mathematics
Homeschooling high school math just got a little easier
Everyone’s talking about Khan Academy lately, but since I’ve known about it for years, I never pay too much attention to recent news. I usually say, “Oh yeah, I found that site years ago. Great for instructional math videos,” because that’s what it was. It was a list like only a list-maker can appreciate of [...]
A fascinating (mis)use of statistics
I’m actually working on a blog post about unschooling and math education right now, but sometimes you just read such a cool article about statistics that you have to share immediately, right? I’m going to put forward the hypothesis that statistics classes would be a lot more interesting (and informative) if they all had a [...]
Mathematics of Elections
There’s no better time to be a stats junkie than election time! A great site for families looking into “voting mathematics” is www.votepair.ca. The actual purpose of this site is to arrange strategic “vote swapping,” but the arguments presented in favour of this controversial practice (and the comments left by visitors to the site) really [...]
