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May 21, 2013

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10:00 AM | On Demand Webcast: Reducing Engineering Error and Design Disruptions- Exploring Calculation Software Tools

On April 23rd PTC Mathcad and NASA Tech Briefs co-produced a one hour webcast called “Reducing Engineering Error and Design Disruptions- Exploring Calculation Software Tools“. Chad Jackson, an Industry Analyst and President and Founder of Lifecycle Insights defined Performance Predictions and took the viewers through the different definitions and positives and negatives of each. The Performance Prediction Initiatives included: Traditional ...

May 20, 2013

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2:12 PM | Recap of the UK Student Robot Challenge

Robot competitions are in the air these days, what with the recent Battlebots competition in Massachusetts and the earlier Student Robot Challenge in the UK. Here’s an update from Tanya Morton, who ran the event in England. A few weeks ago, MathWorks hosted a Student Robot Challenge at our new office building in Cambridge. The [...]

May 17, 2013

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8:23 PM | Names Up in Lights

Tweet One of the main challenges teachers face is that of student effort: how do we motivate them to increase it? Today's blog addresses that problem with a solution that is beautiful in its simplicity: put their names up in lights. …

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6:14 PM | Polar surface plot in MATLAB

MATLAB does not have a polar surface plot built in. You can use a normal surface plot if you convert your polar data into Cartesian with the pol2cart command. We also cover how to get rid of the edges on dense surface plots like this one by setting ‘edgecolor’ to ‘none’. var flashvars = {}; [...]

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4:50 PM | Making Formulas… for Everything—From Pi to the Pink Panther to Sir Isaac Newton

Here at Wolfram Research and at Wolfram|Alpha we love mathematics and computations. Our favorite topics are algorithms, followed by formulas and equations. For instance, Mathematica can calculate millions of (more precisely, for all practical purposes, infinitely many) integrals, and Wolfram|Alpha knows hundreds of thousands of mathematical formulas (from Euler’s formula and BBP-type formulas for pi [...]

May 16, 2013

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6:32 PM | Computational Knowledge of Continued Fractions

Mathematics has many faces. It deals with diverse objects such as integers, points and lines, equations, graphs, categories, thousands of different spaces (from R3 to Hilbert, Banach, Fréchet, …), and so on. Mathematics can be constructive or just prove the existence of certain structures. Wolfram|Alpha has made a good fraction of computable constructive mathematics freely [...]

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10:00 AM | Customer Review: Alpha Tester Says “PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 is Clearly a Productivity Enhancer”

Whenever a new version of PTC Mathcad software is released we gather a group of people called Alpha Testers to review and experiment our new software before it gets released to the public. Alpha Testers help us to better understand how users who use PTC Mathcad every day will respond to our new release of software, in this case PTC ...

May 15, 2013

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8:37 AM | Why good theory must inform pedagogy

If we understand the theory first and then rework it into slogans for children to learn, then we give them a path to understanding. If we invent slogans first and they don’t line up exactly with theory, then there are … Continue reading →

May 14, 2013

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5:59 PM | How Do You Know Something is Right For You?

Want to see something cool? Want to watch something cool!?! Check out PTC Mathcad’s brand new whiteboard style commercial: PTC Mathcad allows you to solve, capture, and share critical engineering calculations in an easy to learn and use format. With PTC Mathcad software you can showcase engineering calculations through graphs, natural math notation, and formulas without having to worry about overlooking errors in ...

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5:57 PM | Dropping In on Gottfried Leibniz

I’ve been curious about Gottfried Leibniz for years, not least because he seems to have wanted to build something like Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and perhaps A New Kind of Science as well—though three centuries too early. So when I took a trip recently to Germany, I was excited to be able to visit his archive [...]

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12:16 AM | Integer War

Integer War This is a great way to reinforce what an integer is and help the students to quickly realize how to solve and answer integer problems. Plus a integer game is a better way to reinforce the concept compared to using integer worksheets for kids. Most [...] Related Math Games: Integer War Game FACE-OFF! An Integer Card Game Fraction War

May 13, 2013

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6:28 PM | Now Available: Wolfram Virtual Conference Spring 2013 Videos and Presentations

Thank you to all who made the Wolfram Virtual Conference Spring 2013 a great success. The free event featured two tracks of talks covering applications of Wolfram technologies in industry, education, and research as well as a Q&A with our experts and access to virtual networking. Attendees of all experience levels joined the event to [...]

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5:23 PM | BuzzMath just passed the 6 million problems solved mark

BuzzMath just passed the 6 million problems solved mark!

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8:39 AM | Sangakoo, entre las 100 mejores startups del Barcelona Tech Demo Day 2013

El próximo 22 de mayo, Sangakoo participará en la edición 2013 del Tech Demo Day Barcelona, el punto de encuentro para emprendedores, inversores, innovadores y empresarios que año con año reúne a las 100 mejores startups de base …

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7:09 AM | ¡Estamos trabajando en un nuevo entorno para tu aprendizaje matemático!

