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The Cheshire Math Curriculum
2009-02-16 17:17:01 GMT
Weekend in London
2009-02-15 19:33:42 GMT
Synthetic Divison by a Quadratic
2009-02-02 17:39:24 GMT
Superbowl Statisitcs
2009-02-01 16:14:43 GMT
Cat's Eyes Removed
2009-02-01 16:11:24 GMT
A Variation on a Harmonic Theme
2009-01-31 10:19:31 GMT
Curious Properties of 17
2008-12-10 20:21:00 GMT
More Detail on Birthday Problems
2008-12-04 20:37:20 GMT
North of the Border, A visit to Scotland
2008-12-03 21:15:26 GMT
Sarah Palin is NOT alone!
2008-12-02 19:55:19 GMT
Variations on the Birthday Problem
2008-12-01 18:57:20 GMT
The First Illustrated Arithmetic
2008-11-17 19:20:23 GMT
The Math Check Joke
2008-11-14 22:03:29 GMT
More History on the Problem of Points
2008-11-13 20:12:11 GMT
White Rabbit Mathematics
2008-11-11 16:35:11 GMT
The Problem of Points and A Brief History of Probability
2008-11-08 16:43:15 GMT
Counting Fish for Fun and Profit
2008-11-04 18:49:50 GMT
Margin of Error????
2008-11-03 18:36:40 GMT
What! You Don't Believe in Aliens?
2008-10-28 18:48:24 GMT
More on Matrices and Primitive Pythagorean Triples
2008-10-22 20:02:57 GMT
Even More on Pythagorean Triples and Barning Trees
2008-10-20 17:51:45 GMT
"I Don't Get It!"
2008-10-09 19:07:32 GMT
Standard Deviation Computation in One Pass
2008-10-06 17:34:20 GMT
Fibonacci's Thumb
2008-10-01 18:10:35 GMT
A Bird in the Hand is Worth a Pigeon-hole Principle
2008-09-26 19:18:50 GMT
Hey! Don't Throw That Word Away. ... I'm Using It!
2008-09-26 17:22:47 GMT
Hey! Don't Throw That Word Away. ... I'm Using It!
2008-09-26 17:22:40 GMT
Entry for September 13, 2008
2008-09-13 14:45:26 GMT
What Was It Used For?
2008-09-12 18:20:57 GMT
A New Look at an Old Problem
2008-09-06 09:50:06 GMT
Ants Can Count, (you heard it here second)
2008-09-05 17:43:31 GMT
Solve the fuel crisis, Raise Federal Gas Taxes???
2008-09-04 18:02:04 GMT
Etymological Musings
2008-08-14 14:57:28 GMT
New York Times Editors Need Math Help
2008-08-12 18:24:06 GMT
Things I learned Late in Life about Repeating Decimals and Prime Divisors
2008-08-11 01:41:41 GMT
Out of the Mouth of a Donkey
2008-08-07 18:59:39 GMT
Repeating Decimals and Repetends
2008-08-04 19:05:15 GMT
Sort of like Casting-Out Sevens
2008-08-01 15:59:50 GMT
Math Symbols Are NOT All Created Equal
2008-07-30 17:14:56 GMT
Proof Without Words
2008-07-25 19:50:57 GMT
More Stuff That is “Easier Than You Think”
2008-07-22 15:18:47 GMT
Collateral Damage in the Math Wars
2008-07-20 17:28:04 GMT
Two Problems
2008-07-17 20:33:29 GMT
BI-MODAL???
2008-07-16 19:33:03 GMT
PIcturing Statistics
2008-07-11 18:54:28 GMT
catalan numbers
2008-07-10 15:29:12 GMT
The Writer's Desk
2008-07-09 18:43:03 GMT
Triangular Numbers
2008-07-08 17:24:17 GMT
More..."Things I Learned on the Road"
2008-07-01 22:25:12 GMT
On the Road Again...
2008-06-30 01:55:05 GMT
Pick Two
2008-06-24 02:04:27 GMT
More an The Am-Gm Inequality
2008-06-20 17:26:38 GMT
What Mean Did You Mean???
2008-06-17 01:42:50 GMT
Mr. Galloway's Jumping Frogs
2008-06-13 14:51:22 GMT
Counting with Polynomials
2008-06-12 20:06:11 GMT
Thoughts While Avoiding Grading Papers
2008-06-10 18:37:20 GMT
A Little Arithmetic Test
2008-06-08 13:57:30 GMT
I GIve Up! Math IS Easy
2008-06-05 21:13:07 GMT
Shakespeare, Starlings, and Exponential Growth
2008-06-03 20:12:25 GMT
Yes, Barbie, Math IS Hard!
2008-06-01 16:13:06 GMT
If you needed a reason
2008-05-30 21:13:51 GMT
Taking things to a New (and some old) Length
2008-05-28 10:48:48 GMT
The NEW Friendly Numbers
2008-05-26 07:23:40 GMT
Over Protected and Under Educated?
2008-05-24 23:37:49 GMT
I will Derive, The Calculus Song
2008-05-21 19:40:57 GMT
Crime, Education, and CCTV
2008-05-20 10:54:39 GMT
The B-2 Theorem
2008-05-16 19:51:11 GMT
l'Hospital's Rule
2008-05-14 10:28:53 GMT
Average, Percent, and Other Misunderstood Math Terms
2008-05-13 18:44:41 GMT
Do we really need scientists to tell us this?
