July 6, 2008

Actual good math humor. Seriously. I’m not kidding.

Update: I discovered a new comic site (abstruse goose) that I like almost as much as xkcd… it’s more ribald and there are a number I could never show my students. Which is a good thing! An example below:

 
Update 2: xkcd has a forum with math jokes.

July 6, 2008

Delicious Linky Links

I’ve been doing a lot of “internetsing” in the past few weeks. Some things of note:
 

Math Teacher Mambo’s “volumes of revolutions” project [here]
 
A superduper awesome puzzle to give to your students when learning trigonometry: “explain this crop circle” [here]. If I gave extra credit, I would probably give it to the student who could explain [...]