Archive for March, 2008
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Brian Foley runs a web-site, Math Mojo and a blog, The Math Mojo Chronicles. The web-site aims to make, in Brian's words, "Math meaningful." While I enjoy the site, I struggled to explain what Math Mojo was about until I found this description in the What is Math Mojo page:
Math ...
Posted in Reviews, Math Phobia, Fast Arithmetic, Education | 3 Comments »
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
I'm in the mood for some "light" writing so I thought I'd report this ...
The Bad Astronomy blog posted an article last November about reviewers of Texas Math books finding 109,623 errors among the books they reviewed. Houghton Mifflin, publisher of the books containing the majority of the errors - ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Do you know what is interesting about March 9 this year to most US residents?
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Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Four of you have submitted answers to Monday Math Madness so far but only two of them are correct. Remember, the Blinkdagger guys and I are picking a good random answer, not the first good answer. So, you've all still got a chance to win $10 to Amazon.
Heather, from the ...
Posted in Game, Fun, Math contest, Puzzle | No Comments »
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
I was contacted last week by a couple of Matlab geeks, Quan and Daniel, who have started a blog, Blinkdagger, about co-sponsoring an ongoing Math contest. Now, I was a little confused because I think these guys are engineers, and I didn't know that engineers took Math classes :) (Maybe ...
Posted in Fun, Math contest, Puzzle | 9 Comments »
Saturday, March 1st, 2008
[ At the surface, the following post has nothing to do with Math, but I bet that many, many people who struggle with Math could benefit from what I'm about to share with you. In fact, I'm bold enough to claim that this post could change Math-related experiences for many ...
Posted in Uncategorized | 15 Comments »
