RT @fortnow Bill on the Futurama of Math http://bit.ly/agbAdf
4:20 PM 25 August 2010

8/22/10 is a Pi BasicArithmeticDate #BAD 
22/(8-log(10)) approximates Pi     
4:20 AM 22 August 2010

I need to look more closely at http://NumberNut.com
{via @rmbyrne "Enough math can make anyone nutty."}     
8:09 AM 18 August 2010

Will share w/students when classes resume. 
http://twitter.com/mangahigh/status/21241227118
9:31 AM 15 August 2010

Nothing's easy. RT @RobertTalbert: New blog post: 
Student (mis)understanding of the equals sign. 
http://wp.me/p6pVW-Fm
4:20 AM 12 August 2010

RT @sc_k: Problem: There are disproportionately few women 
in mathematics http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20100807.gif
8:33 AM 07 August 2010

RT @dsearls "Our math textbooks are three times the size 
of Asian ones." Bill Gates at #tcmy10     
12:27 PM 06 August 2010

Pi news via @slashdot...
http://www.numberworld.org/misc_runs/pi-5t/details.html
6:22 AM 06 August 2010

[27 August 2010, top]

    "This week, in conjunction with Math for America, we're 
     providing math problems based on Times articles."

This is the idea behind BABs (Basic Arithmetic Bits and Basic Algebra Bits) except the math problems are based on articles from all kinds of sources (e.g. newspapers, magazines, blog postings, tweets, TV shows, etc.).

[28 July 2010, top]

   Very cool. Kudos to Priyanshi Somani. "World Mental 
   Calculator Worldcup 2010" http://ow.ly/29R4T

   July 11 is World Population Day. On 5/18/2008 at 20:34 MST we caught 
   the world population at 6,666,666,666 (pic) http://ow.ly/29Riz

   "I assume [Asian carp] are like regular carp, but better at 
   science and math."~Stephen Colbert #humor

   BAD #BasicArithmeticDate  Find equations using dates w/2-digit years. 
   Yesterday 7/6/10 was a factorial BAD 10!/7!=6!

   I learned today that Karl Marx died on Pi Day of 1883. 
   #BasicArithmeticBit BAB http://ow.ly/24KCh

   ICANN has finally said OK to the dot-xxx top level domain. 
   When I see XXX, I see 30.

   RT @Wolfram_Alpha: A tribute to Alan Turing on what would've 
   been his 98th birthday: http://bit.ly/9vdpWg

   Created two years ago. BAB #BasicArithmeticBit in honor 
   of George Carlin. http://ow.ly/21Fjz

   An intro to Ada Lovelace at LongNow.org http://ow.ly/2adpQ

On 12 July 2010, @MathBabbler had a total of 789 with 105 followers and he was following 64.

[12 July 2010, top]

Chalmers: We have reason to believe your son has been dealing drugs.
Marge: Dealing drugs? That's impossible, he doesn't have the math skills.

[12 July 2010, top]

   DSCM   10:32AM EDT   3.14   Up 0.14   Up 4.67%

DSCM is the stock symbol for Drugstore.com.

[06 July 2010, top]

[02 July 2010, top]

Definition: A Truman-Gerald pair are two prime numbers that differ by 30.

MathBABs.us::nBAB::Collection::Truman-Gerald Pair

[23 June 2010, top]

   O + (N x S) + Cpm/T + He

   x: implies multiply
   O: being Outdoors
   N: Nature
   S: Social interaction
   Cpm: childhood summer memories
   T: Temperature
   He: Holiday excitement

TreeHugger.com::Today is the Happiest Day of 2010

[21 June 2010, top]

[17 June 2010, top]

Twitter.com::@MathBabblers First Tweet

[10 June 2010, top]

And then while checking quotes he saw the following on his Yahoo! Finance webpage that TRMB when priced at $31.32 on 12 May 2010 at 2:37pm EDT had a P/S of 3.14.

[13 May 2010, top]

   "The biggest change for me is the scripted curriculum and 
    standardized tests. I have a ton of academic freedom in 
    my technology classes compared to most teachers, but my 
    math students have the state standardized tests in the 
    fall, [...]" -- Michael Kaechele

Kaechele is a technology teacher who is teaching his first math class (6th grade).

