Ralph Polley's Website

My name is Ralph Polley and I teach Math in Houston, Texas. The resources on this site may be used freely but please credit the source.

• Quadrature - A Tour through Greek Mathematical Thought
• The Fibbonacci Discovery - The Fibbonacci Discovery Activity was developed with my friend, Robert Sughrue, presently teaching mathematics at Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas.
• Pythagorean Theorem Proved using Geometer's Sketchpad
• Geometry Interactive Demonstrations using Geometer's Sketchpad

  Calculus Links

  • AP Calculus Introduction
  • AP Calculus at BHS
  • Free Online MIT Course Materials for High School | AP Calculus | MIT OpenCourseWare
    Free and open online high school course materials in AP Calculus from MIT. Lecture notes, video lectures, AP materials, AP exam, student resources, teacher resources.
  • Calculus AP Summer Assignment
  • AP Calculus - Course Outline
  • AP Calculus Curriculum Map
  • Visual Calculus

  Modeling and Super Computing

  • System Dynamics Resource Page
  • Octave
  • MBF_ImageJ - Installing
  • GUI commands — ImageJ Documentation This section documents the entries in the Graphical User Interface of ImageJ. The contents of these pages has been imported from the ImageJ website -written by Wayne Rasband- and updated where necessary. Last updated according to version 1.41d.
  • Details: Lectures on Image Processing
  • Model Repositories | Resources | Systems-Biology Resources. A portal site for systems biology.
  • Bootable Cluster CD
  • NCSI: Surveys
  • Case It! Home Page
  • Vensim Files
  • MIT System Dynamics in Education Project: K-12 Email Discussion Group
  • Guided Study Program in System Dynamics
  • Road Maps: A Guide to Learning System Dynamics
  • Shodor: Making Your World
  • FoilSim II 1.5a beta
  • NSDL Pathways News
  • NSDL.org | NSDL Pathways | The National Science Digital Library NSDL Pathways are partners who provide access to audience-specific views of appropriate NSDL resources and services (portals). Pathway audiences may be grouped by grade level, discipline, resource or data type, or some other designation.
  • Funderstanding Roller Coaster
  • Instructional Architect Home

This site was created by Ralph Polley 1999-2009. Refer all questions or comments to

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