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• Jake and The Stubborn Pencil – a Story for Children

  
  Authspot — Authority: 560
   Jake’s teacher called him a walking encyclopedia. Jake knew everything there was to know about dragons and dinosaurs, volcanoes and venomous snakes, even constellations and computers. “Ask Jake!” his classmates chorused whenever anyone needed the answer to a question. But Jake had a problem. He could add ...
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• Sony PSPs enlisted as study aids by the Royal Navy

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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• CBSE Mathematical Olympiad Sample Papers

  
  CBSE — Authority: 104
  CBSE Mathematics Olympiad Sample Papers CBSE has been conducting Maths Olympiad every year which aims at identifying, promoting and nurturing talent in the subject. Click here to know more about CBSE mathematical Olympiad. Below are some sample papers and last year questions papers in PDF format : Maths ...
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• Mangahigh Review: Online maths for High School

  
  Maths Blog — Authority: 127
  A relatively new site which has come to my attention recently is mangahigh.com. Aimed at High School students, this would only be appropriate to older primary children with a good mathematical knowledge. A great free game to try out would be Ice Ice Maybe on estimation which is well within the range of older primary ...
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• Gyanwave.com will Organise Gyanmania Mathematics Olympiad 2010

  
  Tech Blog of Global and Indian Companies: Gajeebo — Authority: 481
  Gyanwave.com is going to organise “Gyanmania Mathematics Olympiad’10” to identify the most creative secondary mathematics students in the country. The exam will be held on 17 January 2010 in New Delhi.Gyanwave.com is part of a worldwide system of national mathematics competitions, a movement in which both ...
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• Coming Soon: Multiplication and percentages

  
  Maths Blog — Authority: 127
  Two maths worksheets for year 2 coming up next week. One looks at a vital part of understanding the process of multiplication: that it can be done in any order. This is also true of addition, but not of subtraction or division. Setting up a little shop and buying and selling things has always been a great part of ...
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• Fox News’ 193% piechart is probably technically correct in...

  
  Earthman, Come Home — Authority: 432
  Fox News’ 193% piechart is probably technically correct in some way. This doesn’t stop it being WRONG. [ via ]
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• Maths worksheet: Year 5 negative numbers (2)

  
  Maths Blog — Authority: 127
  Here is the second of our pages on negative numbers, involving ordering 5 numbers from the least to the most. This is probably a good time to distinguish between using the ‘minus’ sign to perform a subtraction and using it to indicate a negative number. In my time at school the word ‘minus’ was used for both ...
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• permutation & combination

  
  Whatever.... — Authority: 108
  Definition: Permutation: An arrangement is called a Permutation. It is the rearrangement of objects or symbols into distinguishable sequences. When we set things in order, we say we have made an arrangement. When we change the order, we say we have changed the arrangement. So each of the arrangement that can ...
  4 days ago

• Resource of the Week: Venn diagrams and triangles

  
  Maths Blog — Authority: 127
  Most of the maths worksheets you find free on the internet tend to be number based. But not here on mathsblog! There are two parts to this free maths worksheet on classifying shapes, both involving Venn diagrams. The idea is to put either the names of shapes or drawings of shapes in the correct areas of the Venn ...
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• Maths Worksheet: Divide by 100 mentally

  
  Maths Blog — Authority: 127
  Here we have the next worksheet in our series of dividing mentally. This page looks at dividing larger numbers by 100. All the numbers are multiples of 100 so there will be no decimals involved with the answers. As has been said before, but the idea has to be repeated many times for children to fully understand; to ...
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• The Math Book – Clifford A. Pickover

  
  BookOffers.com.au — Authority: 147
  Clifford Pickover, prolific writer and undisputed polymath, has put together a marvelous reference work – The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics . This is an accessible, fascinating book that unravels the mysteries and beauty of mathematics. It covers ...
  5 days ago

• Schurs Lemma, a blog post close to 1 am

  
  MYBLOGISAGOODBLOG — Authority: 124
  For my thesis I just looked up Schurs Lemma in my 3103 notes. It said: Whats yellow and states that given an algebra L , an irreducible module V and an automorphism T : V → V such that x(Tv)=T(xv) , ∀ x ∈ L and v ∈ V , T must be a scalar multiple of the identity? Schurs ...
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• Maths worksheet: multiplication as repeated addition

  
  Maths Blog — Authority: 127
  One of the best ways of explaining multiplication is to think of it as repeated addition. So, a multiplication such as 4 x 3 is the same as adding 4 three times (4 + 4 + 4) or 3 lots of 4. Of course, 3 lots of 4 is the same as 4 lots of 3 which implies that multiplication can be done in any order, unlike division or ...
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• History of science 1950-2010

  
  The Outer Hoard — Authority: 110
  I have been assigned a mission. My father, a geologist, is sixty next year, and for celebratory purposes I’ve been asked to assemble a trivia quiz on important events in science during his lifetime. Match the event to the year in which it occured sort of thing. Most developments in science, of course, don’t ...
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• The Story of Maths: Ep.1 - The Language of the Universe

  
  shapeshift.net — Authority: 129
  In the first episode, The Story of Maths is the story of civilization, of human history starting with the need to quantify. (58 min, 6 segments)
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• Comma confusion, Comment Only Sunday

  
  Mark Wadsworth — Authority: 442
  B emailed me to say that the comma in my strapline was in the wrong place - the second sentence of the telegram should read "If not duffers, wont drown" Hmm. I replied as follows: Ah, seeing as the original was a telegram, there wasnt any punctuation at all, so well have to apply logic. I have always - for the ...
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• Basic Maths

  
  Changethethought — Authority: 592
  Alright, you asked for it so I did another search looking for well-designed Wordpress themes and ran across ‘ Basic Maths ‘. The theme was designed by was designed and developed by Khoi Vinh of Subtraction.com and Allan Cole of fthrwght.com. This one isn’t free though. It’s available for what I think is a ...
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• Frontline Fun

  
  Mark Wadsworth — Authority: 442
  Disclaimer: I am using the expression "frontline" in the modern British political sense, which means teachers, nurses etc, not in the traditional sense of soldiers on active duty, whose plight out in Afgh is far from "fun". Republic of Ireland: public sector employees 300,000 divided by population 4,460,000 = ...
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• Interesting Stuff: Late November 2009

  
  The Outer Hoard — Authority: 110
  Here are some interesting things that attracted my attention over the last fortnight. As always, nominations for the next installment will be posted on Twitter , and then purged after publication in early December. Astronomy: On using the sun’s gravitational lens to communicate with hypothetical stellar ...
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