MadMath

When I was a kid, one of my favorite pastimes was the Avalon Hill wargame Bismarck about fighting ships in World War II (see it reviewed on...

Nate Silver (statistician who famously predicted all 50 states voting in the last election) recently expanded his FiveThirtyeight blog to a ...

Here's something I think I see a few times in any college algebra class: a really weird way of accomplishing quadratic factoring. (More ...

Here's one of these topics that merges my great interests in teaching & gaming, so I have no choice but to cross-post about it here ...

Here's something that I'm finding frustrating: for all the mountain of ink spilled on the issue of remedial math in colleges (includ...

This winter module I've had a batch of students in my introductory statistics course who are so aggressively intelligent that they'v...

Is this a closely-kept secret? I think that all of the college math instructors I know really intimately (I'm counting about four, inclu...