• The 16th annual EDDIE Awards

    Updated: 2011-09-28 23:18:53
    DreamBox Learning is excited to announce the results of the 2011 EDDIE Awards. To bring everyone up to speed: The EDDIE Awards target the bright, innovative programs and websites that aid teachers in doing what they do best—teach. We are thrilled to be recognized in the Early Elementary category as the math website of choice. [...]

  • Graphing linear equations

    Updated: 2011-09-27 19:43:00
    A thorough explanation of graphing linear equations using the slope and the y-intercept.

  • Math jobs

    Updated: 2011-09-27 00:30:38
    A list of all math jobs available in your areas. Find also a list of all math related jobs.

  • Two new videos by James Tanton

    Updated: 2011-09-26 14:32:05
    After a hiatus of several months Dr. Tanton is making videos again. Here are two new ones. Lulu has two children. You are told that at least one of her children is a boy who was born on a Tuesday. What is the probability that her other child is also a boy? The answer will [...]

  • Place Values Of Decimals

    Updated: 2011-09-26 02:10:53
    KidsMathBlog Easy To Follow Guide , Worksheets Tips For Parents Teachers About Math For Kids Place Values Of Decimals Decimal place value is showed to the millionths . Decimal place value is different . The decimal place value system relies on 10.    Begin using platform 10 blocks and decimal place value charts to add decimals . Start by reviewing fraction and decimal concepts as required using the group . Ensure everybody has the prerequisite knowledge , similar to being familiar with of the language terms fraction , 8217 numerator , 8217 and denominator , 8217 as well as decimal place value to the hundredths place . Big Ideas A decimal is another identify for a fraction and therefore may be related to the corresponding point on the number . line src= http : www.youtube.com embed

  • September Math Activities Calendar

    Updated: 2011-09-23 22:59:48
    Our September Math Activities Calendar is jam-packed with trivia, observances, and math problems to get your students using real-life math this month.  Ideas for using the calendar in the classroom: Home-School Connection Make a copy for each student to bring home. Ask them to do 10-15 activities for the month (or all of them!). Students can write the [...]

  • Math Talk in the Northwest

    Updated: 2011-09-23 22:57:09
    Finally—the 50th annual Northwest Mathematics Conference is coming up in less than a month!  If you are in the Portland, Oregon, area on October 13, 14, or 15, stop by the Red Lion Hotel on the River at Jantzen Beach. DreamBox Learning will be at booth 49, where you can enter to win a one-year [...]

  • Decimal Place Value Powerpoint

    Updated: 2011-09-23 22:16:47
    KidsMathBlog Easy To Follow Guide , Worksheets Tips For Parents Teachers About Math For Kids Decimal Place Value Powerpoint Decimal place value is practiced to the millionths . Decimal place value is unique . The decimal place value system is based on 10.    Begin using platform 10 blocks and decimal place value charts to add decimals . Begin by examining fraction and decimal creative concepts when needed together with the group . Make sure nearly everybody has the necessity understanding , for example understanding of the vocab terms fraction , 8217 numerator , 8217 and denominator , 8217 and also decimal place value to the hundredths place . Big Ideas A decimal is one more name for a fraction thereby might be connected with the corresponding point on the number . line src= http :

  • Time for Nerdy Humor

    Updated: 2011-09-23 19:55:09
    * * * Logic: if an empty yogurt container is in the sink, a spoon is in the garbage can. * * * Logically, a wireless mouse should be called a hamster. * * * — I started a new life today. — You quit smoking and drinking? — No, I changed my email and Facebook accounts. * * * — The reviewer has [...]

  • An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar …

    Updated: 2011-09-22 18:52:13
    From Instapundit Math joke from Anna, the bartender and civil engineering student: an infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one tells the bartender he wants a beer. The second one says he wants half a beer. The third one says he wants a fourth of a beer. The bartender puts two [...]

