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Thanks to the people I follow on Twitter, I found this awesome video about mathematics. If you are one of those students who constantly question the reasons for learning mathematics, then renting the documentary "The Story of Mathematics" (see previews below) from your favorite video store will be worth each penny! Enjoy! Watch The Story of Maths Part 1 in Educational View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com Watch the story of maths part 2 of 4 The Genius of the East in Educational & How-To View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

Another reason to learn mathematics. Just watch the video and find out. The ramifications for learning mathematics are unknown to most of us. Complicated problems in real-life are often solved by applying mathematical concepts that for many of us at first seem to be useless. The examples in this video just prove it. Great quote in the video: 'The secret of productivity is...the work done by dead people (mathematicians).'

The videos below were created by students in my Geometry for Educators course (i.e. MAT 165) at St. Thomas University. The purpose of the assignment was to promote awareness among students on how geometry is embedded in those things they like most to do. To many, doing this project made the course content relevant and meaningful. Enjoy a sample of my students' videos.

Have you experienced remarkable coincidences in your daily life? Maybe these were not remarkable after all. Watch the video below to learn how probability explains logically how typical or common are many events in our lives that we may have considered as remarkable coincidences.

Most of us are always looking for information in the Internet and we use popular search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, etc. However, there will be a new search engine starting May 2009 that will interpret your questions. Is this search engine will be more powerful than Google? I'm not sure yet but I believe it will be! How is this possible? ... it uses Mathematics! Click the link below to learn more about this new search engine. clipped from blog.wolfram.com Fifty years ago, when computers were young, people assumed that they’d quickly be able to handle all these kinds of things.And that one would be able to ask a computer any factual question, and have it compute the answer.But it didn’t work out that way. Computers have been able to do many remarkable and unexpected things. But not that.But armed with Mathematica and NKS I realized there’s another way: explicitly implement methods and models, as algorithms, and explicitly curate all data so that it is immediately computable.All one needs to be able to do is to take questions people ask in natural language, and represent them in a precise form that fits into the computations one can do.I wasn’t at all sure it was going to work. But I’m happy to say that with a mixture of many clever algorithms and heuristics, lots of linguistic discovery and linguistic curation, and what probably amount to some serious theoretical breakthroughs, we’re actually managing to make it work.

Bart Simpson with math anxiety!

One of my favorite movies!