Volume 7, Number 10

11 March 2002 Vol. 7, No. 10 THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS Math in the Media Sites - Euchler | Creative Classroom Online Dr. Math FAQ: Working Together MATH IN THE MEDIA SITES - John Euchler John Euchler has shared with us a list of "math in the media" references, assembled by his 12th graders when they presented a project on math as portrayed in popular film. Math in the Movies Page - A. G. Reinhold http://world.std.com/~reinhold/mathmovies.html Letters to Math in the Movies - A. G. Reinhold http://world.std.com/~reinhold/math/mathmoviesletters.html Mathematical Fiction - Alex Kasman http://math.cofc.edu/faculty/kasman/MATHFICT/mf-all-ttl.html Math in Fiction - Nik Weaver http://www.math.wustl.edu/~nweaver/fiction.html Bad Astronomy - Phil Plait http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/movies/index.html Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics - Intuitor.com http://intuitor.com/moviephysics/index.html John's class site: http://www.mccanntech.org/showPersonal.asp?ID=JE&area=MAT -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- CREATIVE CLASSROOM ONLINE - Creative Classroom Publishing, LLC http://www.creativeclassroom.com/ Updated bimonthly, Creative Classroom Online is drawn from the pages of past and present issues of Creative Classroom, a professional magazine for K-8 teachers. Math Matters highlights mathematics activities. The current feature is: A Special Statistic: Putting the meaning back in averages http://www.creativeclassroom.com/ma02aplus/math.html Paul Giganti, Jr., presents statistics activities for three different grade bands, all addressing the topic of "average": K-3: How Long is the Average Name? 4-6: Don't Be Mean, Split the Beans 6-8: Making Averages "Mean"-ingful Submit a tip to Math Matters: http://www.creativeclassroom.com/ma02aplus/submit.html View Online Archives: http://www.creativeclassroom.com/archive.html Links to Math Matters articles are listed under the A+ Activities. -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- New from the Dr. Math FAQ WORKING TOGETHER http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.working.together.html Jack can paint a house in 5 days, and Richard can paint the same house in 7 days. Working together, how long will it take them to finish the job? -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- CHECK OUT OUR WEB SITE: The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/ Ask Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math/ Problems of the Week http://mathforum.org/pow/ Mathematics Library http://mathforum.org/library/ Teacher2Teacher http://mathforum.org/t2t/ Discussion Groups http://mathforum.org/discussions/ Join the Math Forum http://mathforum.org/join.forum.html Send comments to the Math Forum Internet Newsletter editors _o \o_ __| \ / |__ o _ o/ \o/ __|- __/ \__/o \o | o/ o/__/ /\ /| | \ \ / \ / \ /o\ / \ / \ / | / \ / \

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