In this Newsletter:
1. Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
2. Tutor-Web & Khan Academy
3. The Information Paradox
4. Math puzzles
5. Math movie: Accuracy vs precision
6. Final thought - Learned uselessness?
The Information Paradox is an interesting challenge to the accepted notions of how life on Earth came to be. There's some mathematics involved, too!
We don't deal with failure properly in most educational settings. This talk gives some options for improving that.
This video shows how to use powers of 10 to make estimates of large numbers.
This is a classic late-1950s cartoon where Donald learns where math comes from.
This short talk argues that people should know about probability and statistics before calculus. I tend to agree.
Meet 12-year-old Amy O'Toole presenting a scientific paper that starts, "Once upon a time..."
This short video explores an alternate way to do multiplication.
This is a clever animation of Ken Robinson, talking about why education often doesn't work as intended.
Where did the missing square go? We can use slopes of lines to solve this puzzle.
See the blog sitemap for all previous articles.
(External blogs linking to IntMath)
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