"The vast majority of people now work in environments where the ability to learn is more critical than what we know..." Liz Wiseman, ISTE 2015
Want to be successful in math class? "instead of looking for reasons why you could be right, look for reasons why you could be wrong" http://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Be-Wrong-Mathematical/dp/0143127535
My amazon.com math books wishlist (in case you're feeling generous!)
(Save the planet! Used books are as good as new ones!)
Articles I find interesting:
- All NASA data available for free
- Are driverless cars really a possibility? (this year?)
- What happens when millions of jobs are lost to automation?
- Why 4 feet 8 and 1/2 inches is so important
- Jupiter and its moons
- Cookie making is science!
- Memorizers are the lowest achievers in math
- Khan Academy for all of India!
- Productive Failure: The best way to learn math!
- Non-STEM college majors
- Interesting methods for adjusting scores on tests
- Award winning Prezi's you can use
- Swype tips and tricks for Android phone owners
- Beware of finding patterns that don't exist!
- Those who emphasize memorizing have the most problems with math
- How important are expectations? This American Life: Batman
- Bill Nye Explains Evolution with Emoji
- Majority of Oregon students expected to fail new Common Core test (Smarter Balanced)
- Amazon is replacing workers with robots :(
- Really cool ancient computation device recreated with Lego!
- Are physical laws invented or discovered?
- Contest for girls who can do tech
- ACT vs SAT
- Teacher Wars
- The Psychology of Innovation (Richard Price of U of M)
- Be careful out there!
- Good advice on running for exercise
- Want better schools? Maybe teacher tenure could help!
- Unions and Bad Teachers
- Science and the humanities go better together (5 mins in, why you should learn to code)
- Free online astronomy course
- The Growth Mindset: Anybody can be good at math, you just have to work really hard!
- How big is Earth?
- World's Best Job?: Mathematician!
- Blood Red Lunar Eclipse
- Productive Struggle: Good for math students
- Cool quadcopter science
- DIY Quadcopter
- Computer Science is not just an elective in some high schools
- 3D printer turned into air hockey bot
- Simulate any robot
- Why is the Internet so slow?
- California drought: fearing the worst
- This is what geeks think about: quadcopters
- Solar desalination: one possible solution to California droughts?
- Watch Miss Representation on Netflix about exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America
- Income inequality in America
- Students' view of intelligence can help grades
- Getting things done with Remember the Milk
- Students must learn to focus in an age of distraction
- Amazon.com working on drone-based delivery
- The Myth of "I'm bad at math"
- Do American public schools really stink?
- Worldometers
- Minecraft: The Swiss Army Knife for Education
- Is homework a waste of time?
- Visualizing Math Web Site
- Amusement park for Janss Mall?
- Americans want more from schools
- The STEM Behind Hollywood
- Is Common Core too hardcore?
- The Story of Sempo Sugihara
- Every student should learn to program computers
- With the Common Core, prepare for more realistic test results
- Teachers and Test Scores
- Should Algebra 2 be for everybody?
- Students Learn More By Explaining
- Global Warming is real and is caused by humans, scientists agree
- The Formula for Finding Love
- Gamification of the Classroom
- Vi Hart's dad uses a computer and math to design sculptures
- Find a mistake in a major study and go viral!
- $3 million dollar prize for saving the world!
- Creative Programming in Javascript for Non-Programmers
- Every Russian Car has a dashboard camera!
- Do you change your oil too frequently?
- Pantherbotics disc shooter video
- It's almost Groundhog Day!
- Want a good job? Better study your math...
- Math, Science and Cultural Diversity?
- Spirograph Math
- Full planet, empty plate
- Drop Height: a new app designed by the NPHS app club
- The Batman Equation
- Memory Competition
- Seventh grade math is a crucial turning point
- Really cool math scuplture from cards
- Interesting perspective on math education, Dan Meyer
- Food for Thought about Education
- Diabetes epidemic
- Math with really big numbers
- Can election be predicted?
- Steve Strogatz, mathematician, New York Times columnist
- An Inconvenient Subject and Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
- Binging on Sweets is Bad for the Brain
- Sleep is important for students
- Engineering can be cool
- Motivating Students: Reward Timing is Key
- A National Conversation About Math
- Is algebra necessary?
- Math Dude Podcast: An easy way to get your math fix while walking or driving
- The Honest Truth About Dishonesty
- Does Pay for Performance work for teachers?
- Wall Street Journal: The Numbers Guy
- The Placebo Effect
- App development with kids
- Spacex: an inspirational tale about achieving your dreams
- Should everyone go to college?
- Personal Robots
- Science Friday podcasts
- More or Less: Behind the Stats podcasts
- Freakonomics podcasts
- Keith Devlin, NPR's Math Guy podcasts
- Big Bang Theory Actress is new spokesperson for the TI Nspire calculator
- Is it true that some people just can't do math?
- Card Counting, Blackjack, Holy Rollers, NPR: This American Life
- Flipping the Classroom
- Utah's Finance in the Classroom
- Do the Math: Phone comparison costs
- Cool Prezi Presentation on Linear Equations
- Digital Learning: An Overview from Khan Academy
- Vocational Education is no longer considered a bad thing
- A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity
- 3D Movies: Polynomials and the Z-axis, oh my!
- Bye bye textbooks
- Faster Isn't Smarter
- Learn to code the visual way
- How biased is your media?
