Showing posts with label magic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label magic. Show all posts
Saturday, January 2, 2016

Math is Brewing . . .

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For one of my granddaughters who likes poems, I recently purchased If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand:  Poems about School by Ka...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Math, Magic, Mystery -- and so few women

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Today, April 30, is the final day of Mathematics Awareness Month 2014 ; this year's theme has been "Mathematics, Magic and Mystery&...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Martin Gardner, again

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     This past weekend a review by Teller (magician of the Penn & Teller team) of an autobiography of Martin Gardner appeared in the ...
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

April is . . .

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April is National Mathematics Awareness Month .  The theme is SUSTAINABILITY and some ideas for learning and doing may be found here (inclu...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Like poetry, mathematics is beautiful

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     Congratulations to Justin Southey who is completing his doctoral studies in mathematics at the University of Johannesburg under the dir...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Dividing by Zero

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Fairy godmothers have their magic wands and mathematician have division by zero as a way to make the impossible happen -- for example, we ca...
Monday, September 20, 2010

The Magic of Numbers -- Kenneth Koch

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I first became acquainted with  Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)   through his small and hugely valuable paperback of teaching strategies, Wishes, L...