Thursday, September 13, 2012

Cool Math Stuff


A cool thing to watch...
Vi Hart's work is amazing, and I bet she would approve of the word "mathmagical!"  Check out this great video that applies to our trig graphs.  What do you think...is pi wrong?  Should we use Tau?


I could spend hours watching all of her videos, but I know you'll love her Doodling in Math Class series.  Check 'em out!

A cool series to read...
A modern math superhero and professor, Steven Strogatz, wrote an incredible series a couple years ago called "The Elements of Math."  He includes a clip from Sesame Street, compares logarithms to power tools, and had the best titles for each post.  Each one of those articles brought my day to at least an 8! :-)

He just started another series, and the first article, Singular Sensations, was published this week.  I'm looking forward to reading the rest of his essays!

Do you know any other cool math videos, facts, trivia, posts, or links?



3 comments:

  1. This video is TOTALLY cray.
    Kate Hudson is amazing in Glee..

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  2. http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/EMT668/EMAT6680.F99/Martin/instructional%20unit/day4.exponential/excel/grainofrice.html
    I've always enjoyed the story about starting with a single grain of rice and doubling it every day for a month/ for every new tile on a checkerboard.
    :)
    Darian stokes, 3rd

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    1. Loved the tale! I have used the example with a child and an allowance (starting with 1 penny) but the grain of rice story is much, much better. Thanks for sharing!

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