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Wild About Math!

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Wild About Math! aims to make Math fun and interesting to adults, parents, students and kids!

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  • History and trajectory of Mathematica

    Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 19:24 in mathematica

    Today’s Wolfram Alpha Blog is the first in a series of videos and transcripts from Stephen Wolfram’s keynote address at the International Mathematica User Conference 2009. From the Wolfram Blog entry: Future Mathematica features, new dir...

  • MMM #38: We have a winner!

    Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 12:31 in monday math madness!

    Random.org selected Ken Lareau as the winner for MMM #38. Congratulations, Ken! Here’s what the problem was: Prove or disprove: The product of any four consecutive integers is always one less than a perfect square. Don’t assume the ...

  • How much would you pay for a 146 year old Math book?

    Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 18:51 in books

    Every now and then I like to buy old Math books. I buy them on Ebay. Most of the books I buy are from the early 1900’s or the tail end of the 1800’s. Yesterday, I happened upon this book: Yes, it’s from 1863. Yes, I paid $6.50 for...

  • ‘Dismantling the calculus pyramid’ gets ton of views

    Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 09:52 in education

    A couple of days ago I posted a very brief article, Dismantling the calculus pyramid. The post has been seen 2,746 times, thanks mostly to being noticed by ‘timwiseman’ who posted a link to the article at Y Combinator Hacker News. The pos...

  • Dismantling the calculus pyramid

    Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 22:30 in calculus

    Here’s a quick 3 minute TED video by Mathemagician Arthur Benjamin. The topic: Benjamin’s idea about how to change Math education. He makes the point that Math education is like a pyramid with all classes (e.g. algebra, geometry, trigonom...

  • Review: Mythematics

    Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 10:31 in reviews

    From time to time a publisher offers me a review copy of a book. I always say yes unless I don’t think I’ll find something positive to say about the book. If, when I receive the book, I can’t find something good to say then I won...

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This blog is currently rated a 4.33 out of a possible 5 based on 3 comments.

zpconn

4 stars Zach Conn

Any blog about mathematics gets my vote.

Posted: March 27th, 2009 | More Reviews From zpconn | Report This Comment

aminhers

4 stars amin herwansyah

nice blog

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lekahe

5 stars Leena

Thanks for visiting my site! That way I found you. I am a math teacher but my main blog is a mix of all my interests. I have a Finnish blog for math and you just provided me with a large list of useful links :)
Great site!!!

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