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Why Run a 5K When You Can Run a Pi K?
The Illinois Science Council is sponsoring a Pi Day Pi K run — and I can’t resist posting about a run that’s not 3.1 miles like your typical 5K, but 3.14 miles instead! Tickets for the March 14 run in...
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About That ‘Common Core’ Math Problem Making the Rounds on Facebook…
Over the past week, I’ve seen this image multiple times on Facebook and elsewhere, a supposed denunciation of the Common Core version of math that kids are now learning: That picture is especially...
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David Barton: More Christians Died for Their Faith in 2013 Than the Previous...
We already know Christian pseudo-historian David Barton‘s research skills are as strong as his math skills, which is to say they’re both awful. Trust me. I’m Christian. In his latest math blunder (a...
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To Those Students Who Wonder: “When Am I Ever Going to Use This In Life?”
Jason Rosenhouse (below), a professor at James Madison University (and author of some excellent math books), spoke at the graduation ceremony for JMU’s College of Science and Mathematics over the...
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What in the Blazes Is Going On With These Graphs?
Can you make sense of this? The blue line shows the ten-year trend in the marriage rate in Mississippi. The orange line represents how much milk we consume in the United States. Uncanny, huh? Does...
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5 Lessons from a Christian Counting Workbook
Some advice for PR people: If you send me an email asking me if I want to review Bible workbooks for preschoolers, and you never bother to Google my name, then I’m going to say “Yes. Yes I do.” So here...
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This is What Happens When Headline Writers Don’t Know Their Statistics
Last week, the Pew Research Center released a survey showing that being an atheist was the most negative trait a presidential candidate could posses: You can see from the list that being an atheist was...
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I Guess Math is Harder Than a Mixed-Faith Relationship…
According to Dale McGowan, author of the forthcoming book In Faith and In Doubt (about relationships between atheists and believers), one in six “religiously unaffiliated” people have spouses who are...
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This is How You Do “Common Core” Subtraction
Erick Erickson, the editor of the conservative website RedState, is furious because of the way his third grade daughter is being taught math. I mean, just look at how her “Common Core” textbook teaches...
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Six Reasons the PhotoMath App Isn’t As Cool As You Think It Is
By now, you’ve probably seen the amazing video about an app called PhotoMath. Once you download it, you can take a picture of a math problem with your phone… and the app not only solves the problem, it...
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It’s Every Math Teacher’s Dream…
See how that response plays out at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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It’s Worth Taking a Full Minute to Learn How to Add 9 and 6: A Response to...
Quick: What’s 99 + 47?No calculators.It’s 146. Of course it’s 146. You know how I know that?Because I rounded the 99 to 100… and then subtracted one from 47 to make up the difference.I sure as hell...
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Is the US Postal Service Biased Against Atheists? Check Out This Study
Remember those atheist shoes? They had soles (ha!) with the phrases “Darwin Loves” and “Ich Bin Atheist”:Well, the Berlin-based makers of the shoes have been sending their goods to a lot of Americans...
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The Creation Museum’s Ken Ham is Asking His Followers to Pray for Me
You guys, Ken Ham‘s not happy with me.All I did was call him a liar and a bad teacher (because he’s a liar and a bad teacher), and he’s upset! So upset that he wants his followers to pray for...
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The Church of England and the Art of Bullshit
This is quite the headline from the Church of England!Wow! Four out of five people believe in the power of prayer! Remarkably high belief in the supernatural at a time you’d expect otherwise…The Bishop...
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Christian Pastor Claims to Have ‘Irrefutable’ Mathematical Proof for...
Dan Delzell, the pastor of Wellspring Lutheran Church in Papillion, Nebraska, just found “irrefutable” mathematical proof for Christianity!Thankfully, it’s nothing like this:Even if you’re not a...
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From the Christian Post:Sam Rohrer, president of the Pennsylvania Pastors’ Network, stated that he was “stunned at this decision today to take a 360-degree turn away from the biblical definition of...
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An Excerpt from Magnificent Mistakes in Mathematics
Alfred S. Posamentier and Ingmar Lehmann, who previously wrote the excellent book The Fabulous Fibonacci Numbers (1997), have teamed up once again to write Magnificent Mistakes in Mathematics...
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Over the Past Decade, There Has Been a Sharp Decline in Money Spent on...
We know the economy’s in bad shape. We know the recession hurt a lot of industries. But even I was shocked to see just how much of a drop there has been over the past decade when it comes to religious...
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This is Why I Don’t Believe Anyone Who Says ‘I’m Not a Math Person’
An article at The Atlantic by Miles Kimball and Noah Smith argues against the notion that some people are just not “math people” and I couldn’t agree more:… we believe that the idea of “math people” is...
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