2011.05.06 What is the Progression of 'Big Ideas' in Mathematics

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idea" anyway? #mathchat Fri May 06 00:02:54 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

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@ColinTGraham @nykatin mathematics?" in case you misFri May 06 00:09:39 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

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@Ideas_Factory@Colinfor continental tweeps-good on yoFri May 06 00:10:05 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham So, forme #mathchat Fri May 06 00:11:08 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

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lines? #mathchat Fri May 06 00:11:25 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

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topic is "What is the progression of 'Big

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what's the topic tonight? #mathchat 293301845835776 - #9

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never mind, saw topic when I scrolled293549368492032 - #11

Graham Agreed!But didn't know you didu!293620336115712 - #12

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big as in cute Rene and his idea of putt

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@ColinTGraham @maththey can move on to the next, moFri May 06 00:16:44 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@mathfour @ColinTGraof 2 and 3) #mathchat Fri May 06 00:16:48 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@mathfour @ColinTGraAlgebraic systems? Or just in genFri May 06 00:17:55 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @math

same if you switch the position ofFri May 06 00:17:55 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@mathfour @ColinTGra(oh - and narcissistic) #mathchat Fri May 06 00:18:17 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @mathFri May 06 00:18:51 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@LizDk High school: quasols & graph, why you can have 0Fri May 06 00:18:57 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@NathalieFytrou RT @Transformations #mathchat Fri May 06 00:19:36 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@MrHonner Operations '

Adding is (2 + 3 = 3+ 2), subtr. isnFri May 06 00:19:40 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @LizDgeometrically and vice versa? #mFri May 06 00:19:49 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@MrHonner @ColinTGraFri May 06 00:20:33 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @MrHoproperties or attributes are not uniFri May 06 00:20:39 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6


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our What do your students need to 'get'e advanced, topic/concept #mathchat 295296107364353 - #28

am @MrHonner Addition is commutativ

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am What do students need to get...? Likeral? #mathchat 295592330072064 - #30

our @MrHonner OK, so for some operat

the operands... #mathchat 295592216838144 - #31

am In general? They should "get" that I'

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our You forgot to add Texan! ;-) #mathc295828611993600 - #33

ratics is cornerstone of algebra. Need t,1,or 2 sols. #mathchat 295850615308288 - #34

rHonner: Objects --> Operations --> Str

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ommute' if performing them in diff order

't: 2-5 <> 5-2 #mathchat 296033541492736 - #36

So maybe the bigger idea is that algebrthchat

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ham That was hard to do in 140 - #math296255478894592 - #38

nner Yes, and students need to get thatversal... #mathchat 296278602092544 - #39


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@mathfour @LizDk Ouc#mathchat Fri May 06 00:20:56 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@MrHonner @LizDk. Agbig "big" idea. #mathchat Fri May 06 00:21:11 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@LizDk Commutativity comultiplication. #mathchat Fri May 06 00:21:16 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @MrHofundamentals in 140 characters,

Fri May 06 00:21:31 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@mathfour @MrHonner Iwow!#mathchat Fri May 06 00:21:46 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@MrHonner @ColinTGrawhat it meant for commutativity toFri May 06 00:22:30 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@markbethune @LizDkis more geometric than algebraicFri May 06 00:22:54 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @mathquadratics rather than linear equaFri May 06 00:22:56 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@mathfour @LizDk This

guess you really can say geometrFri May 06 00:23:07 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@LizDk @ColinTGrahamgraph - comes into domain, rangeFri May 06 00:23:34 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@MrHonner @ColinTGrasomething teachers should thinkFri May 06 00:23:41 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@mathfour @ColinTGraequation/graph/set - not separate


- quadratics is cornerstone of algebra.

