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Month: April 2013

Poetry

In the mirror

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

I saw my face in the mirror, in passing, and it was someone else. I didn’t recognize the eyes, or the hair, or the point of the nose. But that wasn’...

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0.999… = 1 and Zeno’s Paradox

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

Overview One surprisingly difficult concept for many students of mathematics is understanding that 0.999… (more properly depicted as \(0.9\overline{9}\)),...

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Negative numbers squared

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

Background Mathematical conventions represent the linguistic aspect of mathematics. One of the strengths of modern mathematics is the way in which we can repres...

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10101 and 11011 are never prime

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

One particularly tricky aspect of number sense is being able to separate the abstract notion of value from more concrete visual representations of numbers, and ...

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Just forget my Dear Aunt Sally

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Clio Corvid / 1 Comment

The purpose of a mnemonic is to make something easier to remember. Roy G. Biv represents the major colors of the spectrum (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Ind...

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Multiplying Polynomials

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

The traditional way of teaching the multiplication of binomials is FOIL: First, Outside, Inside, Last. For instance: \[(x + 3)(2x – 5) = (x)(2x) + (x)(-5)...

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Hero’s Formula and Mirror Triangles

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

Here’s a problem with an interesting solution. You’re given two triangles, T1 and T2. The sides of T1 are 25, 25, and 30. The sides of T2 are 25, 25...

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