I’m taking a one-day break from my usual posts on mathematics and mathematics education to note a symbolic milestone: meangreenmath.com has had more than 25,000 total page views since its inception in June 2013. Many thanks to the followers of this blog, and I hope that you’ll continue to find this blog to be a useful resource to you.
Some other (probably useless) statistics: this blog has been viewed by readers from 145 different countries. Top viewership: the United States, India, the Philippines, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, Pakistan, Singapore, and France.
Ten most viewed posts (written by me):
- All I want to be is a high school math teacher. Why do I have to take Real Analysis?
- An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar
- Formula for a finite geometric series (Part 8)
- Full lesson plan: Platonic solids
- Fun with Dimensional Analysis
- Geometric magic trick
- My “history” of solving cubic, quartic and quintic equations
- MyScript MathPad: Handwriting LaTeX generator
- Square roots and logarithms without a calculator: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
- Student misconceptions about PEMDAS
Ten most viewed posts (guest presenters):
- Engaging students: Deriving the Pythagorean theorem
- Engaging students: Distinguishing between axioms, postulates, theorems, and corollaries
- Engaging students: Distinguishing between inductive and deductive reasoning
- Engaging students: Factoring quadratic polynomials
- Engaging students: Laws of Exponents
- Engaging students: right-triangle trigonometry
- Engaging students: Solving linear systems of equations by either substitution or graphing
- Engaging students: Solving linear systems of equations with matrices
- Engaging students: Solving one-step and two-step inequalities
- Engaging students: Solving quadratic equations
Top five referrals not written by me (thank you!):
- http://ispeakmath.org/2012/05/03/square-roots-with-cheez-its-and-a-graphic-organizer/
- http://www.reddit.com/r/learnmath/comments/2alfmp/algebra_square_roots_how_do_you_find_a_square/
- http://www.reddit.com/r/mentalmath/comments/22mogi/square_roots_and_logarithms_without_a_calculator/
- http://hogamy.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/common-core-subtraction-and-the-open-number-line-part-4/
- http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2014/01/22/39-ways-to-love-math/
Top ten search engine terms that landed people on my blog:
- systems of equations project / system of equations project / system of linear equations project / system of equations project ideas
- geometry tricks
- law of exponents foldable / exponent rules foldable
- tables
- cavalieri’s principle
- mean green math (hey, it works!)
- how to find square root using log book
- green math
- mathematical table
- student art work with circles and parabolas
Ten other search engine terms that caught my attention:
- deercrossing sign phone call
- engaging students in reading lesson
- examples of inductive and deductive reasoning in the declaration of independence
- grape and triangle pun
- great clean jokes 2013
- math rap on solving systems of equations with substitution
- meetkunde trucjes
- slide rule advertisement
- the stereotypes about math that hold americans back
- youtube/danceofchanceprobabilityfromanormalcurve
