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Bob Mathews said:
Alternative meeting places in cyberspace for mathematics enthusiasts include: Thanks. I can access MY GROUPS
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Rediscovering Straight-edge and Compass

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 Semicircle_In_Square

People who haven't had the right opportunity to learn math have something in common
with people who were born before math was invented. Perhaps some of the techniques of
Euclidean geometry could be revived in a format that is more accessible today.
Specifically, the ancient tools of straight-edge and compass, could be reinvented to suit
today's teaching needs. Take this geometry problem: What is the largest area of the
semi-circle that can be inscribed in a square of edge length 1 unit? That was the question
posted by harpreet in the topic " maxima & minima" on a Mathematics forum on
Orkut.com. Some mathematics enthusiasts took a team approach to this problem on the
Mathematics24x7 social network, Christian drew a diagram of the solution and Steve
calculated the radius of the semicircle. We calculated the radius as 2-sqrt(2) and the area
as pi*(3-2*sqrt(2)) .(sqrt() represents the square root.) Danny proposed a less abstract
expression of the problem, which would be more interesting to students. "I have been
asked to help paint a mural on the outside wall of a grocery store in my neighborhood. My
task is to create the background for the mural. The instructions are to create the largest
possible semicircle on the wall, with the semicircle touching all 4 sides. The wall is square
with 10 feet on each side. I need to find out how to position the semicircle to satisfy the
instructions. I also need to know the radius and center of the semicircle. How can I figure
this out with the basic math that I know?" In the discussion Straight Edge and Compass
Construction For Developmental Math, I described a method of drawing the mural using a
long plank, lengths of rope, a few pegs and some chalk. Use the rope to extend the base
of the wall, to the right, by its width, and mark the point with a peg. This defines an
imaginary square that is side by side with, and on the right of the square wall. Draw a
diagonal on the original square, because we know that the solution is symmetrical about
the diagonal. Mark a diagonal on the imaginary square by stretching a rope from the peg
to the top right corner of the square wall. This is a way of calculating the square root of
two. Using the peg as the center point and the rope as a radius, follow an arc down to the
base of the wall, and mark the point where the arc intersects the base. The distance of
that point from the left wall is 2-sqrt(2), which is the radius of the semicircle. Draw a
perpendicular from that point, and where it meets the diagonal, peg the center point of the
semicircle. Attaching a length of rope to the peg, stretch it to the furthest wall, and with
chalk held fixed on the rope, draw the semicircle. I also described the construction in
more abstract terms, and used the GeoGebra geometry software to demonstrate.(See the
diagram, where the biggest semicircle that fits in the square is positioned diagonally in the
top left of the diagram.) Draw the square as a 4 sided regular polygon. Draw an identical
square to its right Draw the diagonals of the right hand square and use them as radii of
arcs that intersect the left hand square. Create points where the arcs intersect the base
and top side of the left hand square. Join these two points with a vertical line. Its
intersection with the diagonal of the left hand square defines the centre of the semicircle.
Draw the semicircle through any one point on the square and notice that it touches or
intersects the square at 4 points. Draw the base of the semicircle through the two
intersection points. (I mistakenly drew the wall as 11 feet instead of 10, but that does not
detract from the construction.) Constructive geometry involves no measurement of length,
except use of the compass as a tool to copy a length and duplicate it somewhere else on
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equal lengths. We draw the diagonal of a square without realising that we are calculating
the square root of two. Constructive geometry is available to people who don't do algebra.
They can solve ancient problems, rediscover the history of mathematics and apply it to
their own environment. Straight-edge and compass problems range in difficulty from
simply drawing a hexagon to the more complex procedure for drawing a regular pentagon.
Refer to comment below for public domain geometry files of this example.

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Promoting Mathematics Via Social Networks

