Well, that was smart

September 12, 2008 in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz, The nuts and bolts of it | 5 comments

In playing with my blog yesterday to wipe the face of it clean, I removed the widget that counts how many people came by and where they came from.

When an hour later the number of visitors hadn’t increased, I started thinking about it and realized what I had done.  And fixed it, but I’ll never know what happened during that time.

So, since we are talking about “smarts” I thought I’d post a few interesting links I’ve come across lately.  I’ve fiddled with these a little, but not in their full depth.  I just thought I’d pass them on.

It’s all math and science stuff…

For anyone looking for elementary reading ideas for either math or science we have list of the top 10 trade books of 2008.  Looking down the titles I see some possibilities of living books.

At the high school and higher level we have SOS Math (and that’s not Switched on Schoolhouse) with links covering:  Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus, Differential Equations, Complex Variables, Matrix Algebra, or Mathematical Tables.

Anyone looking for some information on astronomy, biology, chemistry, earthscience (which for some reason they are calling geography), or physics can find all sorts of info through Rader’s kapili.com site.  They also have some (what appears to be) elementary math activities to fiddle with.  And they’ve made the site FREE!

And if human anatomy is what you want to explore, this appears to have you covered.

5 comments

  1. Christina’s avatar

    Christina on September 12, 2008 at 7:47 am

    Must be a British site – geography is earth science over there, not just maps and such!

  2. Teresa’s avatar

    Teresa on September 12, 2008 at 12:16 pm

    I was wondering what happened to your blog yesterday…I thought it was a special format in tribute to 9-11.

    Glad it’s back and thanks for the links!

  3. jove’s avatar

    jove on September 12, 2008 at 1:08 pm

    Yeah, my understanding of geography is that it is a pretty broad subject that covered what are often described as human geography and physical geography. The latter would include earth science. Maps is a pretty narrow conception of the subject. But certainly at the university level I know geography isn’t a big discipline in North America whereas it is huge in the UK. (whether it is disciplined or not is a matter of ongoing debate among my friends, some of whom are geographers)

  5. Mary N’s avatar

    Mary N on September 14, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    thanks for the links- so what is SOS math? and have you ever used the Life of Fred books for teaching Math? my son is a total math phobe (hard to believe since he is also a pretty hardcore gamer) but these books have been awesome (along with aleks.com)

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