Archive for May, 2009

Have UK house prices reached a turn around? What does "point of inflection" mean, anyway?

In this Newsletter:
1. Math tip (a) - Studying for math exams
2. Math tip (b) - Wolfram Alpha
3. Math tip (c) - Point of Inflection and house prices
4. From the Math Blog
5. Final thought - who are your real friends?

Here's a free online tool that will do algebra, calculus and trigonometry problems, as well as tell you what day of the week you were born!

Will the DJIA follow Japan's Nikkei? The conditions are eerily similar to Japan's situation in the early 1990s.

Here's some kinetic (moving) art based on trigonometry.

In this Newsletter:
1. 20th May is World Metrology Day
2. Math tip - Where did "sine" and "cosine" come from?
3. Latest IntMath poll
4. Feedback on IntMath
5. From the Math Blog
6. Final thought - The road to truth

Here’s an attempt to model the probability of casualties in war.

Here are 2 problems that are not what they seem at first.

A student from Iceland has some interesting things to say about math, the environment and expanding into space.