2008-05-11 11:50:32 GMT
Trust Me, I’m on NPR
2008-05-10 11:19:12 GMT
The Rules of Three
2008-05-09 21:59:42 GMT
A Good Day to Die
2008-05-08 20:07:08 GMT
The Cowboy Comedian and the Statistician
2008-05-01 19:34:24 GMT
More Casting Out
2008-04-29 08:23:36 GMT
Geometry and Understanding
2008-04-24 11:30:20 GMT
Sunshine and Earthquakes
2008-04-23 10:50:17 GMT
Riding the Thames
2008-04-18 13:34:00 GMT
Prime Time Fun
2008-04-17 08:35:41 GMT
A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, MATH, and Language
2008-04-15 14:19:54 GMT
OOPS, The New York Math Curriculum Experiment
2008-04-13 13:24:07 GMT
Stoop and Deprecate
2008-04-12 17:44:26 GMT
I told you so.
2008-04-10 15:53:12 GMT
Harmony, Record Floods, and Traffic Jams
2008-04-10 15:37:02 GMT
Math Problems start with I
2008-04-05 15:18:43 GMT
Moments... Nice song
2008-04-04 13:19:48 GMT
A little Irish Chuckle
2008-04-03 10:30:01 GMT
Casting about for the History of Casting Out Nines
2008-03-29 18:58:35 GMT
A Little Geometry
2008-03-28 12:54:15 GMT
I Told You So, People Don't Trust Statistics
2008-03-27 15:47:21 GMT
Snow and Daffodils
2008-03-23 14:17:51 GMT
The Pain is All in Your Head (No Brain=No Pain)
2008-03-20 11:17:37 GMT
PI Day is COMING, PI Day is Coming!!!!
2008-03-12 07:21:21 GMT
The Math of a Traffic Jam
2008-03-11 18:16:21 GMT
PAY MORE, LEARN MORE... I Have Proof
2008-03-10 21:28:06 GMT
Close order Drill and the square root of -1
2008-03-01 17:35:51 GMT
Motivation SUCKS
2008-02-21 12:10:25 GMT
Education by Design
2008-02-13 20:11:59 GMT
A Design Problem?
2008-02-12 19:43:35 GMT
That Ain't Fair..... is it???
2008-02-09 20:02:28 GMT
Signs of the Times (or of the Thames)
2008-01-20 13:59:27 GMT
Mentos and Coke.... But Why?
2008-01-09 09:22:38 GMT
Calculus for Christmas
2008-01-04 19:16:29 GMT
Christmas in Paris; How cool is That
2007-12-27 15:41:01 GMT
Maybe Steroids Don’t Work?
2007-12-20 18:18:05 GMT
A little Mathematical Magic
2007-12-14 19:04:38 GMT
A time to celebrate???
2007-12-11 18:19:06 GMT
Counting down
2007-12-09 16:17:12 GMT
A passing commment (or not!)
2007-12-07 18:24:01 GMT
Why can't Johnny read (still)?
2007-12-06 19:00:01 GMT
Farm Subsidies Make You Fat
2007-09-27 19:57:01 GMT
Four Dinks and You're Out
2007-09-25 19:41:54 GMT
It’s a GUY Thing
2007-09-23 10:07:09 GMT
STOP SIGNS CAUSE ACCIDENTS?
2007-09-12 21:49:03 GMT
How Many is That?
2007-09-09 18:48:48 GMT
Chocolate and Soft Kisses
2007-09-04 20:31:05 GMT
Appalachian State Stuns Michigan
2007-09-03 13:02:34 GMT
PROOF?
2007-09-03 12:21:51 GMT
SELL THE SIZZLE
2007-09-01 11:46:49 GMT
Shorter Waits for Botox Than Examinations of Moles
2007-08-30 10:53:59 GMT
August 28th Is All About the Postman
2007-08-27 19:15:26 GMT
German Woman is "Write-Brained"
2007-08-27 14:55:49 GMT
Cranberries, Wine, Sunshine, and Hot Flashes
2007-08-26 17:17:07 GMT
It Ain’t Necessarily So
2007-08-24 17:07:56 GMT
Contrary to Popular Opinion, You can NOT prove ANYTHING (to most people) with Statistics.
2007-08-23 19:43:42 GMT
Are Women who want Big Boobs crazy?
2007-08-18 03:44:35 GMT
Why I'm a teacher and not a painter!
2007-08-15 22:23:47 GMT
Statistics like it CAN be.
2007-08-12 17:54:47 GMT
August 10, A day worth repeating
2007-08-10 16:54:48 GMT
August 8, a Friendly day for a Snark Hunt…
2007-08-08 02:35:51 GMT
Festivals and Puzzles, August 6, 2007
2007-08-06 14:14:17 GMT
Entry for August 05, 2007
2007-08-05 16:49:09 GMT
8/3 calculus and all that
2007-08-03 14:47:28 GMT
Entry for August 02, 2007
2007-08-02 17:17:19 GMT
210 is an interesting number
2007-07-29 16:39:17 GMT
Entry for July 26, 2007
2007-07-26 19:49:35 GMT
Entry for July 25, 2007
2007-07-24 20:47:52 GMT
Entry for July 24, 2007
2007-07-23 23:31:52 GMT
Entry for July 23, 2007
2007-07-23 03:06:56 GMT
Entry for July 22, 2007
2007-07-22 00:27:56 GMT
Entry for July 21, 2007
2007-07-21 21:05:05 GMT
Entry for July 20, 2007
2007-07-20 18:40:14 GMT
Entry for November 14, 2006
2006-11-14 08:05:50 GMT
Another great math teacher discovers infinity
2006-07-29 16:14:25 GMT
Entry for July 28, 2006
2006-07-28 14:10:27 GMT
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