Fri, 19 September 2008

hey dansmathfans - i was just interviewed for iProng magazine (by bill palmer) about my website www.dansmath.com and my podcast, and there i am alongside swimmer Natalie Coughlin and rock legend Journey! visit www.iprong.com and look for the sept. 18, 2008 issue. read all about me, my background, and the making of the dansmath empire!
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Thu, 14 August 2008

some serious podfading this year; i am in production of show #34
but left it to go to las vegas. i just got interviewed on twitlive with
leo laporte (older picture at right) and on iprong radio with bill palmer.
i'm enjoying being recognized around the convention center!
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Mon, 2 June 2008

ok, i know there have been no podcasts for a while ... i am putting show #34 together and i have also joined some groups: www.flickr.com/dansmath , www.twitter.com/dansmath , wwwcalteachers.org , www.edu20.org , and www.wiziq.com ... the last two or three are online teacher-resource-learning-community-social things!
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Thu, 24 January 2008

only a true math geek would wear a "FOIL" shirt to a public
gathering / "First, Outside, Inside, Last" takes on a new meaning
at my favorite Chinese restaurant / listen to episode 31 for the
occasion / working on episode 34 to "keep algebra fresh" in 2008 %;-}
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Mon, 31 December 2007

happy 2008 = 2 * 2 * 2 * 251 from all of us
at dansmath.com (me, myself and \/(-1).)
dan is recording podcast 33 and it will be
out very soon, so warm up those ipods!
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Mon, 5 November 2007

hey dansmathfans / i have been meaning to put up a math picture
gallery for a long time / here is a start / go to www.dansmath.com and click the
picture gallery button / four ways to view a 3D functioni / those nested circles /
poking holes in polyhedra / morphed curves and more !
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Fri, 28 September 2007

hey dansmathcast fans / i am down at the podcast expo in
\"spacious\" Ontario, Calif. / i tried to get a show out before
i left but ran out of time / i\'ll be back from my summer
hiatus next week with more math content for you!
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Wed, 22 August 2007

sorry dansmathheds - i was away from the microphone for a
couple of months there - i was finishing up my sabbatical project
(writing another math book) and getting ready to start school
for the first time in 15 months - "teaching again now" as i would
say at twitter.com/dansmath - podcast 32 is on its way to you -
thanks for your patience, fellow math geeks!
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Thu, 28 June 2007

tomorrow is the big day for the small uber-gadget / feel free to
download dansmathcast onto your iPhone or Treo or iPod / show
the podcast to your favorite math geek friend / iDare you to listen
and send in an audio comment or question! / podcast@dansmath.com
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Sun, 20 May 2007

you can win 5 or 10 iTunes songs by being first to answer the challenge problem
in dansmathcast #30 / listen for nba math in my "mathematics for the masses"
section / flavorful podcast 31 is on its way / thank you golden state warriors for
a great 2006-07 season - from your playoff-starved fans!
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Tue, 17 April 2007

a community event in san francisco! (not frisco, not san fran)
the podcast hotel will "celebrate indie culture, podcasting,
digital music, and the arts." dansmathcast will be represented
there with schwag: cool new lapel buttons, green/purple cards,
and dan him(my)self. go to www.podcasthotel.com for more!
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Sat, 31 March 2007

yes, it's true - i'm going to be presenting at this fall's podcast
and portable media expo, on iLearnRadio's educational panel.
that's great exposure for our program of choice, dansmathcast!
i'll speak about aspects of technology (blogging and podcasting)
and how they can benefit teachers, students, and other learners.
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Mon, 5 March 2007

woodhead says: go to www.dansmath.com and check out dan's new
problem of the week, about five runners going ten miles / have you
seen dansmathflix #1, woodhead and safir? if not, you're left right out!
/ another podcast is on the way, with more mathematical things to say!
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Fri, 9 February 2007

it's coming soon at DVC (where i teach), but uc berkeley (my "old
school") has a page now on iTunes U / i gave a presentation this
week at LMC (another college in our district), plugging dansmathcast
mercilessly as they prepare to get on the iTunes U bandwagon /
thanks for supporting my show! (be sure to digg me at digg.com)
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Fri, 19 January 2007

