While many English teachers might consider Spark Notes a distraction and a bane, it turns out that the Math section of this well-known tool's website offers some excellent resources for everything from pre-algebra to relatively advanced calculus. Students who are in need of some easy to follow math tutoring may find the site especially helpful. Selecting any of the several dozen sections on the...

As another academic year draws to a close, the Scout staff thought we would commemorate a fruitful and interesting year of the Scout Report by publishing a Special Edition: Best of 2007-2008. We hope you enjoy reviewing some of the great resources from the past year and, as always, we look forward to continuing to provide our readers with more in the years to come. All the best, Chanda...

The Stanford Computer Forum is sponsored by the Industrial Affiliates Program for the Computer Science Department and CS/EE Computer Systems Laboratory. The Forum brings together students, faculty, and industry leaders through events and programs, and offers members "facilitated interaction with faculty, students, and colleagues at other member companies." The website announces upcoming meetings,...

Before entering the main portion of this interactive introduction to statistics, visitors will have to answer a few quick questions on polls. It's actually a bit fun, and it serves as a nice introduction to the site. Once visitors are in the main site, they will get the opportunity to learn about statistics through the lens of a mock election. The site contains areas such as "How Random is...

Many academic libraries provide a range of scholarly guides to different disciplines. The librarians at the Dalhousie University Libraries have created this magical elixir of guides to subjects as diverse as medicine, civil engineering, writing, and computer science. Each guide contains a set of five or six sections that include Reference, Selected Books, Key Databases, Journals, and Recommended...

Undergraduates, graduate students, and the generally curious will find much to wander through here. The librarians at Syracuse University have created dozens of subject guides for everything from anthropology to writing & rhetoric. Each guide contains links to books, databases, journals, dissertations, electronic resources, and so on. Visitors will note that some of the resources are only licensed...

Many students arriving at college may find that they have forgotten some of the basic skills required to learn various mathematical concepts. Some educational researchers and mathematicians of note have commented that learning math is more than a bit like learning a new language. Keeping that in mind, this site provided by the mathematics department at St. Louis University may be useful for both...

The TeachEngineering website is a resource for teachers who seek to make engineering concepts come to life for students in grades K-12. It is also worth nothing that some of the resources are appropriate for college-level students. Funded with money from the National Science Foundation, a team of university researchers worked to create a searchable web-based digital library of free and accessible...

This interesting resource comes courtesy of the "Loci" project at the MathDL initiative, and it is part of the "Original Sources" series. Math scholars Dominic Klyve, Lee Stemkoski, and Erik Tou have created this helpful educational resource for fellow mathematics educators who might be interested in using primary documents from the Euler Archive. The Euler Archive was created by the folks at the...

The tagline of Teaching Channel is "Great Teaching. Inspiring Classrooms." Educators from kindergarten to college will find hundreds of resources here, including fact sheets, lesson plans, videos, and blogs to help them in the classroom. First-time visitors will need to fill out a short free registration to get started. After this, users can click on left-hand side of the page to browse through...