Here’s the jokey stuff that the internet seems to like best:
- Headlines from a Mathematically Literate World (reposted at Huffington Post)
- Math Experts Split the Check (reprinted in Math Horizons)
- What Does Probability Mean in Your Profession?
- The Math Dialect Quiz
- A Math Professor Consults on a Hollywood Movie
Here are essays on the nature of learning:
- What It Feels Like to Be Bad at Math (reposted at Slate)
- The Math Ceiling: Where’s Your Cognitive Breaking Point?
- The Church of the Right Answer
- The Math Major Who Never Reads Math
If you fall in the tiny central sliver of the “math lovers” and “poetry lovers” Venn diagram, then here you go:
- A Fight with Euclid (reprinted in At Right Angles)
- Once, There Weren’t Numbers
- The Mathematician’s Haiku Book
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Parabola
I like to write sometimes about the culture and the nature of mathematics:
- How To Talk to a Mathematician
- 39 Ways to Love Math
- Why Do We Pay Pure Mathematicians?
- Black Boxes (or: Just Say No to Voodoo Formulas)
Some favorite posts about actual mathematical concepts:
- Bear in the Moonlight, a seven-post series of probability fables
- The Sixth Sense for Multiplication
- The Kaufman Decimals
The one post I had the most fun creating: The Math Aficionado’s Guide to High Fives
And the one post that somehow go so wildly popular I will probably never write anything as useful to humanity again: Ultimate Tic Tac Toe
I’d like to have a page like this too. How did you create it? Thanks.
I’d guess that he made a normal blog post with links and pictures, then put it on the top menu.
thanks jiffyrohan
Hey, sorry for the delay! I’ve been terrible about comments.
This is a “Page.” There’s a pages menu on your WordPress dashboard. Or you can go to the quick menu in the upper left, choose “New,” and then “Page.”
no problem, thank you.
The Slate link for “You’re Not Stupid, You’re Slow” has changed (grrr, don’t you hate it when they do that) to http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/06/how-i-became-an-unfair-teacher/371908/
I know because I came looking for exactly that sentiment to cheer me up after I stopped trying to keep up with a killer Calc MOOC and decided to go back to the beginning. Thank you as always!
sincerely,
slowpoke
Hmm… I just checked it and the links seem to be directing to the right places. Try it again and let me know if it’s still causing problems?
And good luck with the MOOC! I’m always amazed how much a second time through things can help.