Singapore Math

Here are some random thoughts between mathematics and music―indeed, there are more parallelisms than thinks the brain!  Bestsellers for ...

The Greeks have their Euclid’s Elements . The Egyptians had their Rhind papyrus. The Japanese had their sangaku . The Chinese had their ...

In algebra, two negatives make a positive; in English, two negatives cancel each other – or are equivalent to an affirmative. Expressions l...

Mathematics Year in Singapore In February 2009, I e-mailed the following text, to be considered for publication in the Forum Pages of  The ...

Thirteen Ways to Spot a Math Nerd   1. They are aroused at the sight and sound of numbers.   2. They wait for the bus and say, "I...

Immoral ALGEBRA Here is an online algebra question, forwarded to me almost every year, which has been circulating the globe many times: M...

For a few years now, I've secretly been writing mathematical words and terms, to be categorized under a so-called  MATHESAURUS .  I want...