23 August 1999 Vol. 4, No. 34
THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS
Life by the Numbers | Ponder This - IBM |
Tan Resource Center - Brooks Cole
LIFE BY THE NUMBERS - WQED Pittsburgh
http://www.mathlife.wqed.org/
Materials including QuickTime videos and Shockwave games
inspired by the Public Broadcasting System's seven-part
miniseries "Life by the Numbers," hosted and narrated by
actor Danny Glover. Each unit has four parts: Start Here,
Meet the Experts, About the Show, and Math Stuff.
Units include:
- A New Age
using mathematics to change the world - geometry,
calculus, boolean algebra
- Patterns of Nature
seeing and studying nature - fractals, knot theory,
size and shape
- Shape of the World
measuring and mapping the planet - geometry,
cartography
- Seeing is Believing
describing the space we live in and the space inside,
in our imagination - linear perspective, pictures
from numbers
- The Numbers Game
how mathematics helps aspiring athletes to achieve
their ideals - sports, crunching numbers
- Chances of a Lifetime
how statistics is part of our games, helps in the search
for new life-saving drugs, and enables us to gauge
people's opinions - the mathematics of games and
gambling
- Making a Difference
reforming the way mathematics is taught in our
schools, finding a way to make math make sense -
the tools of mathematics, linear perspective
For reviews of the series, visit MAA Online:
- Ivars Peterson
http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_4_6_98.html
- Colm Mulcahy
http://www.maa.org/features/lifebyTV.html
Keith Devlin has written an accompanying book; for a review,
see the MAA Online book review column by Bernadette Mullins:
http://www.maa.org/reviews/lifeby.html
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PONDER THIS... IBM Research
http://www.research.ibm.com/features/ponder
Bowling pins, tumblers, buckets of tennis balls... match wits
with the minds at IBM Research, who post a new puzzle each
month, some suggested by users at large.
Solutions are posted after 2-3 weeks, and an archive of
previous challenges is on the Web.
http://www.research.ibm.com/features/ponder/archive.html
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TAN RESOURCE CENTER
S.T. Tan; Brooks/Cole Publishing Company
http://www.thomson.com/brookscole/math/authors/tans
Supplementary Web resources: exercises, practice quizzes,
practice tests, suggested group projects, review questions,
and other sample additional materials for students and
instructors using Tan's publications:
- Applied Calculus (4th ed.)
- Applied Finite Mathematics (5th ed.)
- Calculus for the Managerial, Life and Social Sciences
(4th ed.)
The site also includes step-by-step instructions for using
TI-82, TI-83, and TI-85 graphing calculators.
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