ConcreteKax.Blogsport.com::I am not an assessment

[26 April 2010, top]

MathBabbler wanted to add a program to the MBNA (MathBabbler Number Analyst) that will check if a number 'n' a pentagonal number; therefore, this C++ program was written on 11 March 2010.

[11 March 2010, top]

Hmm... What does long way and here mean?

The definition of long way depends on the value of here and here is Wickenburg, Arizona.

According to Maps.Yahoo.com, the distance between central Wickenburg and central Phoenix is 60.4 miles.

[06 March 2010, top]

Hmm... What does shade above mean?

The next day the Arizona Republic reported that the baseball player agreed to a six-year $51.25 million contract.

So in this instance shade above meant $1.25 million, or 2.5%, more than $50 million.

[06 March 2010, top]

1.26 millionth of a second is 1.26 microseconds.

[01 March 2010, top]

   YHOO    4:00pm ET   15.79   Up 0.48   Up 3.14%   

Also on 1 March 2010, Alcatel-Lucent (nyse: LU) closed at $3.14.

[01 March 2010, top]

The first seven letters of the word fractious matches the seven letters of the word fraction

   1. Tending to cause trouble; unruly.
   2. Irritable; snappish; cranky.

Hmm... Does making students do arithmetic with fractions result in fractious students?

[22 February 2010, top]

MathBabbler has advocated the abolishment of the U.S. Department of Education. Maybe he should be advocating for a separation of education and state.

SeattlePI.com::Judge rejects Seattle's high school math program

[06 February 2010, top]

[05 February 2010, top]

   "Frigid Temperatures + Sufficient Exposure Time = Frostbite". 
    Learn how to calculate your risk in our latest post: 
    http://bit.ly/4zPFhi

[20 January 2010, top]

@MathBabbler received the following tweet from @Mathnasium on 2010.01.20.

   Amusing math in the news: UK student uses math to show 
   why he can't find a girlfriend. http://bit.ly/6xaDBC

At the time of this posting, MathBabbler knew nothing about the "Drake Equation" and he has added it to his list of things to ponder.

Blogs.DiscoverMagazine.com::Alien Math Shows Why Grad Student Doesn't Have a Girlfriend

[20 January 2010, top]

   I'm an Arizonan who recently visited New Orleans... Reggie Bush 
   as a USC Trojan wore 5; today as a Saint wears 5^2.

I wonder how Reggie Bush decided to where number 25 as a member of the New Orleans Saints?

[17 January 2010, top]

Note: DSCM is the stock symbol for Drugstore.com.

[13 January 2010, top]

   "My 10th-grader student said today he has never seen any 
    real-life application for the concepts of mean, median, 
    mode, nor can he imagine 1 !"

Note: Due to the 140-character maximum tweet length, the tweeter wrote '1' instead of 'one.'

[13 January 2010, top]

   I'll be mining Google's "This week in search..." for arithmetic 
   fodder during spring'10 semester.  http://ow.ly/UPpt

Fractions, ratios, proportions, percents, metric, approximation and more.

[10 January 2010, top]

   RT @courosa Various mathematical equations using 1-10 in 
   sequence that equal 2010. #math #mathteachers http://is.gd/5MtOo

[05 January 2010, top]

   Bellard.org "Pi Computation Record" http://ow.ly/SUvN

In a nutshell, 2,699,999,990,000 decimal digits of Pi were calculated using a Linux-based desktop computer.

[05 January 2010, top]

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[04 January 2010, top]

The following is example compumath tweet.

   Evaluate: 2^3 + 2^1 + 2^0 + 2^-1 + 2^-2 
   http://ow.ly/SgcR (check)

Although not true in this case, the "check" webpage could contain the solution along with a hyperlink to "help." In this example, the "help" could be to instructional material about order of operations and exponents.

I used HootSuite.com to manage multiple Twitter accounts. HootSuite allows tweets to be scheduled. This feature will enable me to schedule multiple tweets to occur on a daily basis.

Note: Students will not be required to follow compumath in order to successfully complete the class.

[03 January 2010, top]

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