Archive for the ‘Learning’ Category

Friday math movie: Ken Robinson animated

10 February 2012

Ken Robinson animated
This is a clever animation of Ken Robinson, talking about why education often doesn’t work as intended.

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Friday math movie: Carlo Ratti Architecture that senses and responds

27 January 2012

data feedback
This video shows how we can improve our lives using sensing data.

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Autograph 2-D and 3-D graph plotter: a review

23 January 2012

Autograph plotter
Autograph is a well-designed 2-D and 3-D plotting application for education. Here’s my review.

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Biorhythm Graphs

16 January 2012

Biorhythm graphs are an interesting - but unscientific - application of sine curves
Biorhythm graphs are an interesting – but unscientific – application of sine curves.

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Space scientist turns math teacher

15 January 2012

Dave's story
Dave tells us about his interesting working career that often involved math, and how he recently became a math teacher.

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Friday math movie: Using slope to bust a magic trick

13 January 2012

Using slope of a line to solve a magic trick
Where did the missing square go? We can use slopes of lines to solve this puzzle.

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Friday math movie: The Studio School

6 January 2012

Studio School
Is this a viable answer to the many problems experienced by mainstream schools?

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Interactive parabola graphs

5 December 2011

Interactive parabola graphs
I’ve added a new page containing 3 interactive graphs which explain parabola concepts.

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My dilemma – ethical math help

30 November 2011

Math ethical dilemma
Is there a difference between paying someone to do your math homework and getting a computer to do it? Are they both unethical?

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Explore basic graph concepts and understand them better

28 November 2011

slopes of parallel lines
Here are some interactive graphs that help you better understand distance, slope, parallel lines and perpendicular lines.

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