Monthly Archives: September 2017

Exploding Dots For Global Math Week

Posted on September 27, 2017 by annahaensch

If you hang around the #MTBoS long enough you can’t help but notice something called exploding dots. Today in a quite moment I took some time to dig in, and I am not disappointed. Exploding dots is the focus project … Continue reading →

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Michael Pershan’s Problem Problems

Posted on September 19, 2017 by evelynjlamb

I have enjoyed math teacher Michael Pershan’s work for a long time. I follow him on Twitter, and I wrote about his website Math Mistakes a few years ago because, darn it, mistakes are interesting! A couple years ago, he … Continue reading →

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That Neural Net That Predicts Sexual Orientation

Posted on September 11, 2017 by annahaensch

A neural network is one way to achieve machine learning. Modeled after the human brain, a neural net teaches a computer how to do some task by processing a huge set of training data. The data passes through the network … Continue reading →

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Public Domain Math

Posted on September 6, 2017 by evelynjlamb

Many pieces of mathematics — for example, simple geometric shapes and some mathematical formulas — are uncopyrightable or unpatentable. You can’t copyright a square or patent the area formula for a circle. Anyone can use them. But this post is … Continue reading →

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