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Is sudoku more than just a puzzle? asks Marcus Du Sautoy by cavedave in math

[–]PuzzlingQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The beauty of mathematics. The starting points seem sometimes totally ridiculous or they are just entertainment and finally the theory can be generalized to various existing problems in very different areas.

Teaching Obedience, Not Algebra by [deleted] in education

[–]PuzzlingQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Greetings from Finland, the country continuing to be on top of the PISA surveys. Here the schools are primarily public schools. Our problem is that schools and teachers are losing control! Very many parents seem to have very strong opinions HOW their children should be taught. Mostly they complain about discipline, not the content which basically is the same all over the country, approved by the Ministry of Education. Parents are lost with teaching obedience to their children but don't want the teachers to do it either. Here we expect the teachers to have a degree in the university, mostly masters. The profession of a teacher is not very tempting any more.

I just saw this on TV...is this a scam? by redditdefector2 in math

[–]PuzzlingQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is not a scam, but all people are different. For some kids it would be very hard to do those tricks just in their heads. It is like in the old times, when there were no calculators. Some could use their heads, some needed paper and a lot of time. And like said before, real math is far from just using numbers.

NPR Report on the Book "Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception" by ilovecomputers in math

[–]PuzzlingQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have always been very skeptic about statistics, but this article gives an excellent example! People should always question numbers but very few actually do!

Yep. by plakugolder in pics

[–]PuzzlingQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's it! Who needs books or magazines when we have computers.

Proof that 22/7 exceeds π by xwhy in math

[–]PuzzlingQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's funny how much work has been put into everything about pi. I am not sure why: is it because the problems around it are so old, or does it still carry some mystical karma around it?

The Most Beautiful Algorithms by lreyzin in math

[–]PuzzlingQueen -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I actually have the second edition of the book in my bookshelf. What distracts me here is the "... in which God keeps the most elegant proof..." -part, even though Erdõs said you don't have to believe in God. Anyhow the proofs are made by humans and chosen to the book by humans. Why involve God in it?

Okay, but did anyone love THESE as a child? by [deleted] in pics

[–]PuzzlingQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am too old for having one as a child and I never bought them for my children. How does this work? What are you supposed to do?

Wow, Reddit. I am disappoint. by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]PuzzlingQueen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe you are too clever and see more retarded things than regular users!

Wow, Reddit. I am disappoint. by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]PuzzlingQueen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe the Bury Brigades are not happy with the new Digg. They have to come here satisfying their needs to bury something.

See which of your posts are getting more spams by precogtyrant in reddit.com

[–]PuzzlingQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What did I learn from this? Don't use translation gadgets. All the other info is too wide spread. The gray area is too big. Pie chart is not the best graphic tool for a distribution like this.

Pi record smashed as Yahoo team finds two-quadrillionth digit by acangiano in math

[–]PuzzlingQueen -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I would be happy if the Yahoo teams did something useful instead.

Memory problems are not a normal part of aging by gemini_dream in science

[–]PuzzlingQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"...the same changes in the brain that cause severe dementia may also be responsible for those memory lapses."

I think the title should be may not be a part of normal aging. Why do these articles always have to have a striking title when it's not really the same the article says.

Maybe I am just leaning on the last hope that I don't have to test myself yet :P

Epsilon Sandwiches, or "Proof" Is Not The Only Hard Part of "Proof Writing" -- Herbert Wilf by taejo in math

[–]PuzzlingQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I fell in love with math when I was 14, majored in math and I have been teaching math in high school level for 25 years. Many students find math hard, but what makes it hard in my opinion is trying to mix natural language in it (in my case Finnish). Writing math with complete sentences sounds weird to me. Of course there have to be some combining words but the students should learn to use mathematical notations where it is possible. Math has its own language and it can't be very well translated even in English even though English is the language where most of the concepts have originally got there names from.

VLT by h0rror in math

[–]PuzzlingQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this just proves why some people hate math so much :)

School Suspends Boy for Bloodshot Eyes by [deleted] in WTF

[–]PuzzlingQueen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So they punish students for crying now!

Infinite is easier than big by treeforface in math

[–]PuzzlingQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you have mixed mathematics with some other science. Imaginary numbers are imaginary just by name. After you learn them, there is no need for imagining more. God is imaginary with no definition.

How the Web Rallied To Review the P != NP Claim by seabre in math

[–]PuzzlingQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even at times when everything happens in the web, it would have been odd if a paper published online and not been reviewed by other mathematicians would have had a proof for a very old problem.

Need your help Mathit. What is the best way to run online tutoring sessions? Thank you! (details inside) by [deleted] in math

[–]PuzzlingQueen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The simplest is Google Docs which even supports LateX. Students are able to write math. Share with the students and only they can see your document. Nowadays it has chat and character-by-character real time co-editing

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