Aug 4, 2009 Post a comment

This is a story of the

promotion of mathematics
and science through social
networks, digital
repositories and other Web
2.0 technologies. It began
in August 2008 when I was
inspired by the 1999
Cluetrain Manifesto, and
wrote a discussion paper
Cool_Physics_Of_Heat "Use the Cloud to Get a
1 comment Clue", which I published as
a PDF file on Scribd.com
and later as a slide show "Openness and Social Networking" on Slideshare.net. To
demonstrate the Creative Commons licenses, I threw together a quick presentation "The
Cool Physics of Heat", and was surprised that it notched up almost 1000 views on
Slideshare.net and 1400 views on Scribd.com, much more than any other document that I
have released. I then focussed on my interest in mathematics (not my main subject), in
particular blogging about it here, at http://cmcallister.vox.com/ on the free blogging
service, Vox.com. I discovered an active niche social network, Mathematics24x7, on the
Ning.com platform, where teachers and other academics were expressing their
enthusiasm for maths. I participated in a weekly #mathchat Twitter conference (2am GMT
Thursdays). That exchange inspired me to create a public wiki "Online Mathematics
Access", about math markup as a tool for discussing mathematics online. There were
failures too; my "Mirimatics" forum on Friendster.com stimulated absolutely no
discussion. I added a Math Problem Solving group to Mathematics24x7, which is more
successful, and attracted a dozen participants in as many days. My online activity is
neither scientific research nor publishing, in the formal sense. However, it is still
worthwhile, and involves the exchange of academic ideas with a network of new online
acquaintances. It is promising that this discourse has grown, without being published in
an academic journal, or having any research focus. The discussion has drifted across
such diverse topics as the solution of geometric problems and the significance of colour in
cognition, which someone "Liked" on Facebook. I'm simply writing about a subject that I
enjoy, not striving to maximise page hits. The only metrics are the view count on my
uploaded files, and a few red dots on the visitor map on my blog. I uploaded snapshots, of
both the math markup wiki and this Vox.com blog, to Scribd.com, to make them more
available. The online discourse is dynamic, refreshing, and involves a broad cross section
of maths enthusiasts. We exercised teamwork in solving maths problems and discussed
some new ideas. The discussions are linked to other networks too, including the Math,
Math Education, Math Culture group on LinkedIn.com and a Mathematics community on
Orkut.com.

This story is dedicated to the many individuals who are persecuted for publishing their
ideas, a few of whom I mention on my blog at http://cmcallister.blog.friendster.com/.

Links:
Social network: http://mathematics24x7.ning.com/ created by Rashmi Kathuria
#mathchat, hosted weekly by Maria Droujkova at http://twitter.com/mariadroujkova
Math Markup wiki: http://onlinemathematicsaccess.wikispaces.com/
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http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=33207
Math 2.0 Interest Group, managed by by Maria Droujkova, at
http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/

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Colourised Equations As An Aid To Mathematics

Jul 31, 2009 Post a comment

Yesterday, during a discussion about cognition, a colleague informed me that Physicist

Richard Feynman perceived colours when he saw equations. "When I see equations," he
once said "I see the letters in colors - I don't know why." (Ref 1). This ability is a form of
synesthesia by which there is cross-over from one sense to another. Daniel Tammet, an
amazing savant, also has this gift. He "sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures,
and performs extraordinary calculations in his head", as he describes in his book, Born on
a Blue Day. This suggested to me that colourised equations would be a good aid to
learning for some people. (This is just an idea. I have no evidence that it would be
effective, and it could put a person who is colour blind at a disadvantage. Ref 2.)
I took the well known roots of the quadratic equation:

Quadratic_Solutions

and used blue to identify irrational parts and red to identify negative terms. The mapping is
not clear cut, because one term is plus-or-minus, and it is only the result of the square
root that is irrational.

Quadratic_solution_coloured

This colour image was created by entering the LaTeX formula:

\frac{\uc{red}{-b}\pm{\uc{blue}{\sqrt[]{(b^2 \uc{red}{- 4*a*c})}}}}{2a}

into the equation renderer at: http://www.hamline.edu/~arundquist/equationeditor/. The

LaTeX command \uc{red}{-b} defines that the term -b is to be coloured red.

The benefits of colouring may not be apparent for a single equation. I suggest that you try
it the next time you need to present a long and tedious algebraic evaluation. The low-tech
approach would be to use coloured highlighting pens to mark up a printed copy of the
equations. This is not a new idea, accountants have been using red ink to represent
negative numbers for generations.

For the benefit anyone who is unable to view the images, the equation shown by the above
images is:

(-b +/- sqrt(b^2 - 4*a*c))/2a

The negative terms -b and -4*a*c are coloured red and the sqrt() function, which may be
irrational is coloured blue. The square root may also be an imaginary number, if it is the
square root of a negative number.

