Empire State College provides a significant number of math and science learning resources of interest to adult learners. We've also identified other good resources from the Internet.

We've organized all of these resources into four categories:

Quantitative and Statistical Literacy (working with data)

Mathematics (working with patterns and symbols)

General Science

General Resources: Video, Free Online Courses and Free Textbooks

 

Interactive Math Tutors and Tools

Quantitative and Statistical Literacy (working with data)
  • StatSoft Electronic Statistics Textbook - There are many statistics resources available on the Internet, and several complete textbooks can be found. The StatSoft Electronic Statistics Textbook is one of the best. It is especially useful when you need to look something up when applying statistics to some area of study (as opposed to taking a statistics course). The Glossary is particularly well done.
  • StatCrunch This fully functional statistics software is available as an online application, there's nothing to download or install. The software is easy to use and is quite powerful. To use StatCrunch you sign up online and pay a minimal fee (at the time of this writing $5) and you are ready. View the Empire State College StatCruch Tutorial.
  • Against All Odds: Inside Statistics This series of 26 half hour segments, originally developed for PBS, covers the full range of material typically seen in an introductory statistics course. To view the videos you have to register, but registration is free and easy.

Mathematics (working with patterns and symbols)

  • The Empire State College Online Mathematics Library - The resources found here have been reviewed for accuracy and clarity of presentation, and they are organized by both topic and content type. In other words, there are reliable sources of information organized to make it easy for you to find what you need.
  • Ask Dr. Math: From the Math Forum at Drexel University. The questions and answers found on this web site tend to be particularly useful to adult students because "Dr. Math" is actually an ever changing set of volunteers, mainly math majors at Drexel. You can ask a specific question, and the answers are usually returned in plain language. And if an answer doesn't make sense there's usually a series of follow-up questions that help clarify the matter.
  • The Math Page - There are lots of math tutorial and resource sites on the Internet, but few beat this one for clarity of presentation. From arithmetic to calculus, each section is arranged so that you can find the topic you need help with easily.

General Science
  • New EdGCM Tutorials : EdGCM provides a research quality climate model that you can run on your home computer (PC or Mac). These tutorials will help you get started.
  • New Environmental Field Activities Web Site - Developed by an Empire State College faculty member, this site features a number of environmentally related field activities that can be done by adult learners and their families.
  • The Leonardo Interactive Science Museum - Like any good science museum, "The Leonardo" is designed to pique your curiosity and nudge you into new areas of exploration. The museum consists of links to over 200 interactive science-related activities and exhibits from the Internet. The vast majority of the resources are in the form of Java Applets. If you have trouble with any of the applets take a look at this help page: Java Applets for students, what you need to know
  • Molecular Expressions: Images from the Microscope - This web site, produced by the Optical Microscopy Division of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University, brings virtual microscopy to the Internet. The resources on this site are too extensive to list, but include; animations, movies and applets that students can use to see into worlds otherwise known only to researchers at the world's best microscopy labs.
  • Scripts Institute: Perspectives on Ocean Science The Perspectives on Ocean Science series consists of video of public lectures recorded at the Scripts Institute over a period of several years. These lectures are intended for a general audience and topics range from how penguins manage to swim long distances under water to earthquakes to climate change. If you enjoy a good science lecture you'll like these.

General Resources: Video, Free Online Courses and Free Textbooks

 
 

 
 

 

 

Spotlight On...

Narrated Spreadsheet Tutorials

image of a histogram

Question: Histograms are commonly used to display the distribution of values within a data set. But there is no histogram chart type in Excel. Can Excel be used to create a histogram?

A: Yes, there are two ways to do it and we have provided narrated tutorials explaining both methods. These tutorials and many others can be viewed at Spreadsheet Tutorials

 
 

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