Many universities and colleges allow students to use advanced graphical calculators for exams in math courses, including linear algebra, calculus and engineering. Having the appropriate calculator can prove to be a huge advantage in terms of getting the correct answer and saving time. Even if the h...
Take this mathematics quiz at encyclopedia britannica to test your knowledge on various mathematic principles.
[The famous attack of Sir William Hamilton on the tendency of mathematical studies] affords the most express evidence of those fatal lacunae in the circle of his knowledge, which unfitted him for taking a comprehensive or even an accurate view of the processes of the human mind in the establis...
Here are two representative quotes: "In passing, I'll observe that mathematics is not a science either, contrary to your claim ... Mathematics is a formal logic game, resting on untested (and untestable) principles of representation and meaning (e.g., the notion of symbol), logic and ded...
This lesson was “fun” (I use the quotes to denote that this was a fun lesson for me – not so much for my students). But this all changed when I allowed my students the opportunity to think for themselves. The task was very simple in concept: Find the sum of the series of the...
More than a decade's worth of puzzles and problems from the International Championship of Mathematics are found in this three-volume set. The problems are organized by mathematical themes—geometry and symmetry, arithmetic and number theory, logic and algorithmic process. Created for all puzzle and...
The word’s current use evolved from the mid-18th through 19th centuries, from the Enlightenment through the Industrial Revolution. The OED quotes Benjamin Franklin using the word in 1780. In 1794 the Marquis de Condorcet wrote hisSketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Min...
pertinent, where a teacher consented to be quoted, but most of these notes were paraphrases and summaries of what was said. During the later stages of the analysis, these notes were revisited in an iterative process to include more direct quotes for the relevant codes reported in this paper ...
There's an excellent article on today's Guardian Datablog looking at a computer based study (with 232 primary school students) on which times tables students find easiest and difficult. Edited highlights (Guardian quotes in italics): Which multiplication did students get wrong most often? The har...
Conditionals are ubiquitous in mathematics: we routinely express theorems usinguniversal conditionalsof the form ‘for allx, ifA(x)thenB(x)’. The logic of universal conditionals is underpinned by that ofpropositional conditionals, which take the form ‘ifA(x0)thenB(x0)’, wherex0is a specifi...