Archive for July, 2008

Top search terms on squareCircleZ and Interactive Mathematics

26 July 2008

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

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Friday Math Movie – Human Computation

25 July 2008

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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The IntMath Newsletter – 20th July 2008

20 July 2008

In this Newsletter:

1. Current math events
2. Math tips – (a) Math Dictionary; (b) Numerical methods
3. Poll results – summer math
4. From the math blog
5. Your brain and math

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Friday Math Movie – I Will Derive

18 July 2008

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

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EduSim – free 3D multi-user virtual world

14 July 2008

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

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Google search, math and latent semantic analysis

13 July 2008

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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Friday Math Movie – The Amazing Origami of Robert Lang

11 July 2008

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

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Math in computer game development

10 July 2008

Behind every computer game lie many applications of mathematics.

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MathTV.com

5 July 2008

mathtvHere are some free math videos from mathTV.com.

Watch them while they are free!

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Friday Math Movie – The Quadratic Formula Video

4 July 2008

quadratic formulaThis week’s movie uses music to help you remember the quadratic formula.

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