Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Friday, March 12th, 2010
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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 ...
Posted in Fun, Education | 1 Comment »
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 ...
Posted in Reviews, Education, Geometry, Algebra | 2 Comments »
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 | 4 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Fun, Fast Arithmetic, Education | 3 Comments »
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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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
I'm always impressed to see a new way to do something familiar. Recently, I happened upon a fascinating video, titled Weaving Numbers at the IsAllAboutMath web-site, which has some instructional Math-related videos.
Weaving Numbers demonstrates several non-traditional ways to do multiplication. I found the Napier's bones approach depicted fascinating as well ...
Posted in Education, Geometry, Algebra | 8 Comments »
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
This article provides a set of tips for raising your awareness of learning styles as a major factor in how children learn. These tips are adapted from the resources listed at the end of this article.
The tips are based on the Dunn & Dunn Learning Styles Model developed by Professors ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Science News Online just published a fascinating article: Good Stories, Good Math. The article is subtitled: "Preschoolers who can tell good stories develop good mathematical skills by the first grade." Writer Julie Rehmeyer reports on a new study which reveals that there's apparently a very strong connection between mathematical ...
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