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Wild About Math Making Math fun and accessible Home About Articles Math contest problem links Videos Wild About Math bloggers 1 21 11 January 29th , 2011 by Sol The 1 28 edition is at Equalis Here’s last week’s edition . Welcome to another edition of Wild About Math Bloggers Alex Bellos introduces us to Lee Sallow’s fascinating work with Geomagic squares Sallow realised that you could create a much more versatile magic square , which he calls a geomagic square Instead of containing numbers , it contains shapes , and that the combination of shapes that you get in each row , column and diagonal can be pieced together to make the same master shape . Built on Facts has a nice introduction to the zeta functio n and on its relationship to prime numbers . Hat tip to Shecky James Tanton has a new
Skip to Navigation about Plus support Plus Plus sponsors subscribe to Plus terms of use Search this site : Searching for the missing truth by Marianne Freiberger Submitted by mf344 on January 28, 2011 in continuum hypothesis Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem mathematical reality set theory Zermelo-Fraenkel axiomatisation of set theory Many people like mathematics because it gives definite answers . Things are either true or false , and true things seem true in a very fundamental way . Hugh . Woodin The fact is , however , that mathematics has been moving on somewhat shaky philosophical ground for some time now . With the work of the logician Kurt Gödel and others in the 1930s it became clear that there are limits to the power of mathematics to pin down truth . In fact , it's possible to build
Classification of numbers with an easy to read chart. This chart should help you identify easily the different types of numbers
Welcome to the Tuesday Teacher Tips series! Each week we’ll highlight teaching and learning resources, ideas to use in the classroom, as well as things to ponder as you go about your teaching day.
I teach third grade, and the unit we’re currently working on is one that many students struggle with—money, specifically using mental math [...]
Tired of the same old sudoku? Here’s an opportunity to try many variations of it. Thomas Snyder and Wei-Hwa Huang wrote a book called Mutant Sudoku. The authors are both Sudoku champions. I like the book because the authors are trying to bring everyone up to their level, rather than dumbing [...]
Wild About Math Making Math fun and accessible Home About Articles Math contest problem links Videos Great article about Vi Hart in the New York Times January 18th , 2011 by Sol Check out Bending and Stretching Classroom Lessons to Make Math Inspire at the New York Times . It’s a great interview with Vi Hart . You’ll need a free account at the New York Times to read the . article I didn’t know that Hart graduated with a degree in music and never took a math course in college . Just two years after graduating she has produced amazing work If you enjoyed this post , make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed One Response to Great article about Vi Hart in the New York Times” By Jon on Jan 19, 2011 Reply Thanks for the link . It looks really interesting just by the photo . I never would have
Skip to Navigation about Plus support Plus Plus sponsors subscribe to Plus terms of use Search this site : Maths 1001' review by Marianne Freiberger Submitted by mf344 on January 12, 2011 in book review Maths 1001 : absolutely everything you need to know about mathematics in 1001 bite-sized explanations By Richard Elwes There are many places where this book could live very happily : on the shelf in with the textbooks , on a coffee table , by the bed , and if it wasn't a little heavy to hold up , it would also make good reading in the bath . The reason for its versatility is that it's a mixture between an encyclopaedia and a popular maths book . In some sense , it's a plain English encyclopaedia of maths , embellished with some examples for entertainment . So whether you're trying to get at
There will be a program at the Institut Henri Poincaré from Jan 5 to Mar 31 on “Metric geometry, algorithms, and groups.” Visit the web site, or that of the sister program on Discrete Analysis at the Newton Institute. Notes from the program and related courses and talks will be posted at the Metric 2011 [...]
Home About Math Books Table of Contents Write for us Applied Math Essential Math History Math Education Math News Math Websites Software Suggested Reading Tutorial Unsolved Problems The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010 Posted by Antonio Cangiano in Suggested Reading on January 4th , 2011 one response While compiling the new math releases for my site that helps you discover new books I came across a brand new book by Princeton University Press , called The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010 While I haven’t had the opportunity to read this book yet , it was just released yesterday I think it looks extremely . promising Here is a description of it directly from the : publisher This anthology brings together the year’s finest writing on mathematics from around the world . Featuring promising new