I asked the above question, If you had a friend taking this class next year, what advice would you give them?, to the outgoing PreCalculus H group last year. I’m giving the incoming PreCalculus H their responses. Here’s a link … Continue reading
Note: this post is a more advanced version of the previous post and uses slightly different software. All this software is free and open-source. In this post I’m going to outline how to use a workflow to go from a … Continue reading
The seniors don’t go to school on the last day, so I had calculus class on Friday with one student (a junior). We went down to the innovations lab to create things. Here’s what we worked on: Took this sketch … Continue reading
I’ve been interested in the intersection between Math and Programming ever since I taught my first programming course 12 years ago (call it coding, CS, whatever you’d like). I think I’m finally starting to figure it out. Maybe. I was … Continue reading
With the IB exams coming up soon, I’ve started to put more thought into what we should do after the exams (we’ll have 8 blocks or so). For the past three years we did free-form math projects and last year they … Continue reading
From Car Talk: RAY: This Puzzler came from Kevin Tobin. A maharajah owned a mango tree that had very sweet, abundant fruit. People would come from miles around to pick the fruit. So the maharajah decided to protect the tree … Continue reading
Not what it sounds like. The four dog problem from Steve Strogatz: N dogs start in the corners of a regular N-gon. Each runs directly toward the dog on its left. How far do they run before colliding? — Steven … Continue reading
This tweet was retweeted by Steve Strogatz: @stevenstrogatz great @Mathologer video on the cardioid and its family: https://t.co/ElDxW67N3X — Anna Lukács (@launknaacs) November 6, 2015 What a great video, linking linear functions, cardiods, and the family of Mandelbrot sets. Rang … Continue reading
Yet another great car talk puzzler, The Last Seat: RAY: You’re one of a hundred people standing in line to get onto an airplane that has 100 seats. There’s a seat for every person who’s in line, and each of … Continue reading
(This post demonstrates the math behind the creation of some unusual math art. I got the idea from this tumblr post which I don’t even think works like this. But it was the inspiration behind the pictures.) Take this function: f(x) … Continue reading