Spéciale dédicace à la #RMC team et autres #Maths addicts ➡️ #BD#OuBaPo#OuLiPo #BDjeunesse (mais pas que)
À l'occasion de la sortie du n°4444 de #Spirou, les Editions Dupuis ont concocté un mag tourné vers le nombre 4 (récits courts, pagination, jeux...)
An interesting and original (I think) puzzle from Micky Bullock.
"Last week Negligent Neil calculated length AC. He had forgotten to switch his calculator from radians to degrees but, fortunately, he still got the answer right.
"An inky splodge has now obscured the angle at A. Negligent Neil has forgotten what his answer was for length AC, but he insists it was between 40 cm and 50 cm.
Hope you all don't mind that I'm going to post here whenever I make a significant addition/change to my Github #Math#Maths course that I promised to make available to all but reserve the right to take credit for the work #Math4Business which is not revolutionary but evolutionary (read the Introduction) https://github.com/mrshrbrmstr/Math4Business/tree/main
Please feel free to use with attribution!
'The “Kaktovik numerals,” named after the Alaskan village where they were created, looked utterly different from decimal system numerals and functioned differently, too. But they were uniquely suited for quick, visual arithmetic using the traditional Inuit oral counting system, and they swiftly spread throughout the region. Now, with support from Silicon Valley, they will soon be available on smartphones and computers—creating a bridge for the Kaktovik numerals to cross into the digital realm.'
I am writing something, and I want to refer to the isoceles triangle formed in a regular n-gon by two adjacent vertices and the center. Surely there is a simple name for it…isn’t there?
I went to #mathsjam in London a few times back in 2014 (has it really been so long?) I guess it's how I found out about mathstodon really, through following @ColinTheMathmo and others. I've been thinking it would be nice to organise mathsjam here in Plzeň for a while but I was busy and a little nervous about it. I finally decided to go for it, next month will be the first Plzeň mathsjam! Wish me luck :) #math
I would appreciate it if people could help me get more federated on my new instance. Please boost this post if any of the following tags apply to you so I can follow!
It’s time to do a proper #introduction post (it’s overdue). I work as tech writer and journalist and lately has been doing some content writing jobs as well. I volunteer at my local language #Wikipedia, and also happen to be a current math student.
My interests are quite diverse. I love to read about #science (especially #physics), #tech, and #maths (but I seldom talk about them in social media). I also love to learn about #history and #culture.
I will probably rant about Indonesian politics #idnpol from time to time.
You don't have to be a mathematician, or even "good" at #maths, to help your #children learn maths. You just have to model resilience and positivity towards what they're doing, and to avoid reinforcing negative tropes.
A #thread:
This thread is now a blog post, with a bit of extra padding and some more links to explore, aimed squarely at #parents who aren't necessarily confident with #maths but want to help their children do well in it: