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Posting is likely to slow down considerably. I’ve got a new computer and it’s fighting me every step of the way. I can post here easily from the new box — I’m doing it right now, indeed — since I’m in the habit of editing my posts right here in the online WordPress [...]
Here’s a little eight-pager I like to call “Counting Heads” (PDF): deriving the formula for expanding the n^th power of a binomial, from first principles, and applying it to “coin toss” problems. (Not to be confused with D. Marusek’s outstanding novel.)
Keith Devlin interviewed in Text Savvy (and a partial catalogue for the “repeated addition” flap by Jonathan).“Is the Public Hungry for Math?” (PDF), by Douglas N. Arnold in October’s Notices.The Unapologetic on student evaluations.
“…ascribing more credibility to practices that most mathematicians would be horrified by”: Lefty on “reform” (& Andrew Hodges).Google’s equation editor at Teaching College Math Technology Blog.Gowers has come back to life.
I’ve just printed out No Common Denominator: The Preparation of Elementary Teachers in Mathematics by American’s Education Schools, a new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality. I’ll read it over the weekend. I learned about it in this KTM thread. (I dropped ‘em from the blogroll … never said [...]
Michael J. South’s fulcrum.org appears to’ve been mostly about math ed; the little I’ve looked at so far looks pretty useful. It’s in good old-fashioned HTML, so you’ll have to adjust the size of your window to read it easily (this seems to have become something of a lost art). He’s currently blogging [...]
Here’s a recent accidental post on “Fuzziness” in Kitchen Table Math. I dropped KTM from the blogroll last week: there’s very little math there these days and you’ve gotta draw the line somewhere (one needs a reason to endure all the self-righteously overprivileged whining …). Evidently this post was intended for a new [...]
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors (Carter, Tapia, Papakonstantinou).Social Science Statistics Blog.
J. Fisher’s “Wu and I” was inspired by an ongoing series of posts by Alison in KTM (and conveniently indexes some of his own related posts [in TextSavvy]).H. Wu himself is of course a Math Ed luminary—of all living math professors known to me, the one with the most extensive & potentially-useful contributions in [...]
Subtracting mixed numbers: A cry for help (at LPM!).“2 step equations”, at Math Stories.
