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So, yes, I took a bit of a blogging hiatus. I have no reason except that during and after Spring Break it has been a challenge to find the time and the drive to keep posting. I am hoping to make a reasonable effort at it again.
Today’s post is a bit short but [...]

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Yeah, that’s right. It’s Pi Day. Recall that , thus it’s natural that March 14th is Pi Day. In honor of this day of celebration, check out a site a recently found called Pi Searcher. You can search for any sequence of digits for where they might occur in the decimal [...]

MathForge.net–Power Tools for Online Mathematics
A Cornell physicist has discovered an algorithm that can solve all sudoku puzzles. He was working with biologists to improve image processing and stumbled across an algorithm he thinks could have many uses. The first of which is ruining sudoku for anyone who learns the algorithm, apparently.
This algorithm, which was extremely [...]

I’ll confess that I am not much of a pedagogical expert when it comes to how I teach mathematics and yet I have made many assumptions about the effectiveness of certain methods as I present daily lectures to “eager” minds. In light of that, I thought I’d pass on a couple of interesting articles [...]

I’ve been working and tweaking a Teaching Philosophy Statement. I would like to document what I have so far so I am posting it here. Feel free to read and comment on it. Make suggestions, if you have them.
My Teaching Philosophy
Many college classrooms have a reputation of being a dry and monotonous [...]

Very cool demo
I’ve seen this in a video on Google video before but this Java Applet version is well done and worth another look.
I’ve heard often people wonder at how BIG God must have been to create a such an expanse as the Universe and yet, as this demonstrates, he must be incredibly [...]

I came across this at think again! I had fun solving it so I’ll pass it along.
Consider the following quadrilateral

The midpoint of opposite sides have been connected, dividing it into 4 parts. We know the areas of three of the regions. The question is what is the area of the fourth?

Scatterplot of first pythagorean triples inside 4500
I had the pleasure of filling in for a colleague in her Discrete Structure class, which is basically our introduction to proof class. Currently they are covering some introductory concepts from Number Theory. One of my favorite results had been covered in the class just before I [...]