We start the week with the first of what we hope is a new regular feature: O’Mathography – a random collection of the photographic work of Steve O’Keefe. Steve is a long-standing member of Burke’s Math Department, teaching various classes in the middle and high schools. He’s also been a frequent contributor of sports action [...]
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O’Mathography: A Bridge From Monday
Posted in Math, tagged photography on October 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Mathematical Conventioneer: Substance and Souvenirs
Posted in Education, Math, Uncategorized on August 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a banner few years for math enthusiasts in Washington, DC. Two winters ago, the Joint Mathematical Meetings were in town. Not only did I attend super cool sessions, a few AP Calc students made it to one of the programs. PLUS there were the luscious convention freebies — the ever fashionable plastic pocket [...]
SUMMERTIME FUN FOR GEEKY (NERDY?) GIRLS
Posted in Alumni, Burke Summer, Education, Math, Uncategorized on August 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ariella Gladstein (Burke ’07, Beloit ’11) and Rachel Braun (Math Dept) had a reunion of sorts in July, enjoying some chai (latte) and chi (statistics). Ariella took Linear Algebra at U Maryland this summer, and discovered some cool matrix connections to least-squares regression estimates that she remembered from her AP Statistics days with Rachel. Girls [...]
Abacus…mystery or mastery?
Posted in Education, Math, Uncategorized on May 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
AP Calculus students are finishing their year exploring cool topics in mathematics. They took a two day foray into a bit of number theory, looking at numeration and place value from various perspectives. First was a foray into other bases, including binary, hexadecimal, and base 8, admittedly just so that they could listen to Tom [...]
Dr. Geller, I Presume
Posted in Education, Math, Uncategorized on May 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last Friday, May 14th, 25 students and faculty joined to hear an address by Nancy Geller, president-elect of the American Statistical Association, in the theatre. Dr. Geller is the Director of the National Heart,Lung, and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) Office of Biostatistics Research. Of special interest to us at Burke is that she is the [...]
Pi Day Serves up Pie as well as Pi!
Posted in Math, Uncategorized, tagged Math on March 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today is approximately Pi Day (3/14) – which means that it’s time for another Pi Day extravaganza from the soprano side of the Math Department. Participants were: Nora “no ‘At Last’ on this one because the digits of Pi never end” S. ’10 Rachel “Lady PiPi” Braun dancers Brandy Wilson and Michelle Johncock Zach [...]
The Equation of Love
Posted in Math, tagged Math on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In honor of tonight’s Winter Formal, Burke.Word, scientific journal that it is, presents the discovery of the mathematical formula for determining your chances for finding love. Peter Backus, an American economist toiling away for the past 3 years on his PhD in England (apparently in a library dungeon), had so much free time on his [...]
Abolition Day At Burke
Posted in Activism, Community, Education, History, Math on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Abolition Day Assembly was the culmination of several weeks of work by students throughout the school to research and learn more about Modern Day Slavery. We heard poetry written to express the truth about prostitution and watched a YouTube video created to publicize the horrors and the reality of human trafficking. Another student talked [...]
The Blog Big Time
Posted in Education, Math, tagged Math on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Burke. Word’s 15 minutes of fame officially arrived on August 19 when the blog Computational Complexity linked to Rachel’s post on The Pi versus e debate. Computational Complexity… I can’t wait to tell my mother! [Update: Turns out that my link to the Pi versus e debate post was no good. It's now fixed. Sorry [...]
The Pi versus e debate: which is the better transcendental number?
Posted in Math, Uncategorized, tagged Math on May 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s become an annual end-of-year event in AP Calculus: the pi vs e debate. This year one student held out for “i” (get real, Sasha! …..that was a really bad math joke, by the way), and debate around the room was vigorous. Most arguments featured information about mathematical properties or historical understandings of these numbers, [...]
More New Math
Posted in Math on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Check out the website New Math to solve the problem Denial =? and other life formulas.
The Philosopher ‘Super’ Hero
Posted in Math, tagged books, Math, philosophy on April 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Move aside Wolverine, a new kind of comic book hero is about to blast onto the scene this Fall. Keep an eye out for Logicomix – An Epic Search for Truth. This new graphic novel tells the epic tale of leading early 20th Century mathmeticians and philosophers doing battle with the foundations of reality and [...]
Fuzzy Math
Posted in Math on April 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Check out New Math. Every Monday the site provides a new, funny “mathmatical” formula to describe the calculus of our lives and world.
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