Useful Tools
This page contains links to various resources that you may find useful when encouraging education in STEM. Some of the links are to items on this web site while other links lead to other sites.
Here are two PowerPoint presentations that can help explain about the Corridor STEM Initiative.
Why CSI STEM - Web (Updated 2008 Jan 15)
If you do not have Microsoft PowerPoint, you can download a free PowerPoint Viewer here.
Many documents on the Internet are in the PDF format from Adobe. If you need software to view these documents, you can download the Adobe PDF Reader here.
Half Price Books offers a 10% discount to Educators (teachers and librarians). Just show proof of employment in education to get a discount card. You can read more about it at their web site: http://www.halfpricebooks.com/educators.html.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (http://www.nist.gov/) has introduced the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (http://dlmf.nist.gov/). Currently it is in the preview stage with quite a bit of content, but they are in the process of add much more.
You can find a wide range of science information at Science.gov (http://www.science.gov/), the U.S. government's web site for science.
This link is to a web site showing Math in popular culture with the television program Futurama used as the example.
The Slashdot website bills itself as “News for nerds, stuff that matters” and often has links to the latest Math and Science news.