Archive for the ‘Geometry’ Category
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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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Earlier this month UC Berkeley professor emeritus of mathematics David Gale passed away. Gale made a number of significant contributions to mathematics and he loved puzzles, games, and finding beauty in mathematics. Gale's daughter had this to say:
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Posted in Game, Fun, Puzzle, Geometry | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
In my neck of the woods in northern New Mexico, the Fractal Foundation lives the mission of inspiring interest in science, Math, and Art through the beauty of fractals. The Foundation puts on fractal-related programs in schools and takes them on the road. The Foundation also sponsors a very popular ...
Posted in Fun, Beauty, Art, Geometry | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
I imagine that many of you are familiar with this remarkable mathematical equation that incorporates what are arguably the five most important mathematical constants into one equation. Yes, phi is missing from this equation. I've been reading this fascinating book, Where Mathematics Comes From. Wikipedia has an article about the ...
Posted in Geometry, Algebra | 3 Comments »
Monday, January 7th, 2008
I know Maria Miller through her Homeschool Math Blog. As a fellow Math blogger I like to know what others in my community are up to so I follow her blog along with others. I'm also aware that Maria has a series of Math worktexts (workbook + textbook) and worksheets ...
Posted in Reviews, Geometry | 8 Comments »
Friday, December 7th, 2007
While surfing the web I discovered this: World's Hardest Easy Geometry Problem. There's actually two geometry problems on the page. Apparently these are classic problems that have tortured students for a long time. I spent a little bit of time working on the first, and even looking at the two ...
Posted in Fun, Math contest, Geometry | 1 Comment »
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
I'm enjoying the process of discovering how a little Math can go a long way. Readers are enjoying mental Math tricks, Math magic, and other simple things that engage children of all ages to see Math with a sense of awe.
One of my very favorite Math web-sites is Antonio Gutierrez' Go Geometry, ...
Posted in Fun, Geometry | 4 Comments »
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 »
Saturday, November 17th, 2007
More Fun With Mathematics by Jerome Meyer is a nice little book of interesting Math explorations. It's out of print but Amazon has a few very inexpensive used copies available. In the book I discovered this very odd volume formula that I've never seen before and couldn't find via Google. ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
I read lots of Math books and I've run into many many interesting Math "things" in my travels but here's something very clever I've never encountered before. Let's say you want to multiply 5 by 8. Do the following:
Plot the graph of y=x^2.
Draw a line that crosses the parabola where ...
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