if you haven’t seen something happen in N observations, a good estimate is that the chances of it happening are less than 3/N

March 31, 2010 in Uncategorized

john d. cook on the rule of 3.

on the edge of forever

March 30, 2010 in Links

journal of urban math ed.

carrots grow from carrot seeds

March 29, 2010 in Links

goldenberg on milgram.

March 25, 2010 in Uncategorized

online resources list from ncatlab dot org.

one never tires of encountering antiquities

March 24, 2010 in Uncategorized

antiquated math word of the day: “sagitta” at mathrecreation (“dan m”). ladies and gentlemen, wearmath dot com.

last century’s finds

March 20, 2010 in Links

a perspective on higher category theory, by tom leinster.

Denise Does Her Homework

March 19, 2010 in Carnival

Math Teachers at Play #24. Lots of stuff here! Walking Randomly about math carnivals.

sounds like making zines

March 18, 2010 in FTI

easy, fun, and free: dan meyer.

with his memories in a trunk

March 17, 2010 in Rambles

VLORBIK ON “MASTERY” in my world all serious players understand that math facts must be learned from infancy along with the mother tongue. more- over, i believe it’s still pretty widely understood even at the level of popular culture that math is the very *model* academic subject. debating the importance of “math facts”– early and [...]

lugo spots nerdy shirt

March 16, 2010 in Uncategorized

math for the street: enumerating the rationals explicitly. one never tires of encountering novelties:the sophomore’s dream at w’edia via the squared circle (RIP ’09 evidently).