Archive for May, 2010
ordinals on wall street. via mitchell near atwater.
martin garnder, RIP (WaPo).
by popularity: “mathmaine”‘s greatest hits.
bing’s house.
krantz announces (PDF) notices education column.
c. wells: technical meanings clash with everyday meanings.
pattern breaking with ben blum-smith.
the chinese marshall plan (k. beals). the day of the teacher at math mama sue’s.
much of the point here is to “explain why” the figure in the upper right… “pascal’s triangle”… works the way it does: students gladly learn in minutes how to write out rows by adding pairs taken from previous rows (according to the formula in the lower left, though they know it not; eventually they’ll have [...]
for the classroom.
Owen “Vlorbik” Thomas
Open A Vein (homepage)
Math 151 posts
e-mail: vlorbik@gmail.comW'press login.
More mathy stuff by me:
Lectures Without Words (drawings mostly)
Vlorbik On Math Ed ('07—'09)
Community College Calculus (S '09)
Math 148: Precalculus (W '09)
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