I didn't know I had a Shakespeare-themed-match itch to scratch. 1. Hours and hours How many hours are there in…
Translating the markings from base 60 – the counting system used by ancient Babylonians – showed that these ancient mathematicians were aware…
For some reason today I was thinking of the 3D shape scientists recently discovered in our cells -- I had…
Mathematics professor Robert Talbot reports on his ongoing experiment with ungrading -- giving feedback and emphasizing the students' metacognition, rather…
If 30% love math, and 30% are neutral about math, then the 40% that hate it could be the largest…
My math education predated the widespread use of graphing calculators. I remember writing my own BASIC programs to graph simple…
A pleasantly detailed analysis of how the various editions of Tetris chose what piece was next. In 1985, Alexey Pajitnov…
My wife says she bought the pies intending to use them for a math lesson, but she just ended up…
Every Friday since Columbine, one schoolteacher has asked her students to to submit a list. Who would they like to…
Numerical errors usually occur for one of these five reasons: A journalist mishears a correct number given to them by…
(Lights up on a college journalism classroom. The professor enters, surveys the room.) Professor: Math! Students: (Shocked reaction.) Professor: Math!!…
Over the Christmas break, I've been churning through Khan Academy math drills, so that I can be a more effective homeschool parent. It's actually…
Data visualization is one of the most important tools we have to analyze data. But it’s just as easy to…
Upon reading that recent message from my inbox, I wanted to shout out “let your child fail.” The shouting was…
I am working on some conference papers that touch on coding as a liberal art. While reviewing classics, like Stephenson's…
Fascinating. Barsalou then goes all math geek and applies to the data the Bayes' Theorem formula for calculating conditional probabilities.…
Hold on... An on-again, off-again move by the Obama administration to scrap the federal gas tax in favor of a…