Benjamin Franklin and His Magic Squares
Posted by: Nate Smith
This founding father spent dull meetings creating these math puzzles!
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Category: Mathematics
Mental Arithmetic
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
However, practical arithmetic standardized professionalization by treating all students as potential workers in fields that required numeracy skills--from banking and farming to masonry and carpentry. The business application of arithmetic education became so ingrained--apparently to Davidson’s dismay--that by 1895, the West Virginia State Series curriculum defined arithmetic as: “the solving of problems from its various applications to business life.”
Posted in: Business, Mathematics
Numeracy and Crowd Science
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Numeracy plays a big role in the lives of data journalists, geographers, and demographers who research and measure large crowds.
Posted in: Business, Mathematics
Mathematical Games of Martin Gardner – Part 5
Posted by: Nate Smith
This is the fifth part in a series about recreational mathematics that will be posted throughout the month of April, Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month.
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Mathematical Games of Martin Gardner Part 4
Posted by: Nate Smith
This is the fourth part in a series about recreational mathematics that will be posted throughout the month of April, Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month.
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Mathematical Games of Martin Gardner Part 3
Posted by: Nate Smith
This is the third part in a series about recreational mathematics that will be posted throughout the month of April, Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month.
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Mathematical Games of Martin Gardner Part 2
Posted by: Nate Smith
This is the second part in a series about recreational mathematics that will be posted throughout the month of April, Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month.
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Mathematical Games of Martin Gardner Part 1
Posted by: Nate Smith
Over the course of 25 years, Martin Gardner shared hundreds of mathematical games. This month we're exploring some of them.
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