500,000 page views

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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 500,000 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.

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Thirty most viewed individual posts:

  1. A Timeline of Mathematics Education
  2. All I want to be is a high school teacher. Why do I have to take Real Analysis?
  3. Analog clocks
  4. Anatomy of a teenager’s brain
  5. Beautiful dance moves
  6. Clowns and Graphing Rational Functions
  7. Finger trick for multiplying by 9
  8. Full lesson plan: magic squares
  9. Full lesson plan: Platonic solids
  10. Functions that commute
  11. High-pointing a football?
  12. Importance of the base case in a proof by induction
  13. Infraction
  14. Interesting calculus problems
  15. Math behind Super Mario
  16. My “history” of solving cubic, quartic and quintic equations
  17. Paranormal distribution
  18. Richard Feynman’s integral trick
  19. Sometimes, violence is the answer
  20. Student misconceptions about PEMDAS
  21. Taylor series without calculus
  22. Teaching the Chain Rule inductively
  23. The Pythagorean Theorem to five decimal places
  24. Thoughts on silly viral math puzzles
  25. US vs UK: Mathematical Terminology
  26. Valentine’s Day card
  27. Was there a Pi Day on 3/14/1592?
  28. What’s bigger: 1/3 pound burgers or 1/4 pound burgers?
  29. Welch’s formula
  30. Xmas Tree, Ymas Tree, Zmas Tree

Thirty 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. Confirming Einstein’s theory of general relativity with calculus
  9. Day One of my Calculus I class
  10. Different definitions of e
  11. Exponential growth and decay
  12. Facebook birthday problem
  13. Fun lecture on geometric series
  14. How I impressed my wife: \displaystyle \int_0^{2\pi} \frac{dx}{\cos^2 x + 2 a \sin x \cos x + (a^2 + b^2) \sin^2 x}
  15. Inverse Functions
  16. Langley’s Adventitious Angles
  17. Lessons from teaching gifted elementary students
  18. My favorite one-liners
  19. My mathematical magic show
  20. Parabolas from string art
  21. Predicate logic and popular culture
  22. Proving theorems and special cases
  23. Reminding students about Taylor series
  24. Slightly incorrect ugly mathematical Christmas T-shirts
  25. Square roots and logarithms without a calculator
  26. The antiderivative of \displaystyle \frac{1}{x^4+1}
  27. Thoughts on 1/7 and other rational numbers
  28. Thoughts on numerical integration
  29. Wason selection task
  30. Why does x^0 = 1 and x^{-n} = 1/x^n?

Thirty most viewed posts (guest presenters):

  1. Engaging students: Adding and subtracting polynomials
  2. Engaging students: Classifying polygons
  3. Engaging students: Combinations
  4. Engaging students: Congruence
  5. Engaging students: Distinguishing between axioms, postulates, theorems, and corollaries
  6. Engaging students: Distinguishing between inductive and deductive reasoning
  7. Engaging students: Equation of a circle
  8. Engaging students: Factoring quadratic polynomials
  9. Engaging students: Finding the domain and range of a function
  10. Engaging students: Finding x- and y-intercepts
  11. Engaging students: Graphs of linear equations
  12. Engaging students: Introducing the number e
  13. Engaging students: Introducing the terms parallelogram, rhombus, trapezoid, and kite
  14. Engaging students: Inverse Functions
  15. Engaging students: Inverse trigonometric functions
  16. Engaging students: Laws of Exponents
  17. Engaging students: Midpoint formula
  18. Engaging students: Pascal’s triangle
  19. Engaging students: Proving two triangles are congruent using SAS
  20. Engaging students: Solving linear systems of equations by either substitution or graphing
  21. Engaging students: Solving linear systems of equations with matrices
  22. Engaging students: Solving one-step and two-step inequalities
  23. Engaging students: Solving quadratic equations
  24. Engaging students: Synthetic division
  25. Engaging students: Square roots
  26. Engaging students: Translation, rotation, and reflection of figures
  27. Engaging students: Using a truth table
  28. Engaging students: Using right-triangle trigonometry
  29. Engaging students: Verifying trigonometric identities
  30. Engaging students: Writing if-then statements in conditional form

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If I’m still here at that time, I’ll make a summary post like this again when this blog has over 1,000,000 page views.

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Published by John Quintanilla

I'm a Professor of Mathematics and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of North Texas. For eight years, I was co-director of Teach North Texas, UNT's program for preparing secondary teachers of mathematics and science.

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