Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Sorry for the late notice. I just got back from vacation. The event will be recorded for future viewing.
Calculus By and For Young People
The free webinar is part of Maria Droujkova's Math 2.0 Interest Group series.
During the event, Don Cohen-The Mathman will have participants graphing things they have never done ...
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Don Cohen, AKA The Mathman, has been helping children of all ages to learn Math for 34 years. He has a CDROM book, Calculus By and For Young People, which he sells via his site.
I found these "Math Myths" from his site to be quite interesting:
You can't take 7 from ...
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
Mathalicious is a great Math resource that illustrates the very practical use of Math in real world situations. The scenarios make for great classroom or homeschool explorations.
Here are some of the topics covered:
The Biggest Loser?
What is the math of weight loss? If two people each lose 100 pounds, is ...
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Friday, March 12th, 2010
[ Editor's Note:
Taunia from "Rhythm, Rhyme, Results" wrote to me asking if I'd blog about her education site. The site sells fun educational music and, in particular, has some Math songs in their Pi Day Collection. I wrote back letting Taunia know that I rarely plug commercial sites but ...
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
A couple of days ago I posted a very brief article, Dismantling the calculus pyramid. The post has been seen 2,746 times, thanks mostly to being noticed by 'timwiseman' who posted a link to the article at Y Combinator Hacker News. The posting at Y Combinator has gotten 45 comments ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
A while ago I received an email out of the blue from Texas Instruments (TI). One of their marketing people discovered this blog and offered to send me a TI-Nspire calculator to review. I quickly accepted, after all, who would turn down a free fancy calculator, right? Once I received ...
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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 ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
With summer fast arriving (yeah, I know we have to get through winter and spring first) kid's thoughts turn to summer Math camp. "Yeah, right", you say. Well, for those of us who really enjoyed Math in high school, Math camp was a lot of fun.
This post is not ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
It's reminiscent of those Planet of the Apes movies. Apes are smart. Humans are stupid.
ScienceDaily just ran this article: Young Chimps Top Adult Humans in Numerical Memory. Young chimps and adult humans played this game where some numbers were displayed on a screen in some, I'm-sure, hard to remember order ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
One of my favorite subjects to write about is the use of multiple intelligences (MI) in teaching Math. A while back I reviewed Math for Humans and I wrote a couple of articles that touch on MI: 10 ways to get wild about Math, and 11 tips for building a ...
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