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• Austin Independent School District makes deal to buy more video games for classrooms

  
  ITsky — Authority: 458
  We’ve seen educational video games show up in the classroom before, and it looks like one school district is coming back for more. The Austin Independent School District has ordered up another set of edu-games from a company called Tabula Digita that provides 3D, first-person action-based games to teach students how ...
  4 hours ago

• Austin Independent School District makes deal to buy more video games for classrooms

  
  Joystiq — Authority: 747
  Weve seen educational video games show up in the classroom before, and it looks like one school district is coming back for more. The Austin Independent School District has ordered up another set of edu-games from a company called Tabula Digita that provides 3D, first-person action-based games to teach students ...
  11 hours ago

• How to excel in algebra?

  
  Mala's Musings — Authority: 425
  In my 12 years of experience, I have never seen such fantastic batch of students as the present batch. They seem to produce excellent work that is evident from the marks they have obtained so far in all the tests that I have conducted. They especially have shown great improvement in algebra. Even students that ...
  1 day ago

• Can You Solve Simple Math Problems?

  
  Angry Brown Guy — Authority: 119
  It is no shocking news that the ability of children all across the country to perform lower level mathematics has been significantly dropping year after year. By lower level math I mean things like division with decimals, multiplication with exponents, scientific notation as well as basic geometry, algebra and ...
  2 days ago

• first day at school of the year...

  
  The Author's Desk — Authority: 111
  This morning started out pleasant. I woke up happy again (???) and decided I was going to try and stay happy. Ariosa was grand, though Ive been given the task of choreographing the number were doing for the February concert (two selections from "Grease") and I found out that the song I auditioned with is scheduled for ...
  2 days ago

• The beauty of roots

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 720
  The beauty of roots. From Dan Christensen and Sam Derbyshire via John Baez. If you like algebra: these are plots of the density in the complex plane of roots of polynomials with small integral coefficients. If you dont: these are extravagantly beautiful images produced from the simplest of mathematical ...
  2 days ago

• Golden Age of the Silk Road

  
  Chronicles Of The Return — Authority: 126
  One of my chief complaints on modern Central Asian scholarship is its intense focus on the Great Game era and the modern politics of the Central Asian energy corridor, Afghanistan and the like. This stuff is important, but there is so, so much more to Central Asia just under the shifting sands, hidden in the ...
  5 days ago

• How to convert a “backwards” proof into a “forwards” proof

  
  Casting Out Nines — Authority: 111
  Dave Richeson at Division By Zero wrote recently about a “proof technique” for proving equalities or inequalities that is far too common: Starting with the equality to be proven and working backwards to end at a true statement. This is a technique that is almost a valid way to prove things, but it contains — ...
  1 week ago

• Looking for top online tutoring?

  
  Sleight of Blog — Authority: 134
     I can remember back in the early eighties when I started going to school, the kids who needed tutoring were looked upon as the problem kids, the somewhat slow ones who spent time disrupting the classroom and not paying attention and therefore had to have tutoring after school was over. Of course it was a ...
  1 week ago

• Free high quality education to anyone, anywhere.

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 140
  The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.We have 1000+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, biology and finance which have been recorded by Salman ...
  1 week ago

• A Quadratic Trinomial/Factoring Investigation for Algebra I/II

  
  MathNotations — Authority: 462
  In my Christmas post, I raised the issue of how much time should be spent on factoring quadratic trinomials over the integers in light of the new ADP Standards for Algebra I and II. Hopefully, some of you will provide us with the benefit of your knowledge and experience. I may even make this into a poll or survey to ...
  1 week ago

• Solve Math Problems with Tutor Vista

  
  FREEHAND FILMS — Authority: 112
  Do you think that Math is a difficult subject? If you do, you don’t need to be ashamed since there are many others who think the same way. In fact, Math is regarded as one of the most difficult subjects by students. If you want to understand the Math subject, you need a tutor that will guide you to solve any Math ...
  1 week ago

• How Much Factoring In 1st Year Algebra?

  
  MathNotations — Authority: 462
  S E A S O N S GREETINGS Math Notations 3rd Birthday The American Diploma Project is and will be impacting on what is being taught in both Algebra I and II in the 15 states who have joined the ADP Consortium. The classic flow from Standards to Assessments to Course Content is ...
  2 weeks ago

• other peoples "me too" does not equal "not you"

  
  Mr. SponsorPants — Authority: 125
  Alcoholics Anonymous helps me keep my ego in check -- "right sized."  One result of this is a freedom from interpreting other peoples wish to be included as a "threat" to me.   To put it another way, other peoples "me too" doesnt equal "not you." The world is a less hostile place from that perspective. Their ...
  2 weeks ago

• High school math videos - free

  
  Homeschool Math Blog — Authority: 111
  Today I wanted to highlight two companies that both offer lots of free high school level math materials in the form of videos. These are real, commercial companies, yet they have chosen to offer the videos online for free. Both have something else they sell, hoping to make some money obviously from that part of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• MTaP #21 – math carnival for teaching all ages

  
  JD2718 — Authority: 477
  Great Math Teachers at Play (#21) with Sue Van Hattum at Math Mama Writes. Sixteen links centered on teaching math, from elementary up through calculus. Plus, bonus prize, Sue leads off with an original puzzle (wonder if that can be extended….) By the way, this is post 3000 on jd2718. Just a rock and a chisel ...
  2 weeks ago

• Steve H on speed, mastery, & understanding

  
  kitchen table math, the sequel — Authority: 126
  I remember being very discouraged (in the old traditional math days, no less) trying to understand mixture problems because the book we used approached it using tables and grids. When the problem changed a little bit, I couldnt figure out which numbers went into what boxes. I finally learned to approach the problems ...
  2 weeks ago

• The morning coffee, beards and Alice

  
  Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog — Authority: 128
  Tim Burton’s take on Alice in Wonderland is coming to theatres in March, and the first trailer has been released online: New Scientist has its own take on the story , believing it not to be an allegory about drug use, but instead an expression of Carroll’s dislike of algebra — he was more of a geometry ...
  2 weeks ago

• Alice’s adventures in algebra: Wonderland solved

  
  Mirabilis.ca — Authority: 115
  From New Scientist article by Melanie Bayley: Alice’s adventures in algebra: Wonderland solved . What would Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland be without the Cheshire Cat, the trial, the Duchess’s baby or the Mad Hatter’s tea party? Look at the original story that the author told Alice ...
  3 weeks ago

• MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 3: Matrix Multiplication and Inverse Matrices

  
  good coders code, great reuse — Authority: 415
  This is the third post in an article series about MIT’s course “Linear Algebra”. In this post I will review lecture three on five ways to multiply matrices , inverse matrices and an algorithm for finding inverse matrices called Gauss-Jordan elimination . The first lecture covered the geometry of linear ...
  3 weeks ago

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