Today, I have the great honor of guest posting at Simple Mom, a wonderful, practical and easy-going spot on the web for home managers. The subject of the day is problem solving and the deck I built a few years ago.
When Journalists Get the Math Wrong
This has been a very weird four days. First, I found out that USA Weekend— the weekly newspaper supplement that appears in more than 800 newspapers in the U.S. and is read by 4.7 million people each week — published a cool, little
Free Math for Grownups eBook!
Is your Kindle or Nook hankering for some math? Is your tablet or computer sorely lacking in number crunching? Today is your lucky day. Actually, this week is your lucky week! Until Friday, September 10, you can download Math for Grownups for
Math at Work Monday: Labor Day edition
Math for Grownups is taking the day off, so I thought it would be nice to post a few of my favorite Math at Work Monday interviews, in case you missed any of them. Enjoy your Labor Day! Marie Grace the Knitwear Designer: Those
Film Friday: Using math to predict hurricanes
Even if you weren’t in the predicted path of Hurricane Irene, you likely heard about pretty much nothing but last weekend. We Americans love our big storms. There’s been lots of grumbling lately about over-hyped media coverage, especially since the hurricane was
Math at Work Monday: Tiffany the 6th grade teacher
I know what you’re thinking. “It’s so obvious how a 6th grade teacher would use math! She’s teaching fractions and division and percents!” There’s always a lot more to teaching than the rest of us may think. And that’s why
Top 10 Highest Paying Degrees
Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 31 seconds “Holy crap!” That’s what I indelicately exclaimed when I saw the list of 10 highest-paying degrees, as determined by the PayScale College Salary Report. I didn’t expect to see American Literature or Elementary Education,
Math at Work Monday, Ursula the glass artist
Ursula Marcum practices an amazing art form called kiln-formed glass, which she can explain better than I. Her pieces are layered and rich, unlike any other glass I’ve ever seen. Like most artists, Ursula does quite of bit of basic math
Film Friday: What do the unemployment numbers really say?
Earlier this month, I did a podcast with Arin Greenwood at Out of the Storm News. We talked about how math confidence can help folks make good financial decisions–and how if you don’t trust your math abilities, you may avoid the math and
Feeling Anxious about Math? Here’s how to cope
Earlier this week, I provided a guest post about math anxiety and kids for Imp3rfect Mom. I wasn’t surprised to get a comment from a reader asking about how to deal with her math anxiety. My son is an adult so my question
Math, Treadmills, Book-Club Wine and Hard Boiled Eggs (Seriously)
When my friend Alisa Bowman asked me to answer some math questions for a health blog she writes for, I didn’t quite expect what she sent over. In terms of health, I’m usually asked how to find BMI or how to calculate
Get the Anxiety Out of Math
Things that make many kids anxious: a new school, big dogs, the deep end of the swimming pool, bees, strangers, nightmares, math. Did you notice something there? For many children, math and bees are equally frightening or at least nerve-wracking.