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Writing Mathematics on our Blog with Texify!

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I just learned today from Mary O’Keeffe how to include mathematics on blogger. It’s not native, but does the trick, and especially a little useful if you know a little LaTeX, the mathematical typesetting language.

Let’s say you want to typset the quadratic formula. In LaTeX, you would write this as

$\frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 – 4ac}}{2a}$

Now just visit the texify web site: Texify and insert the LaTeX code where specified. The Texify website will then automatically generate html code for your formula, resulting in:

\frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac}}{2a}
It works pretty well. If I had a blogger wish, it would be for LaTeX to be recognized natively!
For those who don’t know, Mary O’Keeffe directs the Albany Area Math Circle and is also co-director for the Math Prize for Girls. She’s a great resource for math circles around the country, and seeing as our math circles are so close together, I’ve hoped for several years that we’ll find ways to coordinate some math circle activities. One idea – let’s visit the Museum of Mathematics together when they open in 2012!

Japheth Wood

I’m Japheth Wood (he/him), the Bard Math CAMP co-director, and a math professor at Bard College. CAMP (which is an acronym for Creative and Analytical Math Program) is a very special week of the year for our young math community. It's inspiring to see our students return year after year. This is our 11th summer of CAMP! We're back once again on the idyllic Bard College campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, and thankful to the CAMP students, parents, and staff, for making this mathemagical week happen. Notably, we've (finally) had our first CAMP reunion this past June, an event that I know will grow to be an integral part of what we do.

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Frances Stern

My name is Frances Stern (she/her/hers)! I’ve been teaching math at CAMP since the first year, making sure our math theme has a connection to art and computer. It’s fun to show students math that they don’t see in school. I've retired from daily teaching but continue to teach for the New York Math Circle & students who are seeking more math in their lives. My hobbies include learning to draw, paint, & juggle, reading, walking & folk dancing. I’ve written 2 books for teachers and parents called “Adding Math, Subtracting Tension” (for different age-ranges of children). They pay as much attention to how to keep out of a fight (what many parents told me is a problem) as they do to math.

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