Befuddled » Math http://www.befuddled.info Technology in the class and other things Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:24:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Using Video in Math http://www.befuddled.info/2009/01/12/382/ http://www.befuddled.info/2009/01/12/382/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:44:56 +0000 Linus http://www.befuddled.info/?p=382 Continue reading →]]> Worthy of note in the “isn’t that cool” category is a video on integers created by Math Wrangler for his Grade 7 class in small town Hardisty, Alberta. While there’s certainly things you can pick on about the video, I like its simplicity. It appears to have been shot with only a simple video or digital camera and pulled together with some editing in Microsoft’s Movie Maker. It’s a simple yet neat approach to illustrate a sometimes troubling math concept.

]]> http://www.befuddled.info/2009/01/12/382/feed/ 0 Because Math ought to be fun: 6174 http://www.befuddled.info/2007/01/08/because-math-ought-to-be-fun-6174/ http://www.befuddled.info/2007/01/08/because-math-ought-to-be-fun-6174/#comments Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:58:27 +0000 Linus http://www.befuddled.info/index.php/2007/01/08/because-math-ought-to-be-fun-6174/ Continue reading →]]> Math is a subject that a lot of people seem to think is dull, but it’s not. There’s a lot of cool things going on when you get deeper into mathematics. There are patterns that are useful, and, of course, some that seem to exist for no apparent reason. One of those inexplicable patterns is shown here.

I think that these patterns are really neat. They show an order to numbers that couldn’t possibly have occured just by chance. The deeper and deeper we look into Math, the more we find order. That’s very cool.

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