Another application of colouring is to present each digit in its standard resistor colour
code. The pattern of repeating decimals for certain fractions becomes much more
memorable. For example 264/999:

264over999
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This was generated from the LaTeX code:

\pagecolor{gray}\uc{red}{2}\uc{blue}{6}\uc{yellow}{4}/\uc{white}9\uc{white}9\uc{white}9 =
0.\uc{red}{2}\uc{blue}{6}\uc{yellow}{4}\uc{red}{2}\uc{blue}{6}\uc{yellow}{4}\uc{red}{2}\uc
{blue}{6}\uc{yellow}{4}\uc{red}{2}\uc{blue}{6}\uc{yellow}{4}...

using into the equation renderer at: http://www.hamline.edu/~arundquist/equationeditor/.

Ref 1: The book Sparks of Genius, By Robert Scott Root-Bernstein. The page containing
Feynman's description may be viewed in Google Books.

Ref 2: In "Colourised Equations As An Aid To Mathematics" on the Mathematics24x7

network, Bob Mathews commented that we need to create presentations that are "color-
blind friendly".

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Math Accessibility Online - An Open Discussion

Jul 23, 2009 2 comments

The open discussion about support for mathematics on Web 2.0 and social networking
sites, is now taking place on the public wiki,
http://onlinemathematicsaccess.wikispaces.com/.
You are invited to add your comments to the following Discussions:

● How can we share math online?

● What sites support math conversation?
● Is it OK to use plain text math?
● Considerations for impaired vision or hearing?

The first version of this wiki was a document, available as Math Accessibility Online
(PDF), or as a Microsoft Word Document on Scribd.com.

There is a related discussion on the Mathematics24x7 social network, Editing Equations

on Web 2.0 Discussion Forums. This discussion is also on LinkedIn.com, in the group
Math, Math Education, Math Culture, with the same title Editing Equations on Web 2.0
Discussion Forums.

I wish to thank Maria Droujkova for organising the weekly math events, including 22nd July
online meeting at Mathfuture on this topic, and for asking the above questions. I created
the wiki in lieu of my participation in her scheduled weekly discussions.

Twitter hashtag: #mathmarkup, for LaTeX, MathML and related topics about mathematics
markup.

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New Mathematics Problem Solving Group

Jul 19, 2009 Post a comment

You are welcome to join the new "Math Problem Solving" group at
Mathematics24x7.ning.com. Rashmi Kathuria, creator of the Mathematics24x7 social
network, has kindly permitted me to add the discussion group. The social network has
145 members including maths teachers and maths enthusiasts. I'm sure that some of
them will be happy to join you in discussing and solving maths problems. Pose your
maths problems there, or add comments that lead towards a solution or understanding.
Embed equations in your text as images, if they improve the presentation of your
discussion. Mathematics24x7 has diverse blog posts and topics about teaching
mathematics at all stages.

Although I am not a mathematician, I have added three problems to get the discussion
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Algebra and Graph Theory
Combine Resistors to Achieve Minimum Current
and save the planet!
Based on Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Rules and 10% tolerance resistors.

Geometry and Algebra of Irrational Numbers

Largest Semicircle Inscribable in a Unit Square
or Corn Circles 101.
From the topic "maxima & minima" on a Mathematics forum on Orkut.com

Algebra and Differential Calculus.

Problem of Monkey Climbing a Chain
Can you solve it faster than the monkey?
From the Friendster group "ELITE MATH CIRCLE".

The Combine Resistors problem is my own design. The other two problems are borrowed
from maths groups on Friendster.com and Orkut.com, and have hyperlinks to those
groups for reference.

Problems may range from Kindergarten to Postgraduate level and may cover any subject
involving mathematics. Discussions on Ning.com social networks support images
embedded within the text, which is useful for algebra. You may render equations as
images, using an on line equation editor, and upload them into your discussion.

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Editing Equations on Web 2.0 Sites

