Long division with decimals? It's easier if you copy Beyonce and sing, "To the left to the left" as you move the decimal point. Or do you move it to the right? I got really confused, and wrote a lighthearted piece about 6th grade arithmetic ho

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My daughter is having some math issues. This gives me great grief as I am pretty proficient mathematically. I’m very visual and it was driving me nuts every time she would add 5 + 1 by starting with 1,2,3,4,5…….. 6! The number one reason for this is

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Watching a Coen Brothers film is almost always a treat. You’re never quite sure what you’re going to get out of it but you can almost depend on it being good.

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Its no Surprise that Andy Rodick won his game today in China at the Shanghai tennis masters which was a great place to be to see some amazing math ups today.

Other contenders like the spanish guy Nadal also had some success in which he played like a true champion. Rated just second spot in rankings, this young guy is seeking a number one t

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Aol acquired Yedda - an online Q and A service (similar to yahoo answers). Yedda users online partners to help display their questions and increase their user base. AOL acquiring them will drastically increase their exposure and hopefully give them the boost of users they need.

AOL also recently purchased Quigo a content advertising netw

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Recognize this number?
If not, you probably didn't pay attention in math class as much as you should have... This is Pi, and it's a very interesting number for a few simple reasons, but one main reason: IT NEVER ENDS!! and also, IT NEVER REPEATS ITSELF.

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986

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Hate math? Got a kid who hates math? MathMojo is probably your best source for making sense out of what always bugged you about math.

Its by a human, for humans. Public school, home school, un-school kids, parents and teachers will have a blast finding out things about math that are fun (and not the stupid rhyme, song, cartoon, babyish st

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If you are a student, then you must know the very powerful Equation function of Microsoft Word 2007. Extremely convenient for writing equations, the only thing it lacks is the ability to do the calculations…

The Microsoft Math Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007 makes it easy to create graphs, perform calculations, and solve for variable

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Do you want to understand and be able to multiply in order to:

a) help you (or your child) with life in general and the education that counts, or
b) just help you (or your child) pass the next math test?

If your answer was b, you just saved yourself some time and effort for the next few minutes. You don’t have to read

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With the WEC:Outside the Cage coming up tomorrow night, some of us newbies are wondering, “What the heck is WEC?” WEC(World Extreme Cagefighting) has actually been around for a long time. It was started 2001 by Scott Adams and Reed Harris. They lasted as owners for about five years. During this era, the cage was pentagonal(five sided for you

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We all have had that fear, when we were young of, "What will become of me if I don't pass this (or that) class?"

It's an artificial fear. Grades and standards are about power. Knowledge and grades have no direct proportion to each other, no matter how much the schools try to brainwash you that they do.

This post at

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This is the most fascinating optical illusion I've seen. It's supposedly a way to tell if you're using more of your right brain or left brain but I'm not sure about that. It is interesting that I've been able, with just my mind, to control the direction of the girl's spin.

This post is from my Math blog where I post fun stuff to get

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This post is about a very cool and very unique Math trick I learned some 30 years ago. It's a great way for kids to get engaged with Math and to have a "wow" experience. They can make this set of special cards with index cards, a hole punch, and scissors. Then they can impress their friends by how the cards seem to magically sort themselve

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Mr Bean goes to the beach after a hard day of tests, specifically math tests. It's a glorious day for a swim and Mr Bean just can't wait! There's 1 problem: how to change into his swim trunks with that chap watching?

Mr Bean is the alter ego of Rowan Atkinson and ran for several years on the BBC. Mr Bean has been to the movies twice

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The next blog to get a Free Blog Review on OpTempo is The NextPost. This is a make money online Blogger blog that really takes monetization to the extreme. Counting the number of monetization methods used on this blog is like one of those puzzles where you have to count the number of triangles in a drawing. Click to read more about this blog

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