  • Start Your Own Blog About Mathematics

    Updated: 2011-09-21 15:30:29
    Home About Math Books Privacy Policy Table of Contents Write for us Applied Math Essential Math History Math Education Math News Math Websites Software Suggested Reading Tutorial Unsolved Problems Start Your Own Blog About Mathematics Posted by Antonio Cangiano in General Suggested Reading on September 21st , 2011 no responses We don’t usually include off-topic posts here , but I feel this may interest some of our readers , plus it’s a shameless plug as well . If you’ve always wanted to start your own technical blog , perhaps about a mathematical or scientific topic , but never got around to do it or failed to attract a following , read . on My book about technical blogging is now available in Beta from The Pragmatic : Bookshelf http : pragprog.com book actb technical-blogging It’s the

  • Decimal Place Values Chart

    Updated: 2011-09-19 02:09:17
    KidsMathBlog Easy To Follow Guide , Worksheets Tips For Parents Teachers About Math For Kids Decimal Place Values Chart Decimal place value is showed to the millionths . Decimal place value is different . The decimal place value system relies on 10.    Make full use of base 10 blocks and decimal place value charts to add decimals . Begin by analyzing fraction and decimal thoughts when needed together with the group . Ensure everybody has the necessity discernment , similar to being familiar with of the vocab terms fraction , 8217 numerator , 8217 and denominator , 8217 in addition to decimal place value to the hundredths place . Big Ideas A decimal is one more name for a fraction thereby might be connected to the corresponding point on the number . line src= http : www.youtube.com embed

  • Happenings – 2011 Sep 17

    Updated: 2011-09-17 20:33:43
    I can’t say that it’s been a slow week for mathematics – but it hasn’t been very productive either. I did write up one of the dozen or so small things for which I’ve done the mathematics; namely, Andrews curves. They were mentioned by Jolliffe as a possible tool for deciding how many principal components [...]

  • Regression 1 – Example 6: Housing Starts

    Updated: 2011-09-13 02:05:18
    Time for another regression using Ramanathan’s data. Here’s the description of this data from the 4th edition data. See this post for information about obtaining his datasets. (* DATA4-3: Annual data on new housing units and their determinants Source: 1987 Economic Report of the President. Because the housing series has been discontinued, this data set [...]

  • Browse with Plus: Compass & Rule — Architecture as mathematical practice

    Updated: 2011-09-12 15:39:04
    Compass & Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England, 1500-1750, is a lovely online version of the physical exhibition held at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, in 2009. Compass and Rule focuses on design and drawing, exploring the role of geometry in the dramatic transformation of English architecture between the 16th and 18th centuries.read more

  • Teacher package: Game theory

    Updated: 2011-09-12 11:38:36
    : Skip to Navigation about Plus support Plus Plus sponsors subscribe to Plus terms of use Search this site : Teacher package : Game theory Submitted by mf344 on September 12, 2011 in teacher package The Plus teacher packages are designed to give teachers and students easy access to Plus content on a particular subject area . Most Plus articles go far beyond the explicit maths taught at school , while still being accessible to someone doing GCSE and A level maths . They put classroom maths in context by explaining the bigger picture they explore applications in the real world , find maths in unusual places , and delve into mathematical history and philosophy . We therefore hope that our teacher packages provide an ideal resource for students working on projects and teachers wanting to offer

  • Decimal Place Value Worksheets Free

    Updated: 2011-09-12 02:07:23
    KidsMathBlog Easy To Follow Guide , Worksheets Tips For Parents Teachers About Math For Kids Decimal Place Value Worksheets Free You can find tons of differing types of games and skill to practice from addition and subtraction to decimals and place value and more . In place values for decimals worksheet , students see the place values from tenths to thousandths and round off numbers to the place values in the . directions src= http : www.youtube.com embed CPXjy15dnr0 frameborder= 0 allowfullscreen Having been a math trainer , I’ve come across way a great number of little ones who basically don’t get” place value Mentally assessment and approx solutions to numerical calculations . young people tune in to and look at a decimal place value song describing the tenths , hundredths , and

  • Happenings – 2011 Sep 10

    Updated: 2011-09-10 18:11:53
    It’s been another slow week for mathematics. On the other hand, I do have a post almost ready for publication Monday evening. Still, that’s writing, not doing, mathematics. I did, for what it’s worth, use quaternions to look at symmetries of the cube and the tetrahedron. (I ended last week’s diary post by asking whether [...]

