The Beautiful Math of Coral & Crochet

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Our reader Garnet sets the stage for this video: “Mathematicians have long declared that geometrical hyperbolic space could not be modeled in the real world. Now it’s been done, through crochet! Watch TED video science writer Margaret Wertheim explain how the art of crochet emulates sea slugs creating coral structures in hyperbolic space, using art [...]

Calculus Lifesaver: A Free Online Course

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Updated post: It’s rare that we get to cover math here. So here it goes: Adrian Banner, a lecturer at Princeton, has put together a lecture series (in video) that will help students master calculus, a subject that has traditionally frustrated many students. The 24 lectures (click here and scroll down) were originally presented as [...]

Math & Science Tutoring on YouTube

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This comes to us via a tip from Twitter. The Khan Academy has now posted on YouTube over 800 videos (find a complete list here) that will teach students the ins-and-outs of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, statistics, finance, physics, economics and more. The clips have been recorded by Salman Khan, a Harvard Business School and MIT grad. [...]

Math Magic

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Arthur Benjamin is a self-proclaimed “mathemagician.” He’s also a professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. No need to say more. Watch him go. We’re adding this one to our list of YouTube favorites.
via The Teaching Company’s Facebook Page.

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Math on the Tube

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During the past couple of days, fans from our Facebook page have recommended two math videos for us. Here they go: “D” offers up a piece called “The New Math” (above), which talks, yes, about the revolution in teaching mathematics. As you’ll see, the piece breaks into comic song, and it all kind of has [...]

MIT & Google for High School Students

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Here’s a quick fyi on two initiatives announced for high school students this past week:
For six years, MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative has done a great job bringing free educational materials to adult learners worldwide. (More on the initiative here.) Now, it has launched a section of its website devoted to high school students and teachers. Here, [...]