Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
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 ...
Posted in Reviews, Education, Geometry, Algebra | No 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 | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
A while ago I discovered an interesting web site, Berkeley Science Books, that publishes a set of very comprehensive Ebooks called "Calculus Without Tears." Author Will Flannery has a pretty detailed explanation on the home page of his web-site of why he thinks Calculus can be taught in elementary school. ...
Posted in Calculus, Reviews, Books | 13 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 »
Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Last November I proposed to exchange blog reviews with other Math bloggers as a way to get our blogs a wider audience. In that same post I threatened to review the blogs I like if I got no takers. Well, I've gotten no takers to date and I'm making good ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
I remember riding the subway to high school in the late 1970's. I rode from Manhattan to the Bronx five days a week for four years. When I wasn't chatting with one of the other kids I'd often be reading some "Mathy" thing or working out a Math problem. Yes, ...
Posted in Reviews, Books | 9 Comments »
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
I have to admit, history has never been one of my strong suits. That's because I don't have a memory for details that are not relevant to my life. However, I realize that some people like, even love, history. And, from my study of Gardner's multiple intelligences I also get ...
Posted in History, Reviews, Books | 1 Comment »