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eed. Inherent connections between alge

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mes right back in high school when we l

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nner Well done, though! If we can't explaybe we need to think again.... #mathc

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t might be fun to try to define everything

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ham Right. It wasn't until grad school thfail. #mathchat 296744899645440 - #45

ot sure what you mean by this??? I woumathchat 296846913503232 - #46

our @LizDk To be honest, I'd prefer to ttions... it highlights concept #mathchat 296852613570560 - #47

is why I tell parents and students that all

y is algebra. #mathchat 296899132600320 - #48

In adv alg the main idea is link between, inverses + more. #mathchat 297012630462465 - #49

ham @mathfour Agreed! It's a fun challebout all the time. #mathchat 297043513118720 - #50

am @LizDk I think everything should bethe three. #mathchat


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@ColinTGraham @markgeometric.... wherein lies the probFri May 06 00:24:15 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@LizDk @markbethune ISolving, manipulating, discrim is dFri May 06 00:25:02 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@CutTheKnotMath @malgebraic geometry #mathchat Fri May 06 00:25:02 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@mathfour @ColinTGra

and you've got a nice tri-lesson #Fri May 06 00:25:13 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham OK, soalg/geom, commutivaty.... what otFri May 06 00:25:31 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@markbethune @ColinTWithout linking the algebra to geoFri May 06 00:25:35 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@MrHonner @CutTheKncharacters. #mathchat Fri May 06 00:25:45 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@mathfour @ColinTGra10 system. That's a huge idea. #Fri May 06 00:26:23 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @CutTimportant too... Geometry is the 'hFri May 06 00:26:55 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@mathfour @MrHonnerin the margin. Or so he led us toFri May 06 00:27:15 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@MrHonner I think the biproblem into another, one structurFri May 06 00:27:36 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6


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ethune @LizDk Quadratic equations arlem if we don't present them so! #mathc297184756314112 - #52

guess it is both. But taught in Alg 1 andef algebra. #mathchat 297381892800512 - #53

thfour @LizDk Wile's proof of FLT is sai

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am @markbethune @LizDk And then c

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e have: zero and place-holding, quadrher 'big ideas' #mathchat 297506237124608 - #56

Graham this is true of most maths that wetry, kids wont get it #mathchat

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am I'm pretty impressed with the ten finathchat 297724273827840 - #59

eKnotMath @mathfour @LizDk The ordead' noun.... #mathchat 297858151809024 - #60

CutTheKnotMath @LizDk Fermat DIDelieve for 300 years! #mathchat 297940792197120 - #61

gest idea, for me anyway, is transformae into another, etc. #mathchat 298027089997824 - #62


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@markbethune can somFri May 06 00:29:24 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham We meand Distributability? #mathchat Fri May 06 00:29:55 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@CutTheKnotMath @Mrthat could be described in less thFri May 06 00:29:57 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@MrHonner @CutTheKnof - 1" #mathchat Fri May 06 00:31:01 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @mathFermat was what some of us in thFri May 06 00:31:35 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@CutTheKnotMath @mthat could be described in less thFri May 06 00:31:56 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @MrHowhat you call transformation? [avFri May 06 00:32:45 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @markwe are defining what we see as thFri May 06 00:33:42 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@MrHonner @ColinTGra"mathematical trans." and the tecFri May 06 00:34:19 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@CutTheKnotMath @Mrthe number I've been thinking ofFri May 06 00:34:39 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@mathfour @ColinTGraFri May 06 00:34:49 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6


our The big concept there was the inven0, 1, 2,... do you start 1, 2 #mathchat 298304891330560 - #63

one remind me of the topic so I don't ge298482079711232 - #64

tioned commutativity... how about the ot

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Honner @mathfour @LizDk BTW, what in 40 characters? #mathchat 298619095031810 - #66

otMath @mathfour @LizDk "whatever n

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our @MrHonner @CutTheKnotMath @Le North would call a blagger! [TX = BSer299031885840384 - #68

thfour @MrHonner @LizDk BTW, what in 140 (sorry) characters? #mathchat 299118485643265 - #69

nner Would you accept redefinition as aiding terminology problems] #mathchat 299326812532736 - #70

ethune "What is the progression of 'Bige 'Big Ideas' first, Mark. #mathchat 299564600209408 - #71

ham Guess I'm using transformation tonique of "changing your perspective". #299719063838720 - #72

Honner "whatever number you are thinkimathchat 299802211717120 - #73

am Well, alas, I teach Daughter starting299845085888512 - #74


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@ColinTGraham @mathprobably start with 1 when countiFri May 06 00:36:01 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @markare linked or that a picture/visualiFri May 06 00:37:18 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @MrHodifferentiation, I have to say I'm nFri May 06 00:38:08 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@mathfour @ColinTGranumbers so I can teach her to co

