MadMath

I constantly wish that students were taught rudimentary logic at an early age (links: one , two , three ). Just musing about that today, he...

Let's say you have a final-exam assessment that is a multiple-choice test, with 25 questions, each of which has 4 options, and requires ...

Interesting article about Dr. John Ionnidis at Stanford founding the "Meta-Research Innovation Centre" to monitor and combat weak ...

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 ...