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Intersections — Poetry with Mathematics: World’s Most Interesting Mathematician

     Angela Tabiri, a young mathematician from Ghana, in July captured global attention by winning the title,  World’s Most Interesting Mathematician. Here is her...

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Ben Orlin’s charming new book Math for English Majors: A Human Take on the...

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early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry – Intellectual Mathematics

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...

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Solve Rather than treating this as a two-point boundary-value problem and resorting to ODE solvers such as ‘ode2’ or ‘contrib_ode’, observe that is...

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This essay chronicles the liberation of plus and times from narrow notions about what sorts of things can be added and multiplied — and,...

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The Questions by Topic collection is available from the top menu and now has an added menu with Level 3 Core Maths added to...

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Subtraction of 3-Digit Numbers with Regrouping

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...

Order of Operations – Henri’s Math Education Blog

A guest post by Rachel Chou I recently saw this in my Facebook feed: I had many questions: Why is this posted in a facebook group called...

Drawing Shapes with the ti_plotlib module

 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...

2024 Summer Game #7: Make Twenty Variations

In my last blog post, I introduced you to the game Make Twenty. I promised you some variations on that game, and guess what...

Ceva, cevians, and Routh’s theorem

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...

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The set of functions of the form f(z) = (az + b)/(cz + d) with ad ≠ bc are called bilinear transformations or Möbius transformations. These...

Mathematics — a Beautiful Mystery

     Guided by Facebook, I have found and explored a variety of Math Poems on YouTube.  Here is a sample stanza from a...

Tanya Khovanova’s Math Blog » Blog Archive » Gelfand Seminar

20th September 2024, 11:17 am Before moving to the US, I attended the Gelfand seminar and took some pictures. I was a regular...

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Order of Operations – Henri’s Math Education Blog

A guest post by Rachel Chou I recently saw this in my Facebook feed: I had many questions: Why is this posted in a facebook group called...

The continuum hypothesis could have been a fundamental axiom, CFORS Grad Conference, Oslo, June 2024

I shall be giving a keynote lecture for the CFORS Grad Conference at the University of Oslo, 19-20 June 2024. Abstract. I shall describe a simple...

Measuring Temperature in 3rd Grade

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...

Simplifying Radicals Domino Activity | Teaching High School Math

Now that my classes are consistently back in person and all students are present, I am creating quick activities for my class to use...

Measuring Liquid Volume in 3rd Grade

3rd graders continue to develop their understanding of measurement by learning about liquid volume. Liquid volume is the amount of liquid contained in a...

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Infinite-time computable analogues of the universal algorithm, Generalized Computability Theory Workshop, Spain, August 2024

This will be a talk at the Generalized Computability Theory workshop in Castro Urdiales, Spain, a beautiful setting on the sea near Bilbao, 19-23...

A Construction Unit – Henri’s Math Education Blog

I have written about geometric construction a number of times on this blog, and on my website. I outlined my philosophical outlook on this...

Carnival of Maths 232 | The Aperiodical

By Katie Steckles. Posted October 5, 2024 in Carnival of Mathematics The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the...

Compose & Decompose 4-Digit Numbers in 3rd Grade

We have a base-10 number system. That means we can use 9 digits plus place-holder zeros to represent any quantity. In standard form, numbers...

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Applying the Finite Difference Method to Boundary-Value Problems 2 |

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...

what geometry is innate? – Intellectual Mathematics

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...

Applying the Finite Difference Method to Boundary-Value Problems 4 |

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...

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