Math Links

Playing With Math: Stories from Math Circles, Homeschoolers, and Passionate Teachers brings together the stories of over thirty authors who share their math enthusiasm with their communities, families, or students. After every chapter is a puzzle, game, or activity to get you and your kids playing with math too.

Published in 2014, tells the story of how, in the seventeenth century, Italian Jesuit authorities evidently tried to suppress the idea of infinitesimals in mathematics and how subsequently their flourishing led to the development of calculus and shifted the balance of world culture and the influence of nations.

An ongoing project at Agnes Scott College in Athens, Georgia, this site features biographies of notable women mathematicians, which you can browse alphabetically, chronologically or geographically.

Drawing on culture, creativity and computation in teacher education

"Studies have linked confusing English number names to weaker arithmetic skills in children. Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish express math concepts more clearly." Also explores how math games at an early age develop appreciation and skills.

The most AMAZING compilation of math problems EVER!

Abstract: "We encounter mathematical problems in various forms in our lives, thus making mathematical thinking an important human ability [6]. Of these problems, optimization problems are an important subset: Wall Street traders often have to take instantaneous, strategic decisions to buy and sell shares, with the goal of maximizing their profits at the end of a day's trade. Continuous research on game-based learning and its value [2] [3] led us to ask: can we develop and improve the ability of mathematical thinking in children by guising an optimization problem as a game? In this paper, we present Bublz!, a simple, click-driven game we developed as a first step towards answering our question."

"there are plenty of other infinite decimal (and infinitely useful) numbers to celebrate-Feb. 7 could have been e Day, for example, or Jan. 6, the Day of the Golden Ratio."

Three Fun and Free Android Apps for #Mathematics Practice #mathchat http://t.co/kUAh8b46jd

Joel David Hamkins, a professor of Mathematics at CUNY, describes his day teaching graph theory to his daughter's third grade class starting with the Euler characteristic and connected planar graphs tested on a variety of combinations and shapes.

Avoid Hard Work gives a playful view on ten powerful problem-solving techniques. These techniques were first published by the Mathematical Association of America to help high school students with advanced math courses. We adapted the ten techniques and the sample problems for much younger children. The book is for parents, teachers, math circle leaders, and others who work with children ages three to ten. It will come out in the Fall of 2016.

Elegant graphing calculator and math simulations promote collaboration