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Jack Kent Cooke Award
http://mathforum.org/whatsnew.html#cooke
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has named the Math Forum @ Drexel one of five winners in a national grant competition of 350 applicants. With the Foundation's $150,000 award, the Math Forum will engage 100 low- to moderate-income 9th and 10th graders in its existing online mathematics community.
Numbers Line Up for Once-in-a-Century Moment
http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=1359555
The "chronological oddity" 01:02:03 04/05/06 occurred Wednesday, but it suggests many mathematical investigations suitable for students, such as:
- When did this last occur?
- How often does it occur?
- When will it occur next?
Latin Americans write this short-hand timestamp in reverse order, so a similar phenomenon was observed in Latin America at 1 second after 3:02 A.M: 06/05/04 03:02:01.
Besides the math-learn archive noted above, these groups are having similar discussions:
nysmathab
http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=1358808
AP Statistics
http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=1358433
AP Calculus
http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=1359483
Free Ruler
http://www.pascal.com/software/freeruler/
Free Ruler is a free screen ruler for Mac OS X with the following features:
- A horizontal and vertical ruler which can be used independently or simultaneously
- Measurement in pixels, inches, picas, or centimeters
- Automatic alignment of rulers
- The ability to group rulers and move them around as a unit
- Shadowless rulers with customizable transparency
- Interactive tick marks which follow the mouse location for more precise measurement
- Independent resizing of rulers, from 200 pixels to 5000 pixels in length
- Single key shortcuts for most ruler functions
- Conversion assistant to set ruler resolution based on screen size and resolution
- Unit converter utility for converting numbers between different units of measure
Mathematics Awareness Month (MAM) - April 2006
http://www.mathaware.org/
Mathematics Awareness Month provides the mathematical sciences community with opportunities for promoting the importance and versatility of mathematics, and its relationships to our daily lives. The theme of MAM 2006 is Mathematics and Internet Security.
View these pages on their new site:
- Resources
Announcement
Theme Essays
Theme Poster
Committee
Sample Press Release
Related Resources
Linking Icons
- Activities
View Activities
Submit Your Activity
- General Information
About MAM
About JPBM
Publicizing MAM
Terms of Use
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