Fri May 06 00:38:24 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@oldak @ColinTGrahamPutting all fingers down to represFri May 06 00:38:33 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@MrHonner @CutTheKnbegan with me saying "I think 15,Fri May 06 00:38:42 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@halebone Hm, don't lootrue? How num 0 - 9 got their shaFri May 06 00:38:45 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham OK, spFri May 06 00:39:01 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@CutTheKnotMath A regroup, you always get the same rFri May 06 00:39:32 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@MrHonner What aboutetc.#mathchat Fri May 06 00:39:51 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6


@ColinTGraham @oldaktwoness and threeness etc. is cerFri May 06 00:40:08 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6


our That is probably uncommon though,g... 0 as a 'Big Idea' is lost #mathchat 300147738488832 - #75

ethune So what is the big idea here... isation is important? #mathchat 300469470969856 - #76

nner Yes, well I always have problems tt talking about calculus! #mathchat 300679177781248 - #77

am I'm really trying to figure out how to "nt from -3. #mathchat

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@mathfour Don't most kids start countinnt 0 must be 2ndary. #mathchat 300785276895232 - #79

otMath This reminds me of the chat I ha00 is the biggest number". #mathchat 300822576824320 - #80

k like the arabic num I std in Egypt MTe http://bit.ly/kHUnlt #mathchat

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aking of calculus.... is that a big idea? #300903992475648 - #82

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modeling" as a 'big idea'? Interpreting, r

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am Calculus is dumb. #mathchat 301127263649792 - #85

@mathfour It may be secondary, recogainly fundamental #mathchat 301182326480896 - #86


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@markbethune @ColinTimpt for stud at this level. This is eFri May 06 00:40:46 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @oldakthing in terms of manipulating nuFri May 06 00:41:12 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@mathfour @oldak @Cobe negatives. Husband didn't agr

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@markbethune @ColinTthan when I went to school #mathFri May 06 00:41:31 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@LizDk Calculus itself iscurved function by zooming in, isFri May 06 00:41:41 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @mathdown... -3, -2, -1, 0, then start putFri May 06 00:42:39 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6


@ColinTGraham @CutTbase... #mathchat Fri May 06 00:43:39 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@mathfour RT @CutThenumber of objects in a group, youFri May 06 00:44:04 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@MrHonner @LizDk @mcontinuous from discrete snapshoFri May 06 00:44:17 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @MrHounless you are suggesting constrFri May 06 00:44:33 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6


am Okay, maybe calculus isn't dumb, wxas is the biggest. #mathchat 301238316244992 - #87

Graham of course alg and geo are linkedssence of tech use #mathchat 301343966568448 - #88

@mathfour However, using zero as a plbers... It's not intuitive. #mathchat 301451235885056 - #89

linTGraham I figured counting on someoe. #mathchat

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Graham tech allows studs to visuallize thhat

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ot a big idea. Idea that we can get the sbig idea. #mathchat

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our Counting from -3, start with 3 fingersing fingers up => directed #mathchat 301815796416512 - #94

am I like it! #mathchat 302014048579584 - #95

eKnotMath You do need to assume a 'c

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KnotMath: A really big idea is that, howealways get the same result #mathchat 302172605845504 - #97

athfour S. Strogatz describes calculus ats, as a film. Big idea! #mathchat 302226397806592 - #98

nner Modeling is more about methodoloction of mathematical models? #mathch302294148399104 - #99


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@oldak @ColinTGrahamRight hand: 1 (thumb) to 5 (pinkieFri May 06 00:46:03 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@CutTheKnotMath @Cobase... Why? Just state consistenFri May 06 00:46:07 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @marklinked to recognizing numbers of t

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@MrHonner @ColinTGraproblem--how to interpret, represFri May 06 00:48:00 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @oldaknumbers have a position AND a dFri May 06 00:48:11 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @CutToneness, twoness, etc. is certainlFri May 06 00:49:18 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@CutTheKnotMath @Coprepared to share the laurels #maFri May 06 00:50:32 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @MrHo

many ways and visualizing. It maFri May 06 00:50:34 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@teachersharetp RT @kfun!http://bit.ly/i4DLqg #mathchat Fri May 06 00:51:34 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@earlsamuelson @maththemselves! #mathchat Fri May 06 00:51:45 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @CutTdefining or noticing patterns is a b


our It also supports the mathematician'snd -ve integers etc. #mathchat 302559954010112 - #100

