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 100,000 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.
Twenty most viewed posts or series (written by me):
- All I want to be is a high school teacher. Why do I have to take Real Analysis?
- Analog clocks
- Another poorly written word problem
- Arithmetic and geometric series
- Common Core, subtraction, and the open number line
- Exponential growth and decay
- Finger trick for multiplying by 9
- Full lesson plan: magic squares
- Full lesson plan: Platonic solids
- Fun with dimensional analysis
- Importance of the base case in a proof by induction
- Infraction
- Inverse Functions
- My “history” of solving cubic, quartic and quintic equations
- My Mathematical Magic Show
- Square roots and logarithms without a calculator
- Student misconceptions about PEMDAS
- Taylor series without calculus
- Was there a Pi Day on 3/14/1592?
- What Happens if the Explanatory and Response Variables Are Sorted Independently?
Twenty most viewed posts (guest presenters):
- Engaging students: Classifying polygons
- Engaging students: Congruence
- Engaging students: Deriving the distance formula
- Engaging students: Distinguishing between axioms, postulates, theorems, and corollaries
- Engaging students: Distinguishing between inductive and deductive reasoning
- Engaging students: Factoring quadratic polynomials
- Engaging students: Finding x- and y-intercepts
- Engaging students: Laws of Exponents
- Engaging students: Multiplying binomials
- Engaging students: Order of operations
- Engaging students: Pascal’s triangle
- 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
- Engaging students: Square roots
- Engaging students: Translation, rotation, and reflection of figures
- Engaging students: Using right-triangle trigonometry
- Engaging students: Volume and surface area of pyramids and cones
If I’m still here at that time, I’ll make a summary post like this again when this blog has over 200,000 page views.