Volume 8, Number 9

3 March 2003 Vol. 8, No. 9 THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS MultiFlyer - Perkins | Math Stars - Clary The Math Life | Pi Day - Math Forum Resources MULTIFLYER - Dan Perkins http://www.gdbdp.com/multiflyer/ A game for learning or brushing up on multiplication. As the pilot of a space ship far in the future, you must save the solar system from gravitational anomalies while learning and memorizing the multiplication tables. Flash 6 plugin required. \|/ MATH STARS SOFTWARE FOR THE PC - Roger Clary http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/pc/mathstars2.html Clary offers a Windows shareware version ($10) of his Math Stars software, previously available only for Macintosh. Students can practice the four basic math functions: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. There is also a setting to include both positive and negative numbers so that students can practice operations with integers. Macintosh version: http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/mac/mathstars.html -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- THE MATH LIFE http://www.maa.org/reviews/mathlife.html The Math Life, a fifty-two minute movie by Wendy Conquest, Bob Drake, and Dan Rockmore, shows the general public that the inside of the head of a mathematician is not such a scary place. There are interviews with Freeman Dyson, David Mumford, Ingrid Daubechies, Persi Diaconis, Michael Freedman, Fan Chung Graham, Kate Okikiolu, Jennifer Tour Chayes, Peter Sarnak, Steven Strogatz, and other mathematicians. The film is divided into nine sections: Doing the Math, Shape, Working, Number, Proof, Uncertainty, The Real World, Connections, and The Last Word. It's now available for distribution through Films in the Humanities and Sciences, and will soon be appearing on a public television station. For more information, see Rockmore's page: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~rockmore/mathlife.html -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- PI DAY - MATH FORUM RESOURCES If you are planning some Pi Day celebrations for your classroom or school, check these resources on the Math Forum site for interesting ideas. Ask Dr Math FAQ: About Pi http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.pi.html Ask Dr. Math Middle School Archive: Pi http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/mid_pi.html Ask Dr. Math High School Archive: Transcendental Numbers http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/high_transcendental.html Internet Mathematics Library http://mathforum.org/library/topics/pi/ Problems Library Elementary: Pi http://mathforum.org/library/problems/sets/elem_pi.html Middle School: Pi http://mathforum.org/library/problems/sets/middle_pi.html T2T FAQ: Pi Day http://mathforum.org/t2t/faq/faq.pi.html Teacher Exchange Derivation of Pi - Jon Basden http://mathforum.org/te/exchange/hosted/basden/pi_3_14159265358.html Determination of Pi - Alexander Bogomolny http://mathforum.org/te/exchange/hosted/bogomolny/nature.of.pi.html Pi Day - Carolyn Morehouse http://mathforum.org/te/exchange/hosted/morehouse/ -|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|- 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 Donations http://www.drexel.edu/ia/mathforum/ _o \o_ __| \ / |__ o _ o/ \o/ __|- __/ \__/o \o | o/ o/__/ /\ /| | \ \ / \ / \ /o\ / \ / \ / | / \ / \

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