This Week's Potpourri

While The Obstructor-and-Chief was experiencing a rather Stormy week, I was compiling more math bits:

1)  Approaches to teaching mathematics:

https://learnandteachstatistics.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/teach-maths/

2)  And Anthony Bonato is concerned about math education being boring:

https://anthonybonato.com/2018/03/07/why-make-mathematics-instruction-boring/

3)  “The Best Question to Always Ask When Learning Mathematics”…:

http://mathmisery.com/wp/2018/03/05/the-best-question-to-always-ask-when-learning-mathematics/

4) The power of compound interest via DataGenetics:

http://datagenetics.com/blog/march32018/index.html

5)  Somewhat bizarre application of prime numbers in a paper (a couple years back) that was cited by some folks in the Twittersphere this week:

http://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2016/bridges2016-359.pdf

6)  Magic square with playing cards (via Futility Closet):

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/03/06/square-deal-9/

7)  Plus Magazine celebrated International Women’s Day with a lot of interesting links:

https://plus.maths.org/content/international-womens-day-2018

8)  Laura Taalman has a Favorite Theorem:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/laura-taalmans-favorite-theorem/

9)  New post from Keith Devlin today:

http://devlinsangle.blogspot.com/2018/03/how-todays-pros-solve-math-problems_9.html

10)  On Tuesday, here at MathTango, I reviewed a recent volume:

https://mathtango.blogspot.com/2018/03/demented-times-indeed-book-review.html

…and on Sunday, right back here, I’ll have a new interview posted, so please do return for that.

…Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest): 

1)  Seems like good advice worth passing along:

https://twitter.com/cctv_idiots/status/969868568656515072

2)  If you're not already familiar with it, NASA has a cool 'live feed' YouTube channel for the International Space Station:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtU_mdL2vBM