Nov
03
2008
One of the topics I wanted to cover here was new students entering college. It’s a tough time for us and with most students taking next to nothing of value their senior year, thats almost a year with no review of your math skills. I wanted to take the time to outline a few resources for reviewing your basic algebra skills before you take your placement tests.
- College Algebra with Applications, 2e
- Principles of Elem. Algebra with Applications,2e
- Principles of Intermediate Algebra with App.,2e
- A First Course in Linear Algebra
These are just a few resources to get you started. One of the sad things about public schools that I remember was not getting to keep my books. Who wouldn’t want to have such resources. Giving them back was always hard.
Nov
03
2008
I wanted to take the time to highlight one of the greatest and oldest resources for literature on the Internet, Project Gutenberg. PG is a collection of public domain works digitized and posted for free. PG is the oldest digital library on the internet. Started in 1971 by Michael Hart at the University of Illinois. Hart started the project as an effort to pay back the community for the computer time he was given free of charge at the university.
Today PG contains more than 30,000 items including books, periodicals, and reference works available free of charge to the public. It can easily be searched by author and title, and all the books are readable by anyone with a web browser.
To get you started using PG I wanted to list a few classic publications that are available and currently used in undergrad literature classes. One caveat to keep in mind is that not all books on PG are the current ’scholarly’ edition. The most recent editions of these books would be copyrighted. That said, I have used the texts from PG for school and had no problems.
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Nov
03
2008
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So you want to get a college education without spending the dough huh? Well apart from the tuition one of the biggest costs is, you guessed it, textbooks. From my experience some books can cost you upward for $180 and you only use them for one class!
Some of the books are available as a pdf download while others can only be read online. Most of the material here is targeted to under-grad studies, but the site contains some post-grad material |
Enter Textbook Revolution!
Textbook Revolution is the web’s source for free educational materials. This is a student-run, volunteer-operated website started in response to the textbook industry’s constant drive to maximize profits instead of educational value.
TBR’s mission is to drive the adoption of free textbooks by teachers and professors. We want to get these books into classrooms. Our approach is to bring all of the free textbooks we can find together in one place, review them, and let the best rise to the top and find their way into the hands of students in classrooms around the world.
Their goal is to get as many teachers and students as they can to adopt free textbooks and save the students and schools millions of dollars a year. There are tons of informative books on this site. Have a look today, and remember to tell your professor about it if you are currently enrolled in college courses.
