Angela Tabiri, a young mathematician from Ghana, in July captured global attention by winning the title, World’s Most Interesting Mathematician. Here is her...
Podcast: DownloadPhilosophical movements in the 17th century tried to mimic the geometrical method of the ancients. Some saw Euclid—with his ruler and compass in...
Subtraction of 3-digit numbers with regrouping are explained here with examples.As you borrow from the tens column, you can borrow from the
hundreds column also.REMEMBER:1...
TI-84 Plus CE Python:
Drawing Shapes with the ti_plotlib module
Introduction
Here
are four scripts to draw shapes:
RECT8:
rectangles and squares centered at (0, 0)
ELLIPSE8:
ellipses and circles...
I keep running into Edward John Routh (1831–1907). He is best known for the Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion but he pops up occasionally elsewhere. The...
Understanding measuring temperature is another real-world skill children explore in the 3rd grade.
MA.3.M.1.1 & MA.3.M.1.2 – Select and use appropriate tools to measure...
3rd graders continue to develop their understanding of measurement by learning about liquid volume.
Liquid volume is the amount of liquid contained in a...
Let’s examine the following two-point boundary-value problem:
Notice the first-order derivative term is missing from the differential equation. This omission is made without the loss of generality, as demonstrated in...
Podcast: DownloadGeometry might be innate in the same way as language. There are many languages, each of which is an equally coherent and viable paradigm of thought, and the...
In many problems, boundary conditions are specified in terms of the derivative of the function rather than the function itself. For example, consider the following boundary conditions:
This corresponds to...