In addition to the 5000 videos that I have shared to you last year, I have recently discovered more than 1500 links to mathematics video lectures in Pinterest. The links cover a wide variety of topics which include K-12 mathematics, Math … Continue reading →...

Is choice always a good thing? In America, it is almost sacrilegious to say otherwise. The argument goes “choice means freedom and freedom is good, end of story.” Yet as the number of our choices has exploded, some critics pointed out the problems of too much choice. There’s the famous jam study in which researchers [...]...

It’s easy to forget math is a language for communicating ideas… Read article. As words, “two and three is equal to five” is cumbersome. Replacing numbers and operations with symbols helps: “2 + 3 is equal to 5″.But we can...

Team GB is only likely to clock up 46 medals in the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016, say researchers who used a mathematical formula three years ago to predict performance for London 2012, and came up with a medal haul of 63....

Forecasters are often met with skepticism. Almost every time I tell someone that I work in forecasting, they say something about forecasting the stock market, or forecasting the weather, usually suggesting that such forecasts are hopelessly inaccurate. In fact, forecasts of the weather are amazingly accurate given the complexity of the system, while anyone claiming to forecast the stock market des...

I'm not sure what I'd do with Ablaze.js, a JavaScript library by Patrick Gunderson, but the results are sexy. Play …...

I set the following puzzle for each of my classes this week:Divide this 6x6 square along the gridlines to create four identical shapes, each containing a red star and a blue star.I gave each group between seven and ten minutes to produce a solution. They piled in with confidence but, when the time was up, not a single individual had managed to produce a satisfactory answer. It ...

This is the first post in the Word Problem Solving Series.  This series is intended for middle school students.  In this post, we are going to discuss how to solve number word problems in Algebra. The that you should observer … Continue reading →...

It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine–JBS Haldane Let’s you and I play a simple coin-flipping game. We sit at a table and both of us are blindfolded. A coin is placed with heads facing up (H). Here are the rules: 1. [...]...

Although I have already discussed modulo division, I believe that this proof is beyond the reach of average high school students. To explain further, I made additional notes on Patrick’s proof . I hope these explanations would be able to … Continue reading →...