Dan Ashlock

Math professor fighting the good fight, trying to help students love learning. Reuse freely!

[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

This week on Occupy Math we look at how to tile rectangles with elbows. The set of all the rectangles that can be tiled is derived and the trick for figuring this out is given!
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[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

This week, Occupy Math unpacks the network theory behind the commerce clause of the US Constitution. This is a demonstration about how power rests on interpretation of the law!
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[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

Occupy Math is taking a look at the issue of corruption. What is it, why is it a problem, and how do you identify it. Math is built on definitions and one way abound a lot of nonsense is to have a good definition.
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[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

Still cathching up with Occupy Math: a post about designing fair tests and the beginning of the theory of statistical designs.
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[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

Occupy Math is way behind on tweets! Here is a post on a whole class of puzzles you can use to help students practice logic and arithmetic, disguised as a fun activity!
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[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

This week on Occupy Math, the trick of finding what a Julia set looks like before you render it. Secrets of the Guild!
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[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

Occupy Math is looking at the connection between factoring numbers into primes and working with fractions. This week's post also addresses the personality of numbers, has a couple games, and uses Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic. https://t.co/jhlZLvNTE2

[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

This week on Occupy Math we look again to polar coordinates to give us pretty pictures: basket curves. This post also explores a pattern-recognition example that could be used for discovery learning. Plus color at the end! https://t.co/INP3ueTgr1

[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

Occupy Math ends 2017 on a hopeful note about the good you can do with mathematics. Biomass stoves, solid ultrasound, and a weird trip from science fiction to software technique. Happy New Year!
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[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

This week Occupy Math looks at things that must be wrong with any tax plan written so fast no-one can read it. We apply some very basic complex systems ideas to the current situation -- and illustrate with cellular automata.
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[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

This week is Occupy Math's third set of seasonal ornaments. They are, of course, fractal and links to the first and second collections are provided. Happy Holidays!

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[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

This week on Occupy Math we take a look at the self-inflicted wounds many students acquire because we teach them a wrong-headed attitude about math. This week - students doing extra work on timed tests. Save yourself!
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[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

In this week's Occupy Math, the Cantor Diagonal Proof is presented in plain language. This result is where the intrinsic weirdness of the world became clearly visible: yes Virginia there are multiple infinities!
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[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

This week on Occupy Math, reasons why diversity is a good thing. Diversity can be controversial -- but its value is an unavoidable feature of an uncertain world. Wonder why? Click the link.
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[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

From thinking millennials a layabouts to math anxiety and including HR and intelligence, people smoosh together things that shoul not be smooshed! Smooshing errors are todays topic in Occupy Math.
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[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

This week on Occupy Math a technique for creating simple, re-usable rules for creating maps for use in games using cellular automata. Plus pictures...
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[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

Last week Occupy Math looked at chaos and randomness. This week? Randomness. Unexpectedly, there is a social justice component to not understanding randomness. Also in this post: history and lava lamps. https://t.co/SFW7G73aVo

[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

Think chaos and randomness are the same? Trying to take control of your life? This week's Occupy Math supplies clarifications and more achievable goals. Plus: a guest appearance by the quantum weather butterfly! https://t.co/YhMhBEoxsd

[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

Dark Multipliers are interacting factors that make a problem worse. This week Occupy Math looks at dark multipliers in self-driving climate change, Texas fire ants, urban sprawl, and a really bad dice game. https://t.co/wo8r9N4SWz

[Dan Ashlock @OccupyMath]

This week in Occupy Math, the math and history of our new game FRAX! FRAX helps you learn to do do fraction arithmetic and we are signing up beta testers. Take a look: https://t.co/FMLxXKMkLG