The Math Teachers at Play Carnival 50 is now live at Mathematics for Teaching. Due to busyness, the Math and Multimedia Blog Carnival will have a break this month — unless someone volunteers to host it before the end of the month.
I have updated the following GeoGebra Tutorials to version 4.0: Spreadsheet, Slider, and Curves of Best Fit (Tutorial 20) ; and Spreadsheet and Similarity (Tutorial 21); Spreadsheet, Vectors and Matrices (Tutorial 22). Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
Tagged GeoGebra 4.0 tutorials, math blog carnival, math teachers at play
If you think you’re unfortunate, you should read the biography of Evariste Galois, a mathematical genius who was one of the founders of group theory. He lived during a political turmoil in France, and his life was filled with bad luck and disappointments.
Evariste Galois
Below are the 10 most notable misfortunes of Galois’ life. Continue reading
Posted in History of Math, Miscellaneous
Tagged augustine cauchy, evariste galois, group theory, joseph fourier, simeon poisson
This is the first edition of Math and Multimedia Miscellany (MMM). MMM will contain technology news, interesting math articles, miscellaneous announcements, and other stuff that I cannot include in regular posts.
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Erlina R. Ronda has currently created an e-library, a collection of readings for mathematics teachers and would be mathematics teachers. Her collection includes research readings on mathematics education and history of mathematics. Erlina is the author of the Mathematics for Teaching blog.
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Google has currently launched Google drive, but is selling Google Sketchup to Trimble. Yes, you heard it right — Google selling. Google Sketchup is a 3d modeling program created by @Last Software. It was acquired by Google on March 14, 2006.
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Despite the numerous applications of mathematics in real-life, I found an interesting news on how a physicist used mathematics to avoid traffic penalty. Now, that’s really real-life!
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I have been looking for a good bookmarking tool, and it seems that Pinterest suits my preferences. There is not much right now in my account, but it will be active soon. If you are interested to follow me on Pinterest, you can visit my boards at http://pinterest.com/jrbautista/.
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The Mathematics and Multimedia Carnival is home! I will be hosting the 23rd edition. Please submit your articles on or before May 18, 2012.
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Mathematics and Multimedia is currently looking for carnival hosts. If you are interested, email me at mathandmultimedia@gmail.com. June, July and August 2012 are available for hosting.
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That’s all for now. Happy weekend everyone!
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