One of the many art installations on Governor’s Island, New York.
Representation Sports
NYT Presents: Jeterography
In celebration of Derek Jeter’s 3,000th major league hit, the New York Times ran a really cool infographic displaying the relative frequencies of where those 3,000 hits went.
In addition to tracking where all of Jeter’s hits have gone, two graphics also compare his first 1,500 hits to his second 1,500 hits: not surprisingly, the second 1,500 consists of fewer home runs and fewer hits to left field. A similar graphic shows Alex Rodriguez’s hit patterns.
There are several other interesting data displays here, including year-by-year histograms for all 28 MLB players with 3,000 hits.
Challenge NYT
Math Quiz: NYT Learning Network
Through Math for America, I am part of an on-going collaboration with the New York Times Learning Network. My latest contribution, a Test Yourself quiz-question, can be found here:
https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/test-yourself-math-july-11-2011/
This problem is based on the number of home-schooled children in the U.S.
Photography
Math Photo: Exterior Angles
One bright, blue-sky day I happened to look up and notice this triangular intersection of wires. Configurations like this always put me in mind of the Exterior Angle Theorem, one of my favorites from elementary geometry.
Resources
On-Line Mathematics Resources
This website offers a number of categorized links to various mathematical resources around the web:
http://www.intute.ac.uk/mathematics/
With links to hundreds of external resources on Applied Mathematics, Calculus, Math History, and other topics, there are plenty of e-books to download and websites to interact with.
It seems that the organization that runs the website, Intute, has run out of funding, and so no new content will be added, but the resources that are already there should remain.