Archive for the ‘Learning mathematics’ Category

The Manga Guide to Regression Analysis continues the tradition of presenting math through comics. Here's my review.

Jason Padgett was attacked and savagely beaten. He had severe concussion, but an amazing new ability to "see the world through the lens of geometry".

Can you count faster than a chimp? Our number sense begins with our ability to count.

HOTmaths is an interesting online math resource. I take another look after a few years.

Students in Ajab village, India, enjoying a math lesson via Web conference from the US.

Calculus can be a bit of a mystery at first. Explore these graphs to get a better idea of what differentiation means.

This Manga Guide may not be as well-executed as earlier books in the series, but it still makes a good read. It's matrices embedded in a manga story.

Do you have a secret about math? Share yours here.

Here's an updated interactive graph where you can explore the concept of radius of curvature.

Here's a 3-D interactive graph which you can use to see how circles, ellipses, parabolas and hyperbolas result from intersecting a double cone.