Posts tagged ‘Thinking & learning’

IntMath Newsletter: Fundamental theorem, information paradox

In this Newsletter:

1. Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
2. Tutor-Web & Khan Academy
3. The Information Paradox
4. Math puzzles
5. Math movie: Accuracy vs precision
6. Final thought - Learned uselessness?

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The Information Paradox

The Information Paradox
The Information Paradox is an interesting challenge to the accepted notions of how life on Earth came to be. There's some mathematics involved, too!

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Friday math movie: Smart failure for a fast-changing world

Smart failure
We don't deal with failure properly in most educational settings. This talk gives some options for improving that.

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Friday math movie: A clever way to estimate enormous numbers

Making estimates using powers of 10This video shows how to use powers of 10 to make estimates of large numbers.

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Friday math movie: Donald in Mathmagic Land

Donald in Mathmagic Land
This is a classic late-1950s cartoon where Donald learns where math comes from.

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Friday math movie: Teach statistics before calculus!

statistics before calculus
This short talk argues that people should know about probability and statistics before calculus. I tend to agree.

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Friday math movie: Science is for everyone, kids included

Science is for everyone
Meet 12-year-old Amy O'Toole presenting a scientific paper that starts, "Once upon a time..."

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Friday math movie: Vi Hart Visual Multiplication and 48/2(9+3)

vi hart video
This short video explores an alternate way to do multiplication.

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Friday math movie: Ken Robinson animated

Ken Robinson animated
This is a clever animation of Ken Robinson, talking about why education often doesn't work as intended.

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Friday math movie: Using slope to bust a magic trick

Using slope of a line to solve a magic trick
Where did the missing square go? We can use slopes of lines to solve this puzzle.

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