Carol Levesque's Blog

TheStar.com – Study reveals children’s innate math ability

Telling girls that boys are better than they are at mathematics can irritate them so much that it negatively impacts their performance, according to a U.S. study

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Most of us share it and it seems a safe enough assumption: mathematical skills and performance develop and advance as students progress through their elementary school years. However, a new study by University of Notre Dame psychologist Nicole M. McNeil suggests that for at least one type of math problem, 7-year-old students are outperforming 9-yea

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It’s tax time and the Math Bros. are picking up hot chick to do their taxes… bang bus style.

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“The proper value, which does deserve all the reverence and adulation bestowed upon the current impostor, is the number now unfortunately known as 2pi”

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Today is March 14 (3.14), also known as Pi-Day. Interestingly, it is also Albert Einstein’s Birthday.

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The real tragedy is that, because mathematics is a heavily layered subject, each new topic building upon the previous ones, once students fall behind catching up can be a nightmare. Indeed, students often meet a rude awakening in late high school or at college when their limited mathematical repertoire fails to provide the necessary tools.

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Some creative math jokes from MIT!

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A guy has “invented” a new number, which he calls “nullity”. This number is not on the number line, can’t be compared to other numbers by less than or greater than, etc. In other words, he’s given a name to the basic mathematical concept of “undefined”, and proclaimed that this is somehow a solution to a deep and important problem.

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I must be one of the exceptions.  Mind you I don’t have the confidence so maybe that counts.
CNN.com – Confident students do worse in math; bad news for U.S.