A finales del pasado año, 350 usuarios de Sangakoo respondieron a una encuesta diseñada para conocer de cerca sus expectativas y necesidades de aprendizaje. Sus respuestas nos han permitido comprender mejor el contexto de uso de Sangakoo y la …

May 12, 2013

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6:22 PM | Checker Math

Submitted by Susan Checker Math I like to use a light weight checkerboard game. On each of the squares I write an integer ( if I want the game to involve integers), or a decimal, or a fraction. When the student plays checkers he/she must add, subtract, [...] Related Math Games: MATH BINGO EDUCATIONAL GAME ADD SUBTRACT MULTIPLY DIVISION NIB AGE 5+ Cadaco 4-Way Count Down Wood Math Game: ADD SUBTRACT DIVIDE MULTIPLY Integer War Game

May 10, 2013

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1:02 PM | Revive Math Instruction with Technology

The classroom with the teacher in front, rows of desks, and pencil, paper and textbooks is a thing of the past. By, Melanie Kross Teacher and Guest Writer It is no secret that our country is lagging behind when it comes to the essential skills of math [...] Related Math Games: Incorporating Math Apps into Guided Math Math Games as Assessment Teacher Math TIME Learning Center Resource GAME I Have Who Has OR Minute To Win

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1:01 PM | Certified Teachers Training Program on Vedic Maths at the Akanksha Foundation

The Vedic Maths Forum India, just completed the 5-Day Certified Teacher Training Program on Vedic Mathematics at the Akanksha Foundation in Mumbai. The teacher training program conducted empowered the teachers to take the drudgery out of Maths for over 4000 children across Mumbai and Pune through the system of Vedic Maths.The Akanksha Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide children from low-income communities with a high-quality education, enabling them to maximize [â€¦]

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1:00 PM | Colorspaces out the Wazoo!

Brett's Pick this week is "Colorspace Transformations", by Pascal Getreuer.For inspiration for this week's Pick, I went back to my post from April of last year, in which I asked readers to suggest files to feature. I started to write up Pascal's submission long ago, but somehow got sidetracked, and I wanted to circle back [...]

May 09, 2013

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7:04 PM | Seeing Skin with Mathematica

Detecting skin in images can be quite useful: it is one of the primary steps for various sophisticated systems aimed at detecting people, recognizing gestures, detecting faces, content-based filtering, and more. In spite of this host of applications, when I decided to develop a skin detector, my main motivation lay elsewhere. The research and development [...]

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5:36 PM | Quandl library for Maple

Using the Quandl API, we have created a Quandl library for Maple. The Quandl library for Maple provides easy access to Quandl’s repository of over 5 million time-series datasets from directly inside Maple, allowing you to utilize Maple’s robust tools for mathematical statistics and data analysis on Quandl’s extensive collection of data. This library features a similar set of functionalities to the Quandl

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9:28 AM | “Human” Sized Coordinate Graph Game

"Human" Sized Coordinate Graph Game Make a "human" sized coordinate graph by placing tape on the floor for the x and y axis. Label the quadrants. Have a student stand at the origin, tell them the ordered pair. Then the student will tell you if they move [...] Related Math Games: Grid Lines – Coordinate Grid Game Math Blaster Pre-Algebra CD-Rom Game For Computer Capture the Card

May 08, 2013

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3:34 PM | Announcing Wolfram Finance Platform 2 with Report Generation

Last year we released Wolfram Finance Platform, beginning a new chapter in the way the financial world uses Wolfram technologies. Today we’re pleased to announce Wolfram Finance Platform 2, which expands and improves the groundwork begun by our first version. One set of new capabilities that Finance Platform 2 introduces is a major enhancement to the [...]

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5:27 AM | Tic-Tac-Toe Math Review Game

Submitted by Doris Tic-Tac-Toe Math Review Game Solving Simplified Equations Using Order of Operations Objective: Introduce solving simplified equations using order of operations. Materials: Chalkboard/White board and chalk/markers Players: 2 or more Rules: Objective of the game is to identify how to solve equations with different operations [...] Related Math Games: 5 Dice: Order of Operations Games Review Cards Order of Operation Bowling

May 07, 2013

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9:36 AM | Order of Operation Bowling

Order of Operation Bowling Download Printable Game Sheet Here: Order of Operation Bowling Directions: Roll 4 dice, and write down each number in the frame box. Using all four numbers, try to find an equation with an answer that is one of the numbers on the bowling [...] Related Math Games: Math Bowling 5 Dice: Order of Operations Games Foam Dice: Adding Subtracting and Multiplying

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7:51 AM | Why Most Computer Software Won’t Help Kids Improve Their Math Understanding

Why is most math software ineffective in helping kids understand math? Almost all math software is designed to be a game that tests how well kids can match simple questions with their answers. Let me show you a better alternative: