Cool Math Blogs

Found a nice little piece in the Telegraph about how people find science and math hard – because it is – but that the charge that it’s so hard as to be elite is completely unfounded.

There is a Java version of Morpion Solitaire HERE. Of course, the point is the mental exercise but! for those of you with particularly competitive natures, there are World Records of Morpion Solitaire kept at morpionsolitaire.com. 

April is Mathematics Awareness Month! The theme, announced by The American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, is: Mathematics, Statistics, and the Data Deluge.

The Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI) is so successful that schools produced additional scores on math tests equivalent to an extra 28 days of schooling per year.

The AMSTI design allows students to learn math and science... by doing math and science.

The study looked at 82 schools, 30,000 students and 780 teachers.

Among the findings:

How do scientists use mathematics to define reality?

"How is it possible that mathematics, a product of human thought that is independent of experience, fits so excellently the objects of reality?"
—Albert Einstein

World Maths Day will take place on March 7, 2012. Registrations and practice activities are happening now! Last year, more than five million students from 218 countries combined to correctly answer 428,598,214 World Maths Day questions.

Registrations close March 5!

There is nothing like the Internet to help spread bite-sized pieces of info across the globe, and cool math is a happy hitchhiker when it comes to meme traffic. 

One of the most powerful uses of YouTube has got to be this: the YouTube Space Lab. It uses the YouTube format and world-spanning forum to advance the cause of math and science!

The Google Science Fair 2012 is on! The entry deadline is April 1, 2012.

Google is looking for students aged 13 through 18 to submit science-related projects, videos, inventions, ideas…whatever you've got!

Minds that are NOT autistic are called neurotypical. We know very well the potential that a neurotypical brain has for reaching great heights in math (like in this blog post HERE). But, it's always interesting to see how math traverses a brain that's wired a little differently.