@mathfour Hold up both hands, palms, left: -1 (thumb)... #mathchat 302673342828544 - #101

linTGraham You do need to assume a 'c#mathchat Important that magnitude ex

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ethune I think that visualization is a 'bighings... #mathchat

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ham I'm thinking of modeling as the waynt, and solve it. #mathchat 303161517875200 - #104

@mathfour That would work too, the unirection maybe? #mathchat 303207604887553 - #105

eKnotMath The concept of magnitude,very important/big idea #mathchat

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linTGraham what I referred to as onenesthchat 303799245029376 - #107

nner OK, that's maybe a combination of

be farther along... #mathchat 303810716446720 - #108

bkonnected: 60+ math sites for makingspedchat #elemchat #edchat

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four I like showing negative numbers as

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eKnotMath ;-) Grouping like and separaig idea too, maybe! #mathchat


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Fri May 06 00:51:55 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham TBH, ifor twenty-one would be written asFri May 06 00:53:44 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@oldak @CutTheKnotM"2ness", "3ness", etc... are 2nd orFri May 06 00:53:47 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@LiveBinders RT @kbk#mathchat #spedchat #elemchat Fri May 06 00:54:01 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @oldak

several approach, too. The key pFri May 06 00:55:01 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@MrHonner How big an iFri May 06 00:55:55 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham OK, fivlet alone the progression... ;-) #mFri May 06 00:56:10 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham Hmm, iHow big an idea do you think "infiFri May 06 00:56:58 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@CutTheKnotMath @Mrone? #mathchat Fri May 06 00:57:40 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@mathfour Sorry y'all. D

Husband to tuck her in. #mathchaFri May 06 00:58:46 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@CutTheKnotMath @Mr#mathchat Fri May 06 00:59:06 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6


@ColinTGraham OK, togrouping=>counting, zero as placFri May 06 01:00:02 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6


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I had my way, either the coordinate syst12...! #mathchat 304605591580672 - #112

th @ColinTGraham Isn't concept of "1neer? #mathchat

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nnected: 60+ math sites for making matedchat 304676215271425 - #114

@CutTheKnotMath You could argue th

int is the grouping, though #mathchat 304929568006144 - #116

ea do you think "infinity" is? #mathchat 305153669677058 - #117

minutes to go and we haven't even defithchat 305218878513152 - #118

infinity bigger than zero, as big as zeroity" is? #mathchat 305420309962752 - #119

Honner what I referred to as oneness, tw

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ughter's losing her mind not wanting to

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Honner How big an idea do you think "in

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am This is definitely a fun topic, though!305964944535552 - #123

ummarize... commutativity, quadratics aholder, infinity, calculus #mathchat 306189323010048 - #124


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@oldak @ColinTGrahammagnitude represent? #mathchat Fri May 06 01:00:46 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@MrHonner @CutTheKnFri May 06 01:00:49 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham visualizproblems), anything else to add toFri May 06 01:01:14 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@MrHonner @ColinTGra#mathchat Fri May 06 01:01:31 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@CutTheKnotMath @Mrof them #mathchat Fri May 06 01:01:41 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham @oldakideas, getting into the sematics ofFri May 06 01:02:21 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham Well, Ithanks for your contributions, oncFri May 06 01:03:38 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham We'll se#mathchat Fri May 06 01:04:29 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@MrHonner Thanks, @CMonday's#mathchat.Fri May 06 01:05:06 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham You cayou like... and today's archive shoFri May 06 01:06:26 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6

@ColinTGraham BTW, ifback and 'tart up' some older oneFri May 06 01:08:31 +0000 2011 - tweet id 6


When you say that an "idea" is "big", wh

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otMath Seems like you agree that infinity306387080261632 - #126

tion, modeling (combining visualizationthe list before we end? ;-) #mathchat 306493036756992 - #127

ham @mathfour I agree: a fun topic, but

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Honner Seems like you agree that infinit

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Ah, well given that we didn't get on to di'Big' may be tricky! #mathchat 306772209631232 - #130

uess today's topic has got us all beat! Jagain! #mathchat

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e how we get on with this on Monday, w

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olinTGraham, and others. Maybe we'll s

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vote on next week's topic http://bit.ly/e7uld be online by Sat. #mathchat 307802095824896 - #134

you like the format of the archives now, ltoo! #mathchat

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