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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Category: Probability and Statistics
WolframAlpha Facebook Report
This is a delightful exercise that everyone seems to love. WolframAlpha will provide you with an...
Read MoreBattling Bad Science (and Statistics)
If you ever needed a REASON to calculate the highest point of a parabola that opens downward, here’s one.
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Sixty Symbols Video Collection
Sixty Symbols was a website that produced videos about the many symbols of physics and astronomy (of course those are also the symbols of mathematics). The website is gone, but you can still find the videos.
Read MoreMoving Math from Analog to Digital
Arthur Benjamin has been on TED in the past (see Mathemagics) and has done a really phenomenal job. Here’s his latest 3-minute appearance: TED Talks | Arthur Benjamin’s formula for changing math education The problem...
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 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...
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Today’s guest blogger is Derek Bruff, Assistant Director for the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University. Derek writes a blog you may have stumbled across called Teaching with Classroom Response Systems.Here’s a...
Read MoreTED features Mathemagics
This little 15-minute TedTalk, Arthur Benjamin races calculators from the audience doing the calculations in his head. He is very entertaining and I think students would enjoy the presentation, since they are often under the...
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