RESOURCES

=//**Links:**//= A collection of interesting links that may be of use to college mathematics teachers.
 * Paper Plate Geometry (making 2- and 3-D shapes using folding techniques and paper plates): []
 * Statway Resources (links related to the "Statway" project, promoted by the Carnegie Foundation): []

=//**Texts:**//= A list of potentially useful texts for illustrating the complexity and application of mathematics outside of the maths classroom.


 * //Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity//
 * David Foster Wallace
 * //Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives//
 * Leonard Miodinow


 * //The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable//
 * Nassim Nicholas Taleb


 * //How to Lie with Statistics//
 * Darrell Huff


 * //Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer?//
 * Ian Stewart and Martin Golubitsky


 * //Does God Play Dice?//
 * Ian Stewart


 * //An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic//
 * Ian Hacking


 * //Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences//
 * John Allen Paulos


 * //I Think Therefore I Laugh (The Flip Side of Philosophy)//
 * John Allen Paulos


 * //Mathematics and Humor//
 * John Allen Paulos
 * // A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper //
 * John Allen Paulos
 * //The Aims of Education//
 * Alfred North Whitehead


 * //Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data//
 * Joel Best


 * //What are the Chances? Voodoo Deaths, Office Gossip, and Other Adventures in Probability//
 * Bart K. Holland


 * //Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy//
 * Bertrand Russell


 * //What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today’s Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Uncertainty//
 * John Brockman (ed.)


 * //The Social Life of Information//
 * John Seely Brown & Paul Duguid


 * //Pythagoras's Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender War//
 * Margaret Wertheim


 * //Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being//
 * George Lakoff & Rafael Nunez


 * //A Mathematician's Apology//
 * G.H. Hardy
 * // The Power of Logical Thinking //
 * Marilyn Vos Savant
 * // Freakonomics 1 and 2 //
 * Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
 * // Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea //
 * Charles Seife
 * // A History of Pi //
 * Petr Beckmann
 * // The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century //
 * David Salsburg

=//**Materials:**//= Other materials (e.g., PDFs, images, MS Word or Excel files) that might be of use and interest to college mathematics instructors.
 * Translation between representations metaphor -- Steve used this diagram to help 131 students see how the course is designed to help them better "translate" between representations of the same concepts (usually functions), and use them to model the real world. [|IMG_0423.JPG]