Republic of Mathematics blog

Students not listening At the beginning of every semester I talk students through the written instructions on the website for the mathematics course they are taking. This semester, Spring 2011, those courses are Differential Equations, and Mathematical Statistics. I talk the students through course arrangements including submission of written material using LaTeX for writing mathematics, […]

Percentages seem to be a perennial problem. Many people have trouble figuring out percentages when circumstances – usually something at work – requires them to do so. Even the venerable Bill O’Reilly has troubles with percentages, as the following video clip shows: <object width=”640″ height=”390″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/04EQkUS0_Y4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US”></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/04EQkUS0_Y4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” […]