All files are in PDF format.
Factoring Procedure
Step by step instructions for factoring simple polynomials with two, three, or four terms.
Factoring flowchart
Most of the information from the above procedure, in flowchart form (borrowed from the web and annotated).
Powers and primes
A chart of squares, cubes, fourth powers, powers of two, and primes less than 100.
Statistics terminology for hypothesis testing
A summary of key concepts from Chapter 1 of Interactive Statistics by Aliaga and Gunderson, as used at Santa Barbara City College.
Monica Dabos's statistics summary (884 KB)
A good summary of procedures for hypothesis testing and construction of confidence intervals, from Monica Dabos of Santa Barbara City College.
Categorizing statistics problems
Some suggestions for deciding what kind of statistics problem you're looking at. This also has a summary of some commonly used symbols.
Patterns for combinatorics
A handy sheet with patterns that may help count outcomes for rolling two dice, flipping one, two, three, or four coins, or choosing playing cards from a standard deck.
Conics summary (5752 KB)
A summary of general equations for conic sections.
Ellipse equation derivation
A derivation of the standard form of the equation of an ellipse.
Trig identity example
An example of a proof of a trigonometric identity.
Induction example
An example showing the use of mathematical induction.
Tips for taking mathematics examinations
From Andrew Nestler of Santa Monica College (the original is here).
Poetry Corner:
"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas." - Albert Einstein (from a letter to the New York Times on the death of Emmy Noether)
Euclid Alone Has Looked On Beauty Bare
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Richard Cory parody
A parody by J. D. Memory of E. A. Robinson's Richard Cory, demonstrating conditional probability. The original is also included.
Wordsworth on Pure Intelligence
By William Wordsworth, from "Book Sixth: Cambridge and the Alps" of "The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement"
Numbers
By Mary Cornish
Addition
By Langston Hughes
from The Definition of Love
By Andrew Marvell
By Lewis Carroll