Yesterday we visited Finance and Math in the NY Times Business section including looking at the biggest movers of the year so far like Google and also at the Mutual Funds report for the second quarter
Today we discussed hyperinflation in Germany in the 1920's
Moore's Law
both of the above are exponential functions
also we checked out the pop clock http://www.census.gov/popclock/
and the debt clock http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Robin (the Math Lady) helps people build their Math Confidence. Back in the ‘90’s, answering “24 x 12” correctly on a Finance job interview foreshadowed her career path. After Wall Street, electrical engineering, and two babies, she went back to her first love -- Math.