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In science, questions are much more valuable than the answers.”
The title of this blog post is the last line to a beautiful, short film called GÖMBÖC. For a film where almost nothing happens, it’s compelling watching. And wonderfully, it captures the simple, profound, mathematical joy of thinking really, really … Continue reading
Goat River Crossing
This is a post about owning your mathematical experience, problem-solving, and flexibility. It also involves our goats—yes, we have goats—and a story of what happened when we took them hiking this summer. What you need to know about our goats … Continue reading
Posted in Math Musings, video
Tagged difference of squares, flexibility, goats, hiking, multiplication, ownership, problem solving, river crossing
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Math and the Drug War
The drug war is one issue that tends to be too hot for presidential politics. You won’t hear any questions at the debates about it, and you can be sure the candidates won’t be talking about it. But there’s a … Continue reading
Posted in link, Math Musings, video
Tagged daily show, data, drug war, graphs, i-502, jarecki, marijuana, math, politics
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Bill Clinton Teaches Arithmetic, Plus Exciting News on abc
Last week was a very big week for mathematics. First of all, Bill Clinton made arithmetic the centerpiece of his speech at the DNC. While it may not be new to let arithmetic affect policy, it has been absent from … Continue reading
Posted in Announcement, link, Math News, video
Tagged abc conjecture, arithmetic, Bill Clinton, lockhart, math, measurement, politics
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Nine Dangerous Things & Math Isn’t Necessary
I like this little writeup on Nine Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School from Forbes. It pithily gets into the consequences of having a system that’s so standardized that is responsible for educating–a fundamentally intimate and nonstandard task, if … Continue reading
Pythagorean Video II: Proving the Theorem
I was planning to redo this video, but with the Julia Robinson Festival coming up on Sunday, it’s going to be a while before I get it together, so here it is, as it is. Let me know what you … Continue reading
Wolfram, computer-based math, “and making maths beautiful”
I’ve had Conrad Wolfram on my mind for some time. He gave a TED talk on computer-based math a while back, and just gave an updated talk at Learning Without Frontiers. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsWKyFg9IdM His premise is challengingly obvious: … Continue reading
Posted in link, Math Musings, video
Tagged beautiful math, computers, cubic formula, learning, pedagogy, problems, questions, teaching, wolfram
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Pythagorean Theorem Part 1 (Video)
I finally tried my hand at a video explanation of a mathematical idea I like. This is part 1 in a short series on the Pythagorean Theorem. It starts where I’ve always felt the story should start: with the question … Continue reading
Posted in lesson, video
Tagged doubling the square, geometry, pythagorean theorem, right triangles
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Perfect Number Comedy
I’m always interested in people who can successfully talk about math to a broad audience. Here’s a surprise then: comedian Dave Gorman actually explains perfect friendly, and sociable numbers in this 4 minute clip from his comedy routine (note to … Continue reading
Math Consulting: Games to Content, by way of Questions
We’ve been loving running math workshops for teachers. First of all, teachers are awesome: they’re some of the hardest working, most motivated people out there. They want to know as much math as they can, and they want to help … Continue reading
Posted in lesson, video
Tagged combinations and permutations, consulting, education, games, math, questions, rainbow logic, teaching, video
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