Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
The Manga Guide to Statistics is a cartoon book in the same style as the publisher's Manga Guide to Calculus, which I reviewed a while back. It's been close to thirty years since I studied statistics (in High School) and reading this book brought back memories.
For the same reasons ...
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
A while ago I was contacted by Sylvan Dell Publishing, asking me if I'd be willing to review one of their books. The company publishes science and Math books for children. I didn't think that Wild About Math! wouldn't be a particularly good match for a review since my audience ...
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Crewton Ramone's Blog of Math has a couple of videos that show the power of using manipulatives to do multiplication. I've always been pretty decent at multiplication yet I enjoyed seeing how manipulatives can really help students to get grounded into what multiplication really means. His videos demystify the cross-multiplication ...
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
An Imaginary Tale is an enjoyable historical and hands-on exploration of imaginary numbers. One Amazon reviewer, K. Jazayeri, characterized the book perfectly:
You may think of it as an "appetizer sampler" for the topic - "A Splash From The Complex Plane" - to quote the title of a diagram in ...
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
I've been a fan of Clifford Pickover since I discovered his books a couple of years ago. Some of Pickover's book are like Martin Gardner's in that they present problems that inspire Math exploration. But, I must say that many of the problems that Pickover proposes are very difficult ones. ...
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
No Starch Press contacted me and offered me a review copy of the Manga Guide to Calculus. I have a hard time turning down a free Math book so I accepted.
I had never heard of "manga" before so I read up on the subject at Wikipedia.
"Manga consist of comics and ...
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
From time to time a publisher offers me a review copy of a book. I always say yes unless I don't think I'll find something positive to say about the book. If, when I receive the book, I can't find something good to say then I won't review it.
Princeton University ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
I've been wanting for some time to incorporate mathematical equations into my blog posts. What I've done up to now is to use this nice web site that Brent from Math Less Traveled pointed me to. You enter a LaTeX expression and the web-site creates an image which you then ...
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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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