In an earlier math post, I wrote about Princess’ struggle with arithmetic, and how it was a pure pain to get through her homework. Sometime in the last few months, the light has dawned on her. Maybe it was the dreaded fractions. However it happened, something just clicked in her and she could see the patterns in numbers, how math fits together in a unified system. Since then, it’s become her favorite subject! Her friend respond with “Ew,” as you’d expect, but a kid’s favorite subject is usually the one they do well in. Before, math was incomprehensible, but at least she served as a counterexample of the Asian stereotype. Now she serves as a case study that Asians who are good at math are not always that way because their parents make them work at it all the time! But I’m glad she’s crossed that hurdle. Gothgrrl still has a hard time with arithmetic.



Look Around You

Cool Math: toys for mathematically-minded adults and kids. I don’t know what a lot of these things are, but I want to play with them anyway!

A math joke. Click through to see more than one panel of the comic strip, but don’t miss Phil’s puns underneath the single one. More fun in the comments. P.S. I don’t really get the joke. I understand imaginary numbers, but is there a joke in why the eight can see it?

Math class with xkcd.

Logologos takes company logos and makes them into mathematical equations. Clever! (via Neatorama)

The real reason young people don’t want to become mathematicians. (via J-Walk Blog)

Math geeks go disco with I Will Derive!

NOAH

And Noah said to the animals: “Go forth and multiply!”

But the adders came to Noah and said: “But we cannot multiply, we are adders.”

Then Noah went out and chopped down some trees and built a table of logs. And he showed it to the adders and said:

“Look I have built you a table of logs! Now you adders can multiply!”

MEMORY TEST

Three old men are at the doctor for a memory test. The doctor says to the first old man, "What is three times three?"

"274" was his reply.

The doctor worriedly says to the second man, "It's your turn. What is three times three?"

"Tuesday" replies the second man.

The doctor sadly says to the third man, "Okay, your turn. What's three times three"?

"Nine" says the third man.

"That's great!" exclaims the doctor. "How did you get that"?

"Jeez, Doc, it's pretty simple," says the third man. "I just subtracted 274 from Tuesday."

STATISTICS

(via Phil’s Phun)

Clem asks Abner, "Ain't statistics wonderful?"

"How so?" says Abner.

"Well, according to statistics, there's 42 million alligator eggs laid every year. Of those only about half get hatched. Of those that hatch, three-fourths of them get eaten by predators in the first 36 days. And of the rest, only 5 percent get to be a year old because of one thing or another. Ain't statistics wonderful?"

Abner asks, "What's so wonderful about statistics?"

"Why, if it wasn't for statistics, we'd be up to our asses in baby alligators!"

Mathematicious

Previously at Miss Cellania: Math, Math Degree, Math Gone Weird, Math Lessons, Math Teacher. Mathematicians, and Mathematics.

Thought for today: Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human.  At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.  ~Robert Heinlein

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