Add Graphs In The World to Courses
Now you can add Graphs in the World to your courses in the LMS! Create a new “page” in...
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Category: Math for Liberal Arts
Bringing the Real World to Your Math Class Every Day
I’ve been spending the first 5-10 minutes of every 2-hour math class discussing graphs in...
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History of Numeration Systems
I just stumbled upon this great little video about Ancient Numeration Systems. It does not go...
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Math about the Electoral College
This was a surprisingly good video about the math of the U.S. Electoral College system. At first...
Read MoreMath Videos at the Sputnik Observatory
The Sputnik Observatory, is dedicated to providing a venue for viewing and sharing ideas and philosophies of contemporary culture. Jonathan Harris, who worked on the mindblowing sociological website We Feel Fine, is the site...
Read MorePuzzle Broadcasts on the Math Factor
Is anyone in the mood for a good math puzzle? The Math Factor is a well-established resource of just that. University of Arkansas professor, Chaim Goodman-Strauss and radio journalist, Kyle Kellams, have been broadcasting...
Read MoreTED: The Beautiful Mathematics of Coral Reefs
Margaret Wertheim speaks at TED about the beautiful mathematics of coral reefs, hyperbolic geometry, and more. In particular, I liked her bit (around the 8-minute mark) where she says that if zero and one are already possible...
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 MoreCommon Craft Explains Finance
CommonCraft has three new videos about math (well, technically financial math). I wonder if they’ll tackle the Gaussian Copula Function next? Saving Money in Plain English Investing Money in Plain English Borrowing Money...
Read MoreFibonacci Sequence in Siftables
“We’re on the cusp of this new generation of tools for interacting with digital media that are going to bring information into our world on our terms.” – David Merrill Jump to 2:20 to see the math example...
Read MoreElection Algebra
Inspired by a great speech last night, I stopped to watch this 4-minute video from Commoncraft on Electing a US President in Plain English. What I discovered was that, in their typical “plain English” way, they have...
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