Walter Anthony has some pretty neat optical illusions on his website. The one below is very cool and has been nicknamed the “purple nurple”: Another optical illusion I like (not sure who created this one) is the following:
Strimko is a brand new logic puzzle with numbers, just like Suduko. It is based on Latin squares described by Leonhard Euler in the 18th century. The rules are simple: each row and column of an n x n grid must contain the numbers 1, 2, …, n exactly once (just like in Sudoku ), …
Addicting Puzzle – It’s not Sudoku, it’s STRIMKO! Very addicting… Read More »
We had a math camp at University and needed something educational for the elementary school kids. We chose the topic graph theory and decided to teach them about planar graphs. It turns out that http://www.planarity.net has this great flash game that you can play where you have to arrange the vertices such that no edges …
WolframAlpha.com is the newest development by Stephen Wolfram. It is an “answer engine” as opposed to a search engine. It’s used to compute answers to questions. Being the idiot that I am, I couldn’t think of anything mathie to type in, so I opted for: “Why did the chicken cross the road?”: In all fairness’s …
Tom Hull has a great piece on job interview advice for academic type math jobs. He wrote it over 10 years ago but recently revised it two months ago. You can find his interview advice on his webpage. There is a lot of articles out there written to help people get jobs and survive interviews, …
The net has a great amount of interactive cool maths games. Below are a few sites worth taking a look at. Most of the math games are fun for all ages and they are all absolutely free. 1. http://www.mathplayground.com/games.html 2. http://www.coolmath-games.com/ 3. http://resources.kaboose.com/games/math2.html 4. http://www.primarygames.com/math.htm 5. http://cemc2.math.uwaterloo.ca/mathfrog/
I’m a math geek, so I enjoy reading the occasional comic strip that’s math-related. Here is my list of the top 10 webcomics/comics that I read on a regular basis: 1. Foxtrot – Surely, everyone knows this one. It occasionally has a lot of math humor but is currently on a Sunday only publication schedule. …
Programming and mathematics are strongly interlinked. If you don’t see the connection yet, you should read this very interesting article about it. For more, click here. In this article I shall discuss several game programming techniques, all revolving around a central theme: the sine and cosine functions. This article will explain sine, cosine, vectors, atan2, …
If you were looking for the ultimate collection of math tools and websites, you’re in luck. This awesome graphic is not only extremely easy to use, but it is also exactly what you need to spice up your math class, as the author mentioned. You can find it at http://www.mindomo.com/view?m=38cc4f6a467acbfde4be796e68399450
A mathematical clock or a pi ice cube tray? Check out these 9 mathy gift ideas and tell us which one would you like to have!