Archive for November, 2007

Ecological footprint quiz

24 November 2007

How much of the Earth do you need to sustain your lifestlye? Check out this ecological footprint quiz.

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Friday math movie – NUMB3RS and Bayes’ Theorem

23 November 2007

Charlie explains to his class about the Monty Hall problem, which involves Baye’s Theorem from probability.

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Want a job? Learn math

20 November 2007

Wanting a lucrative career path? Try the security industry in Maryland, USA.

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Matrices and Flash games

18 November 2007

This is an interesting tutorial on how matrices are used in Flash animations.

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Interactive 3D math simulations

17 November 2007

Here are 10 interesting 3D math/physics simulations from Prentice Hall.

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Friday math movie – Mathematics of Love

16 November 2007

A musical number with some dodgy mathematical history constitutes this week’s Friday math movie.

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Third world oil consumption pushes up price

16 November 2007

Who is really responsible for high oil prices…?

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The IntMath Newsletter – Nov 2007

16 November 2007

In this month’s newsletter:

1. Your updated IntMath information
2. Thanks for your positive comments
3. What’s New in Interactive Mathematics
4. Answer to the Apples and oranges Puzzle
5. Asymptotes
6. From the math blog
7. Final thoughts – your future

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Matrix operations Flash applet

14 November 2007

A reader pointed out that one of my Flash interactives (involving matrix operations) was broken and needed fixing.

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Algebrator review

8 November 2007

Algebrator is an interesting product – but I’m not sure that I can recommend it.

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