![]() |
![]() | ||
Articles | |||
MENU: Now Available
Register Now! AP® is a trademark registered by the College Board which is not affiliated with this website. This website provided by TheWebsiteParkingLot.com |
This area of MasterMathMentor.com is a repository for additional math resources.
All of This Material is Free
Chaos An interesting project done by a former student of mine on chaos theory.
Click Here to visit our Chaos page.
It is hard to remember when COVID19 wasn't a part of our everyday life. But I started to pick up stories on it in January of 202 as it decimated Wuhan, China. Back then, I had hopes it would follow the path of a logistic curve and level off and it never would get outside that area. But I knew the danger of exponential growth. I wrote about it daily. I like to think I was one of the few who was worried about COVID long before it was a term everyone would know and despite intimately.
1. Growth in China: my day-by-day coverage of the origin of COVID.
2. Once it got to the United States, I tried to track it. I realized very
3. Remember the term "Flattening the Curve"? Early in the pandemic, I explore what that really means mathematically.
Click here for Flattening the Curve
Cryptology An interesting excursion into Cryptology. Starts easy and gets quite involved, showing good uses of matrices. Includes an Excel spreadsheet setup to function as a cipher system.
Click Here to visit our Cryptology page.
Fairness An article, inspired by a major and costly snafu at my resident condominium, examines what it is meant for a financial problem to be "fair" to all. It looks at mathematical solutions to the question of payment and determines that math isn't always the answer to ethical situations. This is a nice article that can be understood by students with only basic knowledge of mathematics and will get them thinking and hopefully talking about fairness.
Click here to read the Fairness Article
Handshakes
There are M men in a room and W women in another room for a morning work
Click here to read the Handshake problem
Hurricane Dorian
In August of 2019, fearsome hurricane Dorian was bearing down on Florida. This was a category 5 hurricane that ended up spinning pretty much over the
Click Here to read the Dorian Article
Illusions
64 optical illusions, some old and some very new, perfect for the end of a class period. Done in 12 Powerpoint slide shows which should also work in Keynote.
Click Here to visit our Illusions page
Reading Math
I used to record math books for the blind and dyslexic. There is an art t
Click Here to visit our Dyslexia page
Teaching Outside the Box
26 articles about the art of teaching mathematics writen by Stu. Interesting math facts and puzzles that will fascinate students. Tips on creating exams, grading homework, handling observations, and other important aspects of running a class.
Click Here to visit our Teaching Outside the Box page
What's the Average? An article written by Stu that differentiates the concept of average when looking at it from a calculus point of view and a statistics point of view.
Click Here to visit our What's the Average? page.
Click here to email us: Team@MasterMathMentor.com
|