250,000 page views

I’m taking a break from my usual posts on mathematics and mathematics education to note a symbolic milestone: meangreenmath.com has had more than 250,000 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 individual posts:

1. All I want to be is a high school teacher. Why do I have to take Real Analysis?
2. Analog clocks
3. Anatomy of a teenager’s brain
4. Beautiful dance moves
5. Finger trick for multiplying by 9
6. Full lesson plan: magic squares
7. Full lesson plan: Platonic solids
8. Fun with dimensional analysis
9. High-pointing a football?
10. Importance of the base case in a proof by induction
11. Infraction
12. Math behind Super Mario
13. My “history” of solving cubic, quartic and quintic equations
14. Sometimes, violence is the answer
15. Student misconceptions about PEMDAS
16. Teaching the Chain Rule inductively
17. Thoughts on silly viral math puzzles
18. Valentine’s Day card
19. Was there a Pi Day on 3/14/1592?
20. Welch’s formula

Twenty most viewed series:

1. 2048 and algebra
2. Another poorly written word problem
3. Area of a triangle and volume of common shapes
4. Arithmetic and geometric series
5. Calculators and complex numbers
6. Common Core, subtraction, and the open number line
7. Computing e to any power
8. Different definitions of e
9. Exponential growth and decay
10. Fun lecture on geometric series
11. Inverse Functions
12. Langley’s Adventitious Angles
13. My Mathematical Magic Show
14. Predicate Logic and Popular Culture
15. Reminding students about Taylor series
16. Slightly incorrect ugly mathematical Christmas T-shirts
17. Square roots and logarithms without a calculator
18. Wason selection task
19. What I learned from reading “Gamma: Exploring Euler’s Constant” by Julian Havil
20. Why does and ?

Twenty most viewed posts (guest presenters):

1. Engaging students: Classifying polygons
2. Engaging students: Congruence
3. Engaging students: Distinguishing between axioms, postulates, theorems, and corollaries
4. Engaging students: Distinguishing between inductive and deductive reasoning
5. Engaging students: Equation of a circle
6. Engaging students: Factoring quadratic polynomials
7. Engaging students: Finding the domain and range of a function
8. Engaging students: Finding x- and y-intercepts
9. Engaging students: Inverse Functions
10. Engaging students: Laws of Exponents
11. Engaging students: Pascal’s triangle
12. Engaging students: Solving linear systems of equations by either substitution or graphing
13. Engaging students: Solving linear systems of equations with matrices
14. Engaging students: Solving one-step and two-step inequalities
15. Engaging students: Solving quadratic equations
16. Engaging students: Square roots
17. Engaging students: Translation, rotation, and reflection of figures
18. Engaging students: Using a truth table
19. Engaging students: Using right-triangle trigonometry
20. Engaging students: Verifying trigonometric identities

If I’m still here at that time, I’ll make a summary post like this again when this blog has over 500,000 page views.