Search All of the Math Forum:
Views expressed in these public forums are not endorsed by
Drexel University or The Math Forum.
|
|
|
|
Newsletter: Math Forum Internet News No. 16.3 (21 Jan 11)
Posted:
Jan 21, 2011 12:32 PM
|
|
|
|
21 January, 2011 Vol. 16, No. 3
THE MATH FORUM @ DREXEL INTERNET NEWS
Angles of Reflection Blog | Internet 2010 in Numbers
Math of the OED, Free
***************************************************************
Math Nspired lessons, tutorials and training
all in one place. Sign up today at
http://mathnspired.com/
***************************************************************
ANGLES OF REFLECTION
http://www.anglesofreflection.blogspot.com/
"I am an old timer in the math ed. business," explains John
Benson. "P. J. Karafiol is a young guy with lots of insight and
energy and talent. We are good friends. He suggested that we
start a blog. After he explained to me what a blog is, I agreed
to participate. The idea is that about once a week, one of us
will write a short essay about math education. The other one
will respond...."
Read and comment on the new blogging joint venture of Benson
and Karafiol, Illinois' Presidential Awardees in Mathematics
of 1987 and 2009, respectively.
-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-
PoW taking place: math problem-solving moment of the week
"The more interesting problem with this linear model was
pointed out by Michael from Rosemont School of the Holy Child.
He wonders, 'suppose we left the water on the stove for
1,000 hours....'"
- Max, commenting on the Algebra PoW's Latest Solution
http://mathforum.org/pows/solution.htm?publication=3905
-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-
INTERNET 2010 IN NUMBERS
http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers/
How many millions of new websites joined the web in 2010? How
many trillions of emails were sent? How many billions of
Internet users hailed from North America? Sources for these
raw numbers and pie graphs range from the Pew Research Center
to industry leaders such as MessageLabs and Verisign.
Thanks to Tara Calishain for bringing this to our attention.
-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-
Now taking place: math education conversation of the hour
"Then I ask them to draw a square 'Twice as big' as the first.
Almost every time the second square is four times as big as
the first...."
- Jonathan, posted to the math-teach discussion
http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2229949
-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-
MATH OF THE OED, FREE
http://www.oed.com/
Want to brush up on your zenzizenzizenzic calculations? or
see the math terms that first entered the English language
during the Age of Reason, and compare them with vocabulary
introduced more recently?
Now through February 5th, access the authoritative Oxford
English Dictionary online for free by logging in with trynewoed
as both username and password.
Browse nearly 5,000 mathematics entries, alongside etymologies
and illustrative quotations:
http://www.oed.com/searchresults?subjectClass=Mathematics
The Timelines tool creates bar graphs dating when words entered
the English language:
http://www.oed.com/timelines
Parse the linguistic data by subjects such as field of math,
region of the world, and language family origin:
http://www.oed.com/advancedsearch?scope=SENSE
Thanks to Jason Kottke for bringing this to our attention.
-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-\-/-|-
CHECK OUT OUR WEB SITE:
The Math Forum @ Drexel http://mathforum.org/
Online PD http://mathforum.org/pd/
Online Workshops http://mathforum.org/workshops/
Ask Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
Problems of the Week http://mathforum.org/pows/
Mathematics Library http://mathforum.org/library/
Math Tools http://mathforum.org/mathtools/
Teacher2Teacher http://mathforum.org/t2t/
Discussion Groups http://mathforum.org/kb/
Join the Math Forum http://mathforum.org/join.forum.html
Donations http://www.drexel.edu/ia/mathforum/
Ask Dr. Math Books http://mathforum.org/pubs/dr.mathbooks.html
Twitter Feed http://mathforum.org/pd/twitter.html
SEND COMMENTS TO:
http://mathforum.org/electronic.newsletter/mfin.faq.html#feedback
_o \o_ __| \ / |__ o _ o/ \o/
__|- __/ \__/o \o | o/ o/__/ /\ /| |
\ \ / \ / \ /o\ / \ / \ / | / \ / \
The Math Forum @ Drexel ** 21 January 2011
An archive of all the Math Forum newsletters
and directions for subscribing can be found at
http://mathforum.org/electronic.newsletter/
<head>
<title>The Math Forum Internet News</title>
</head>
<body>
<table width="800" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td height="105" background="http://mathforum.org/electronic.newsletter/images/all_top.gif">
<div align="left">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="4%" height="72"> </td>
<td width="45%"> </td>
<td width="46%"> </td>
<td width="5%"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="30" height="26"> </td>
<td><font color="#333333" size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>21 January, 2011</strong></font></td>
<td><div align="right"><font color="#333333" size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Volume 16 No. 3</strong></font></div></td>