Jul 7, 2009 3 comments

Support for equation editing

is a weakness of all Web
2.0 sites that I have
Quadratic_Solutions
encountered. Students and
lecturers of science and
mathematics need to use equations and formulae to develop their work. The blackboard or
whiteboard is convenient in the classroom, but academics also need to share their work
online. Social networks and Web 2.0 sites are the ideal forum for sharing, but they are not
geared for academic use. Programmers of FORTRAN, ALGOL and C already have a
solution; they have been expressing equations in plain text for half a century. It is
common to see x-squared written as x^2, and the square root of x as x^.5, (x to the power
of one half), but many people would not be familiar with that shorthand. Some Web 2.0
sites support HTML markup when editing posts and comments, and provide format
controls like Bold and Italics on the toolbar. Academic discussions would be
considerably improved if Web 2.0 sites would add just three buttons: Superscript,
Subscript and Greek letters to the editing toolbar. Some social networks, such as
LinkedIn.com and Friendster.com do not support any HTML editing. The Hi5.com social
network supports HTML in discussions, but you need to code it by hand, or with HTML
editing software such as Kompozer, and paste it into the edit box. Most blogs let you
attach an image to your post, so a solution is to use an online equation editor, as at
CodeCogs or Thornahawk, to generate an image of your equation. For example, the
expression "\frac{-b\pm{\sqrt[]{(b^2 - 4*a*c)}}}{2a}" renders the formula for solutions to the
quadratic equation a*x^2+b*x+c=0. I uploaded the rendered image
"Quadratics_Solutions.gif" to this blog post. One popular Web 2.0 service, the online
collaboration tool Zoho Writer has a LaTeX Equation Editor. According to the Zoho Blog:
"As you may know, a significant % of our users are students. We got a lot of requests
from this user segment to build an Equation Editor into Zoho Writer. And Zoho Writer has
it now." The tool that Zoho added is LaTeX, a document markup language developed in the
1980's. If you host a blog or web page, you can use equation rendering plug-ins or cgi
programs such as Yourequations.com or MathTex to embed equations into your online
content.
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Representing Scale in Mathematics

Jul 3, 2009 Post a comment

The conception of scale

and its representation and
exploration are critical
mathematical skills.
Analogies are commonly
used. A transistor is two
thousand times smaller
than a human hair.
Antarctic ice is as deep as
Smallest_Transistor_1999 a dozen football fields.
Analogies are not always
helpful, and it should not be necessary to repeat them every time that science or
technology is discussed. Exponential or Scientific Notation or powers of ten provide a
convenient representation of distance, time, money and other measurements. We use
words like "trillion" in Finance and "nanometer" in Physics, as symbols for powers of ten,
to help us reason about the very large and the very small. Exponential notation is used on
a scientific calculator. Sometimes powers of two are used, as in defining a Kilobyte of
memory, or repeatedly folding a sheet of paper in half. An understanding of scale helps us
to understand science. For example, travelling to Mars would be much harder than
travelling to the International Space Station. Both are in space, but Mars is about one
million times further away. Zooming, as used in photography, is a transformation that
helps us to appreciate different scales. It is the dynamic version of the relationship with
the real world that we infer when looking at a model car or the map of a country. Scaling
relates to the concept of similar triangles in geometry. M.C. Escher used one scaling
transformation, now known as the Droste Effect, in his mathematical prints. Zooming is an
essential tool in navigating computer media and makes graphical content more accessible
by letting us adjust the scale to match our visual acuity.The space simulation software
Celestia provides an "exponential zoom feature that lets you explore space across a huge
range of scales". Fractals show self-similarity at many scales, and graphical
presentations let you zoom in to theoretically limitless depth, as shown on this video,
Baroque Mandelbrot Zoom on Youtube. In summary, representations of scale include:
exponential notation or powers of ten, maps and models, zooming out to explore
simulations of space, or zooming in to explore the structure of fractals. This post was my
response to a discussion Multiple Representations, with math teachers on
mathematics24x7.ning.com.
Transistor image is from the linked 1999 BBC article.

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Heartening Success of Nesin Mathematics

Village
Jun 30, 2009 Post a comment

The Nesin Mathematics Village, or Nesin Matematik Koyu, in Turkey arose from
controversial beginnings. I first read the story "Mathematics under arrest" of its
controversial beginnings in 2007, when Professor Ali Nesin was unfairly charged as a
criminal for operating an unauthorised summer school. Closure of the school by
authorities in 2007 was condemned by mathematicians around the world, including
Alexandre Borovik, of Manchester, England. I recalled that story while contemplating what
it means to be a mathematician and the waste that occurs when authorities deny
mathematicians that role, as in the case of Chen Jinrun, when criticised by rebels during
the Communist Revolution in China. A quick search of the web shows that Professor Ali
Nesin's small school has grown into a heartening success, an educational village
dedicated to giving young people the opportunity to focus on mathematics. "Nesin
Mathematics Village, random faces" by Alexandre Borovik shows that the village is
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tells more of the story, in "Nesin Mathematics Village in Turkey", and shows interest in
beginning something similar.

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