here i am at macworld with podcasting guru leo laporte, one of my idols
and host of many tech 'netcasts' / he says there may be a wide ipod (like
iphone minus the phone) by valentine's day / i was skeptical, so i
immediately bought a current video ipod / now i can watch 'dansmathflix'
anywhere, anytime! / if you love me you'll vote for my show at podcastalley ;-}
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Thu, 28 December 2006

here's to you (the time magazine person of the year!) / dan will
be bach after the new year but before the macworld expo in SF /
show #25 will be packed with math goodies / please send in your
comments, questions, and better math jokes (podcast@dansmath.com) / how
do you like my embellished icosahedron?
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Wed, 13 December 2006

on my upcoming show #24, learn about the math behind
some secret ciphers such as in the da vinci code, and in
public key cryptography / listen to (one-year anniversary)
show #23 for the basics of encoding and decoding / check
out my holiday 'presence' at YouTube and MySpace, my
member name is "dansmath"
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Mon, 27 November 2006

i am working on my next podcast / and will be speaking at
a math teachers conference this week / showing some of
my mathematica graphics and animations and plugging my
podcast / my new problem-of-the-week #256 is up now on
www.dansmath.com / i dare you to try it-- no charge! % ;-}
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Sun, 12 November 2006

with the midterm elections (and midterm exams) behind us, we might
start looking at other voting systems, besides the simple "plurality" /
there are "instant runoff" and other surprising methods used in other
parts of the world / we'll look into these on upcoming podcast #22
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Sun, 29 October 2006

hello runners and math nerds - are we a small or large intersection
on the big venn diagram of life? / i just finished the silicon valley half
marathon in record time - my slowest ever! / now working on show
#21 - it will be out by halloween with more good math stuff for you!
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Sun, 22 October 2006

your math class should make sense, but it shouldn't be
so easy it's a joke / challenge yourself with some of the
harder homework problems, even ones that aren't assigned
/ if you need a break from studying, listen to the math joke
at the end of each of my podcasts!
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Fri, 6 October 2006

here i am at the podcast expo in southern calif - in the libsyn car!
i met lots of famous podcasters and bloggers, and got some
exposure for dansmathcast / especially nice was talking to leo
laporte, adam christianson of the maccast, 'shooby' kumar, and
john 'oneminutetip' chambers, voices i knew well from their shows!
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Tue, 19 September 2006

lots of you have been downloading dansmathflix #2 (even
though it weighs in at over 90 MB); i'm very happy about
that! i'll produce more animations and things this fall...
i'm now working on podcast 19; you can leave a comment
in iTunes! keep sending questions, i read some on my show!
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Tue, 22 August 2006

it's that time of the year again - students are buying books (such as
the bach & leitner classic shown in the picture) and going online
(for example www.dansmath.com), just to learn the world's most
important subject: math! (is there anything of mine i haven't plugged?)
so keep listening to my podcast, and watch for dansmathflix #2 soon.
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Mon, 7 August 2006

thank you for subscribing, voting, commenting, and of course listening /
what an honor to find dansmathcast listed in the top 20 on podcast alley /
many people say math is like a foreign language, and that's partly true /
i am completing work on dansmathflix #2, "ways of seeing numbers" /
it should be out in a couple or three weeks, after episode #17 / check for
new links and directories listing dansmathcast soon!
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Fri, 21 July 2006

dansmathcast has been persuaded by iLearn Radio Network to join its lineup
of scheduled educational podcasts! / you can now hear my show as it might sound
on a radio playlist / go to iLearnRadio.org and check their "playing today" list.
please e-mail me at podcast@dansmath.com if you try listening using their
java player; let me know how you like the experience / and thanks iLearn and
BX Radio Network (makers of CoolCast radio as well) !
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Fri, 7 July 2006

hey there dansmathheads / this is me running in the 2005 san francisco marathon /
i ran for me and to benefit the National AIDS Foundation / i was slow but determined
in that race / just like many math students; success takes perseverance / another
chapter done in a series of math courses is like one more mile down in a marathon !
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Sat, 10 June 2006

to my loyal and/or casual listeners / thanks for your continued support / as you can see, i'm busy at the moment; i'll be recording my next podcast shortly / am i working hard, or hardly working? / meanwhile try my problem of the week, browse my problem archives, and download all my old podcasts!
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Fri, 26 May 2006

whatever you do, you can do it better if you know some math.
some of my students have said they thought it was impossible
that they would ever pass, not to mention enjoy, a math class!
this picture may look like an impossible object, but if you're
looking at it, how impossible can it be? (podcast 13 on the way)
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Tue, 9 May 2006

