Through Math for America, I am part of an ongoing collaboration with the New York Times Learning Network. My latest contribution, a Test Yourself quiz-question, can be found here
Test Yourself Math — November 27, 2013
This question is about Twitter’s recent IPO: with around 500 million users, approximately how much is Twitter valued at, per user?
Through Math for America, I am part of an ongoing collaboration with the New York Times Learning Network. My latest contribution, a Test Yourself quiz-question, can be found here
Test Yourself Math — November 13, 2013
This question deals with the Common App, an online system that processes millions of college applications every year. What is the average number of applications processed per college?
My latest effort for the New York Times Learning Network is a text-based lesson designed to get students thinking about the relationship between science and religion.
Using the NYT LN’s text-to-text format, we’ve put a 1930’s NYT editorial by Albert Einstein on “Religion and Science” together with a recent article about efforts between physicists and Tibetan monks to improve understanding between the two groups. Students read the two pieces with some guiding questions, looking for similarities and differences between what Einstein and the Dalai Lama are describing.
The Einstein piece is especially good. Here is a favorite excerpt.
It is therefore, quite natural that the churches have always fought against science, and have persecuted its supporters. But, on the other hand, I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research … What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!
In any event, I’m proud to have brought Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and the Dalai Lama together in one piece! You can read it here.
Through Math for America, I am part of an ongoing collaboration with the New York Times Learning Network. My latest contribution, a Test Yourself quiz-question, can be found here
Test Yourself Math — October 23, 2013
This question deals with drugs prices in the United States. Drugs account for about 10% of the US’s $2.7 trillion annual health bill: how much is spent per person on drugs?
Through Math for America, I am part of an ongoing collaboration with the New York Times Learning Network. My latest contribution, a Test Yourself quiz-question, can be found here
Test Yourself Math — October 9th, 2013
This question pertains to a recent report showing that approximately 46.5 million Americans are currently living below the poverty line. What ratio of Americans are living in poverty?