5th grade math test
Updated: 2012-11-28 15:28:33
A comprehensive 5th grade math test that is readily avalaible to print for free. The test will measure every important skill taught in 5th grade- A comprehensive 5th grade math test that is readily avalaible to print for free. The test will measure every important skill taught in 5th grade
Intresting Mathematics Animation
Updated: 2012-11-26 21:01:58I found this interesting animation of prime numbers. It does have an upper limit.http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization/animated-diagrams/Happenings – 2012 Nov 24
Updated: 2012-11-24 18:32:06This week marks the real beginning of the holiday season here in the U.S. Many people get Thursday and Friday off – and Friday may be a bigger shopping day than the day after Xmas. I worked on Control Theory Example 1 some more. I’m just going to have to compute the phase margin in [...]Happenings – 2012 Nov 17
Updated: 2012-11-17 18:29:58I took time off from work this week… I got some of my Xmas shopping done… asked several control theory questions of my own in comments – just to start singling them out – and answered a couple of them, too…. I also read through an old (1965) book of mine, Coughanowr & Koppel’s “Process [...]Establish The Correct Concept of Math Success
Updated: 2012-11-16 10:07:27
KidsMathBlog Easy To Follow Guide , Worksheets Tips For Parents Teachers About Math For Kids Establish The Correct Concept of Math Success It is important to give the children the joy of learning math , which is aroused together with the sense of pride and self-esteem . Especially in the elementary school math learning activities must compliance with children success experience , in order to build their confidence . The following are few tips for you to build your children success in math a to help students to build correct understanding of success” For students , success should contain two meanings : First known success , that his success by teachers , students , parents recognized honor to win the praise of others , the respect of the students , envy , etc . Another unknown success ,I am on the Air
Updated: 2012-11-12 20:27:18Samuel Hansen has an unusual profession: he is a mathematics podcaster. He interviewed me for his Relatively Prime podcast titled 0,1,2,3,…, where we discussed my Number Gossip project. The podcast also includes interviews with Neil Sloane, Michael Shamos, and Alex Bellos. My previous interview with Samuel is at acmescience.com. There I discuss both math education [...]Happenings – 2012 Nov 10
Updated: 2012-11-10 16:59:22It’s been a slow week. Mathematically…. I need to complete the discussion that started with the latest control theory post. Much of that is still just math (stage III), not yet a lecture (stage IV), so I could have my work cut out for me. (There, now I’m covered if I don’t get a post [...]Helpmate
Updated: 2012-11-10 14:58:06
I discovered the following chess puzzle on a Russian blog for puzzle lovers. It is a helpmate-type puzzle. Black cooperates with White in checkmating himself. In this particular puzzle Black starts and helps White to win in one move.
Oops. Something is not quite right. There are not enough pieces on the [...]Me and Chess
Updated: 2012-11-10 14:51:47I am Russian; I know how to play chess. My father taught me when I was three or four. We played a lot and he would always win. I got frustrated with that and one day, when I was five, I didn’t announce my check. On the next move, I grabbed [...]Challenge Problems
Updated: 2012-11-07 21:03:11For my every class I try to prepare a challenge problem to stretch the minds of my students. Here is a problem I took from Adam A. Castello’s website: There is a ceiling a hundred feet above you that extends for- ever, and hanging from it side-by-side are two golden ropes, each a hundred [...]Nerdy and Flirtatious Jokes
Updated: 2012-11-07 20:23:02* * * Right clicking a file with a mouse will allow you to change it, check it for viruses, or revert to the previous version. I wonder where I can buy a mouse that can do the same thing with my husband. * * * — Let’s have sex. — Sure, but today I want to [...]Interview at Math-Frolic Blog
Updated: 2012-11-04 13:41:43Shecky Riemann over at the Math-Frolic Blog has an interview series going on. The Math-Frolic interviews, as Shecky has named them, has so far interviewed seven of us in the math community. 1) Pat Ballew of Pat's Blog 2) Presh Talwalkar of Mind Your Decisions 3) Joselle Kehoe of Mathematics Rising 4) John Golden of [...]Happenings – 2012 Nov 3
Updated: 2012-11-03 16:37:48Where to start? I have a few topics, but none cry out “I’m the lead story!” Well, there was Sandy…. I have an electronic collection of the first hundred years of National Geographic. Unfortunately, it can’t be read by any of my current computers. (It’s all images of pages, but they wrapped them all in [...]