- Cool, free online graphing calculator: Desmos!
- Mental math relieves pain
- Home Prices
- Death by PowerPoint
- Great article about comparing our education system with other countries
- Oscar statistics
- Cool way to share youtube videos
- Textbooks on the iPad
- Get your own 3D printer
- Getting wrinkles out without an iron!
- Grading on a Curve
- Solving Rubik's Cube (Extra Instructions -> Rubiks Cube)
- Marco Tempest the Techno Illusionist
- Global Gender Gap Report
- Fantasy Football and Math
- Do we really need more practical examples in math class?
- Ratio of CEO to worker pay for various countries compared
- 7 Habits of Highly Successful Math Students
- Triple Header: The Physics of BaseballMoneyball the Movie Moneyball Theory
- How science can lead the way
- The wrong way to communicate with customers: Netflix
- Higher taxes for millionaires, boo hoo
- Laptop batteries, hints and tips
- Khan Academy, free math videos and more
- Want your paper graded by a robot?
- Math and Art, Cool Math Sculptures
- Cell phone on hip may cause bone loss
- Fire the MBA's and let engineers run the show
- Outsourced call centers are outsourced to a computer (we don't have no jobs for no people no more)
- TiVo and DVRs eat up $3 billion dollars in electricity per year
- Creative Summer Festival in Thousand Oaks?
- We need more engineers and scientists
- Want to reduce the deficit?, let's fund government like we did in the good ole days
- Hiking the Backbone Trail
- Details of a Scramjet
- Math Touch for the iPhone and iPad
- Think you can balance the budget in California? Give it a try!
- KCLU News Article on Our Local Robotics Program
- If you want to understand the universe, study your math
- Eliminate Debt and Keep Low Taxes?
- Wealthy and Taxes
- University of California's Statement Regarding Competencies in Mathematics (check out page 7 regarding, "Essential areas of focus for all entering college students")
- Symphony of Science
- Fun math videos
- CareerCast's 10 Best Jobs of 2011 (spoiler: the top ones are very mathy)
- Nearly 1 in 4 High School students fails ASVAB for math.Want to try it yourself?: ASVAB Practice Tests
- We Feel Fine
- The History of Mathematics BBC Series (part 1 of many)
- The Joy of Stats
- Physics based math applets
- Grade Inflation at Colleges
- Domino Clock
- Many Eyes Data Vizualization
- Data Visualization
- Don't Ask, Don't Tell, A Tale of Statistics
- The Cape Advises, "Study your math."
- An Education Still Pays
- Electric shocks to the brain improve math skills (don't try this at home)
- A New Paradigm for Education?
- A friend wrote this article for Fast Company
- Income Inequality, Too Big To Ignore
- Shift Happens
- Homework: Lecture, Classroom: Practice
- The Math of Khan
- Take a nap at work
- Math Trek: A Column about Math
- By the numbers: blue states pay, red states receive
- High speed robotic hand
- A young, female, engineering genius
- Facts about twins
- Hypersonic flight (6 times the speed of sound) and scramjets
- Measuring the oil spill using outside the box thinking
- See our universe
- The Galaxy Song
- Modeling sunlight and shadow on your home
- Fun new toy (Just bought this at Target and it rocks, literally. I plugged an external hard drive with MP3s on it into this box, hit shuffle and listened to hours of music with decent bass.)
- Simpson math
- Computer controls everyday objects to make art
- Perfect Parking Equation
- 10 Companies that are thriving
- Patience Puzzle requires more than 60 steps to solve
- Forget about RoboCop, we've got RoboFish!
- Fantasy Sports Math
- Math Predicts Better Way to Combat Swine Flu Epidemic
- Mathematical Model for Surviving a Zombie Attack
- Math whiz beats calculators
- 4-H now includes robotics
- Is there a way to grade teachers?
- Math program based on cryptography
- What does your handwriting say about you?
- Save $500 per month
- Magic Tricks and Math
- Those tricky Beatles
- Philosophy: a public school that has an API score of 967 out of 1000
- Pro football player or neurosurgeon, why not both?
- Paint the roofs white
- Golf ball math
- Credit Card math
- Learn directly from the Masters: Youtube EDU, Academic Earth, iTunes U
- NXTway more info
- NXT Segway using Line Sensor
- Dasher: A new paradigm for mouse based typing
- Home Prices Low But No Bargain When Compared to Wages
- Students snap photos from space with a weather balloon
- Ten best jobs, top 3 are math based
- The Last Lecture, an inspirational lecture
- Why is Algebra so important?
- Binary penny perpetual calendar
- Real life math from Wonder Years star
- Whenever I get a little down about the problems in my life... I listen to the Galaxy Song
- Simple ways to supercharge your brain
- 12 year old saves the world
- Save the planet, save your wallet, wecansolveit.org
- Kick the oil addiction, try the Pickens Plan
- SoCal Home Prices
- Girls and Boys and Math
- A project one of my students is working on this summer (Mars Science Laboratory)(student's name withheld for privacy reasons)
- Bomb defusing robots
- Sage words about the economy from a smart guy
- Parents say kids need more math
- Problems that need to be solved for the 21st Century
- Best foods for thinking
- For Rube Goldberg fans
Web Master: Michael Weingarden
Former rocket scientist, builder of the better mousetrap, currently on a mission to save the world one math class at a time.
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