Archive for August, 2007

The summer math brain drain

Students forget a lot of stuff over summer - especially mathematics.

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Random triangles

What is the probability that a randomly chosen triangle is acute? A grade 10 boy to the rescue.

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Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire

Rafe Esquith's story about his grade 5 Hobart Shakespeareans is inspiring and thought provoking. It's certainly worth a read.

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Risk analysis with Matlab

This article shows how to do financial modeling with MATLAB, a computer algebra system.

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NSBA poll - student internet use

A recent study from the National School Boards Association indicates the activity levels of students in social networking and photo uploading, and also highlights how TV viewing is continuing to decline.

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A logarithmic music scale

This musician's use of a logarithmic musical scale reminds me of my own 10-tone scale that I used to compose music some years ago.

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Breathing Earth - visual display of world polluters

Here is a nice simulation of world pollution, indicating who produces the most...

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Bilingualism in politics

The problems of the US in the Middle East are exacerbated by the lack of Arabic speakers in all levels of government. Perhaps they should look at how Singapore has ensure bilingualism in politics.

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My infinity’s bigger than yours

Is there a number bigger than infinity?

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The IntMath Newsletter - August 2007

In this newsletter:
1. This month's math tips - goals
2. What's new
3. Latest Poll - music
4. From the math blog MS Math Review

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