Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
Monday, June 7th, 2010
Cows in the Maze: And Other Mathematical Explorations is reminiscent of the books of the late Martin Gardner. Fun stories. Interesting explorations. Challenging but accessible. That's my summary of Stewart's new book. For those of you who don't know, Stewart is a very prolific writer. He has published over 60 ...
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
Over the past year I've developed relationships with some publishers of Math books and I've received a number of free books. Publishers are very interested in getting newly published books into the hands of bloggers if we're willing to review them on our blogs. One publisher has explicitly asked me ...
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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, 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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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 ...
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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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