What if there was a Google for Math?
WolframAlpha is launched
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Author: busynessgirl
Tweeting for Accountability in Online Classes
I am planning to ask my fall online calculus students to create twitter accounts in order to tweet their studying in hourly increments. As you are probably aware, this is the way I’ve been holding myself accountable to...
Read MoreModern War follows a Linear Regression
Just watched an amazing 7-minute TED talk from Sean Gourley on The Mathematics of War where an interdisciplinary team of researchers (physics, mathematics, economist, intelligence, computers) figured out how to mine data from...
Read MoreMathematics Instructional Practices
What follows are ten mathematics instructional practices (MIPs) are meant to capture the nuances of the majority of mathematics instruction for the first two years of college mathematics. Lecture Collaborative Lecture...
Read MoreMathematical Algorithms and the AlloSphere
What is “The AlloSphere” ? Watch Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere to find out. What you all might be interested in is what they do with the Allosphere. Ann Kuchera-Morin: We map complex mathematical...
Read MoreMathematics of Coercion
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, a consultant to the CIA and DOD, uses mathematical analysis to predict the outcome of “messy” human events in this 2009 TED Talk: Three predictions on the future of Iran, and the math to back...
Read MoreTrends in Reform Instructional Strategies for Math
I spent most of the day yesterday compiling data from the last four CBMS reports to get a sense of how widely adopted reform instructional practices are being used in mathematics. The graphs are interesting. You will probably...
Read MoreUnbelievable: Augmented Reality from GE
That’s really all I have to say. I don’t know what it has to do with math (although I’m beginning to imagine the possibilities), but right now, this just blows my mind! It’s called “Augmented...
Read MoreCognitive Psychology and Math Education
In the last three weeks I’ve read or skimmed about 2,000 pages of scholarly articles about math reform efforts, technology for teaching, innovations, change movements, faculty development, community college statistics,...
Read MoreTeaching Statistics with Clickers
I haven’t talked a lot about clickers on this blog, mostly because there’s no easy way for me to try using them for a semester and because I’ve focused a lot of my free time on learning to teach math online. My...
Read MoreNew Math: A Formula for Everything
I think that I will have to start (or end?) every class session next fall with one of these fabulous formulas from New Math. Some of them are obvious (once you see them) and some of them just have me laughing out loud because of...
Read MoreA Semester of Calculus in 20 Minutes?
Here’s a semester of Calculus boiled down to 20 minutes (Part I and Part II), brought to you by Professor Edward Burger. Think of this as auctioneer meets Calculus. Now seriously, I found this incredibly hard to...
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