<td width="30"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top" background="http://mathforum.org/electronic.newsletter/images/all_text_space.gif">
<td height="297" background="http://mathforum.org/electronic.newsletter/images/all_columns.gif">
<table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<table width="605" border="0" align="right" cellpadding="11" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="135" valign="top">
<a href="http://mathforum.org/pd/twitter.html"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/follow_bird_us-a.png" border=0 alt="Follow us on Twitter"/></a>
<p>
<font color="#003399" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<strong>In This Issue</strong>
</font>
</p>
<!-- Start - Table of contents -->
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Angles of Reflection Blog</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Internet 2010 in Numbers</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Math of the OED, Free</font></p>
<p> </p>
<p>
<img src="http://mathforum.org/pd/images/continuum.pd.jpg"; width=45><br />
<font color="#003399" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<strong>Online PD</strong>
</font>
</p>
<font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Free:
<p>
<a href="http://mathforum.org/pd/#sessions">Orientation Sessions</a><br />
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://mathforum.org/pd/#workshops">Math and Tech Workshops</a>
</p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
Praxis II prep:<br /><a href="http://moving2math.org/">Moving to Math</b></a></font></p>
<hr>
Paid:
<p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://mathforum.org/pd/#courses">Problem Based Learning Courses</a></font></p>
<p>
<font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Graduate Credit:<br />
<a href="http://www.drexel.com/online-degrees/education-degrees/cert-mlt/index.aspx">Mathematics Teaching and Learning Certificate</a><br />
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.drexel.com/online-degrees/education-degrees/ms-mlt/index.aspx">Master's Degree</a>
</p>
</td>
<td width="470" valign="top">
<!-- Start - Newletter content -->
<center>
<table width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
<tr>
<td width=40> </td>
<td>
<p align="center">
<font color="#000000" size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
If you prefer to receive a text-only version, please send a note to <a href="http://mathforum.org/electronic.newsletter/mfin.faq.html#feedback">the Math Forum Internet Newsletter editors</a> and we will subscribe you to that list.<br>
You can also subscribe via <a href="http://mathforum.org/kb/rss/rssmessages.jsp?forumID=212">RSS feed</a>.
</font>
</p><hr>
<p>
<font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<p><strong>
<font color="#003399">Angles of Reflection Blog</font>
</strong>
</p>
<p align="center">
<a href="http://www.anglesofreflection.blogspot.com/">http://www.anglesofreflection.blogspot.com/</a>
</p>
<p>
"I am an old timer in the math ed. business," explains John
Benson. "P. J. Karafiol is a young guy with lots of insight and
energy and talent. We are good friends. He suggested that we
start a blog. After he explained to me what a blog is, I agreed
to participate. The idea is that about once a week, one of us
will write a short essay about math education. The other one
will respond...."
</p>
<p>
Read and comment on the new blogging joint venture of Benson
and Karafiol, Illinois' Presidential Awardees in Mathematics of
1987 and 2009, respectively.
</p>
</font></p>
<hr>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<p align=center>
<dl>
<dt>
<i><font color="#003399">PoW taking place: math problem-solving moment of the week</font></i>
<p>
<dt>
"The more interesting problem with this linear model was
pointed out by Michael from Rosemont School of the Holy Child.
He wonders, 'suppose we left the water on the stove for
1,000 hours....'"
<dd>
- Max, commenting on the Algebra PoW's Latest Solution
<dd>
<a href="http://mathforum.org/pows/solution.htm?publication=3905">http://mathforum.org/pows/solution.htm?publication=3905</a>
</dl>
</p>
</font></p>
<hr>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<p><strong><font color="#003399">Internet 2010 in Numbers</font></strong></p>
<p align="center">
<a href="http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers/">http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers/</a>
</p>
<p>
How many millions of new websites joined the web in 2010? How
many trillions of emails were sent? How many billions of
Internet users hailed from North America? Sources for these
raw numbers and pie graphs range from the Pew Research Center
to industry leaders such as MessageLabs and Verisign.
</p>
<p>
Thanks to Tara Calishain for bringing this to our attention.
</p>
</font></p>
<hr>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<p align=center>
<dl>
<dt>
<i><font color="#003399">Now taking place: math education conversation of the hour</font></i>
<p>
<dt>
"Then I ask them to draw a square 'Twice as big' as the first.
Almost every time the second square is four times as big as
the first...."
