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A Wordpress math rendering plugin

I read about WPMathPub over at Sol Lederman’s WildAboutMath blog.
WPMathPub is based on PhpMathPublisher by Pascal Brachet in France.
The plugin renders LaTeX in your Wordpress post without having to install LaTeX on your server (something that my hosting company was not interested to do for me).
I messed about with the plugin in the comments on [...]


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Posted in General on 7 Aug 2008

High fuel costs affecting learning

The rapid increase in fuel prices is forcing a re-think on educational institutions.

Can we afford to (and do we really need to) transport students around our cities when there are other options, which could possibly have better learning outcomes?


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Posted in Computers & Internet, Learning, Mathematics on 6 Aug 2008

Girls as good as boys in math - or is it something else?

A recent study shows that girls are as good as boys in mathematics.

But what did the study really reveal?


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Posted in Learning, Mathematics on 3 Aug 2008

Friday Math Movie - Mixed Feelings (Vision through the tongue)

tongueIf you are blind, it turns out that you can “read” with your tongue.

The brain is able to interpret signals coming from different sense organs than normal - allowing us to “hear” with our eyes, for example.


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Posted in Computers & Internet, Learning, Math movies, Mathematics on 1 Aug 2008

Top search terms on squareCircleZ and Interactive Mathematics

This article contains the top search terms that people use to find squareCircleZ and Interactive Mathematics.


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Posted in Computers & Internet, Mathematics on 26 Jul 2008

Friday Math Movie - Human Computation

Luis von AhnHumans spend a lot of their time doing unproductive things. This movie talks about ways of getting humans to play games that help make image search and OCR smarter.


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Posted in Computers & Internet, Mathematics on 25 Jul 2008

Friday Math Movie - I Will Derive

deriveThis week’s movie is a fun summary of when and how to apply differentiation.


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Posted in Math movies, Mathematics on 18 Jul 2008

EduSim - free 3D multi-user virtual world

EduSim is a 3-D virtual world that comes as a free download. It’s worth checking it out.


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Posted in Computers & Internet, Learning, Mathematics on 14 Jul 2008

Google search, math and latent semantic analysis

There is sophisticated math going on behind the scenes when you perform a search on Google. It involves a technique called latent semantic analysis which is based on matrix operations.


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Posted in Computers & Internet, Mathematics on 13 Jul 2008

Friday Math Movie - The Amazing Origami of Robert Lang

origamiAn origami specialist talks about how math helps him to create beautiful art.


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Posted in Math movies, Mathematics on 11 Jul 2008

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