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Martin Burrett

Angry Birds Rio Online - 0 views

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    Angry Birds is a wonderful game for teaching all sorts of maths and physics. Play an online version of Angry Birds Rio. Play full screen at http://www.physicsgames.com/flash/angry-birds-rio.swf http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Educational+Games
Garrett Eastman

DragonBox: Algebra Beats Angry Birds | GeekDad | Wired.com - 16 views

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    "What if I were to tell you that Angry Birds had been surpassed in the App Store - by a game that involves solving algebra equations? Because that's what DragonBox did."
Garrett Eastman

The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010. - 10 views

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    A volume edited by Mircea Pitici, including such contributions as "why Freeman Dyson thinks some mathematicians are birds while others are frogs; why Keith Devlin believes there's more to mathematics than proof; what Nick Paumgarten has to say about the timing patterns of New York City's traffic lights (and why jaywalking is the most mathematically efficient way to cross Sixty-sixth Street); what Samuel Arbesman can tell us about the epidemiology of the undead in zombie flicks."
Garrett Eastman

Pigeons match primates in number sense - 15 views

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    Pigeons "were taught to order 35 different sets of images, all of which displayed one, two, or three items. Then, the setup changed: values up to nine were introduced. The pigeons were then shown a pair of two familiar numbers (such as two and three), one familiar and one unfamiliar number (such as one and seven), or two unfamiliar numbers (such as five and eight). "
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