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Outside the equation - www.theage.com.au: "Einstein's Heroes "

Robyn Arianrhod has new status as the friendly face of mathematics

Einstein's Heroes, which uses the discoveries of Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell to explain mathematical principals, has been published by the University of Queensland
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EGE, Sadovnichii, talented students, exams
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The Ig Nobel Web Page
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Daily Lesson Plan
Lesson goal: students use measurement and calculation to explore the mathematical principles behind the M.C. Escher lithograph "Print Gallery."
Inspired by the article "Mathematician Fills in a Blank for a Fresh Insight on Art".
The real investigation by Lenstra and several other people took 2 years and involved tools like elliptic curves. So now students from grades 6-8 are expected:

--attempting to determine if these measurements can be represented by common equations (linear, logarithmic/exponential, trigonometric, etc.)
--determining how equations function to produce the unique form of the image (e.g. a spiral, a staircase that always goes upward, a repeating image with slight variations, etc.)
Groups should determine the mathematical principles (or forms) at work in the image (such as the "cyclic bulge," distortion, and elliptical curves employed to define the principles at work in "Print Gallery"). Using these principles as a guideline, groups create an extrapolation of the image from the original work.

* Log and trig functions in grade 6 (or even in 8 with sufficient understanding)?
* Equations producing ever rising staircases?
* Determine elliptical curves?

Extension Activities:
2. Research Fermat's Last Theorem, or another unsolved mathematical problem. Write a short paper describing the history of the problem, the solutions suggested, why these solutions failed, and the prospects for a real solution in the future.



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The Fund Investor's Reading List
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HotAIR - Rare and well-done tidbits from the Annals of Improbable Research Êàêàÿ âåùü!
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Walt Haney's Home Page writes about testing. Report about errors in tests
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NBETPP home: "The National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy "
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Issues & Views black voices of reason.
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Culture, Collectivism and Corruption CL9806.html An article by Karen Selick in Canadian Laweyr.
What’s interesting is that so many people, including many aboriginals, seem to want the physical commodities that individualist, capitalist cultures produce—centrally heated houses, indoor plumbing, electrical appliances, snowmobiles, high-tech fishing and hunting gear, etc.—while spurning the cultural attitudes and practices that created such items in the first place.
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Doubting Hall - Evelyn Waugh
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Math defending Labour MP Tony McWalter
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WORLD FEDERATION OF NATIONAL MATHEMATICS COMPETITIONS
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Genes and stupidity
Stupidity should be cured, says DNA discoverer
New Scientist
The Independent

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Message boards on gifted
A board for parents and teachers of the profoundly gifted and prodigious child.

GATE/AP Teacher Chatboard. This discussion board is dedicated to teachers involved in Gifted and Talented/Advanced Placement programs.
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AMS awards and prizes
Levi L. Conant Prize
This prize was established in 2000 in honor of Levi L. Conant to recognize the best expository paper published in either the Notices of the AMS or the Bulletin of the AMS in the preceding five years.

Leroy P. Steele Prizes
In 1993, the Council formalized the three categories of the prize by naming each of them:
(1) The Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement
(2) The Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition
(3) The Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research.

JPBM Communications Award

AMS Epsilon Awards for Young Scholars Programs
In 1999 the American Mathematical Society started the Epsilon Fund to help support existing summer programs for mathematically talented high school students. The name for the fund was chosen in remembrance of the late Paul Erdõs, who was fond of calling children "epsilons."
Own web site

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The Mathematical Association of America's Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics

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The Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics has established the Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education, to be awarded annually to a woman at the Joint Prize Session at the Joint Mathematics Meetings every January. The purpose of this award is to recognize outstanding achievements in any area of mathematics education, to be interpreted in the broadest possible sense.


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The JPBM Communications Award was established to reward and encourage journalists and other communications who, on a sustained basis, bring acccurate mathematical information to non-mathematical audiences.

JPBM - Joint Policy Board for Mathematics

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Talent Development Resources
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Who Is Osama Bin Laden?

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