Miscellaneous
Migration Progress
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! We are more or less back up! A lot of media files (mainly illustrations and text-to-speech files) didn\’t reintegrate into pages and posts correctly, so I\’ll be handling that, and some settings need tweaked as we settle in. Calc You Later!
Educational Stimulus
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! I got my stimulus deposit! Since my household finances are actually holding up OK, I\’m going to use it as a scholarship fund. If you need math tutoring or a class, especially for any reason related to the current health/economic situation, please fill out this form. This site…
Migration Update
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! We\’ve got our migration schedule! The Math With Avrila main site will go temporarily offline at or about 4 PM Central Time this Friday. Until we are officially back up you may see it up and down for testing. If the DNS servers and other databases are kind,…
Whopper of a Puzzle
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! (Content notice: not-quite-spoilers for a puzzle at a well-known fast food burger chain.) In this video I combine summation notation, powers of -1, fractional exponents, factorials, and a few other things along the way, to solve a whopper of a problem. I hope you enjoyed sinking your teeth…
Algebra 1.5 Going Live
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! The YouTube stream is live and the first lesson of Algebra 1.5 will begin shortly. After-class update: I hope everyone learned something today — even if it was just that something you already knew was easier, or made more sense, than you used to think. For next time,…
Epidemiology on Coursera
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! I\’ve just signed up for a class on the statistics application problem we\’re all leaving in, Fighting COVID-19 with Epidemiology, put on by Johns Hopkins (who you may know, relevant to this, from that famous map webapp). It\’s free, and the relevance for everyone is obvious — but…
Mathematical Safety Advice
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! You might not know this, but mathematicians love puns. We slip them into this classic piece of advice about road/beverage safety: And now there\’s also one, from Nick Johnson, about pandemic countermeasures: What other mathematical safety advice have you heard? Calc You Later!
Algebra 1.5 Coming Soon!
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! Algebra 1.5 will help students prepare for the transition to Algebra 2 by brushing up their Algebra 1 level skills and knowledge. The primary intended student has already taken Algebra 1 but may need to clear some cobwebs because of time away from it (such as for the…
Cloud in the Sky: Beach Picture Craft Camp 4
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! This video shows how to use a line, a segment, some circles, their intersections, and some arcs to add a cloud to your beach picture. I could use your feedback on something! I meant for this to be a weeklong project with five videos, but I keep getting…