<dd
- Jonathan, posted to the math-teach discussion
<dd>
<a href="http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2229949">http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2229949</a>
</p>
</font></p>
</dl>
<hr>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<p><strong><font color="#003399">Math of the OED, Free</font></strong></p>
<p align="center">
<a href="http://www.oed.com/">http://www.oed.com/</a>
</p>
<p>
Want to brush up on your zenzizenzizenzic calculations? or
see the math terms that first entered the English language
during the Age of Reason, and compare them with vocabulary
introduced more recently?
</p>
<p>
Now through February 5th, access the authoritative <i>Oxford
English Dictionary</i> online for free by logging in with trynewoed
as both username and password.
</p>
<p>
Browse nearly 5,000 mathematics entries, alongside etymologies
and illustrative quotations:
</p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://www.oed.com/searchresults?subjectClass=Mathematics">http://www.oed.com/searchresults?subjectClass=Mathematics</a></p>
<p>
The Timelines tool creates bar graphs dating when words entered
the English language:
</p>
<p align="center">
<a href="http://www.oed.com/timelines">http://www.oed.com/timelines</a>
</p>
<p>
Parse the linguistic data by subjects such as field of math,
region of the world, and language family origin:
<p align="center">
<a href="http://www.oed.com/advancedsearch?scope=SENSE">http://www.oed.com/advancedsearch?scope=SENSE</a>
</p>
<p>
Thanks to Jason Kottke for bringing this to our attention.
</p>
</font></p>
</td>
<td width="40"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
<hr>
<!-- End - Newsletter Content -->
<div>
<p><font color="#7D96B5" size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>This newsletter is provided as a service of <a href="http://mathforum.org">The Math Forum</a>, an online educational community for mathematics hosted by Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.</strong></font></p>
<p><font color="#7D96B5" size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>You're receiving this e-mail because you are subscribed to the newsletter. This is a recurring mailing. You have the option to receive
this newsletter in either html or plain text formats. To unsubscribe from future mailings, change your subscription, or browse all newsletters, please see our <a href="http://mathforum.org/electronic.newsletter/">newsletter web archive.</a></strong></font></p>
<p><font color="#7D96B5" size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>The Math Forum is also home to <a href="http://mathforum.org/dr.math/">Ask Dr. Math</a>, <a href="http://mathforum.org/pows/">Problems of the Week</a>,
<a href="http://mathforum.org/mathtools/">MathTools</a>, <a href="http://mathforum.org/t2t/">Teacher2Teacher</a>, the <a href="http://mathforum.org/library/">Internet Math Library</a>, <a href="http://mathforum.org/kb/">math discussion groups</a>, and over 1,000,000 pages of mathematics information and discussions.</strong></font></p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td width="173" align="left" valign="top">
<br>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; width:155px; text-align: center">
<font size="2">
<strong>Texas Instruments</strong><br>
is a sponsor of<br>
the Math Forum<br>
</font>
<br>
</div>
<div align="left">
<a href="http://mathnspired.com/"><img src="http://mathforum.org/electronic.newsletter/images/9.10.10to10.1.10.jpg" border="0" hspace=4></a>
</div>
<br>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:0.8em; width:155px; text-align: center">
<p>
Shop@The Math Forum
<ul style="list-style-type:none; text-align: left; margin-left:12px; padding-left:5px;">
<li><p><a href="http://mathforum.org/pow/productinfo.html">Educator Packages</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://mathforum.org/pow/productinfo.html">Student Memberships</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://mathforum.org/pubs/dr.mathbooks.html">Ask Dr. Math Books</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://www.drexel.com/Fields_of_Study/Education.shtml">Teacher Courses</a></p></li>
</ul>
</p>
</div>
<div align="left">
<a href="http://www.drexel.com/online-degrees/education-degrees/ms-mlt/index.aspx" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;"><img src="http://mathforum.org/electronic.newsletter/images/masters145x257.jpg" border="0" hspace=4></a>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr align="center" valign="top" background="http://mathforum.org/electronic.newsletter/images/all_bottom.gif">
<td height="79" background="http://mathforum.org/electronic.newsletter/images/all_bottom.gif">
<div align="center"><font color="#666666" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font color="#666666" size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
<br>
</font></strong><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>
Copyright © 2011 Drexel University. All Rights Reserved. 800-756-7823<br>
<a href="http://mathforum.org/electronic.newsletter/mfin.faq.html#feedback">Contact Us</a></strong></font>
<font color="#666666" size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>|
<a href="http://mathforum.org/electronic.newsletter/">Back Issues</a></strong></font>
<font color="#666666" size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>|
<a href="http://mathforum.org/electronic.newsletter/mfin.faq.html">Subscribe/Unsubscribe</a></strong></font>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</BODY>
|
|
|
|
