Archive for March, 2008

Basic math skills recommended, but not required to work at ESPN

Friday, March 28th, 2008

unknown: Check this out: four out of five ESPN analysts think that all the teams in baseball will combine to post an above-.500 record. This isn’t rocket science, it’s adding and subtracting, but apparently that’s too much to ask. … Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers ...

Pre-Algebra HW 3/28

Friday, March 28th, 2008

hitzer: 7-1 & 7-2: Read p.362-364 Do on p.364-366 #2, 3, 12, 15-18, 20-22, 24, 25, 32, 35-37 Show work for 12, 15-18, 20-25, 32, 35, 36. Read more

No Textbooks for English Students

Friday, March 28th, 2008

unknown: Kids everywhere study math, geography, history, literature, the arts. Even if English is a minority language in Quebec, it’s certainly the majority in the rest of Canada and it is spoken in the United States, the UK, Australia, … Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers ...

Facts? Or Biased Opinions?

Friday, March 28th, 2008

unknown: Truth is, that students who learn how to think analytically for a math course, also learn skills like formulating a valid argument justified by facts (not opinions). Seems to me like someone has got something against mathematics. … Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can ...

Calculus Fail

Friday, March 28th, 2008

unknown: Thanks to Kold for: Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. Read more

What is the Shortest PhD Thesis in TCS?

Friday, March 28th, 2008

hitzer: Gmail’s webclips feature alerted me to the availability of Edmund Landau’s PhD thesis in English translation. The thesis is 13 pages, which is substantially shorter than any PhD thesis in CS I am aware of. … Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share ...

Fabled Angst Machine

Friday, March 28th, 2008

unknown: I find that I do not dread lit or history or even h1 math lessons in vj because I actually find them enjoyable and intriguing most of the time and I’m pretty sure most science students can’t say the same. I don’t think it is necessary … Share and Enjoy: These ...

Lessons In Math

Friday, March 28th, 2008

unknown: All Around Math - Here are some math-tacular book suggestions to show kids that math is everywhere. Everyday Math - Once kids understand math’s practical purposes, they may learn to enjoy mastering their math skills. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover ...

Book: INVARIANT ALGEBRAS AND GEOMETRIC REASONING by Hongbo Li

Friday, March 28th, 2008

dan dempsey: The demand for more reliable geometric computing in robotics, computer vision and graphics has revitalized many venerable algebraic subjects in mathematics — among them, Grassmann–Cayley algebra and Geometric Algebra. … Read more

I Fear For Our Future

Friday, March 28th, 2008

unknown: For starters, the tour guides didn’t seem all that qualified because they were lacking basic math skills. They said that before the flood (Noah’s flood), people lived for about 800 years and that there were about 7 generations of these … Read more