NOVA | Hunting the Hidden Dimension | Watch the Program | PBS
NOVA episode on fractals
(tags: fractals math towatch television)
Oct. 29, 1675: Leibniz Sums It All Up
On Leibniz's creation of the integral sign and the simultaneous discovery of calculus by Newton and Leibniz.
(tags: calculus math history)
Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » Cut Medicine in Half
"our main […]
Algebra II Test Overview | Achieve.org
With links to released items from exams.
(tags: math tests assessment exams problems resources algebra2)
International IDEA | Turnout in the world - country by country performance
(tags: voting data election)
Greg Mankiw's Blog: My Personal Work Incentives
"Obama's proposed tax hikes reduce my incentive to work by 62 percent compared to the McCain plan and by 93 percent compared to the no-tax scenario."
(tags: taxes politics work incentives economics)
Obama vs. His Advisers - WSJ.com
This is the main reason I am hesitant to vote for Obama: because he has slandered McCain's plans for taxing health care benefits even though economically, Mcain's plan is the right thing to do. There is no reason we should further entrench the employer-based health care approach as Obama plans […]
The Exponential Curve: Algebra 2: Evaluating Functions
I need to think about how to do something like this in algebra support. We are just starting functions and graphing.
(tags: teaching math algebra functions graphing)
f(t): The Professional Development I Need
I so relate to this. It is hard to execute innovative lessons well.
(tags: teaching)
This Blog Sits at the: Finding […]
Sherman Dorn: Magister economicus?
On whether teachers are rational economic actors: '"The rapid and apparently productive response of school personnel to school accountability pressure suggests that educators are, at least to some degree "magisters economici," responding to the incentives associated with the system. And this makes getting the system right so important, because if schools and […]
naked capitalism: Consumers' New Found Embrace of Savings Will Make for a Nasty Downturn
"… the powers that be want to keep demand up via another stimulus package. I'd be much happier if measures like that went to well-targeted infrastructure programs and other investments in the future productivity of the economy, rather than trying to keep […]
The Big Picture | Paul Volcker the Campaign Advisor
"When one of the greatest Fed Chairs ever starts consulting for a relatively young candidate with limited fiscal experience, you notice it."
(tags: presidential election obama fed banking economics)
Greg Mankiw's Blog: Taxing the Uninsured
"In other words, the Obama plan is much the same as imposing a health insurance mandate, backed up by the penalty of a tax surcharge on your earnings if you fail to have coverage. [But]… If an individual buys his own health policy, rather than getting it through his employer, […]
Op-Ed Columnist - Let’s Get Fiscal - NYTimes.com
"And this is also a good time to engage in some serious infrastructure spending, which the country badly needs in any case. The usual argument against public works as economic stimulus is that they take too long: by the time you get around to repairing that bridge and […]
