamental concepts.  Click on the icon to retrieve the file.

Mathematician of the Month

 Sir Isaac Newton

Born: 4 Jan 1643 -- Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
Died: 31 March 1727 --London, England

Isaac Newton was born in the manor house of Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire. Although by the calendar in use at the time of his birth he was born on Christmas Day 1642, we give the date of 4 January 1643 in this biography which is the "corrected" Gregorian calendar date bringing it into line with our present calendar. (The Gregorian calendar was not adopted in England until 1752.) Isaac Newton came from a family of farmers but never knew his father, also named Isaac Newton, who died in October 1642, three months before his son was born. Although Isaac's father owned property and animals which made him quite a wealthy man, he was completely uneducated and could not sign his own name.
Newton's greatest achievement was his work in physics and celestial mechanics, which culminated in the theory of universal gravitation. By 1666 Newton had early versions of his three laws of motion. He had also discovered the law giving the centrifugal force on a body moving uniformly in a circular path. However he did not have a correct understanding of the mechanics of circular motion.
Newton's novel idea of 1666 was to imagine that the Earth's gravity influenced the Moon, counter- balancing its centrifugal force. From his law of centrifugal force and Kepler's third law of planetary motion, Newton deduced the inverse-square law.

 
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