Dear Colleague,

I enjoyed my visit to Monterey very much.  Thank you for the warm welcome and for being so receptive to the material I presented. 

Below you will find links to the transparencies I used during the talk.  I have also included links to some of the sites I showed or mentioned during the presentations.  I hope you will try some of the transparencies in your classes, and that you give yourself permission to use five minutes of any class period for whatever you find interesting in and around mathematics. 

Note:  In some cases I have included a second file with notes on how we used the transparencies during the talks.  These files are under the heading Instructor Notes Here.

Transparencies

Conic Sections and Eccentricity

     Instructor Notes Here

Links to Other Sites

Postage Stamps of Mathematicians This page contains postage stamps involving mathematics.  You will find many things here that you can use in class.

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary  This is the Merriam-Webster online dictionary.  If you have on-line access in your classroom, this is a good place to go to look up definitions during class.  For example, look up the definition for scientific notation.  I think you will like it.

Kepler's First and Second Laws

Solar System Animation