Ramanujan's Mock Modulars Finally Worked Out

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121217091604.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29

A Math Museum

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=museum-puts-math-on-display

Repeating Dates Running Out Fast

http://www.patrickkphillips.com/2012/12/13/thats-a-wrap-no-more-repeating-dates-for-you/

Math for People Who Hate Numbers - Best Seller

http://www.theonion.com/articles/top-5-bestselling-books-week-of-december-10-2012,30675/

Math humor - #4

TIMMS results

USA did Okay.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121211130434.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29

And Colorado kids did well, too:  http://www.gazette.com/articles/colorado-148387-international-national.html

Cost of a Penny

http://what-if.xkcd.com/22/

CSU Pueblo Math Day 2012

The Math Modeling and Data Mining of Pollsters is the Big Election Winner

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/2012-poll-accuracy-obama-models-survey_n_2087117.html

Halloween Sierpinski

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8ZWlUamNPI&feature=em-uploademail-new

Intuitive Logarithmic Counting

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-thomas/whats-halfway-between-1-and-9-kids-and-scientists-say-3_b_1982920.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003&ir=Denver

Hexaflexagon Safety :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmN0YyaTD60&feature=em-uploademail-new

Secret Agent Math

http://mathdude.quickanddirtytips.com/how-to-use-math-to-send-encrypted-messages.aspx?WT.mc_id=11039

More Hexaflexagons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paQ10POrZh8&feature=em-uploademail-new
Vihart video Hexaflexagons 2

Hexaflexagon celebration Website:  http://www.puzzles.com/hexaflexagon/

Previous Years:  http://www.puzzles.com/hexaflexagon/aroundtheworld.html

Martin Gardner's post on Hexaflexagons 1956:  http://www.puzzles.com/hexaflexagon/aroundtheworld.html

Vihart Hexaflexagons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIVIegSt81k&feature=em-uploademail-new

Fantastic Data Displays!

http://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/2012/09/information-is-beautiful-awards-winners/

Can you make a Julia Set that looks like a Cat?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/09/26/fractal-kitties-illustrate-the-endless-possibilities-for-julia-sets/

Gender bias?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/2012/09/23/study-shows-gender-bias-in-science-is-real-heres-why-it-matters/

I'll admit it - I did notice and was distracted by the misleading graph!

Convention Speech Word Choice Graph

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/06/us/politics/convention-word-counts.html?smid=fb-share

Interactive display on word choice in convention speeches

Nice Tessellation - angry bull and bear

http://www.moillusions.com/2012/09/spot-the-opportunity-illusion-poster.html

ABC conjecture proved?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=proof-claimed-for-deep-connection-between-prime-numbers

Unit Cancellation

http://what-if.xkcd.com/11/

Gas mileage units, units in general, estimation, assumptions in word problems, etc.

Math Reporting Fail?

http://www.patrickkphillips.com/2012/09/09/math-fail-same-retiree-magically-changes-ages-twice-in-same-story/

An opportunity to talk about underlying assumptions to word problems in a math class.  How old is she likely to be, and why do you think so?

MetaAnalysis - Stats thoughts to consider

http://livingmaxwell.com/stanfords-report-on-organic-food-should-serve-as-a-serious-wake-up-call

 A possible article for discussion when considering experimental design and pros and cons of meta-research or research mining.

Drake Equation

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120821-how-many-alien-worlds-exist

An interactive Drake Equation manipulator to estimate how many civilizations are out there.....

And a TedED video on the Drake Equation:

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/calculating-the-odds-of-intelligent-alien-life

Infographic: Why We Die

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-why-we-die-global-life-expectancy

Interesting chart showing mortality causes and life expectancy over time in U.S. and globally.

Microwave oven key-use

http://xkcd.com/1103/

Then there are those of us who 'optimize' button-pressing by cooking things for times like 3 minutes and 33 seconds....

Does Math Talent Make You Smarter than Other Talents?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/2012/08/30/are-assessments-of-scientific-intelligence-biased-toward-mathematically-oriented-fields/

Do people who are good at math get more credit for their smarts than people with other types of genius?

Discalculia - what's going on in the brain?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120829103516.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Grains of Sand

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-many-grains-sand-on-earths-beaches

How many grains of sand are on the world's beaches?

Soul Mate Math

http://what-if.xkcd.com/9/

If you have one true soul mate, what's the probability of finding him/her?

Happy Numbers

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/08/27/why-167-is-a-happy-numberbesides-being-scientific-americans-age/

What are happy numbers?

Vihart: Connecting Dots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-pyuaThp-c&feature=share&list=UUOGeU-1Fig3rrDjhm9Zs_wg

Doodling in Math Class:  Connecting Dots

The Mathematical Legacy of William Thurston (1946-2012)

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/08/23/the-mathematical-legacy-of-william-thurston-1946-2012/

Does How Much You Make Change Proportional Spending in Your Budget?

http://www.prosebeforehos.com/article-of-the-day/08/21/how-america-spends/

All American Handyman

http://www.hgtv.com/all-american-handyman/show/index.html

A great show  - math skills in measurement and geometry are often what causes a competitor to lose out on the top position.

Pi-Hundred People live in U.S.

http://www.krdo.com/news/Pi-hundred-million-people-live-in-U-S/-/417220/16134822/-/dy10tc/-/index.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Is it Math or Maths?

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/08/14/maths/

What If? - Could we really all leave the planet?

http://what-if.xkcd.com/7/

If an asteroid is headed to earth, could we all get off, assuming we had somewhere to go?

Can Math Determine if and when History will Repeat Itself?

http://www.nature.com/news/human-cycles-history-as-science-1.11078

Why Olympic Feats Raise Suspicion

http://www.nature.com/news/why-great-olympic-feats-raise-suspicions-1.11109

Pendulum Wave Effect

http://youtu.be/7_AiV12XBbI

Video of pendulum wave effects

A Mole of Moles

http://what-if.xkcd.com/4/

How many Squares?

Autumn Babies more likely to reach 100

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22054-autumn-babies-more-likely-to-hit-100.html

Last Mortgage Payment = 62,000 Pennies

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/07/08/massachusetts-man-pays-off-mortage-with-800-pounds-of-pennies/

NOVA - Hunting the Hidden Dimension

Nova makes some awesome shows.

Here is a great one from last week or so about fractals:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/fractals/program.html

You can make your own fractals as well!

Make your own: http://www.fractaldomains.com/download.html (There are others as well, just Google it.)

Loudness destroying quality of music recording?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-10360787-47.html

http://youtu.be/TqQX3htzhSY

Wobbly Table Math

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-turning&ref=sciam

It's a problem as old as civilization: the wobbly table. You may have thought your only recourse against this scourge is a hastily folded cocktail napkin stuffed under the offending leg. If so, take heart, because mathematicians have recently proved a more elegant solution. Just rotate the table.