Classic math mistakes

Here’s a collection of mistakes in math. It’s interesting these mistakes are common all over the world. It could be something to do with the crazy inconsistencies in the way math is written. (See my Towards more meaningful math notation.)

This is Mistake #17:

classic math mistake

And this is Mistake #01:

classic math mistake

You can download (free) PDFs of these in color and black and white. There’s also an MP3 commentary on each one.

This page gives an overview of all resources available: Classic Mistakes.

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Posted in Learning, Mathematics - December 21st, 2009.

One Comment on “Classic math mistakes”

  1. Mike Theodore Says:
    4 Jan 2010 at 4:52 am Link to this comment

    Nice post, thanks.

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