"know your podcaster" / one of the regular features on my math podcast / others are "chapter of the week" although the show comes out twice a month) / mathematics for the masses / advanced math topic of the week / viewer mail (ok, reader & listener mail) / speaking of knowing me, have you listened to podcasts # 1 - 11 yet? / #12 is on the way, with pythagorean theorem at the kentucky derby!
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Sun, 23 April 2006

hello pod people / i googled my podcast and realized that dansmathcast is listed on many blogs / not all of them display the pictures that i post / this one is a painful-looking moebius bracelet that i drew in mathematica / if you can't see the picture go to my blog at dansmath.libsyn.com
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Fri, 7 April 2006

this eatery proudly displays its decimal illiteracy / can they really make money selling a bag of chips for less than a penny? / as i explained in podcast #2, many people misunderstand and misuse decimals and percentages / if you spot a bad sign, take a picture and send it to me at podcast@dansmath.com /
thanks for your votes at podcast alley / dansmathcast has been in their top 25 education list since late march / vote for me there each and every month %;-}
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Thu, 23 March 2006

dansmathcast has just crossed over the one billion download milestone! / oh, wait, maybe that was iTunes song downloads / the picture at right is part of the "nested circle world" / the great descartes had a formula back in 1637 for the curvatures of four "kissing circles" / i used it and mathematica to draw hundreds of circles; only a few are shown here / you can learn and see more at my popular website, www.dansmath.com
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Fri, 24 February 2006

hi dansmathfans - podcast #7 is in the works! this time it's the burning question my students always ask - "how do we do word problems?" - which comes after the question, "what are we gonna use all this math for?" - also coming up this weekend: the basics of calculus - so check back in a couple of days!
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Sat, 4 February 2006

hello dansmath-heads, thanks for your support. i have a cartoon, woodhead and safir, and several mathematica animations done and in the works. do you want to see them, and is it ok to mix videos into this same feed? speak your piece at podcast@dansmath.com, and feel free to vote for dansmathcast at podcastalley.com too! (icosahedron drawn with mathematica)
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Mon, 23 January 2006

by now all you students and teachers are into your spring semester or winter quarter; work hard, do your math! / i have some animations and movies i was going to post here, but judging from comments at inside mac radio, people don't like mixing videos and audios in the same feed; they can't watch videos on most players / but if you would like to get my movies i will be posting some on my website starting in february / go to www.dansmath.com / vote for dansmathcast at podcastalley.com / thanks dansmathfans!
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Sun, 1 January 2006

wow, is it 2006 already?! / thanks again for all your downloads and subscriptions; i'm now listed on iTunes. odeo, ipodder.org, podcast.net, yahoo podcasts, podcast alley, and more! (if you love dansmathcast, you can vote for me at www.podcastalley.com) / the picture at the right is Woodhead, a 3D character i've been animating over the last few years / look for a video podcast starring "Woodhead and Safir" soon!
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Thu, 22 December 2005

wow / my humble podcast just made the iTunes Top 100 Education podcasts list! / sure it's only #95 now, but tell your friends, relatives and students to download it and subscribe, and we'll spread dansmath world wide! / I will soon be including some show notes, look for the mathcast logo items to grow a bit, and go to my website www.dansmath.com for updates, downloads, and math all around you! / check out my two shows, and expect a third show on December 25 or 26 / keep sending in comments!
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Sun, 4 December 2005

my math podcast, dansmathcast, has been popular!
many downloads and iTunes subscriptions, some from iPodder! you should check out my podcast by going to iTunes music store > podcasts > browse > education > dansmathcast, then subscribe! i'll be doing two shows each month, show 2 will be dec. 10, 2005. - dan the math man
(saddle track drawn with mathematica)
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