I missed a few

Have you already finished reading all 52 posts in yesterday’s carnival? Need some more math posts? Try these:

Ever wonder how to start trig? Math Teacher Mambo posts a discussion, then posts some pictures. Unit circle, unit circle, rah, rah, rah! (Read the other stuff, too. Greek, learning logs, em-pi-nadas (boo, hiss).

Have you heard about the Excel bug? Answer should be 65,536, but 100,000 pops out instead. Other bloggers found it first, but no one has explained it nicer than Good Math, Bad Math (aka MarkCC).

E, of the eponymous (did I use that big word right?) E’s Ponderings, ponders a bit on whether ed schools should do more to keep train wrecks from even starting in a classroom. I am at once sympathetic and suspicious.

A bunch of bloggers have linked 2007’s Ig-nobel prizes (issued by the Annals of Improbably Research, a brainless group that once turned down a fine limerick I sent in.) So, they can sometimes miss talent, which takes nothing away from the ‘Iggys.’ [If you think I am kidding, compare this nice post (Featured in CoM #17) with this infamous one (from the annals of improbable research’s (we)Blog).]

There’s lots of math out there, folks. Just look, you’ll find something.