  • Place Value For Decimals

    Updated: 2011-09-09 22:13:51
    KidsMathBlog Easy To Follow Guide , Worksheets Tips For Parents Teachers About Math For Kids Place Value For Decimals Decimal place value is presented to the millionths . Decimal place value is numerous . The decimal place value system is predicated on 10.    Use basic 10 blocks and decimal place value charts to add decimals . Begin by analyzing fraction and decimal basics as required using the group . Ensure everyone has the necessity understanding , just like knowing of the vocabulary terms fraction , 8217 numerator , 8217 and denominator , 8217 along with decimal place value to the hundredths place . Big Ideas A decimal is yet another title for a fraction and thus can be affiliated with the corresponding point on the number . line src= http : www.youtube.com embed CPXjy15dnr0

  • Basic math worksheets

    Updated: 2011-09-08 03:39:24
    Create unlimited basic math worksheets readily available to print for free.

  • GRE Informational Session

    Updated: 2011-09-07 01:24:05
    Ruth Pflueger is offering a GRE informational session on Thursday Sept 8th in Burke 101. nbsp; Anyone interested in graduate school should attend to learn about the GRE.

  • Paper-folding proof of Pythagoras

    Updated: 2011-09-06 21:36:50
    Here's a great video by Vi Hart that shows a couple of proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem. Nothing new in terms of the proofs; they're ones I've seen often. What's clever about Vi's approach is that she uses paper-folding to create the elements of the proof. I like this kinesthetic approach to a couple of [...]

  • Happenings – 2011 Sep 3

    Updated: 2011-09-03 22:40:58
    It’s been a slow week for mathematics… but I pretty much have a post written for Monday evening. I just haven’t done much else, mathematically speaking… OK, a little more work in Stillwill’s “Naive Lie Theory”, and I’ve got some ideas for playing around with subgroups of SO(3), which is the group of rotations in [...]

  • Review: Number-Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction

    Updated: 2011-09-03 19:52:36
    Great stories. Interesting and challenging problems. Instructive MATLAB code. Lots of physics. That's my in-a-nutshell assessment of Princeton University Press's hot-off-the-press Number-Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction. Paul Nahin is a great story teller. Some of you might recall my review of an earlier book of Nahin's An Imaginary Tale [...]

  • Review: The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci’s Arithmetic Revolution

    Updated: 2011-09-03 15:03:37
    Keith Devlin is a prolific writer. As The Math Guy on National Public Radio and author of some 40 books, Keith Devlin makes a tremendous contribution toward making math more accessible to the public. The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution is Devlin's latest book. "The Man of Numbers," at 156 pages (plus notes, bibliography, [...]

  • 81st Carnival of Mathematics

    Updated: 2011-09-03 05:38:52
    Welcome to the September 2, 2011 edition of carnival of mathematics. This is the 81st edition. In the tradition of the Carnival of Mathematics, we provide trivia on the number of the edition. 81 is 3^4 and also 9^2. The awesome card get, Set, contains 81 cards. 81 is the square of the sum of [...]

  • Martin Cohen on a variety of exceedingly elementary proofs

    Updated: 2011-09-03 05:19:47
    Martin Cohen is blogless yet he wants to share his paper, Exceedingly Elementary Proofs That a^(1/n) - 1, n^(1/n) - 1, and (1+1/n)^n - e. I offered a home for the paper. I created a PDF and have placed it here. Martin would love your feedback on the paper. Please leave comments here or contact [...]

  • Place Value Decimals

    Updated: 2011-09-02 22:12:25
    KidsMathBlog Easy To Follow Guide , Worksheets Tips For Parents Teachers About Math For Kids Place Value Decimals You’ll find tons of various sorts of games and skill to follow from addition and subtraction to decimals and place value and more . In place values for decimals worksheet , students determine the place values from tenths to thousandths and round off numbers to the place values in the . directions src= http : www.youtube.com embed CPXjy15dnr0 frameborder= 0 allowfullscreen Nonetheless , decimal place value had been known been spread from old China , in which particular case The Han Dynasty is how the very first place value decimal system was conceived . It can be thought that the ancient Chinese people used a special board and a set of rods to have an understanding of the

  • Right isosceles triangle and length of the median

    Updated: 2011-09-02 21:29:52
    A nifty proof of why the median of a right isosceles triangle is half the hypetnuse of the triangle.

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