The Mathist & Google Drive

Nowadays, Google Drive means a great opportunity for teachers and students to embrace the 4Cs of 21st century education – communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity.

We found this really inspirational and creative pin-board that illustrates some of the best ways to use technology to your advantage in the classroom:

Inspiring pin-board on using Google Drive in education (this image originally appeared on: http://www.teachthought.com/technology/12-roles-for-google-drive-in-the-classroom/)

Lets dive into the features that can boost your productivity and help you seize the day with your students. We promise it is going to be easy and fun. Here are some good practical suggestions on how to use Google Drive in your classroom.

We strongly believe that such technologies will transform the ways we teach, study and work together. That is why The Mathist from now on uses Google Drive to store all your mathematical notes enabling you to organize, share, tag and search through them easily, so you can reach Zen in your classroom. 🙂

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The Leap Forward

We are very proud to present you the new Mathist. It is a real sneak peak into the future, that allows you to easily solve and compute anything you write with a single click!

Here are some examples;

• Simplify any expression to speed up problem solving,
• Plot graphs,
• Evaluate expressions and get approximate values,
• Solve equations and inequalities (with visual representation),
• Solve definite and indefinite integrals (with visual representation),
• Crunch difficult logarithms,
• Find derivatives and much more…

You can do all of this with just one button: 

Why is this important?

Have you ever worked on a problem, that is easy to understand, but just requires too much number crunching? – So did we!

We understand that learning a million new things every day as a technology or a science student doesn’t leave too much time for crunching math. And yet in most cases you cannot solve anything without it.

We decided create a solution to this problem with the help of cutting-edge technology.

The Mathist allows you to focus on problem solving and not number crunching, so that you achieve better results at things you are interested in!

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Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas! :)

Me and my team wish you the nicest holidays ever! Be prepared to recieve some nice gifts from us in the next few days! 🙂

Sincerely, The Mathist team

p.s. We at The Mathist really love to express our thoughts with these creative math notes… 🙂

Feeling Lucky? – Total Probability Theory

When Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat studied a problem related to a gambling game they developed what is now widely known as the probability theory.

They were hired by two very rich man, that were interrupted in a middle of a gambling game, to determine in which proportion the stakes should be divided based on the current score.

The formula of total probability is widely used and is very significant in the probability theory. 

The fun fact is that the interest in probability was solely influenced by gambling games throughout the 17. 18.  and 19. century. Only way later was probability studied for theoretical reasons. 

Related articles

• Guide to Game Theory: expected value and independent events (thefinalwager.co)
• Struggling with chance (plus.maths.org)
• Pierre de Fermat and His Mathematical Legacy (math.answers.com)
• What is a Probability? (math.answers.com)
• Total Probability Theorem and Bayes Theorem (jyyuan.wordpress.com)

The Famous Harmonic Series

The divergence of the harmonic series is the source of many counterintuitive conclusions, such as this one:

Given a collection of identical dominoes, it is clearly possible to stack them at the edge of a table so that they hang over the edge of the table without falling. The fun fact is that one can stack them in such a way to make the overhang arbitrarily large, provided there are enough dominoes. 🙂

The New Autocomplete Feature!

With thie new Autocomplete feature it is now easier than ever to write formulas!

To write a formula just start typing its name and The Mathist will suggest it to you.

Using the Up and Down keys choose the formula from the list and insert it by pressing the Right arrow or the Enter key, or just tap or click on the one you need.

For example: to write the root, start typing: ro… and watch The Mathist narrow the choices with each letter. 🙂

To cancel the autocomplete, press Escape or the Left arrow.

Select & Copy-Paste

Hello, Dear Math Enthusiasts

We are very proud to announce this great and very requested feature. As the title says, you are now able to select any math formula and copy and paste it around the note.

To select something,  just place your cursor where the expression you wish to select is, and press the select button. Then you can adjust the handle bars to precisely select only the parts you need.

Note that your selection can span only a single line.

A Quick Tip:

You can also copy and paste between different notes, just as you would expect it work.

Long press for similar characters

When writing a note, you may need a character that is not shown on the keyboard. Don’t worry, just find the character that looks the closest to it on the keyboard and hold down on it until the characters suggestion popup shows. Chances are you are going to find what you need to type there.

For example: In order to type the > character, find the = character on the right, just bellow the numeric keyboard, and press long on it to open the character suggestion popup.