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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 ...
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• Schurs Lemma, a blog post close to 1 am

  
  MYBLOGISAGOODBLOG — Authority: 123
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• 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: 128
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Basic Maths

  
  Changethethought — Authority: 598
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• 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 = ...
  4 days ago

• 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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• FMSP logo puzzle

  
  Fyrebug Make Your Own Game! — Authority: 179
  Solve the puzzle to reveal the FMSP Logo!
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• FMSP logo puzzle

  
  Fyrebug Make Your Own Game! — Authority: 179
  Solve the puzzle to reveal the FMSP Logo!
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• FMSP Slider

  
  Fyrebug Make Your Own Game! — Authority: 179
  Solve the puzzle to reveal the FMSP Logo!
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• FMSP Slider

  
  Fyrebug Make Your Own Game! — Authority: 179
  Solve the puzzle to reveal the FMSP Logo!
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• A triumph of free(ish) markets!

  
  Mark Wadsworth — Authority: 442
  From a whiney-moaney article in The Daily Mail : More than 50 oil tankers are anchored off Britain - pieces in a game in which the only winners are market speculators. The losers are the millions of British motorists paying over the odds for their petrol and diesel... Lets crunch the numbers and then look at the ...
  5 days ago

• Coming soon: Multiplication, division and negative numbers

  
  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. We have an excellent page on this coming up next week, thanks to urbrainy.com. We also have the next worksheet in our series of ...
  5 days ago

• How much astroturf can you buy for $500,000?

  
  The Standard — Authority: 609
  Tomorrow the Christian Right are holding a self-styled ‘March for Democracy’ that’s been bankrolled to the tune of $500,000 by Auckland property developer Colin Craig. I’m sure you’ll have seen the TV ads, the newpaper full-pagers and the slick PR campaign. They’re even paying for free buses to and from ...
  5 days ago

• Words at Work by Lynda McDaniel

  
  Blue Archipelago — Authority: 403
  Words at Work by Lynda McDaniel will show you how to overcome your fear of writing and deliver words like a pro My Book Review Rating: 5 Stars – a must-read for anyone who writes anything! One of my pet peeves is poor writing. I mean there really is no excuse for it. If I’m in a restaurant and there’s a ...
  5 days ago

• Racist Maths Work Sheet

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 153
  You are the only black kid in the eigth grade pre-algebra class at  Lenape Middle school and your teacher hands out a work sheet featuring this…. Racists? Well the mom of the black student thinks so and she has pulled him out of classes until further notice.  I guess it didn’t help that one of the kids in ...
  5 days ago

• The Unibody Coca-Cola Can

  
  autotechie.com — Authority: 158
  It doesn’t only look beautiful and it will make Jon Ive and Steve Jobs wet, but this naked Coca-Cola can would help save energy while reducing air and water pollution. Would it really make a difference? Let’s do some maths: (more…) Read more: The Unibody Coca-Cola Can
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