Archive for the ‘Learning mathematics’ Category

The summer math brain drain

Students forget a lot of stuff over summer - especially mathematics.

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Only 39% right on today’s SAT question

A lot of students are having trouble doing today's SAT Question of the Day.

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Where does that math word come from?

All the history of mathematics terms that you were afraid to ask about.

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Skills Your Child Needs to Know That She’s Not Getting In School

Everyone has pet views on what should be taught in schools. This list is a good one.

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Towards more meaningful math notation

Mathematics is often confusing because of the way it is written. Here's some suggestions for cases that do not follow normal algebra rules.

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What’s in your private math universe?

Some interesting videos showing how students develop mathematics concepts.

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Ellipses, eclipses and other confused concepts

Why do we have seasons? Why do we see different phases of the moon? Why are these science basics handled badly by Harvard graduates?

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Vedic mathematics

Vedic mathematics is an Indian system of mental arithmetic. But do we need such techniques when we have calculators?

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Hotmaths - usability challenged

Here's the story of my first experiences with HOTmaths. They have some usability problems to sort out, before anyone can learn any math.

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Mathletic motivation

Mathletics is a popular Australian mathematics tutorial system.

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