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Garrett Eastman

Gordy McGranite Grapples with Gradients (A Calculus Story) - 7 views

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    A children's book illustrating calculus, slideshow viewable at this website
Garrett Eastman

Final Report from the MSRI Workshop on Mathematics Journals - 0 views

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    A workshop that took place February 14, 2011 to February 16, 2011, facilitating discussion of "what is important about journal publishing to mathematicians," just released its final report.
Garrett Eastman

Numbaland - 4 views

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    According to Nancy Kimberly of HASTAC, this set of video games won the 1st National STEM Video Game Challenge: "Numbaland!, produced by graduate students Derek Lomas of Carnegie Mellon University, Dixie Ching of New York University and Jeanine Sun of the University of California at San Diego, was the winner of the Collegiate and Impact Prizes and will receive $50,000 in total. The collection of four games allows children in kindergarten to grade 4 to construct a set of skills that helps develop their sense of number concepts"
Lisa Nuss

national library of virtual mathematics - 0 views

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    This website is K-12 with algebra tiles, fractions and interactive games on the computer. It also has a "grapher" that graphs up to 3 functions. I use it to find x and y-intercepts of lines or parabolas
Garrett Eastman

The TeX community aggregator - 8 views

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    This page aggregates blog entries by people who are writing about TeX and related topics.
Garrett Eastman

Math Flyer for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store - 4 views

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    "Using dynamic slider controls, one can see the real connection between a mathematical function and its plot."
Garrett Eastman

BBC News - Today - Number crunching - 8 views

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    "Do you have a favorite number?" asks maths writer Alex Bellos, starting an online survey
Kathy Favazza

ICTmagic - Maths - 0 views

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    links to many online math game websites
Garrett Eastman

The Math Emporium: Higher Education's Silver Bullet - 3 views

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    National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT) describes the success of the "Emporium Model" in college math teaching with examples of institutions that have put best practices into effect
Garrett Eastman

Nonfiction Review: A Strange Wilderness: The Lives of the Great Mathematicians by Amir ... - 9 views

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    Prolific science writer Aczel offers a grab bag of biographical sketches of important mathematicians: starting with the "rope-pullers" in ancient Egypt, who determined property lines for farmers
Garrett Eastman

Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society - 14 views

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    How mathematics affects our daily lives in sociological, economic, and historical perspectives. Three volume set, 490 articles, published in October 2011
Garrett Eastman

10 Ways To Think Like A Mathematician - 20 views

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    Companion pamphlet for Kevin Houston's book How to Think Like a Mathematician, outlining ten ways of questioning and reasoning
Judi Detweiler

Estimation 180 - Home - 0 views

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    Number sense and student inquiry
Garrett Eastman

(x+y) is equivalent to (y+x): launching mathematical expressions checking - 2 views

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    "Several of our classes involve students using mathematical expressions, but there was no way for us to automatically check this work. The stated solution to a problem may be x+y, but if a student answers y+x, our system needs to understand that this is also correct." "sympy, an open source Python library for symbolic mathematics," is proposed as a solution.
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