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This Blog is Moving

I've decided to take this very tricky plunge of moving the site of this blog. I've held the domain www.teachingcollegemath.com for a while, and I did have a webpage up on it, but all the action is on the blog (and I don't have the energy to update both).

So, the blog is still TeachingCollegeMath, but it's relocated to the domain www.teachingcollegemath.com. All the posts and comments have been duplicated on the new site.

I think the new site is easier to read and navigate. The text of posts is now in black (instead of white on black).



All the tutorials are organized by topic in the Tutorial menu at the top of the page. All links to past presentations can be found under Resources and are organized by the type of resource (as well as by event).

If you're getting emails from this blog, or subscribe in a blogreader, you're going to have to take that extra 10-60 seconds of your life and resubscribe to the other feed as this one will now go dead (aside from a reminder or two). Resubscribe in the upper left-hand corner of the site.



I hope you'll make the move with me, but if this is where we part ways, I understand that too.

To entice you to move, I've rounded up some new math videos from YouTube and will be posting them throughout the next week. The first one is up!

More Random Notes

I am still trying to catch up on reading from my month off, so rather than a full-blown post on each of these topics, I'm just going to give you the links:

The Formula that Killed Wall Street (the cover story in Wired Magazine)

If you're trying to memorize the first 23 digits of pi (to get your official geek status) you might want to check out the Major Memory System for memorizing two-digit numbers as a word (outlined on LiteMind). I've seen this trick used before in Arthur Benjamin's Mathemagic TedTalk.

A cool visual algorithm for multiplication (via y of x).

A math game called "Lure of the Labyrinth" is being used to teach pre-algebra skills at the middle-school level in Maryland (story here).

From Freakonomics, a story about a lottery game which may actually have expected value of $1.48 for every $1 invested.

Mike at Walking Randomly tells us about a new graphing calculator app for the Nintendo DS!

Grand Theft Calculus

To the best of my knowledge, this image was created by Scot Osterweil of MIT.

Explaining Finance

CommonCraft has three new videos about math (well, technically financial math). I wonder if they'll tackle the Gaussian Copula Function next?

Saving Money in Plain English



Investing Money in Plain English




Borrowing Money in Plain English

Random Notes from eLearning

I've been trying to gather my thoughts about India to post here (not there yet) and enjoying the ITC eLearning conference here in Portland, Oregon.

The speaker this morning, Bryan Alexander (NITLE), gave a great talk on Cyberculture - focusing a lot of time on Web 2.0 (the topic of my talk a couple hours later). I was worried this would lower attendance, but not to worry, there were 76 in attendance and they were a great (and participatory) audience.

After a little worry about my inability to connect to the Internet (I did have a backup plan), the tech guy finally found a username/password that worked and earned himself "the first kiss of the conference" (how many do they get exactly?)

You can play with the presentation (updated since the last show) on the interactive mindmap here.

Other random notes you might want to check out:

Pulse!! Cutting-edge 3D virtual hospital and lifelike patients provide a rich environment in which civilian and military health care professionals can practice clinical skills. (cost? $20 million)

And while we're discussing that $20 million, if you need to fill in some gaps in your next grant proposal, why not try using the Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator?

Here's an interesting way to interact with your reading online. Install ClearForest Gnosis as a Firefox add-on and it will add metadata (in the form of links) to any words on the page that can be associated with other well-known web content like wikipedia, map locations, etc.

The best find of the day was a great image entitled "Grand Theft Calculus" but I can't seem to track it down with traditional (google) methods, so will have to try a more social approach.

eLearning 2009

Anyone out there attending the eLearning 2009 Conference in Portland, Oregon this weekend? If so, I'll see you there!